A Workshop on Risk Management in Insurance 2014 will be held at the University of Barcelona on July 16, 2014. In this one day workshop, 8 top experts in the field of insurance risk management and solvency will present their latest research and opinions in this area. You can check the workshop program HERE.
Empirics of Management: An Academic Excellence Programme at LSE is held in collaboration with the Fundación Rafael del Pino. This programme will seek to train a cadre of first-class Spanish participants who will absorb knowledge at LSE and impart that knowledge back in Spain, and thus help to multiply the impact of their individual training and experience. The programme will provide excellent capacity building by helping young academics in Spain…
Richard Watt, Associate Professor at University of Canterbury, will deliver two short courses at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UB) from July 14th to July 18th 2014. The first course is titled “Economics of Risk: a short course” will be taught July 14th and 15th 2014. The second one, “Economics of Insurance: A short course”, will be taught at the end of the same week (July 17th and 18th). You can already…
The research proposal titled “Evidence of banking sector systemic risk behavior in EMU countries” by Manish K Singh, PhD student at UB Economics (supervised by Marta Gómez-Puig and Simón Sosvilla-Rivero), has been awarded a grant from the Fundación Banco de Sabadell. Manish’s project received one of the 5 grants that have been awarded out of 200 proposals received from PhD students writing a thesis in a Spanish University.
The Xarxa de Referència en Economia i Polítiques Públiques (XREPP) is offering a project manager part-time position starting next September 2014. Applications must be submitted to cio.patxot@ub.edu not later than June the 25th 2014. You can find more information HERE.
The Department of Transport and Regional Economics of the University of Antwerp has four junior research grant positions on offer: Position 1) Researcher in the area of transport economics & logistics, with a focus on Retail Logistics in urban areas, including cost analysis and optimization opportunities. Position 2) Researcher in the area of transport economics & logistics, with a focus on eCommerce Logistics in urban areas. Position 3) Researcher in…
UB Economics has published a new call for shcolarships for the official MSc and PhD in Economics programme for the academic year 2014-2015. These calls are directed at new admitted students joining the MSc and PhD in Economics in the academic year 2014-2015. The aim is to facilitate and increase the participation of the finest students in the doctoral programme, in order to promote the training of scholarship recipients in…
The Xarxa de Referència en Economia i Polítiques Públiques (XREPP) offers 1/2 PhD Scholarships for 3 years, starting September 2014. The yearly amount of the stipend is 15.000€. This shcolarship call is for students who have graduated after 2011 and who aim at enrolling on the PhD program in Economics or in Economic History (University of Barcelona). The candidates must fulfil the admission requirements of the PhD program in Economics or…
Universitat de les Illes Balears will host the XXXIX Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía-Spanish Economic Association (SAEe), to be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 11th -13th December 2014. Authors are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers in all areas of economics for presentation at the Simposio. All papers and presentations must be in English. Submissions should be for either contributed or job market sessions and must consist of a single…
The next annual meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET), organized by Aix-Marseille School of Economics, will take place in Aix-en-Provence (France) November 6-8, 2014. The submission of papers deadline is June 15, 2014. Submissions may be uploaded on the website http://asset.amse-aixmarseille.fr. More information HERE.