IV Seminari Anual de l’institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada de la UB TO TRANSLATE >>> Blog Post

L’Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada de la UB (UB-IREA) – ubicat al Parc Científic Barcelona –va organitzar ahir, 14 de març, a la Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, el seu IV Seminari Anual. En aquest Seminari els investigadors que en formen part de l’UB-IREA van presentar i posar en comú els últims avenços en la recerca que duen a terme en els seus camps respectius. Enguany, com a ponent convidat, va intervenir, el cap de la Divisió de Recerca del Banc d’Espanya, Juan Francisco Jimeno, que va impartir la conferència «La crisis económica en España: orígenes, desarrollo y políticas (con especial atención a las reformas laboral y de pensiones)».

The Institute of Applied Economics (IREA) announces an award to the best doctoral thesis Blog Post

The Institute of Applied Economics (IREA) of the University of Barcelona has just announced the call for the first IREA Award Barcelona-Applied Economics, open to all doctoral theses presented at any university during the 2008-2010 period in the field of applied economics. The award, endowed with a 3,000 Euro grant, aims to promote research excellence and the work of young PhDs, hence collaborating in the dissemination of the social prestige of this academic title. The IREA is a research institute affiliated to the Barcelona Science Park and encompasses three consolidated research groups recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya in the field of applied economics: Regional Quantitative Analysis (AQR, from its acronym in Catalan), Risk in Finances and Insurance (RISC, from its acronym in Catalan) and Government and Market (GiM, from its acronym in Catalan).