The UB School of Economics has welcomed 32 new students on the MSc in Economics. This diverse group of people was educated at some of the top universities in the world and will now pursue a cutting-edge master’s degree programme designed to train and educate young economists to undertake top research in Economics. The large majority of our students come from Europe (59%), followed by Asia (22%) and the Americas…
The Chair of Energy Sustainability at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) invites the submission of papers for presentation at the VII International Academic Symposium: Smart Energy Systems from a New Energy Policy Approach, which will take place in Barcelona on February 5th, 2019. The deadline for submission of papers is September 23rd, 2018. Topics of interest may include Demand Side Management, Smart Grids, Energy Efficiency, RES Integration, Prosumers, Energy…
The UB School of Economics is happy to announce the launch of the student Ambassadors Programme, which falls within the framework of a wider project to expand the connection between alumni, students and prospective students. The programme marks an important milestone for the UB School of Economics. The ambassadors consist of alumni and current students who want to support prospective students in their new stage of life and share their…
The 2018 Summer School on Big Data for Economics hosted by the Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics gathered 32 participants from 14 different countries from 2nd to 6th July 2018. Researchers, university lecturers, professionals at private companies and graduate students could be found among the participants in 5th edition of the course. The Summer School brought together people from around the world, allowing cross-cultural connections to develop. Europeans (excluding…
MSc in Economics graduates at the UB School of Economics celebrated their academic achievements with friends and relatives during the Graduation Day at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The ceremony took place on July 11th, 2018 in the Aula Magna of the 696 Building. All graduates wore the academic dress –made up of a robe and hood– and received symbolic diplomas. The MSc in Economics class of 2018 graduated…
The call for papers for the 3rd Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure is now open. The meeting is organised by the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and will focus on issues related to pricing, investment and competition, but research papers in other areas of transport economics and infrastructure analysis are also welcome. The organisation will accept between 10 and 12 papers for presentation and discussion at the meeting. Papers…
Arthur Charpentier was invited to teach the Summer School course on Big Data for Economics at the UB School of Economics. The course took place in Barcelona from Monday 2nd to Friday 6th July 2018. We had the chance to interview him after one of his lectures, which gathered 34 students from 14 different nationalities. Charpentier is a Full Professor at the University of Rennes 1. He also runs the…
The University of Barcelona’s Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR-IREA) invites the submission of papers for presentation at the 2018 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics Territorial resilience: mitigation and adaptation, to be held in Barcelona on October 4th-5th, 2018. The event will focus on different aspects of territorial resilience, with the aim of bringing together cutting-edge research papers around two axis. The first axis concerns processes of mitigation (resistance-recovery),…
UB School of Economics researchers Marc Badia-Miró and Anna Carreras-Marín and University of California, Davis researcher Christopher M. Meissner have found that high trade costs have historically hindered regional trade in South America and favoured exchanges with more distant partners, such as the US, the UK, France and Germany. The authors of the study estimate that Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Peru might have been able to double exports to…
The Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona holds a strong position among the top economic institutions in the world. It has been ranked 216th out of 7,576 in the RePEc/IDEAS rankings of June 2018. This means that the Faculty is among a leading group of universities in the top 3% of the table. Looking at institutes and research groups individually, the Research Institute of Applied Economics (IREA) is ranked among the top 8%, while the Regional Quantitative…