The UB|IREA Institute’s Annual Conference will take place on May 26th.
This year the conference will include the presentation of the 4 Working Papers awarded with the IREA Awards to the best DTs.
2023 UB|IREA Institute’s Annual Conference
First edition of IREA Distinctions for the best Working Papers of the Institute.
With the aim of boosting the Institute’s Working Papers collection (WP-IREA) and stimulating the most junior researchers, 4 awards of 500 euros have been granted to the best WP-IREA of the year. The four winning documents will be presented at the Institute’s annual conference that will take place next May. Congratulations Ignacio Garrón, Bernat Mallén, Maria Marino and M. Cristina López-Mayán!!!
Best economics and finance scientists in Spain
Congratulations to our researchers Germà Bel and Montserrat Guillén listed in the 2nd edition of the Research.com ranking of the best economics and finance scientists in Spain!
RISK 2022, 8th Workshop on Risk Management and Insurance Research
UB Riskcenter is pleased to announce the 8th Workshop on Risk Management and Insurance Research, held in Barcelona on October 20-21, 2022.
AQR 2022 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics
AQR-IREA is pleased to announce the 2022 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics, to be held in Barcelona on October 6th – 7th, 2022.
Riskcenter wins Risks Journal 2020 Best Paper Award
Montserrat Guillen, Jessica Pesantez-Narvaez and Manuela Alcañiz from Riskcenter received second place in the Risks Journal 2020 Best Paper Awards.
AQR 2021 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics
AQR-IREA is conducting the 2021 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics. It will be held in Barcelona on October 21st – 22nd, 2021 under a hybrid format.
GiM 2022 Call for papers- 4th meeting on transport economics and infrastucture
Date: January 28, 2022
Organised by: Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) and Grup de Recerca en Governs i Mercats (GiM, UB)
Place: Faculty of Economics of University of Barcelona (Av Diagonal 690, Barcelona)
Keynote speaker: Jos van Ommeren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
GiM has received funding for the Pandemics Project
GiM has been granted funding from AGAUR-Generalitat de Catalunya for the 2020 Pandemics Project titled “La sostenibilitat financera i ambiental del sistema de mobilitat en les grans àreas urbanes de Catalunya després de la Covid19”. Principal investigator: Daniel Albalate.
GiM publishes an article on the generosity-erosion effect in Science Advances
Authors: Marc-Lluís Vives, Tania Fernandez-Navia, Jordi J. Teixidó and Miquel Serra-Burriel. Title: “Lenience breeds strictness: The generosity-erosion effect in hiring decisions” Journal: Science Advances, Vol 7, No. 17 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe2045 For more information go to: https://www.ub.edu/web/ub/ca/menu_eines/noticies/2021/04/034.html