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The Research Institute of Applied Economics (IREA) was founded in 2005, forms part of the Barcelona Science Park and employs 60 researchers as members of three separate groups working in the field of Applied Economics. The groups, AQR, RISC and GiM are recognized by the Generalitat of Catalonia as consolidated research groups; For further information...

 


 

Recent news

  • New intern job vacancies. For further information, please click here

For the first time in the Faculty a member of AQR_IREA has published in one of the most prestigious economy's magazines placed in the group of the best 5 of the world. The magazine Review of Economic Studies has published the article “Structural changes, common stochastic trends, and unit roots in panel data” written by Dr. Bai and el Dr. Josep Lluís Carrion-i-Silvestre, this one, member of AQR-IREA.


Dr Jordi Suriñach has been invited to the conference “Building a Systemic Approach to Innovation: Analysis and Policy” organized by the European Commission on November 20, 2009. The target of this conference is to bring together experts from International Organizations, Finance Institutions, Companies and Faculties to discuss the role of finance and R&D on the economic recovery's context to do away with the current economic crisis.

For further information about the conference programme, please click here;.

 


Events and Seminars

Giuseppe Arbiatonio (University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti, Italy )

Gianfranco Piras ( Universty "G. d'Annunzio" of Pescara, Italy and REAL University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, IL, USA )

Title: Spatial econometrics

Place: Aula 318, 30/04/2010 10:00.
Aula I10 30/04/2010 14:30

Group: AQR-IREA.

For further information please, click here


Antonio Miralles (European University Institute)

Title: Assignació justa i eficient a les escoles públiques

Place: Aula 318, 03/11/2009 15:00.

Group: GiM-IREA.


Raúl del Pozo (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

Title: Los cuidados de larga duración bajo la teoría del ciclo vital: de cómo se reparten los roles en los servicios y en su financiación

Place: Aula 325, 03/11/2009 11:00.

Group: RISC-IREA.


Pierre Picard (École Polytechnique, Paris, France)

Title: Participating insurance contracts and the Rothschild-Stiglitz equilibrium puzzle

Place: Aula 325, 06/11/2009 12:30.

Group: RISC-IREA.


Mathew Potoski (Iowa State University)

Title: Why do profit seeking firms do more for the environment than government laws require?

Place: Aula 318, 10/11/2009 15:00.

Group: GiM-IREA.


Mathew Potoski (Iowa State University)

Title: Public services privatization and contracting out

Place: Aula 319, 11/11/2009 16:00.

Group: GiM-IREA.


   
 

• E-newsletter

You can now visit and download the new IREA's e-newsletter (July 2008). Its aim is to present principal innovations of the institute as long as working papers, publications and other topics of 2009. Furthermore you can consult the previous e-newsletter.

E-newsletter July 2009

E-newsletter December 2008

 

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