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November 5, 2022

Job Market Candidates list for 2022/23 now available

The list of Job Market Candidates for the 2022/23 academic year has been published on the UB School of Economics website. In recent years, our PhD students have obtained positions at top institutions and organisations. List of 2020/2021, and 2021/2022 Job Market Candidates placements: Filippo Tassinari: Postdoctoral researcher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Georgios Tsiachtsiras: Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bristol. Magdalena Domínguez : Postdoctoral researcher, Uppsala University. Rodrigo Martinez-Mazza: Postdoctoral researcher, Uppsala University. Jeffrey M. Pagel: Research officer…

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October 27, 2022

The UB School of Economics welcomes a new cohort of Master and PhD students

The new students of the Master and PhD in Economics programmes have started the 2022-2023 academic year at the UB School of Economics. The entirety of our PhD students come from outside of Spain, comprising a total of nine different nationalities. In regard to the MSc students, 26% are from Spain and the remaining 74% have 15 different nationalities. The diverse group of people that make up the master’s degree will now pursue a cutting-edge programme designed…

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October 27, 2022

Three researchers of the UB School of Economics are listed in the 2% of the world’s most influential scientists

Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel and Xavier Fageda are listed once again among the 2% of the world’s most influential scientists since they are the most cited researchers in their respective disciplines (Economics, and Logistics and Transport). The latest update of the database published by the editorial Elsevier, known as the Stanford ranking, measures the influence of the research staff with regard to their performance and impact, in the knowledge fields where their…

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October 24, 2022

The PhD in Economics at the UB has been accredited with Excellence

The PhD in Economics programme at the UB School of Economics has been accredited with Excellence after an exhaustive and rigorous external evaluation by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU). This achievement will contribute to the academic prestige of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Universitat de Barcelona and will benefit our students in attaining their career goals. This distinction recognises the quality of the programme, PhD advisors, the learning support system,…

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October 18, 2022

New edition of ‘The UB in figures’ with the highlights of the year 2021-2022

Coinciding with the inauguration of the academic year, the new edition of The UB in figures has arrived, with the most important data for the academic year 2021-2022. This year, the document presents a new design that shows in an understandable and attractive way the main strengths of the University and its academic activity, as well as the evolution of some variables over the last academic years. The document points out the…

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October 6, 2022

Patients with developmental disabilities more likely to experience preventable physical injuries while in hospital according to Laia Maynou research

Our researcher Dr Laia Maynou, and Dr Rocco Friebel, Director of the Global Surgery Policy Unit at LSE, are the authors of the paper “Assessing the dangers of a hospital stay for patients with developmental disability in England, 2017-2019”. Their research, published in the October 2022 issue of the journal Health Affairs, reveals that people with developmental disabilities are nearly three times more likely than other patients to experience preventable…

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October 3, 2022

Now hiring: Admissions officer

The Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona is a leading centre in Southern Europe for research and teaching in the fields of economics, business, sociology and statistics. It combines the historical tradition of the UB with its strong commitment to modernity and internationalization in recent years. The Faculty offers a wide range of quality postgraduate programmes and short courses to an international market. A priority for…

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September 23, 2022

The First edition of the UB School of Economics Young Researchers Meeting highlighted the excellence of the research done in the field of Economics at the UB

The UB School of Economics hosted the first “UB School of Economics Young Researchers Meeting” on September 22, 2022. The event represented an outstanding opportunity to showcase to the UB research community the work done at the UB School of Economics by our young researchers who joined the Faculty of Economics and Business during the last years. It also provided a good opportunity to establish scientific discussion and networking between…

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September 6, 2022

The UB School of Economics has inaugurated the Behavioral Experimental Science Laboratory

We are pleased to announce that we have inaugurated the Behavioral Experimental Science Laboratory at the Faculty of Economics and Business during the Summer School of the UB School of Economics. The aim of this new facility is to provide an adequate environment to conduct different kinds of experiments and studies for research projects and teach research methodology using the lab equipment. We asked Pol Campos Mercadé, Assistant Professor at…

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July 28, 2022

UB School of Economics researchers Lídia Farré and David Moriña have been awarded funding by La Caixa for socially-oriented research projects

The Social Observatory of “la Caixa” Foundation has awarded funding for 12 excellent, innovative, and socially-oriented research projects in Spain. UB School of Economics researchers Lídia Farré and David Moriña lead two of these projects. Lídia Farré developed her research work together with two other UB School of Economics researchers, Laia Maynou, Serra Hunter Assistant Professor, and Marta Curull, PhD in Economics student, as well as with Libertad González, Associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in…

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