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November 2, 2021

UB, the institution with most influential researchers affiliated

The University of Barcelona is the Spanish university institution with most researchers within the 2 % of most influential scientists in the science disciplines, regarding to its production and impact, according to the database published by the editorial Elsevier. The database gathers the leading scientists in different disciplines and is made out of the information provided by the Scopus database. Specifically, in this 2 % of global leading scientists are…

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October 19, 2021

New edition of ‘The UB in figures’ with the highlights of the year 2020/2021

With the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year, the new edition of The UB in figures has been published. The document summarizes the main strengths of the University and its academic activity, and the evolution of some variables over the last years. For the academic year 2021-2022, a total of 72 bachelor’s degrees courses, 15 dual study pathways, 170 master’s degrees courses and 46 doctoral programmes have been…

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October 18, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted diagnostics and healthcare services

The COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the diagnosis and treatment of all other diseases during this time. According to the article “Missing Diagnoses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Year in Review” published in the scientific journal “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health”, the pandemic had major impacts on population health, not only through COVID-positive cases, but also via the disruption of healthcare services. The study, co-authored by…

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September 24, 2021

UB School of Economics is recruiting three tenure-elegible lecturers

The UB School of Economics is recruiting three tenure-eligible lecturers, two in the Department of  Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics and one in the Mathematics for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona. The first position is in the field of Applied Economics, the second one in the area of Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business and the third position is in the field of…

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September 20, 2021

The UB School of Economics joins the European Researchers’ Night 2021

On September 23, it will take place the activity ‘Cafés científics de la UB’. It is a series of meetings at the Ferran Soldevila garden in the UB Historical Building in which experts from various fields at the University of Barcelona will be share their knowledge with the public, thus offering a multidisciplinary view of different issues as cities of the future, food labelling and waste, and microplastics. Through these…

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September 20, 2021

Call for papers for the 4th Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure

The Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) and Grup de Recerca en Governs i Mercats (GiM), research groups at the UB School of Economics, are now accepting papers for the 4th Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure. The aim of this meeting is to discuss recent research in the area of transport and infrastructure economics. The meeting will focus on issues related to pricing, investment and competition, but research papers in…

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July 29, 2021

Summer Crash Course on Ecological & Feminist Macroeconomics

Great success for the online Crash Course on Ecological & Feminist Macroeconomics organized by the UB School of Economics, under the coordination of Dr Federico Demaria. The course, held online from July 12 to 16, saw the participation of almost 400 participants from all over the world. The research-oriented course was thought for students and researchers with a background in economics. However, any participant interested to learn about ecological and…

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July 22, 2021

The issue with the Spanish pensions: a contributive and redistributive system

  Dr Ció Patxot, professor of Economics at the Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics, considers that the Spanish pension system “has an internal contradiction: despite having certain redistributive elements such as contribution and pension ceilings, it is contributory (pensioners receive based on what they have paid during their working life). And as long as pensions are financed on a pay-as-you-go basis, with the contributions of the current workers, the available funds should not…

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July 9, 2021

The impact of the Spanish flu on the returns to labour and capital in Spain

A recent study co-authored by the UB School of Economics and the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT) researcher Sergi Basco concluded that the effect of the Spanish flu on daily real wages was large, negative, and broadly short-lived. The article The redistributive effects of pandemics: Evidence on the Spanish flu, published in World Development, reflected that the negative effects on real wages were exacerbated in more urbanized regions and stronger in occupations producing non-essential goods like…

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