The PhD candidate of the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) Alessio Romarri has been one of the five winners in the third call of the award Nada es Gratis for Job Market Papers in Economics. Two other IEB researchers, Kinga Tchorzewska and Rodrigo Martínez Mazza, have also received special mention.
In the award-winning study, Alessio Romarri analyses whether hate crimes against immigrants in Italy and the presence of far-right parties in local governments are related and the extent of this relationship. Rodrigo Martínez Mazza, who has received a special mention, explores the difficulties of access to housing for the youth in his work, using European data spanning the past 25 years. Another special mention by the awards jury has been granted to another IEB PhD student Kinga Tchorzewska for her research in which she evaluates the Spanish experience with environmental taxes in recent decades and makes several suggestions for future developments in this area of tax reform.
These accomplishments represent an endorsement for the IEB PhD students and a gratifying recognition of the effort that the IEB is making to promote the preparation of doctoral theses, as demonstrated by its 13 current PhD candidates.