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July 12, 2018

Call for papers for the 3rd Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure is now open

The call for papers for the 3rd Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure is now open. The meeting is organised by the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and will focus on issues related to pricing, investment and competition, but research papers in other areas of transport economics and infrastructure analysis are also welcome. The organisation will accept between 10 and 12 papers for presentation and discussion at the meeting. Papers…

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July 11, 2018

“Most of the research can’t be done by universities because we can’t access the data”

Arthur Charpentier was invited to teach the Summer School course on Big Data for Economics at the UB School of Economics. The course took place in Barcelona from Monday 2nd to Friday 6th July 2018. We had the chance to interview him after one of his lectures, which gathered 34 students from 14 different nationalities. Charpentier is a Full Professor at the University of Rennes 1. He also runs the…

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June 27, 2018

AQR-IREA invites the submission of papers for presentation at the 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics

The University of Barcelona’s Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR-IREA) invites the submission of papers for presentation at the 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics Territorial resilience: mitigation and adaptation, to be held in Barcelona on October 4th-5th, 2018. The event will focus on different aspects of territorial resilience, with the aim of bringing together cutting-edge research papers around two axis. The first axis concerns processes of mitigation (resistance-recovery),…

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June 25, 2018

UB School of Economics research shows that high trade costs have historically hindered inter-regional trade in South America

UB School of Economics researchers Marc Badia-Miró and Anna Carreras-Marín and University of California, Davis researcher Christopher M. Meissner have found that high trade costs have historically hindered regional trade in South America and favoured exchanges with more distant partners, such as the US, the UK, France and Germany. The authors of the study estimate that Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru might have been able to double exports to…

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June 13, 2018

Faculty of Economics and Business ranked among the world’s top 3% economic institutions

The Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona holds a strong position among the top economic institutions in the world. It has been ranked 216th out of 7,576 in the RePEc/IDEAS rankings of June 2018. This means that the Faculty is among a leading group of universities in the top 3% of the table. Looking at institutes and research groups individually, the Research Institute of Applied Economics (IREA) is ranked among the top 8%, while the Regional Quantitative…

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June 8, 2018

UB School of Economics researchers receive best paper award for their research on semi-autonomous vehicle insurance at 31st International Congress of Actuaries

The UB School of Economics researchers Montserrat Guillen and Ana M. Pérez-Marín have received the best paper award for their research on semi-autonomous vehicle insurance at the 31st International Congress of Actuaries (ICA), which took place in Berlin from 4 to 8 June 2018. The paper, entitled “The transition towards semi-autonomous vehicle insurance: contributions from usage-based data”, concludes that advanced driver assistance systems can reduce the number of fatal car…

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