Barcelona, October 20-21, 2022 RISK 2022, 8th Workshop on Risk Management and Insurance Research Oct 13 , 2022.- This workshop is organized at UB RISKcenter, Universitat de Barcelona and held at Diagonal, 696. The number of accepted papers is 45. A book of short papers is published by Fundación Mapfre. Details can be found
FontActiv and the University of Barcelona to conduct resarch on healthy aging With this initiative, the brand of nutritional supplements for adults from Laboratorios Ordesa and the research team Riskcenter the University of B arcelona (UB) seeks n meet the nutritional needs of the elderly and how they influence promotion of active and
The rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Elias, and the president of Mutualidad Abogacía Foundation, Enrique Sanz Fernández-Lomana, signed a collaboration agreement from which results the Chair UB – Escuela del Pensamiento Mutualidad Abogacia Foundation on the Economics of Ageing. The new chair, to be led by the dean of the Faculty of Economics
Riskcenter members were selected by the jury of the Fundacion BBVA 2019 to develop a research project on “Risk Analytics: turning extremes into core knowledge”. Risk analysis is about to suffer a huge revolution with the unprecedented access of organizations, governments, citizens and enterprises to amounts and varieties of data coming from a huge array
Feb. 11 2020: A new edition of the UBZurich Challenge program was launched on February 11th. In the UBZurich Challenge program, students of the Master in Actuarial and Finance Science of the University of Barcelona are invited to participate in a business case study. The aim of the business case is to provide an opportunity
Nov 22; 2019 On November 22, Guillermo Mir Piorno (IFRS17 senior analyst at Group Reinsurance, Zurich Insurance Company) gave the seminar entitled 'The future of insurance finance information: IFRS 17' within the conference series for students of the Master of Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the University of Barcelona. Link to slides www.ub.edu/rfa/docs/GuillermoMir2019.pdf
Nov 20 2019: David Tuesta has participated in a seminar for students of the UB Master in Actuarial Sciences. Under the title "Digitization and pensions in emerging economies" Dr. Tuesta has explained main challenges for the different pension systems in developing countries. In his presentation he has referred to the weight that the gig economy
Nov. 15, 2019: Helena Chuliá organizes a workshop on “Uncertainty propagation across the global economy". This is the final event to conclude a project funded by Fundación Ramon Areces. (https://www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionareces/en/) The workshop programme is 12.00 Welcome Helena Chuliá (Universitat de Barcelona and Riskcenter-IREA) 12.05 Uncertainty transmission between digital and traditional currencies Simón Sosvilla Rivero (Universidad
30/09/2019 Sep, 18-20 2019: the four UB students who won the sixth edition of “The Challenge Program”, visited the headquarters of the Zurich Insurance Group (Switzerland) as part of the ‘Zurich Experience Award 2019’. The ‘Challenge Program’ is an annual education activity organized by the UB Zurich Chair in which students of the Master in
June 2019: Lluis Bermúdez and Dimitris Karlis were awarded the XII Insurance Award “Ferran Armengol i Tubau”. Bermúdez and Karlis were awarded for their contribution to the development of pricing models that consider dependence between components. The President of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the President of the Catalan Economic Society and the CEO of
