Registration for the upcoming workshop on ‘Unemployment and Labor Market Policies’ is now open. It will take place on April 20-21 2017, in Sala de Graus at the Faculty of Economics and Business. Those who are interested can register until April 3rd, 2017. A detailed program of the workshop is available HERE.
The Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona has been ranked among the world’s best schools for Economics according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017. The centre to which the UB School of Economics belongs has been ranked the 135th best school that specialises in Social Sciences and Management in the world. This puts our institution 54th in Europe. The Faculty of Economics and…
Workshops dedicated to the fundamentals of machine learning using MATLAB will be held on March 30th from 09:30 to 13:00 in Aula Magna, Faculty of Economics and Business. This session is aimed at teachers, researchers and students who are interested in learning more about MATLAB capabilities for machine learning or want to use low cost hardware platforms for teaching and research. An attendance certificate will be provided to all participants…
Job and internship seekers are invited to attend the Employment Forum that will be held next Tuesday from 10:00 to 17:30 at the Faculty of Economics and Business. This event is a unique opportunity for students to gather career and employment related information from employers, as well as to submit their resume for interview consideration. Participants will have a chance to interact and connect with a range of companies including:…
The Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (IPERG) at the Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics seeks one senior research fellow and three post-doctoral fellows on comparative politics for the 2017-18 academic year. All positions are linked to a European Research Council-financed five-year research project on a cross national historical comparison of electoral systems, electoral behaviour and party systems in advanced democracies. The Principal Investigator is the UB School of…
The Department of Economics at the Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics and the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) invite applications for a three-year Postdoctoral position beginning in September 2017. Fields of interest include Public Economics, Urban Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Applicants are expected to show outstanding commitment to research and must have obtained a PhD when taking up the position. Successful applicants will be expected to teach in English…
The Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics will offer Erasmus exchange opportunities with the University of Paris-Saclay to MSc in Economics students and lecturers. An agreement was signed earlier this year between the Faculty of Economics and Business at the UB and the French Grande École ENSAE ParisTech, founding member of the University of Paris-Saclay and one of the leading graduate schools in the fields of statistics, economics, finance and…
Applications are now open for those willing to attend the UB School of Economics Summer School ‘The Economics of Education: Analyzing the Effects of Programmes and Policies’. During five days of intensive courses, running consecutively between the 3rd and 7th July 2017, participants will examine aspects such as human capital investment decision, school autonomy, the role of employers, and large-scale international assessments. Summer School lecturers will include guest scholar from…
Two projects led by researchers at the Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics have been awarded funding by the grant programme RecerCaixa, an initiative fostered by Obra Social la Caixa and the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP). Pilar Sorribas-Navarro will conduct research that will focus on political corruption. On the other hand, José García-Quevedo will carry out a project on energy efficiency. This year, RecerCaixa has selected 18 projects…
The MSc in Economics programme at the Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics has obtained the overall qualification of “accreditation with excellence”, awarded by the Universities Council after an evaluation by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU). This seal is acquired when a study programme successfully undergoes an evaluation process and complies to a high level with the majority of the accreditation criteria and numerous good practices exceed the…