Call for universities, research centers and hospital foundations to recruit new research personnel next year 2016 (FI-DGR). From AGAUR (Agency for Management of University and Research). Knowledge area: Generic. Application deadline: 09/22/2015 For more information: HERE (this link is only available in catalan and spanish).
The Spanish Economic Association (SEA), organizes the ‘Job Market Meetings‘ coinciding with their annual conference (SEA’s Simposio). Next meeting will be held in Girona, on December 10-12, 2015. Girona has an international airport and a high-speed train connection with Barcelona which takes around 38 minutes. Candidates (PhD candidates from the doctoral program) interested in presenting a paper must submit it through Conference Maker up until September 14. If you need any further…
The Strategic Planning and Research Department of CaixaBank, the leading retail bank in Spain, analyzes topics of interest in the areas of macroeconomics, financial markets, the banking system and competitive strategy and helps develop and monitor the strategic plan of the bank in close contact with top management. Spanish and English are required. You can find more information HERE.
Royal Economic Society (RES) 2016 Annual Conference Programme Committee invites submissions of papers for General Sessions from academic, government and business economists in any field of economics and econometrics. Deadline for submissions: 11 October 2015. Proposals for Special Sessions should be sent by email to the Programme Chair (Conference2016@res.org.uk) by 1 November 2015. Further details and a link for submitting papers can be found on the CONFERENCE WEBSITE.
Fundació Jaume Bofill, jointly with OECD, opens a new edition of the grant call adressed to researchers willing to do a stage in the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, located in Paris. This stage will provide to the granted researcher the oportunity to work in a leading international institution in applied research and benchmarking on different educational systems and enviroments. You can submit your application until September 28th. More information…
Luca Salvadori (PhD in Economics 2015 at the University of Barcelona) is the 2015 recipient of the Epainos Award for the paper ‘Does tax enforcement counteract the negative effects of terrorism? A case study of the Basque Country‘, which is awarded to the best paper presented in the Young Regional Scientist (EAYRS) Sessions. The EAYRS Sessions are organized each year at the ERSA Conference (Lisbon, August 25-28, 2015), and provide…
‘Sexism is not just wrong. It is also expensive’. On August 22nd 2015 The Economist ran an article about Latin American workforce and its effects to the region’s GDP based on the paper ‘Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market’ written by Marc Teignier (University of Barcelona) and David Cuberes (University of Sheffield). This paper examines the quantitative efects of gender gaps in entrepreneurship and workforce participation. Authors conclude…
Stefano Carattini from Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève (PhD in Economics 2015 at the University of Barcelona) is the 2015 recipient of the Heinz König Young Scholar Award of the Mannheim Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). The jury’s decision indicates their recognition of the excellent research carried out by Carattini into the effect of a pay-per-bag tax on household waste on the produced amount of waste. By looking…
The Chair UAM – Accenture is announcing an award to the best unpublished research project in Economics and Management of Innovation in 2015. The general objective of the Chair in Economics and Management of Innovation UAM-Acceneture is to promote teaching, research and knowledge diffusion and exchange in this field, as well as to support the Interuniversity Master and PhD Programs in the Economics and Management of Innovation. The projects can be submitted until…
The 2016 Annual Conference of the Royal Economic Society will be held at The University of Sussex, Brighton, from Mon 21st March to Wed 23rd March 2016. Submissions of papers and special sessions are invited from academic, government and business economists in any field of economics and econometrics. The deadlines for submissions of papers are October 11th and November 1st 2015. More information can be found at the conference webpage.