The public policy and economic regulation research group undertakes applied economic research on various economic activities of the public sector. Particularly, the group has sound research experience on the field of evaluating empirically privatization, regulation and competition policies in markets for public services (energy, telecoms, postal, water, transport, medicines), and also, on the field of empirical industrial organization, regional and urban economics, and the economics of institutions in the labor market.

Since 2003, the members of the research group are affiliated to the Institute for Research on Regional and Public Applied Economics (IREA) that has offices at Barcelona Scientific Park, and also at the Espai de Recerca en Economia, the research offices of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona.

The research group offers its research experience and knowledge to students at the graduate level by organizing the Master in Economics and Regulation of Utilities, and teaching in the UB PhD Program in Economics (PhD quality award).