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September 5, 2023

UB School of Economics to host workshop by Professor Scott Cunningham on Causal Inference

The UB School of Economics is set to host an academic workshop led by Scott Cunningham (Baylor University, Texas), a renowned economist and a leading figure in the field of social and labor economics. This two-day workshop on causal inference, organized by the GiM research group and the Observatory on Analysis and Evaluation of Public Policies (OAP), is set to take place on September 21-22, 2023. Professor Scott Cunningham, the…

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July 17, 2023

MSc in economics graduates celebrate their academic achievements at the graduation ceremony 2023

MSc in Economics graduates at the UB School of Economics celebrated their academic achievements with friends and relatives during Graduation Day at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The ceremony took place on July 11, 2023, in the Aula Magna of the 690 Building. All graduates wore the academic dress –consisting of a gown and hood– and received symbolic diplomas. The MSc in Economics class of 2023 graduated together with…

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May 26, 2023

PhD graduate Rodrigo Martínez Mazza awarded Extrordinary Doctoral Prize

Rodrigo Martínez Mazza, PhD graduate in Economics at the UB School of Economics, has been awarded the extraordinary doctoral prize for the academic year 2020-2021. Dr Martínez Mazza defended his doctoral thesis “Causes and Consequences of the Housing Affordability Crisis” on July 9, 2021. The research of the study, directed by UB School of Economics researcher Jordi Jofre, aims to analyse three topics that significantly impact housing in urban areas:…

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May 23, 2023

Núria Rodríguez Planas receives an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to develop her research at the UB School of Economics

Researcher Núria Rodríguez Planas from the City University of New York has been awarded a European Advanced Grant to study the factors of domestic violence in the European Union. She will carry out this project at the UB School of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Barcelona). The European Research Council (ERC) has granted 218 Advanced Grants, representing an investment of 544 million euros to promote…

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May 10, 2023

Six projects led by UB School of Economics researchers have been awarded funding by the Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation

Six teams composed of members of the UB School of Economics lead six different ‘Horizon Europe’ projects, a key EU funding programme for research and innovation, Federico Demaria, whose research fields are Political Ecology and Ecological Economics, leads at the University of Barcelona the project titled “Towards a sustainable wellbeing economy: integrated policies and transformative indicators (ToBe)”, working together with our researchers Ana Moragues Faus, Mònica Serrano and Enric Tello. The aim of the project ToBe…

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May 9, 2023

UB School of Economics researcher Judit Vall has been presented with the Dissemination Award by the University of Barcelona

Judit Vall, professor and researcher of the UB School of Economics, has been one of the winners ex aequo of the X Distinction from the UB Senate of Doctors and the UB Social Council to the best activities of scientific and humanistic dissemination. This award aims to promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge to society as a whole. The opening ceremony of the award will take place on Thursday May…

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April 27, 2023

Electoral incentives may affect immigration policies

Electoral incentives can have a significant impact on immigration policies, as shown by a study co-authored by our researcher, Matteo Gamalerio from the UB School of Economics, and Margherita Negri from the University of St. Andrews. Titled “Not welcome anymore: the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees” and published in the Journal of Economic Geography, the study examines the Italian system for refugee reception, using data from…

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April 13, 2023

3 Researchers join the UB School of Economics in early 2023

The UB School of Economics has recruited 3 new researchers in 2023. More specifically, two Beatriu de Pinós research fellow joined the Department of Economics, and a Ramon y Cajal fellow joined the Department of Economic, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics. The new UB School of Economics researchers are: Cristina Belles: Cristina joined the Department of Economics, Public Economics Section as a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher. She obtained her PhD in Economics from the University of…

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March 21, 2023

“Science and Innovation importance has grown incessantly since the XIX century, now is dominant in a number of industries”

The Summer School 2023 at the UB School of Economics will focus on Science and Innovation. Massimiliano Coda Zabetta (University of Barcelona), and Francesco Lissoni and Valerio Sterzi (University of Bordeaux) are all of them experts in these fields and will be the lecturers of our summer course, which will take place from July 10 to 14, 2023 at the University of Barcelona. We have recently interviewed them in order to…

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March 17, 2023

Four UB School Of Economics PhD Students Awarded SEBAP Mobility Grants

From a total of 15 mobility scholarships, 4 research mobility grants by the Barcelona Economic Society of Friends of the Country (SEBAP) have been awarded to the UB School of Economics. The recipients are Gerard Domènech, Ragip Kaan Erdemli, Abhinav Khemka and Darío Serrano-Puente. The grant provides 4.200 euros in funding for a visiting period at a foreign institution. In this case, the students have chosen the University of Padova, the Heinrich…

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