The UB School of Economics welcomed 38 new students to the MSc in Economics for the 2025-2026 academic year, including mobility students. These students represent 18 different nationalities, with an average age of 24,8 years old. More precisely, 44,7 % are from Asia, 34,2 % from Europe, 13,2 % from North America, 5,3 % from Africa and 2,6 % from South America. This diverse group of people will now pursue…
Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, Federico Demaria, Xavier Fageda, Ana Moragues and Daniel O’Neill are listed among the 2% of the world’s most influential scientists since they are the most cited researchers in their respective disciplines (Economics, Logistics and Transport, Environmental Sciences and Agricultural Economics & Policy). The latest update of the database published by the editorial Elsevier, known as the Stanford ranking, measures the influence of the research staff with regard to their performance and impact, in the…
The UB School of Economics at the University of Barcelona hosted the inauguration of the new Research Centre on Institutions, Politics and Economics (IPERC), a centre that aspires to become a global benchmark in these research fields. The opening round table, “The Current State of Democracies: Challenges and Future Paths”, brought together three internationally renowned academics: Susan Stokes (University of Chicago), Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University), and Carles Boix (UB and Princeton University). Professor Stokes focused her speech on the contents of her latest book, The Backsliders: Why…
Coinciding with the start of the academic year, the new edition of The UB in Figures is now available, featuring the most important data for the 2024-2025 academic year. It presents the main figures for the University of Barcelona and its academic activity in a clear and attractive format. This year, the document’s new design highlights certain data, such as the number of students’ external academic placements (14,135); it includes graphs with…
Nice and sunny out there? You’ve probably changed your plans to enjoy good weather, or cancelled them because of pouring rain. In the study “Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime”, our researcher François Cohen (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) and Fidel Gonzalez (Sam Houston State University) analyse the implications that weather has on crime rates. They find substantial effects that can be attributed to changes in time use. The research…
The list of Job Market Candidates for the 2025-2026 academic year is available on the UB School of Economics website. In recent years, our PhD students have obtained positions at top institutions and organizations. List of 2024-2025 Job Market Candidates placements: Marianna Magagnoli: Postdoctoral Researcher, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Hamza Benazzi: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Abhinav Khemka: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Theodoros Saroglou: Postdoctoral Researcher,…
The IPERC is born with the ambition of establishing itself as an international reference hub and contributing to addressing the challenges of our time. The Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona will host, on 16 October, the inaugural event of the new Research Centre on Institutions, Politics and Economics (IPERC) — a centre created with the aim of promoting high-quality research and scientific excellence in the…
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…
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…
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”,…