News

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),…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

May 24, 2018

UB School of Economics to host the XXXIII Jornadas de Economía Industrial in September

The Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics will host the XXXIII Jornadas de Economía Industrial on September 6-7, 2018. The Jornadas is an annual meeting of researchers in theoretical and empirical Industrial Economics organized by the Committee on Industrial Economics of the Spanish Economic Association (AEE) in order to share ideas, network and learn. The conference attracts more than one hundred participants, including researchers, PhD students and experts in industrial economics….

Read More

May 24, 2018

Four Teaching Assistant scholarships available for new MSc and PhD students in Economics

The Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics has announced four Teaching Assistant (TA) Scholarships aimed at students joining the MSc in Economics or the PhD in Economics in the academic year 2018/19. Successful candidates will perform teaching support activities at the Faculty of Economics and Business, devoting a total of 32 hours a month. Candidates will be assessed according to their academic career and performance, as well as their motivation…

Read More

May 7, 2018

Open call for papers for the IX Workshop on Economics of Education

The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) at the UB School of Economics welcomes the submission of papers for presentation at the IX Workshop on Economics of Education, due to take place in Barcelona on September 13th-14th. The aim of this workshop is to establish and share the theoretical and methodological knowledge frontier of economics of education and to access a diversity of applied studies in which different methodologies are used….

Read More

May 7, 2018

UB School of Economics research shows that bilingualism at school increases the returns to schooling

The 1983 reform that introduced bilingualism in Catalan schools increases the earnings return to each additional year of schooling, according to a recent study by Lorenzo Cappellari (Catholic University of Milan) and Antonio Di Paolo (University of Barcelona School of Economics). The authors exploits the implementation of the Language Normalization Act of 1983 –which established Catalan as a medium of instruction in primary and compulsory secondary schools alongside Spanish– in…

Read More

April 25, 2018

XXXIII Jornadas de Economía Industrial invites the submission of papers

The Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics will host the XXXIII Jornadas de Economía Industrial on September 6-7, 2018. The call for papers is now available with a submission deadline of May 18th, 2018. A Young Economist Prize will be awarded to an exceptionally original and high-quality paper written by a young researcher. The Jornadas de Economía Industrial is an annual meeting of researchers in theoretical and empirical Industrial Economics…

Read More

April 20, 2018

David Castells-Quintana and Maria Sánchez Vidal receive prize for outstanding PhD research in Economics

PhD alumni of the UB School of Economics David Castells-Quintana and Maria Sánchez Vidal have each received an UB Extraordinary Doctoral Prize for their outstanding PhD thesis in Economics at the award ceremony that took place in the main hall of the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona on April 19th, 2018. David Castells-Quintana is the award winner for the 2014/15 academic year, while Maria Sánchez Vidal is the…

Read More