📢 Open call for the Enrique Fuentes Quintana 2024-2025 awards to recognise outstanding doctoral theses! 🗓️ Deadline: November 17, 2025 🔗 www.funcas.es/premios-enri... #Economics #Research #PhD

Today's #activity: 'Welcome session MSc in Economics' ⏰16:00 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/nluwpvdycj #Economics #MSc #Master

Today's #seminar: 'Holding Bankers Liable: Personal Guarantees and Risk- taking in Security Underwriting' 🗣️Eva Mulder (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Peter Koudijs ⏰17:00 CEST 📍Online 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/xjgejgwbgo 🗃️ Economic History ‬seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution' 🗣️Gabriel Loumeau (VU Amsterdam) ⏰14:30 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/ljcdbmnkgb 🗃️ @fundacioieb.bsky.social seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Troll Farms' 🗣️Boris Ginzburg @uc3m.es  ⏰12:15 CEST 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/grkkafbdzg 🗃️ Economic Theory ‬seminar

🆕#WorkingPaper: “When developers hold office: shaping housing supply through local politics” by Ghizlen Ouasbaa, Albert Solé Ollé and @eviladecans.bsky.social. Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/ruphfutinq #EconSky #RealEstateDevelopment #HousingPolicy #Government @fundacioieb.bsky.social

📈💶 What drives sovereign yield spreads in the Euro Area?

🎓Yesterday, @mmagagno.bsky.social defended her #PhD #thesis “Essays on Urban Economics”. (Advisors: @eviladecans.bsky.social#PhD#thesisnd Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López). Congratulations! 🎉

Today's #seminar: 'When Private Firms Provide Public Goods: The Allocation of CSR Spending' 🗣️@lgadenne.bsky.social ‬(Queen Mary University of London) ⏰14:30 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/dtejydlyas 🗃️ @fundacioieb.bsky.social ‬seminar

#CallForPapers ➡️ “Perspectives on (Un-)Employment”: Join us for the 17th interdisciplinary Ph.D. workshop bringing together social scientists to discuss the most recent findings in #economics and #sociology. Submit your abstract by 30 Sept. Info: iab.de/en/iab-veran... #EconSky

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Effects of Tourism on Community Economic Well-Being and Heterogeneity of Local Destinations: Evidence From a Developed Tourist Market” by Germà Bel, Lluís Colomés and Ferran Mazaira-Font. Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/srricaxhci #EconSky #Tourism #Sociology #Economics

🏆 Applications are open for the best Master’s Thesis (TFM) defended at the @ub.edu during the 2024/2025 academic year!   ➡️ Topics: 🔹 Social Economy 🔹 Cooperativism 🔹 Service-Learning 🔹 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/zriresvmvp #Economics #Award #MasterThesis

Today's #seminar: 'Efficiency versus fairness in link recommendation algorithms' 🗣️Agnieszka Rusinowska (CNRS - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) ⏰12:20 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/cpzjbnzrwr 🗃️ Game Theory and Economic Dynamics Seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Markovian values and their application to the formation of international environmental agreements' 🗣️Michel Grabisch (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) ⏰11:00 CEST 📍Room 1038, 690 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/kqwkkjmpya 🗃️ Game Theory and Economic Dynamics Seminar

Today's #seminar: 'Essays on Urban Economics' 🗣️@mmagagno.bsky.social (@ub.edu#seminar: ⏰11:00 CEST 📍Hybrid. Sala de Graus, 690 Building and Online 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/slegguzcvj 🗃️ PhD Thesis Defence #EconSky #Economics

🎉 We'd like to congratulate Javier Moral Picazo, alumnus of the 2024 MSc in Economics program. 🏆 Javier has been awarded the prestigious Emilio Albi Ibáñez Prize for Master’s Theses in Public Economics by the IEF. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales.

🎓 Can living near crime affect university grades? Our researcher Daniel Montolio and our PhD student @pereataberner.bsky.social explore how students’ exposure to violent incidents impacts academic performance and how it differs by gender in their latest post at @nadaesgratis.bsky.social.

