bse.eu/research/are... Check out our new working paper that investigates whether types of cancers that affect more strongly women than men are receiving less research funding from European Institutions! 👇👇👇 With @luongthuha.bsky.social and @lidiafarre.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social

Today's #seminar: 'Democratic Backsliding in Times of Crisis' 🗣️Maxim Senkov @ub.edu  ⏰12:15 CET 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/ykscnlpwyb 🗃️ Game Theory and Economic Dynamics Seminar

Today's #seminar: 'What If You See It? Workers’ perceptions of and reactions to LLMs' 🗣️@ainagallego.bsky.social @ub.edu  ⏰14:30 CET 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/miyovwdgjv 🗃️ @fundacioieb.bsky.social ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'TBA' 🗣️Paula Bustos @upf.edu  ⏰12:15 CET 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/ejqlntchiq 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

⏳NOW HIRING! Call for expressions of interest for Postdoctoral and Assistant Professor positions: 📁All fields of economics 🔴Deadline: 1 December 2025 🗓️Starting date: September 2026 🔗https://shorturl.at/s7rEC

📢#JobMarket Paper by Taha Nikkhah: 📑 " Exclusive Strategic Collaboration and Competition" 🔹This paper studies how a disruptive technology firm decides whether to enter a market directly or collaborate with incumbents by offering its digital infrastructure. 🧵👇🏼

Today's #seminar: 'Taxing the wealthy, managing the backlash: Comparing the Zucman tax proposal in France and Catalonia’s impost sobre el patrimoni' 🗣️Justine Le Floch (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University) ⏰12:15 CET 📍Room 1037, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/hgbqncvudx 🗃️ GiM-OAP ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage' 🗣️Hugo Reichardt (CREi) ⏰12:15 CET 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/tehpvjxajz 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

🚨 #JobMarket Paper by Marta Curull-Sentís @mcsentis.bsky.social: 📑 "Paternity Leave and Intimate Partner Violence" 👨‍🍼 This paper studies how paternity leave affects intimate partner violence, using a Spanish policy reform as a natural experiment @assameeting.bsky.social @laiamaynou.bsky.social 🧵👇🏼

Today's #seminar: 'The Perils of Technocratic Power: Central Bank Discretion and the End of Bretton Woods Revisited' 🗣️Aditi Sahasrabuddhe (Brown University) ⏰17:00 CET 📍Online 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/beasjgiact 🗃️ International Macro History Online Seminar (IMHOS) ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'La huella alimentaria de Barcelona: una visión a largo plazo' 🗣️Jordi Planas & Enric Tello @ub.edu  ⏰14:00 CET 📍Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/wsoplydpir 🗃️ Economic History ‬seminar

🎓 The @ub.edu School of Economics at @economiaempresaub.bsky.social has welcomed new students on the MSc in Economics this academic year! 🌍 Meet the Class of 2027 — a diverse, talented, and motivated group ready to make an impact in the field of #Economics: https://f.mtr.cool/bqrhwybqmf

Today's #seminar: 'The Welfare Effects of Price Shocks and Household\\ Relief Packages: Evidence from an Energy Crisis' 🗣️Kate Smith (London School of Economics) ⏰14:30 CET 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/kklkgjjhan 🗃️ @fundacioieb.bsky.social ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Beyond Risk: Firm Financing and Interest Rates' 🗣️Miguel Ferreira @qmul.bsky.social  ⏰12:15 CET 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/kzxxkisony 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

📊 Biennal Ciutat i Ciència: Barcelona will become the centre of science for a week, hosting a programme full of activities across diverse fields. 📅 from the 18th to the 23rd of November. 🔗 More information: https://f.mtr.cool/fivcnuuyqk

📢#JobMarket Paper by Osman Hakan Can: 📑 "Quantifying the Long-Term Impact of Oil Spills: A Synthetic Difference-in-Differences Approach" 🌊 This paper shows that major oil spills cause lasting damage to marine ecosystems, sharply reducing ocean productivity for at least a decade 🧵👇🏼

🎓Save the Date: Meet the MSc in Economics Director! This live Q&A session is your chance to learn more about our MSc at the @ub.edu. 🗓️ December 10, 2025 ⏰ 15:00 CET 🎤 @vahagnj.bsky.social ✨Don’t miss this opportunity to ask about the programme, the admissions process, and studying in Barcelona 🧵👇🏼

🗣️ This Monday, Professor Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF, and BSE) delivered the lecture “The United States of Europe”, marking the opneing of the academic year for the UB School of Economics Graduate Programme (MSc and PhD in Economics) and the Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE).

