UB School of Economics researcher Amedeo Piolatto awarded a Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral senior grant

Research Fellow at the UB School of Economics’ Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Amedeo Piolatto has been awarded a Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral senior grant, aimed at promoting the recruitment of national and foreign researchers into academic posts at research centres.

“I’m deeply honoured to have received such a prestigious grant. It will allow me to focus on my research and to have the funds needed to disseminate it. During the next five years, I plan to keep working on topics related to information and media, focusing both on the impact that information has on politics and on markets. I also expect to devote part of my time to the analysis of tax evasion and of education”, the researcher said.

Amedeo Piolatto is an applied-theory economist focused mainly on the microeconomics interactions among citizens, the public sector and Markets. His interests span Economics of Education; Electoral Systems; Federalism; Industrial Organisation and Market Regulation; Media, Information and Piracy; Political Economy; and Taxation and Tax Evasion.

He received his PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics. Before taking his current position, he had a two year appointment at the University of Alicante and taught Microeconomics at the Pompeu Fabra University. Piolatto has also been a visiting at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Tilburg University, Collegio Carlo Alberto and the New York University.

The Spanish Ministry of Economics, Industry and Competitiveness awards a maximum of 175 postdoctoral senior grants, with a duration of five years. The selection process is highly competitive and is based on the candidate’s own curricular merits, their capacity to lead a research line, their scientific and professional experience and their independence.

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