Registrations open for the Fourth Microeconomics Workshop at UB

https://sites.google.com/view/ubmicroworkshop-4/home

June 27th, 2025

Room 2019, Avinguda Diagonal 696, 08034 Barcelona

Register before June, 20th

Keynote speaker: Alessandro Bonatti

CAEPS (Centre d’Anàlisi Econòmica i de les Polítiques Socials), Universitat de Barcelona is offering post-doctoral fellowships conditioned to the securing of a Juan de la Cierva grant. It is a 2-year postdoctoral scholarship for candidates who obtained their PhD in 2023 or 2024.

Preferably in the fields of Behavioural Economics, Health Economics, International Trade, Population and Family Economics, Spatial Economics.

Deadline: January 10, 2024.

More info here.

The project is integrated by 14 partners from 7 countries. Its main aim is to explore ageing in a holistic way by analysing:

• The impacts of ageing societies on welfare state transfers along the lifecycle;
• The interaction of welfare state policies with private resources’ allocation devices available for providing welfare;
• The main decisions taken along the whole lifecycle that affect people’s socioeconomic status and welfare (education, fertility, work effort, home production, savings and retirement).

The website of the project describes its objectives and main activities.

CAEPS researcher, Jordi Pons, has been appointed council member of the Bank of Spain.

The University of Barcelona is leading one of the projects awarded EU-funding by the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) “More Years, Better Lives – The Potential and Challenges of Demographic Change”. UB researchers Concepció Patxot, as Principal Investigator (PI) and coordinator, and Meritxell Solé participate in this project. They have partnered with the Finnish Centre for Pensions, the VATT Institute for Economic Research and the Austrian Institute for Economic Research. Funding of up to €538,613 is available for the partner institutions, which will work now on their proposal: “WELTRANSIM. Demographic change and intra and intergenerational distribution: Modelling the impact of different welfare models”. This project aims to explain the distributional effects induced by the ageing process and how welfare models contribute to mitigating such effects and securing wellbeing across the life cycle. In this respect, different welfare models induce different costs for actors and influence life course risks differently.