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October 20, 2025

The UB inaugurates IPERC: an international academic dialogue to address the challenges of democracy

The UB School of Economics at the University of Barcelona hosted the inauguration of the new Research Centre on Institutions, Politics and Economics (IPERC), a centre that aspires to become a global benchmark in these research fields. The opening round table, “The Current State of Democracies: Challenges and Future Paths”, brought together three internationally renowned academics: Susan Stokes (University of Chicago), Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University), and Carles Boix (UB and Princeton University).  Professor Stokes focused her speech on the contents of her latest book, The Backsliders: Why…

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October 16, 2025

The UB in Figures presents the main statistics of the University in a clear and appealing way

Coinciding with the start of the academic year, the new edition of The UB in Figures is now available, featuring the most important data for the 2024-2025 academic year. It presents the main figures for the University of Barcelona and its academic activity in a clear and attractive format. This year, the document’s new design highlights certain data, such as the number of students’ external academic placements (14,135); it includes graphs with…

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October 15, 2025

The weather impacts how we spend our time — and crime too

Nice and sunny out there? You’ve probably changed your plans to enjoy good weather, or cancelled them because of pouring rain. In the study “Understanding the Link between Temperature and Crime”, our researcher François Cohen (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) and Fidel Gonzalez (Sam Houston State University) analyse the implications that weather has on crime rates. They find substantial effects that can be attributed to changes in time use. The research…

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October 9, 2025

Job Market Candidates list for 2025-2026

The list of Job Market Candidates for the 2025-2026 academic year is available on the UB School of Economics website. In recent years, our PhD students have obtained positions at top institutions and organizations. List of 2024-2025 Job Market Candidates placements: Marianna Magagnoli: Postdoctoral Researcher, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Hamza Benazzi: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Abhinav Khemka: Postdoctoral Researcher, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Theodoros Saroglou: Postdoctoral Researcher,…

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October 6, 2025

Inaugural event of the new Research Centre on Institutions, Politics and Economics (IPERC) at the University of Barcelona

The IPERC is born with the ambition of establishing itself as an international reference hub and contributing to addressing the challenges of our time. The Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona will host, on 16 October, the inaugural event of the new Research Centre on Institutions, Politics and Economics (IPERC) — a centre created with the aim of promoting high-quality research and scientific excellence in the…

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September 30, 2025

National Research Award 2025 for our researcher Montserrat Guillen

Our researcher Montserrat Guillen Estany has been awarded the 2025 the National Research Awards organized by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. These awards recognize experts who stand out for their career and international relevance in their area of research. Dr Guillen, professor at the Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics at the UB’s Faculty of Economics and Business, and director of the Research Institute in Applied…

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September 17, 2025

Credit Risk Is the Main Driver of Sovereign Yield Spreads in the Euro Area

A new study published by our researcher Marta Gómez-Puig, along with Adrián Fernandez-Perez (University College Dublin) and Simón Sosvilla-Rivero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) named “Examining the transmission of credit and liquidity risks: A network analysis for EMU sovereign debt markets” offers crucial insights into how credit and liquidity risks interact in the Eurozone’s sovereign debt markets. Using an innovative network analysis, the researchers reveal that credit risk is the main…

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September 12, 2025

Javier Moral Wins Emilio Albi Ibáñez Award for Master’s Thesis in Public Economics

Javier Moral, alumnus of the 2024 Master in Economics at UB School of Economics, has been awarded the prestigious Emilio Albi Ibáñez Prize for Master’s Theses in Public Economics, granted by the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (IEF). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at HEC Lausanne. His thesis, titled “When are we having the second? Effects of paternity leave extensions on the decision to have a second child”,…

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August 1, 2025

Call for expressions of interest: PhD Fellowship in Economics

The University of Barcelona School of Economics invites applications for a four-year, full-time PhD Fellowship starting in March 2026 (tentative). The successful candidate will join the research project “Inequality, Structural Transformations, and Growth,” led by Dr. Xavier Raurich and Dr. Vahagn Jerbashian. The aim of this project is to deepen our understanding of the factors driving key processes of structural transformation and economic growth that shape modern economies. More specifically,…

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July 29, 2025

Putting Ecological Economics into Practice: Lessons from the Doughnut Model in Barcelona

A recent study named “Ecological economics into action: Lessons from the Barcelona City doughnut” written by our researchers Federico Demaria and Enric Tello, alongside Claudio Cattaneo (Masaryk University), Mariana Morena Hanbuty Lemos (Universitat Autònomaa de Barcelona), Viktor Humpert (Research and Degrowth International) and Marc Montlleo (Environment Department, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona) analyses how Barcelona has brought ecological economics principles to life through the practical application of Doughnut Economics at the…

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