News Archive

News from the past 12 months

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Associate professor Adré Groeger has been awarded the 2022 ERC starting grant for his project "Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries"

Jordi Massó will be Keynote speaker of the 13th Conference on Economic Design (CoED2023)

Professor Jordi Massó (UAB) is one of three invited keynote speakers in this year's edition of the conference on Economic Design that will take place in Giron this June. 
Check out the complete program here 

XIX Annual Meeting of the Spanish Social Choice Network 

Professor Jordi Massó (UAB) and the rest of the local organizing committe will host the XIX annual conference of the Spanish Social Choice Network on November 25 and 26 at UAB campus. 
Check out the complete program here 

Workshop "Economics and Pandemics in the XXI Century" 

Vahgan Jerbashian (Universitat de Barcelona) and Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis (UPenn, UAB and BSE) are organizing a two-day conference next week at casa de la convalescencia. 
Check out the complete program here 

IDEA Inaugural Lecture Welcomes This Year's Cohort 

The directors of the International Master and Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA) are pleased to invite you to the Inaugural Lecture of the 2022-2023 academic year, which will take place on Friday, September 23 at 12 pm. 
- The IDEA Alumni conference will be given by Christopher Rauh on “The Impact of Fear of Automation”. 
- The Inaugural Conference will be given by Antonella Trigari  on “Temporary Layoffs, Loss-of-Recall, and Cyclical Unemployment Dynamics”. 

The BSE Summer School Attracted over 600 International Students

The Barcelona School of Economics organized the 2022 BSE Summer School from 20 June to 15 July. 
The Summer School of the Barcelona School of Economics is a yearly event that offers a variety of one-week courses in Economics, Finance, Data Science, and related fields.
Summer School at the Barcelona School of Economics offers the unique opportunity to study at a top European institution in one of the world's most exciting summer destinations.

ENTER Jamboree 2022 hosted by UAB

The 2022 ENTER Jamboree will take place at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on June 20 and 21, 2022. The European Network For Training in Economic Research (ENTER) is a cooperative venture between eight leading European Economics Departments, that aims at fostering internationally competitive research of the highest possible quality, by broadening the base for competent supervision and intensive interaction towards research in Economics.

This year we have 10 candidates on the academic and professional job market. Click here to check out the complete list of our excellent candidates on the job market this year! 

The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET) has elected professors Jordi Massó and David Pérez-Castrillo as new Economic Theory Fellows in 2021. Economic Theory Fellows are selected for their scientific excellence, originality, and leadership; high ethical standards; and scholarly and creative achievement.

The Coalition Theory Network (CTN) is an association of nine high-level scientific institutions whose aim is the advancement and diffusion of research in the area of network theory and coalition formation. This year's Workshop will be organized around three main research topics: coalition formation, matching, and networks.

Welcome to our New Faculty Members

We are very happy to welcome our two new faculty members. Fernando Payró-Chew joins us from BU as a new Assistant Professor and Anna Gibert joins us from Bocconi as a new Beatriu de Pinós PostDoc at MOVE.

VI Calvo-Armengol International Prize Ceremony 

The VI Calvo-Armengol International prize in Economics was awarded tp Ben Golub (Northwestern). Professor Golub delivered a talk on "Complexity Fragility and Policy in Economic Networks" on November 9, 2021 at the Cercle d'Economia in Barcelona. 

Matt Jackson Appointed Chair of BSE Scientific Council

The Board of Trustees of the Barcelona School of Economics has appointed Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University) Chair of the BSE Scientific Council after Hugo Sonnenschein, who chaired the group since 2008, passed away earlier this year.

The Barcelona GSE is now the Barcelona School of Economics

The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics has changed its name to the Barcelona School of Economics. This change went into effect at the beginning of the 2021-2022 academic year.

Find more details in the following link: GSE is now BSE


BSE Welcomes New Researchers at 19th Trobada

The 19th Barcelona School of Economics "Trobada" took place at UAB Casa Convalescència on October 1, 2021. This BSE tradition is the first research event of the academic year that brings together Affiliated Professors, post-docs, and PhD students from all of the BSE academic units:

The community welcomed three new BSE Affiliated Professors. Find more details at the following link: 19th BSE Trobada