🎙️ Tune in to "Más Cerca" (RNE) to hear our researcher Germà Bel analyze the growing challenges of the Spanish railway system. 🔗 Listen to the full interview here: https://f.mtr.cool/thupdeembv

🚨 New publications alert! Two of our researchers have recently published their work in the American Economic Journal.

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Is the revealed price of democracy biased?” by José María Durán Cabré,  Alejandro Esteller Moré, and Riccardo Secomandi.  Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/kfdeafoavd     #EconSky #COVID19 #Pandemic #FiscalPolicy #Surveys @fundacioieb.bsky.social

📣 Open call for the Fiscal Research and Tax Studies Awards of the Generalitat of Catalonia. 💸 Two categories for Bachelor’s theses and two categories for Master’s theses, each with a 1.500€ prize. 📅 Submit your application before September 30, 2025. 🔗 More info: https://f.mtr.cool/udwbqyqevy

👶 Can institutions reshape parenting behavior? Read the latest post on @nadaesgratis.bsky.social, where our researcher Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, along with @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social, @lidiafarre.bsky.social and @claudiahupkau.bsky.social explains the case of Spain’s paternity leave reform.

📰 Our PhD student @mmagagno.bsky.social and PhD alumnus @filippot7.bsky.social have just published a working paper in the @fundacioieb.bsky.social analyzing how environmental noise impacts housing values in l’Eixample, Barcelona.

💙 Soon, the UB facilities will once again be filled with all of you. We’ll be ready to welcome you and kick off the new 2025-2026 academic year. Follow us on the UB School of Economics social media so you don’t miss any updates!

🆕#WorkingPaper: “From Rivals to Allies? CEO Connections in an Era of Common Ownership” by Dennis C. Hutschenreiter and Liu Qianshuo. Read the full text👉🏻 https://f.mtr.cool/cijwirledd #EconSky #PortfolioManagement #Investments #EnterpriseCooperation

🔉 #CallForPapers: 6th Meeting on #Transport Economics and Infrastructure. 📌 Deadline: November 2, 2025 🗣️ Keynote: Maria Börjesson (VTI) 📅 January 22-23, 2026 📍 @ubeconomics.bsky.social  Info & submissions ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/siormrjdjf 🧵👇

☀️ Have a great summer break! To all our UBSE community and prospective students, we wish you a relaxing and refreshing summer. Enjoy the well-deserved break! 🌴 📌 Please note that our office will be closed from 4 to 29 August.  We'll be back on 1 September to assist you with anything you need.

🚀 PhD Fellowship in Economics at the University of Barcelona School of Economics 🚀 🧵⬇️

#EconSky Excited to see our paper with @icotrombetta.bsky.social published in @aeajournals.bsky.social AEJ: Economic Policy! Also excited that my colleague Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela has a paper in the same issue. We definitely rock at @fundacioieb.bsky.social & @ubeconomics.bsky.social!

🚨 We’re delighted to announce the release of Volume 1 of The BESTEPS Guide: 7 Lessons Towards Effective Economics PhD Research — now available as an open-access resource!

📰 New publication by our PhD student in Economics, @annachesa.bsky.social, in @eldiario.es, where she shares part of her doctoral research, supervised by @juditvall.bsky.social and @lidiafarre.bsky.social.

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Examining the transmission of credit and liquidity risks: A network analysis for EMU sovereign debt markets” by Fernando Fernández Rodríguez, Marta Gómez-Puig and Simón Sosvilla Rivero. Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/nktbehuzsc     #EconSky #Liquidity #CreditRisk

🗣️ Our researcher Ana Moragues took part in Encuentros La Vanguardia (@LaVanguardia.com), a roundtable debate on transforming the food system. 🍽️ The discussion focused on the challenges and opportunities facing today’s agri-food sector. 🔗 www.lavanguardia.com/vida/2025070...

