Workshops

“Geneva’s Workshop on the Economic History of Latin America”

Data: Agost 2014.

Lloc: Ginebra, Suïssa.

“2nd. PhD Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE)”

Date: 13th and 14th February 2014

Place: Reus, Tarragona.

Workshop “Doctoral Day”

Date: 5th  February 2014

Place: Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Barcelona.

Workshop on Empirical Research in Economics of Education

Date: 3 – 4 October 2013

Place: Faculty of Business and Economics, Rovira i Virgili University.

 

Seminars

August 2013. Susana Iranzo (URV) participated in a seminar at the University of Sydney (Australia).

August 2013. Judit Vall Castello (UdG) participated at the “8ª Conferència IZA sobre l’Ocupació i el Desenvolupament del Banc Mundial” which took place in Bonn (Germany).

August 2013. Elena del Rey Canteli (UdG) presented in a seminar at the QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane (Austràlia) the paper “On the Dynamic Efficiency of Balanced Growth Paths in an Endogenous Growth Setting”.

Septembre 2013. Anna Sanz de Galdeano (UdG) presented at the EALE (European Association of Labour Economists) the paper “The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach”.

September 2013. Judit Vall Castello (UdG) participated at the NBER meeting of the international project about Social Security, Madrid (Spain).

Septembre 2013. Nektarios Aslanidis (URV) participated in a seminar at the University of Sydney (Australia).

2013. Luis Díaz (URV) participated in a seminar at the Amsterdam School of Economics (NL).

2014. Specialized course for doctoral students: “Social Security” by Gareth Myles.

April 2014. Seminar “Dimensions of Tax Design: Review the Mirrorless” by Gareth Myles organized by CAEPS.

April 2014. GRGDEP organized the “Seminar on regional disparities in per capita income in Argentina 1914” by Florence Araoz, together with the Universidad del Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, UNSTA.

April 2014. “Dimensions of Tax Design: the Mirrorless review”  by prof. Gareth Myles. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.

June 2014. Concepció Patxot presented the paper “NTA-based OLG modelling” under the framework of the AFENTA Workshop in Budapest, Hungary.

June 2014. Seminar “Taller de metodologías y métodos para el cálculo del balance energético y la eficiencia energética”, organized by the E. Tello of the GRGDEP in Havana, Cuba.

June 2014. E. Tello (GRGDEP), organizer of the Seminar “Taller de metodologías y métodos para el cálculo del balance energético y la eficiencia energètica”, Programa de Intercambio de Expertos Cuba-Unión Europea2 the 05/06/2014. In Havana (Cuba).

 

Other training activities

October – November 2013. “Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society (LAMES)” in Ciutat de Mèxic. Anna Sanz de Galdeano participated at the LAMES Meeting (European Association of Labour Economists) with th paper “The Impact of Health Insurance on Stockholding: A Regression Discontinuity Approach”.

9th-13th Desembre 2013. 4th Southern Hemisphere Economic History Summer School, Montevideo.

30th and 31th January 2014. The XREPP coorganized the “XXI Encuentro de Economía Pública”.

25th April 2014. Author: Badia–Miró, M .; Ducoing, C., org. (GRGDEP) participation at the Conference Organizing Committee: Workshop “Historia Económica de América Latina: nuevas evidencias cuantitativas en el largo plazo”, University of Barcelona, in Barcelona (Spain).

5th and 6th June 2014. José Luis Diaz–Serrano member of the QURE was part of the scientific committee of the “XVII Encuentro de Economía Aplicada” in Las Palmas.

23th-25th July 2014. Carreras–Marín, A .; Bay, M, organizers of the session 20, Simposio 20. Natural Resources , productivity and trade. Latin America, 1820-2000. In the Congress “IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Historia Económica-CLADHE IV” Colombian Association of Economic History, University of Bogota, Bogota.

28th November 2014. Bay–Miró, Marc, Rapporteur of the paper of Samuel Garrido «Aparcería y progreso agrícola. Las aparcerías vitícolas» in the“III Seminario Anual de la SEHA”, Ministry of Food and Environment in Madrid.

Popularizing Activities

20th- 22th August 2014. Oscar Mascarilla participated in the conference “Cinquanta preguntes d’economia i empresa per a interpretar el futur econòmic” in the universitat catalana d’estiu Prada de Conflent (França).

18th Novembre. Oscar Mascarilla participated in the conference “Unió Europea i Comerç exterior – IL3- UB”.

Alexandrina Stoyanova participated in the organization of pre-conference workshop “Behavioural Economics and economic experiments, a pathway forward for Health Economics” in the framework of the Conference on Health Economics.

May 2014. Concepción Patxot presented the workstreams of the Center for Economic Analysis and Social Policy (CAEPS) to CatDem Foundation.

 

Conferences

Oscar Mascarilla participated at the conference “Cinquanta preguntes d’economia i empresa per a interpretar el futur econòmic” at the Universitat catalana d’estiu Prada de Conflent (France), 20- 22 August.

Oscar Mascarilla participated at the conference “Unió Europea i Comerç exterior” – IL3- UB, 18th November.

Alexandrina Stoyanova participated in the organisation of the pre-conference workshop “Behavioural Economics and economic experiments, a pathway forward for Health Economics”, in the bakground of the “Jornadas de Economía de la Salud”.

2014. Specialized cours for PhD students : “Social Security”, by Gareth Myles.

June 2014. Concepció Patxot presented the talk “NTA-based OLG modelling” within the framework of AGENTA Workshop at Budapest, Hongria.

Concepció Patxot participated at the conference “El cost de les pensions que necessitem”, Col•legi de Periodistes de Catalunya. October, 2013.

