The IEB presents its second Report on Fiscal Federalism in Spain on 8 June
The second report on fiscal federalism in Spain analyses the worrying situation of city council funding
The IEB and Forum of Federations organize the seminar “Governance and Finance of Large Metropolitan Areas
The event was held on 8, 9 and 10 March at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona
Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Provincial Council, new sponsors of the FIEB
Another step forward in the consolidation of the IEB
Marta Espasa, researcher at the IEB, appointed a member of the Economic Advisory Council of the new Catalan government
The Advisory Council has been set up to guide the process of reactivating the Catalan economy. Chaired by Salvador Alemany, the council will meet every fortnight to advise the Catalan government (Generalitat) on economic matters
Academics and heads of R & D stress the key role of the university as a driver of innovation, but agree that more progress is needed in knowledge transfer
Experts, businesses and policy makers are calling for a change of model to make universities more competitive and innovative, and to help them respond more effectively to the needs of society. These are some of the conclusions of the Symposium on Universities, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, organized by the Barcelona Institute of Economics, which brought together…
Núria Bosch, Marta Espasa and Albert Solé, winners of the 2010 Joan Sardà Dexeus prize
Members of the IEB and the UB’s Department of Political Economy and the Public Finance awarded the prize of the ‘Revista Econòmica de Catalunya’ for their book ‘The Political Economy of Inter-Regional Fiscal Flows’
