Next January 14th (19h) there’s an INFORMATIVE TALK on Becas “La Caixa” 2014 for Spanish Postgraduate Students. If you are interested on attending this session, you should confirm your attendance HERE.
Vilnius, September 24th, 2013. “Europe will benefit from wise investment in research and innovation and Social Sciences and Humanities, SSH, are ready to contribute. European societies expect research and innovation to be the foundation for growth. Horizon 2020 aims to implement inter-disciplinarity and an integrated scientific approach. If research is to serve society, a resilient partnership with all relevant actors is required. A wide variety of perspectives will provide critical…
The school of governance and economics in Rabat (EGE) will recruit 20 teachers and researchers over three years. The school aims to contribute to the renewal of political and economic elites of Morocco and the region Worldwide Arab, Mediterranean and Africa. You will find all the information HERE.
Next Thursday December, 5th 2013 at ‘Sala de Recepcions’ of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Universitat de Barcelona takes place the UB-XREAP Seminar on “The Reform of Competition and Regulatory Authorities in Europe”. You can check the SEMINAR SCHEDULE. Attendance is free. Please, confirm your attendance by filling the following on-line formulary.
Next December 2nd-3rd will take place the 1st PhD in Economics Workshop at the Faculty of Economics and Business (UB). PhD in Economics students are presenting their papers from 9.30 to 13.10h. Click HERE to see the Workshop programme.
Heidelberg University has started a series of international summer and winter schools for doctoral students in various academic fields. The objectives of this project are to strengthen academic collaboration between Asia, Europe and Latin America and to foster networks of young researchers from these regions. The first summer school – “Frontiers in Neuroeconomics –How Social and Individual Context matters for the Biological Mechanisms of Behaviour” – will take place from…
AQR-IREA will host the Workshop on Agglomeration Economies on November 28th-29th 2013 at Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitat de Barcelona. The aim of this workshop is to bring together cutting-edge research papers on agglomeration economies and urban economics in general. Mark Partridge (Ohio State University) will be the Keynote speaker. You can confirm your attendance through this LINK. More information about this Workshop HERE.
Next February 2014 (13th and 14th) the Research Centre on Industrial and Public Economics (CREIP) is organizing the 2nd PhD Workshop in Industrial and Public Economics (WIPE) at the research centre CREIP (www.urv.cat/creip) located at the Faculty of Economics of the Rovira i Virgili University, in Reus. Extended Abstracts of proposed papers (between 500 and 1,000 words) should be submitted electronically in PDF format by emailing to creip@urv.cat by 25th…
Lecture by Moisés Naím at CCCB (Barcelona) next November 13th (7.30 pm) “Who’s in charge? The mutations of contemporary power”. Power is changing. It is increasingly easy to achieve but also more difficult to keep and wield. This is the thesis of the economic and political analyst Moisés Naím, a front-row observer of the world’s centres of power. More information HERE.
Marta Curto-Grau, PhD in Economics (2013) at Universitat de Barcelona, has been hired through the Job Market in Economics as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Center for Distributional Conflict and Globalisation of the Alfred-Weber Institute for Economics (University of Heidelberg). Her research interests are Public Economics, Fiscal Federalism, Political Economy and Development Economics. You can have a look to her thesis dissertation.