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…
Can fiscal decentralization increase social welfare?
Touching on the territorial debate in Spain, Alejandro Esteller, professor of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and director of IEB’s research program in tax systems analysis, offers us a new Info IEB highlighting the advantages of fiscal decentralization based on its ability to adjust to the peculiarities of each Autonomous Community (AC) in Spain. Specifically,…
Alessio Romarri receives one of the five Nada es Gratis awards for Job Market Papers in Economics
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…
Call for Applications – Juan de la Cierva 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 Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Call by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) is a research centre whose goals are…