🎓Last Friday, Joselin Segovia defended her PhD thesis “Essays on education and intergenerational mobility”. (Advisors: @rramosl.bsky.social). Congratulations! 🎉

Today's #seminar: 'Tournaments with a Standard' 🗣️Mikhail Drugov @uab.cat  ⏰12:15 CET 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/wvrplckram 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

📢#JobMarket Paper by Wilma Ticona: 📑 "Transport and Structural Change in Latin America - 1900-2005" 🔹This paper quantifies the long-term impact of railway and road infrastructure on natural resource-based exports in Latin America from 1900 to 2005🧵👇🏼

Today's #seminar: 'Banking on a Corporate Rebrand' 🗣️@kilian-rieder.bsky.social @oenb.at  ⏰14:00 CET 📍Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/aldhfpoqqi 🗃️ Economic History ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'The long-lasting protection of a defunct industrial policy' 🗣️Maria José Moral @uneduniv.bsky.social ⏰14:30 CET 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/fytzcsambd 🗃️ @fundacioieb.bsky.social ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Nation-Building through Transitional Justice' 🗣️@russog.bsky.social @cunef.bsky.social  ⏰14:00 CET 📍Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/nqgfmkempr 🗃️ Economic History ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Data-Driven Platform Encroachment' 🗣️Shiva Shekhar (Tilburg School of Economics and Management) ⏰12:15 CET 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/cbeivbtdld 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

Today's #seminar: 'The United States of Europe' 🗣️ Jaume Ventura (CREI, @upf.edu#seminar: and BSE) ⏰15:30 CET 📍Sala d'Actes, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/qqzffffznj 🗃️ Other activities #Economics #EconSky

🗣️ Our researcher Antonio Di Paolo is interviewed in Ara newspaper, where he analyses the relationship between Catalan language proficiency and wage performance.   💬 “Speaking Catalan can increase wages by up to 18%.”

📢 Don't miss the Opening Lecture of the academic year, jointly organized by our Graduate Programme in Economics (MSc and PhD) and the Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE). 🔹It will be delivered by Jaume Ventura (CREI, @upf.edu, and BSE), and is titled “The United States of Europe”  🧵👇🏼

Today's #seminar: 'Predicting Avoidable Hospitalizations in Catalonia among Primary Care Teams: A Machine Learning Approach' 🗣️Carlos Gallego-Moll @ub.edu  ⏰12:15 CEST 📍Room 1037, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/zutuqzvzwr 🗃️ GiM-OAP ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Seventh BEAT Trobada' 🗣️Leslie Marx @duke-university.bsky.social and Alfonso Díez Minguela @uv.es#seminar:⏰10:15 CEST 📍Sala de Graus, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/qafberiyog 🗃️ BEAT ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Who wins wars' 🗣️@dominic-rohner.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social  ⏰14:30 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/ebgpvlvkgm 🗃️ IPERG ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Salary Caps for Public Managers and Public Sector Performance' 🗣️Edoardo di Porto (Sapienza University of Rome) ⏰14:30 CEST 📍Room 1031, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/cyvjacmsqa 🗃️ AQR-IREA seminar #EconSky #Economics

Today's #seminar: 'Voluntary disclosure location and price choice in a hotelling model' 🗣️Goonj Mohan @ub.edu  ⏰12:15 CEST 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/czhrgcvfix 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

📅 Last week, the @ub.edu presented the new Research Centre on Institutions, Politics and Economics (IPERC) with the roundtable “The Current State of Democracies: Challenges and Future Paths.”

