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The University of Barcelona was founded in 1450. Degrees are offered in 73 different areas of teaching with numerous postgraduate and doctorate programs as well as continuing education courses. The UB is ranked the first Spanish university, and the twenty third European institution, in scientific quality and productivity. The UB has more than 3,500 agreements with institutions around the world and 77 active Erasmus+ projects. These alliances offer excellent opportunities for academic and research mobility for all our community. We are a European university, belonging to the European University Association (EUA), and are the only Spanish member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU).

Principal Investigator

Concepció Patxot

Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona (UB) and researcher at the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT) (www.ub.edu/beat). B.A and PhD in Economics (UB) and MSc in Economics at QMW (University of London). Her research focuses on the analysis of intergenerational transfers, both at theoretical and empirical level; using and developing different methods to analyze the effect of the demographic transition on the economy and the sustainability of the welfare state (Overlapping generations models, Generational Accounting, National Transfers Accounts and Microsimulation). She has worked in and leaded several collaborative projects financed in competitive terms by national governments and the European Commission, being the results published in several international peer review journals as Journal of Population Economics, ITAX, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, Population and Development Review and the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, among others.

Team

• Alfonso Herranz
• Gemma Abió
• Raquel Andrés
• Alexandrina P. Stoyanova
• Jordi Pons
• Ester Manna
• Alessandro de Chiara
• Luiz Brotherhood
• Jerbashian Vahagn
• Elisenda Renteria
• Natalia Valdés
• F. Javier Rodríguez-Román