Montserrat Guillén and Alfonso Herranz win two ICREA Academia Awards

The UB School of Economics researchers Montserrat Guillén and Alfonso Herranz have each been awarded an ICREA Academia Award, which will allow them to enhance their academic research during the next five years.

The ICREA Academia grant aims to encourage and reward the research excellence of teaching and research staff with permanent positions in public universities in Catalonia. This research intensification programme gives priority to researchers with a large potential for scientific growth and takes into account the potential impact on the candidate’s research career.

Montserrat Guillén had already been an ICREA Academia 2011 awardee. She is Chair Professor of the Department of Econometrics at the University of Barcelona. She is also Honorary Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance at City University London. Her research focuses on actuarial statistics and quantitative risk management. She is an associate editor of Insurance, Mathematics and Economics, a senior editor of Astin Bulletin and co-editor of the North American Actuarial Journal.

Alfonso Herranz is an Associate Professor at the Economic History Department at the University of Barcelona. His main fields of research include History of Transport and Infrastructure, History of Public Policies, Market Integration and Long-Run Economic Growth. Herranz is the director of research centre Antoni de Capmany, researcher at the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team Research Institute (BEAT) and a research fellow at the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (IPERG) and the Institute Laureano Figuerola (University Carlos III). He is also editor of Economic History of Developing Regions.

ICREA is a foundation for research and advanced studies supported by the Catalan Government and guided by a Board of Trustees. The ICREA Academia programme was launched in 2008 with the aim of contributing to the intensification of the research carried out by university professors in the Catalan research system.

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