📢 Don't miss the Seventh BEAT Trobada, the annual meeting to share ideas, present new research projects, and debate on the future challenges of the Institute. 🗓️October 24, 10:30 📍Sala de Graus 🗣️Leslie Marx @duke-university.bsky.social and Alfonso Díez Minguela @uv.es 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/hhjlrhzkjg

Today's #seminar: 'Marriage Market Equilibrium with Matching on Latent Ability: Identification using a Compulsory Schooling Expansion' 🗣️Dan Anderberg (Royal Holloway University of London) ⏰14:30 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/vipewcipfs 🗃️ @fundacioieb.bsky.social ‬seminar

👋🏽 Last week, a new cohort of PhD students in #Economics at @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ub.edu attended a welcome session. It was a joy to meet many of you in person! For those who couldn’t join us physically, we’re looking forward to seeing you soon!

PhD Thesis Defence: 'Essays on education and intergenerational mobility' 🗣️Joselin Segovia​​​ (@ub.edu) ⏰16:00 CEST, online 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/ccbvwggixa 🗃️ PhD Thesis Defence #EconSky #Economics

Today's #seminar: 'Women in Editorial Boards: An Investigation of the Female Representation in Top Economic Journals' 🗣️Nagore Iriberri (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) ⏰14:30 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/szameewnqv 🗃️ @fundacioieb.bsky.social ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Firms Testing vs Consumer Feedbacks' 🗣️Chantal Marlats (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas) ⏰12:15 CEST 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/ajncgvttfo 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

🌞 The weather impacts how we spend our time — and crime too. In a recent study, François Cohen (@fundacioieb.bsky.social) and Fidel Gonzalez (Sam Houston State University) analyse over 12 million daily crime records in Mexico to uncover how temperature affects crime rates.

🌍 Thank you to our outstanding speakers Susan Stokes (University of Chicago), Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University), and Carles Boix (@princeton.edu & @ub.edu) for their insightful contributions to the roundtable “The Current State of Democracies: Challenges and Future Paths”, held on October 16.

#RecercaUB | 📈 La #UniBarcelona inaugura a Economia i Empresa el Centre de Recerca en Institucions, Política i Economia (IPERC). ➡️ En la taula rodona inaugural hi van participar Susan Stokes, Massimo Morelli i @cboix.bsky.social, nou director del centre. web.ub.edu/web/actualit...

Inspiring roundtable today marking the public debut of the Institutions and Political Economy Research Centre at @ubeconomics.bsky.social, with Susan Stokes, Massimo Morelli and @cboix.bsky.social Thanks to @cescamat.bsky.social and @alfonsoherranz.bsky.social for making it happen!

A very interesting roundtable yesterday on the current state of democracy at the inaugural event of the new Research Centre on Institutions, Politics and Economics (IPERC) @ubeconomics.bsky.social , with Susan Stokes, Massimo Morelli and @cboix.bsky.social

Today's #activity: 'Welcome session PhD in Economics' ⏰10:00 CEST 📍Sala de Recepcions, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/byogynecgy #Economics #PhD

Today's #seminar: 'Ranking algorithms, learning, and pricing' 🗣️Sandro Shelegia (UPF) ⏰12:15 CEST 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/iimdcnjjrg 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Roundtable on the State of Democracies Today: Challenges and Paths Forward' 🗣️Susan Stokes, Massimo Morelli and Carles Boix ⏰12:00 CEST 📍Sala d'Actes, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/pnmtjneeng 🗃️ IPERG seminar

Cities surrounded by expensive farmland are denser and agricultural productivity growth has lowered urban density over time in France. Our multi-region structural change framework can explain it. New paper by Coeurdacier, Teignier & @floswald.bsky.social www.restud.com/structural-c... #econsky

📢 Don't miss the roundtable organized by IPERC “The Current State of Democracies: Challenges and Future Paths”. 🗓️ October 16, 12:00 📍 Sala d'Actes, 690 Building 🗣️ Susan Stokes (University of Chicago), Massimo Morelli (Università Bocconi) and @cboix.bsky.social (@princeton.edu and @ub.edu) 🧵👇🏼