Elisenda Paluzie presented “Catalan independence. Fiscal Issues”, at the conference: Seminari de recerca Catalunya Escòcia. Aspectes econòmics de l’autogovern. October, 2013, Organised by the Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics.

 

Jointly organised activities

XREPP and UB Economics coorganized a short course and a seminar given by Gareth Myles, from the University of Exeter. The course was “Social Security and the Pensions Crisis: A Short Course” it took place in the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Barcelona on April 7th-9th, 2014. The seminar was “Dimensions of Tax Design: the Mirrorless Review” which took place in the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Barcelona on April 11th, 2014.

XREPP coorganized with UB Economics a seminar on economic history given by Florencia Araoz, from the University of the North -Santo Tomás de Aquino, UNSTA, Argentina, titled “Regional disparities in income per capita in Argentina in 1914″,on April 30th at 2 pm in “Sala de Recepcions” at the University of Barcelona.

3th October 2013. Concepció Patxot participated in the conference “El cost de les pensions que necessitem”, Journalists Association of Catalonia. Organised by the “Amics de la UAB”.

28th October 2013. Elisenda Paluzie presented “Catalan independence. Tax Issues “at the Conference: Research Seminar Catalonia – Scotland. Economic aspects of the self-government. Organized by the “Institut d’Estudis Autonòmics”.

30th and 31th January 2014. La XREPP coorganized the “XXI Encuentro de Economía Pública”.

13th and 14th February 2014. The XREPP organized the 2nd PhD Workshop on Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) at the URV,  in Reus(Spain).

 7th-9th April 2014. The XREPP and UB Economics co-organized the course “Social Security and the Pensions Crisis: A Short Course” by prof. Gareth Myles in the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.

April 2014. Seminar “Dimensions of Tax Design: the Mirrorless Review”  by Gareth Myles organized by CAEPS.

April 30th , 2014. Session in regional disparities in per capita income in the Argentina of 1914 by Florencia Araoz: XREPP co-organized a seminar with UB Economics in economic history by Florencia Araoz, of the University of Norte Santo Tomás de Aquino, UNSTA, entitled “Regional disparities in per capita income in Argentina in 1914,” in the University of Barcelona.

June 2014. “Workshop on micro simulation of the pension system using ModGen” by Prof. Martin Spielauer of Statistics Canada organized by CAEPS.

23th-25th July 2014. Carreras–Marín, A .; Bay, M, organizers of the session 20, Simposio 20. Natural Resources, productivity and trade. Latin America, 1820-2000 at the conference: “IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Historia Económica CLADHE–IV,” Colombian Association of Economic History, University of Bogota, Bogotá.
29th August 2014. Loncán–Herranz, A. Of the GRGDEP co-organized the Geneva’s Workshop on the Economic History of Latin America in Geneva, Switzerland with the London School of Economics and the University of Geneva.
E. Tello (GRGDEP), organizer of the “Seminario Taller de metodologías y métodos para el cálculo del balance energético y la eficiencia energètica”, Programa de Intercambio de Expertos Cuba-Unión Europea2″ the 05/06/2014 . In Havana (Cuba).

 

Popularising Publications

Patxot, C.; G. Souto, (2013), Las pensiones en el contexto del Estado del benestar, Cat. Económica 519/30-33. A short version at the on lilne magazine:

http://cateconomica.com/portal1/content.asp?contentid=1025

Paluzie, E.; Patxot, C.; Souto, G., (2013), Perspectives d’una Seguretat Social catalana, Eines, Secció d’Estudis Socieconòmics, Fundació Josep Irla, 39-45

http://www.irla.cat/documents/8308713eines18-web.pdf

Pilar García-Gómez and Alexandrina Petrova Stoyanova, “Sistema Nacional de Salud (III): Políticas de Salud”, 14th January 2014 in the blog “Nada el gratis”

http://nadaesgratis.es/sergi-jimenez/sistema-nacional-de-salud-iii-politicas-de-salud

Nicolini, R., Martinez Giralt, X. “Technological endowments in entrepreneurial partnerships” Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, vol 19(4), pp. 601-621 (2013) presented at UAB Divulga (03/2014):

http://www.uab.es/PDF/PDF_1345667400908_en.pdf (ISSN:2014-6388)

Nicolini, R., Epifani, I”On the density distribution across space: a probabilistic approach” Journal of Regional Science, vol. 53 (3) pp. 481-510 , (2013), Featured in UAB Divulga (05/2014):

http://www.uab.es/PDF/PDF_1345670866272_en.pdf (ISSN:2014-6388)

Elisenda Paluzie, monthly article at the journal El Punt-Avui. Some of them:

  • Elisenda Paluzie, Economics article “Compte amb els arguments”(published at El Punt-Avui the 27th June 2014)
  • Elisenda Paluzie, Economics article “El debat Sí-No” (published at El Punt-Avui the 15th April 2014)
  • Elisenda Paluzie, Article “El 30 de març a Brussel·les:”Europa, votarem!” (published at Tribuna.cat the 20th March 2014)
  • Elisenda Paluzie, Article “Cita a Brussel·les” (published at El Punt-Avui the 28th February 2014)
  • Elisenda Paluzie, Article “Debats superats” (published at ElPunt-Avui the 6th February 2014)

Josep Maria Arauzo Carod, 38 articles in the Journal of Tarragona. Some of them:

  • “Canvi lampedusià” Published in the Journal of Tarragona the 05/06/2014.
  • “Els temps estan canviant” Published in the Journal of Tarragona the 29/05/2014.
  • “Canvi de paradigma” Published in the Journal of Tarragona the 22/05/2014.
  • “Europa, Europa” Published in the Journal of Tarragona the 15/05/2014.
  • “Experiments europeus” Published in the Journal of Tarragona the 08/05/2014.
  • “BCN world: un debat serè” Published in the Journal of Tarragona the 04/05/2014.