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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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March 9, 2023

The ICREA Academia programme awards our researchers Judit Vall and Elisabet Viladecans

The ICREA Academia programme has awarded, in 2022 call for applications, eight researchers from the University of Barcelona. Two of them are researchers of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Judit Vall Castelló, associate professor at the Department of Economics, and Elisabet Viladecans Marsal, professor at the Department of Economics. In the Catalan university system as a whole, out of the 231 applications received, 40 experts from different fields of knowledge have…

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March 8, 2023

Gender gap in household duties has been reduced after the Covid-19 pandemic

The study “Gender inequality in paid and unpaid work after the pandemic” co-authored by our researcher Lídia Farré and Libertad González for “laCaixa” Foundation reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic has had significant effects on gender equality, particularly in terms of women’s employment and domestic responsibilities. The closure of businesses and schools during the pandemic led to a significant increase in unpaid work for women, with men’s involvement in childcare remaining…

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February 2, 2023

Commuting time negatively affects the labor supply of married women

Commuting time negatively affects the labor supply of married women. This is the main conclusion of the paper “Commuting time and the gender gap in labor market participation”, published in the Journal of Economic Geography by our researchers Lídia Farré and Jordi Jofré, and Juan Torrecillas, who recently completed the PhD in Economics at UB. The authors estimate that a 10-minute increase in commuting time decreases the probability of married…

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November 24, 2022

7 researchers join the UB School of Economics in 2022

The UB School of Economics has recruited 7 new researchers in 2022. The new researchers hold PhD degrees from world-class institutions including the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Getulio Vargas Foundation FGV EPGE, Bocconi University, or the University of Oslo, and have previous experience in leading organizations such as the Berlin School of Economics, Zurich Insurance Company and the University of Navarra. Olga Chiappinelli: Olga joined the Department of Economics (section of Economic…

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November 21, 2022

UB School of Economics to open applications for five postdoctoral researchers

The UB School of Economics invites applications for five Postdoctoral Researchers beginning in 2023. – 2 Postdoctoral positions – different fields of interest (3 years). Deadline for applications: 6 December 2022. – 1 Postdoctoral researcher in Macroeconomics and Population Economics (3-4 years). Deadline for applications: 3 December 2022. – 1 Postdoctoral researcher in Behavioral Game Theory and Experimental Economics (3-4 years). Deadline for applications: 3 December 2022. – 1 Postdoctoral researcher in ERC project LEAD…

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November 15, 2022

Three projects led by UB School of Economics researchers receive funding to contribute to the green and digital transition

Three projects that aim to contribute to the green and digital transition, led by Montserrat Guillén, David Moriña, Jordi Teixidó, and Elisabet Viladecans, have been awarded funding from the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government. The project titled “Insurance data analytics: methods and implications for usage-based products”, led by Co-PIs Montserrat Guillén and David Moriña, focuses on the insurance sector which represents more than 5 of  % Gross…

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