Date: January 28, 2022
Organised by: Institut d’Economia de Barcelona (IEB) and Grup de Recerca en Governs i Mercats (GiM, UB)
Place: Faculty of Economics of University of Barcelona (Av Diagonal 690, Barcelona)
Keynote speaker: Jos van Ommeren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
GiM has received funding for the Pandemics Project
GiM has been granted funding from AGAUR-Generalitat de Catalunya for the 2020 Pandemics Project titled “La sostenibilitat financera i ambiental del sistema de mobilitat en les grans àreas urbanes de Catalunya després de la Covid19”. Principal investigator: Daniel Albalate.
GiM publishes an article on the generosity-erosion effect in Science Advances
Authors: Marc-Lluís Vives, Tania Fernandez-Navia, Jordi J. Teixidó and Miquel Serra-Burriel. Title: “Lenience breeds strictness: The generosity-erosion effect in hiring decisions” Journal: Science Advances, Vol 7, No. 17 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe2045 For more information go to: https://www.ub.edu/web/ub/ca/menu_eines/noticies/2021/04/034.html
Riskcenter and FontActiv promote a study on healthy aging.
Riskcenter and FontActiv are investigating the nutritional needs of elderly people and how nutritional supplements can foster a healthy and active aging experience. For more information go to: http://www.ub.edu/riskcenter/2021/05/04/healthy-ageing-research-agreement-with-fontactiv-ordesa/
AQR call for papers 2021 Barcelona Workshop
AQR-IREA will be holding the 2021 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics in Barcelona on October 21st – 22nd. Submission of papers should be sent in pdf format to aqr_workshop@ub.edu before September 5th, 2021. For more information go to: http://www.ub.edu/aqr/fitxa-actualitat_en.php?id=109
Xavier Bartoll successfully defended his doctoral thesis
On September 26th, 2019, Xavier Bartoll Roca defended his doctoral thesis titled “Essays in Health and Labour Economics” supervised by Dr Raúl Ramos.
AQR attends the perceive final review
The meeting took place in Brussels, on October 17th, with the assistance of researchers from the 7 partner academic institutions, the Project Officer from the European Commission and two external
AQR analyses the effects of different local factors in the spread of COVID-19 in the catalan territory
In short letters that will be published over the next few days, the results of the effects of population density, weather conditions, socioeconomic situation, among others, are summarized. Monday, November 11, 2019