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May 23, 2023

Núria Rodríguez Planas receives an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council to develop her research at the UB School of Economics

Researcher Núria Rodríguez Planas from the City University of New York has been awarded a European Advanced Grant to study the factors of domestic violence in the European Union. She will carry out this project at the UB School of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Barcelona). The European Research Council (ERC) has granted 218 Advanced Grants, representing an investment of 544 million euros to promote…

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May 10, 2023

Six projects led by UB School of Economics researchers have been awarded funding by the Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation

Six teams composed of members of the UB School of Economics lead six different ‘Horizon Europe’ projects, a key EU funding programme for research and innovation, Federico Demaria, whose research fields are Political Ecology and Ecological Economics, leads at the University of Barcelona the project titled “Towards a sustainable wellbeing economy: integrated policies and transformative indicators (ToBe)”, working together with our researchers Ana Moragues Faus, Mònica Serrano and Enric Tello. The aim of the project ToBe…

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May 9, 2023

UB School of Economics researcher Judit Vall has been presented with the Dissemination Award by the University of Barcelona

Judit Vall, professor and researcher of the UB School of Economics, has been one of the winners ex aequo of the X Distinction from the UB Senate of Doctors and the UB Social Council to the best activities of scientific and humanistic dissemination. This award aims to promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge to society as a whole. The opening ceremony of the award will take place on Thursday May…

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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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