Visiting Researchers in Industrial Organization and Regulation
11-10-2010 closed
Fiscal decentralization increases trust in government, according to a recent study
The study by Jenny E. Ligthart and Peter Van Oudheusden of Tilburg University shows that fiscal decentralization increases citizens trust in government. More specifically, a one percentage point increase in decentralization causes roughly a four-fifths of a percentage point increase in confidence. Ligthart and Van Oudheusden recently participated in the fourth IEB Workshop on Fiscal…
Adam B. Jaffe, expert in innovation and knowledge transfer:“We need to incentivate researchers and universities to look for a commercial development for their research”
Adam B. Jaffe backs the introduction of stronger incentives and new ways of funding to improve the University’s contribution to development. In the Symposium University, Innovation, Territory (IEB), he also warned that cuts in research budgets may make it difficult to find ways out of the crisis Professor Adam B. Jaffe (University of…
Second Workshop on Economics of Education. Michael Lechner:
Michael Lechner (Professor of Applied Economics, University of St. Gallen), who has studied the effects of educational policy and vocational training on the job market, concluded that active policies and training programs against unemployment produce negligible results. To counter unemployment, he said, the most effective strategy is a good educational system and a commitment to…
The IEB’s researchers Álvaro Choi and Hipólito J. Simón, winners of different prizes for their researchs
Álvaro Choi has received the José Luís Moreno Becerra PhD thesis Prize, and Hipólito J. Simon has won the Award Lluís Fina for a research about wage inequality in Europe. The IEB researcher Álvaro Choi has received the José Luís Moreno Becerra PhD thesisPrize for 2011, awarded by the Economics of Education Association. Choi won…
George Borjas: “we should admit more qualified immigrants if we want to maximize the economic pie”
Borjas, considered “America’s leading immigration economist”, participated in the IEB’s Fourth Summer School in Public Economics, which focused on immigration and public policy.
