The 62nd Annual Meeting of the French Economic Association (Association Française de Science Economique, AFSE) will be held in Aix-en-Provence next June 24-28, 2013. The deadline for submission of papers will be next March 15th, 2013. You will find all the information HERE.
The Faculty of Economics and Business offers a student collaboration scholarship at the UB Economics project. If you would like to participate in our project and gain valuable work experience in marketing and internationalization of graduate programmes and dissemination of research activities the application deadline is March 15, 2013. What we ask for and what we offer? You can find all the information and the online application HERE.
Next March 13th will take place the Workshop on Telecommunications Economics organized by Joan Calzada (Universitat de Barcelona) and Iñigo Herguera (Comisión del Mercado de Telecomunicaciones). You will find all the information and how to register HERE.
‘Globalization and Economic Growth in Economic History: A Short Course’. This course presents some selected topics in the long-run history of globalization. There are two main questions: How do we measure integration in commodity and capital markets? Why does integration matter? INSTRUCTOR: Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis, NBER. More information HERE.
From August 26th to 30th the Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg hosts the 28th annual congress of the European Economic Association and the 67th European meeting of the Econometric Society. Economists and professionals working in related fields are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers in all areas of economics for presentation at the Congress. Complete submissions must be received by February 15th. More information HERE.
The XXXIII edition of the ‘Jornadas de Economía de la Salud’ (Asociación de Economía de la Salud) will be held in Santander next June 18-21, 2013. The deadline for submission of papers is next February 15th, 2013. You will find all the information HERE.
The Barcelona GSE organizes the first edition of the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. It will consist of fifteen independent workshops covering a wide range of topics, from June 10th to 26th, 2013. The deadline for submission of papers will be next February 15th, 2013. You will find all the information HERE.
The IEB (Barcelona Institute of Economics), jointly with the department of Public Economics at University of Barcelona, invites applications for a post-doctoral researcher beginning in September 2013. Candidates from the following fields are particularly encouraged to apply: Public Economics,Urban Economics and Applied Microeconomics. Applicants should have completed a doctorate by July 2013. Application deadline: February 20th, 2013 Application Instructions: Submit applications via the Econ Job Market website (www.econjobmarket.org). Email enquiries should be…
Next February 11th (11.30h) a ‘Job Market Training Session’ takes place at the UB Faculty of Economics and Business (Room 329, Espai de Recerca en Economia). How does it work? How should I write a Job Market paper? We will try to answer this kind of questions through the academic experience of our faculty members Ana Nuevo-Chiquero and Marc Teignier.
In the academic year 2012-2013 six new researchers joined the Faculty of Economics and Business coming from leading research institutions worldwide such as University of Chicago, University of Bonn and University of Bologna, hired from the so-called ‘job market’. With these new incorporations UB Economics faculty is composed of 111 researchers. The new researchers are: Marc Teignier (University of Chicago), Mikel Alvarez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Dirk Foremny (University…