Thank you very much for the invitation to present at the Applied Microeconomics Seminar, Department of Economics, Kyoto University! It has been amazing visiting the Department, and I have met several colleagues! My first time in Japan but it will not be the last one!! @economiaempresaub.bsky.social

🔉 #CallForPapers: 6th Meeting on #Transport Economics and Infrastructure. 📌 Deadline: November 2, 2025 🗣️ Keynote: Maria Börjesson (VTI) 📅 January 22-23, 2026 📍 @ubeconomics.bsky.social  Info & submissions ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/siormrjdjf 🧵👇

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Income inequality and economic growth in Asian countries” by @oclaveria.bsky.social. Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/rjjumxgoac #EconSky #PayEquity #Equilibrium #Economics #EconomicGrowth @aqrirea.bsky.social

Avui online i demà en paper publico aquest article d’opinió al suplement empreses del Diari ARA sobre la One Big Beautiful Bill Act, i els seus efectes sobre la cobertura sanitària de les persones més vulnerables. @ubeconomics.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social empreses.ara.cat/129_531239

🎉 Congratulations to our graduates of the MSc in Economics! 🎓 Your hard work and dedication have paid off, and we can't wait to see the amazing things you'll achieve. Here's to a future full of success and achievements! #GraduacionsFEE

Take a minute to read this great thread that @adriansantonja.bsky.social has done to explain our new working paper that explores the link between heat and intimate partner violence!! 👇👇👇 @fundacioieb.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social

📚 Introducing the new Applied Economics #ReadingGroup! Organized by the IEB & @ub.edu’s Public Economics Section, this spring we explored: 📌 Baseline Regression Discontinuity 📌 Recent RD developments 📌 Difference‑in‑Discontinuities 🧵👇

☀️ The 2025 Summer School on the Political Economy of Immigration has come to a successful close! 📅 From June 30 to July 4, the UB School of Economics hosted an intensive and timely program focused on one of today's most pressing global issues: international migration.

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Project Choice and Social Image Concerns” by Claudia Cerrone, Alessandro De Chiara, Ester Manna and @theo-saroglou.bsky.social#WorkingPaper: Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/uzoinvvikh #EconSky #CorporateImage #ProjectManagement #GenderStudies

Yesterday we had a great kick-off meeting of the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center (IPERC) -such a vibrant community! @ub.edu @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ubeconomics.bsky.social @econhistub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social

The Doctoral School of the @ub.edu  announced a new call for mobility grants to support research activities that involve travel. These grants are intended for doctoral researchers who plan to participate in conferences, seminars, research stays, or other scientific activities🧵👇🏼

📰 Read the interview in the @ara.cat newspaper with our researcher @pisorribas.bsky.social, where she talks about corruption. 🗣️ "In Spain, there's more corruption than there should be for its level of democracy." 🔗:

📊 The @ub.edu climbs positions in the QS World University Rankings and leads the Spanish higher education system

‼️ Yesterday, we kicked off our Summer School: The Political Economy of Immigration – Economics, Attitudes, and Votes (30 June–4 July 2025)!

☕ Research Ideas Coffee Talk turned 1! This season, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of this growing initiative! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, @mengweilin.bsky.social and ‪@favredenoguera.bsky.social‬, who made this possible. #EconPhD #EconSky #PhDCoffees #AcademicCommunity #PhDLife 🧵👇🏼

Today's #seminar: 'The One and Only: Single Bidding in Public Procurement' 🗣️Vitezslav Titl (Utrecht University School of Economics) ⏰12:15 CEST 📍Room 2302, 696 Building 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/dnnizsbcer 🗃️ Economic Theory seminar

🆕#WorkingPaper: “Privatisation and Remunicipalisation of Urban Water in Catalonia: Between Monopolisation, State and the Commons” by Germà Bel and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social#WorkingPaper: Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/mcjdwutubh     #EconSky #Privatization #WaterPolitics #GovernmentMonopolies