AQR Research Group is pleased to announce the preliminary programme of the 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics: [+]

The Workshop, to be held in Barcelona on October 4th-5th, 2018, will be focused on different aspects of Territorial Resilience. Its aim is to bring together cutting-edge research papers around two complementary and interrelated axis:

• Processes of mitigation (Resistance-Recovery), including topics such as migration analysis, inequality and social cohesion and labour market issues
• Adaptive resilience (Re-orientation-Renewal), considering ways to improve regional conditions, such as human capital and educational mismatches, Entrepreneurship and self-employment, and Regional development strategies, encompassing globalization and trade and smart regional strategies.

The keynotes speakers will be:

• Alessandra Faggian (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila)
• Péter Benczúr (Joint Research Centre, Ispra)

Participants will be required to register using the online form that will be available at the workshop website from 6th to 28th September, 2018: [+]

For further information, please visit the workshop website www.ub.edu/aqr/workshop/2018 or contact to aqr_workshop@ub.edu.