Call for applications: PhD Scholarship – Energy and Environmental Economics
We offer a PhD Scholarship for 3 years (with possible extension for one more year), starting September 2021. We are looking for students who aim at enrolling on the PhD program in Economics (University of Barcelona). The candidates must have a Master in Economics completed by summer 2021 and apply to the PhD program in…
Call for applications: Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Fellowship Sponsorship
The IEB (Barcelona Institute of Economics) and the Department of Economics in the School of Economics at the University of Barcelona, aims to sponsor several candidates for the Beatriu de Pinós Programme Call by the AGAUR (Catalan Agency for Management of University and Research Grants). The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) is a research centre…
Experts advocate the 4DS: Decarbonisation, digitisation, decentralisation and democratisation
The IX International Academic Symposium on Energy Transition organized by the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) has emphasized the impact (and the opportunity) of coronavirus for the transformation of the energy system. An impact based on the decentralisation of the system with a complete supply of renewable energies. The Symposium was inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor…
IEB launches study on budget practices of the Autonomous Communities
The Institute of Fiscal Studies will finance the research project undetaken by the IEB to carry out a survey, and its subsequent study, on the budgetary practices of the Autonomous Communities. Led by Dr. Daniel Montolio, co-director of the IEB public policy research line, and with the participation of researchers Jordi Baños and Clara Picanyol,…
Judit Vall, new associate professor at the University of Barcelona
Dr. Judit Vall, researcher at the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), has been appointed associate professor at the University of Barcelona (UB). Vall is a member of the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business. The new associate professor, who is an expert in health economics and labour economics, had previously been…
IEB Report 4/20 analyses the impact of COVID-19 on poverty
In the context of the presentation of the IEB Report on Fiscal Federalism and Public Finance 2020, the Barclona Institute of Economics (IEB) has released the IEB Report 4/20 “Poverty in Spain and Europe: Effects of Covid-19”, which completes the series of this year’s annual report. The final installment to the annual IEB Report has…