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September 30, 2025

National Research Award 2025 for our researcher Montserrat Guillen

Our researcher Montserrat Guillen Estany has been awarded the 2025 the National Research Awards organized by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. These awards recognize experts who stand out for their career and international relevance in their area of research. Dr Guillen, professor at the Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics at the UB’s Faculty of Economics and Business, and director of the Research Institute in Applied…

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September 17, 2025

Credit Risk Is the Main Driver of Sovereign Yield Spreads in the Euro Area

A new study published by our researcher Marta Gómez-Puig, along with Adrián Fernandez-Perez (University College Dublin) and Simón Sosvilla-Rivero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) named “Examining the transmission of credit and liquidity risks: A network analysis for EMU sovereign debt markets” offers crucial insights into how credit and liquidity risks interact in the Eurozone’s sovereign debt markets. Using an innovative network analysis, the researchers reveal that credit risk is the main…

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September 12, 2025

Javier Moral Wins Emilio Albi Ibáñez Award for Master’s Thesis in Public Economics

Javier Moral, alumnus of the 2024 Master in Economics at UB School of Economics, has been awarded the prestigious Emilio Albi Ibáñez Prize for Master’s Theses in Public Economics, granted by the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (IEF). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at HEC Lausanne. His thesis, titled “When are we having the second? Effects of paternity leave extensions on the decision to have a second child”,…

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August 1, 2025

Call for expressions of interest: PhD Fellowship in Economics

The University of Barcelona School of Economics invites applications for a four-year, full-time PhD Fellowship starting in March 2026 (tentative). The successful candidate will join the research project “Inequality, Structural Transformations, and Growth,” led by Dr. Xavier Raurich and Dr. Vahagn Jerbashian. The aim of this project is to deepen our understanding of the factors driving key processes of structural transformation and economic growth that shape modern economies. More specifically,…

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July 29, 2025

Putting Ecological Economics into Practice: Lessons from the Doughnut Model in Barcelona

A recent study named “Ecological economics into action: Lessons from the Barcelona City doughnut” written by our researchers Federico Demaria and Enric Tello, alongside Claudio Cattaneo (Masaryk University), Mariana Morena Hanbuty Lemos (Universitat Autònomaa de Barcelona), Viktor Humpert (Research and Degrowth International) and Marc Montlleo (Environment Department, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona) analyses how Barcelona has brought ecological economics principles to life through the practical application of Doughnut Economics at the…

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July 28, 2025

MSc in Economics Graduates celebrate their academic achievements at the graduation ceremony 2025

MSc in Economics graduates at the UB School of Economics celebrated their academic achievements with friends and relatives during Graduation Day at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The ceremony took place on July 15, 2025, in the Aula Magna of the 690 Building. All graduates wore the academic dress –consisting of a gown and hood– and received symbolic diplomas. The MSc in Economics class of 2024 graduated together with other…

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