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January 8, 2020

UB School of Economics researchers Enric Tello, Marc Badia-Miró awarded Ramon Garrabou Prize in Economic History

The UB School of Economics researchers Enric Tello and Marc Badia-Miró have been awarded the 14th Ramon Garrabou Prize for the best article in Economic History by the Agrarian History Studies Society (SEHA). The study was published in the scientific journal Historia Agraria under the title Land-use and rural inequality profiles in the province of Barcelona in mid-nineteenth century. The SEHA board of directors awarded the prize to this article…

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December 12, 2019

UB School of Economics researcher Antonio Di Paolo awarded funding by La Caixa for socially-oriented research projects

The Social Observatory of La Caixa has awarded funding for 12 socially-oriented research projects that will shed light on vocational training, early school leaving and job insecurity. The UB School of Economics and AQR researcher Antonio Di Paolo leads of one of these projects, entitled “Does working while studying matter for graduates’ employability? The role of job-field match”. The project aims to investigate whether working while studying at university affects…

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December 12, 2019

UB School of Economics to host conference on Population Economics in 2020

The UB School of Economics will host the 34th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), which will take place on June 18th-20th, 2020 at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona. The event will be co-organized by the Pompeu Fabra University. The UB School of Economics researchers Antonio Di Paolo, Lídia Farré and Judit Vall together with the Pompeu Fabra University professor…

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November 15, 2019

Department of Economics hiring Associate or Assistant Professor in Energy and Environmental Economics

The Department of Economics of the University of Barcelona invites applications for an Associate or Assistant Professor position in the field of Energy and Environmental Economics, beginning in September 2020. Applications should be submitted via EconJobMarket before December 4th, 2019. Candidates will be considered at the Associate or Assistant Professor level depending on their qualifications. Candidates are expected to show outstanding commitment to research and will have the opportunity to…

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November 13, 2019

Four new three-year post-doctoral opportunities at the UB School of Economics

The UB School of Economics invites applications for four three-year Post-Doctoral positions beginning in September 2020. Fields of interest include Behavioural Economics, Computational Economics, Decision Sciences, Econometrics, Economic History, Finance, Insurance, Microeconomics, Operations Research, Public Economics, Statistics, and Urban, Rural and Regional Economics. Applications should be submitted via the EconJobMarket website before December 1st, 2019. Candidates are expected to show outstanding commitment to research and must have obtained a PhD…

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November 12, 2019

Job Market candidates list for 2019/20 now available on UB School of Economics website

The list of Job Market Candidates for the current academic year has already been published on the UB School of Economics website. These highly qualified economists are ready to add value to any organisation. In recent years, our PhD students have obtained positions at top universities and institutions such as Bruegel, PUC-Rio, LSE, Universidad Carlos III, Institute of Economics-Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Yale University and University of Sussex. Our 2019/20 candidates…

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