The IEB Report 4/2021 reflects on fiscal sustainability in the post-Covid-19 era
Friday, 18 February 2022
The Barcelona Institute of Economics has presented its IEB Report 4/2021 ‘Fiscal sustainability in the post-Covid-19 era’ coordinated by Alejandro Esteller-Moré, Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona. The report stresses the need for structural reforms that increase GDP and thus reduce debt pressure. The impact of the pandemic in Spain has seen the…
Experts warn that the fight against climate change must not clash with universal access to energy services
Thursday, 17 February 2022
The 10th International Academic Symposium, on green opportunities for the energy sector, held at the University of Barcelona (UB), brought together some of the world’s leading experts in the field of energy and environmental sustainability, who stressed the threat that climate change poses to the world and the need for a new growth strategy to…
François Cohen receives a grant from the Mapfre Foundation
Friday, 11 February 2022
The IEB researcher and UB professor François Cohen is one of the five researchers awarded grants by the Mapfre Foundation. The grant, worth €74,800, is given to projects that contribute to promoting knowledge about the world of insurance and that encourage interest in social security, in areas such as the economy of ageing. Among the…
Call for Applications – Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship Sponsorship 2021-2022
Friday, 14 January 2022
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…
Jornadas 20º Aniversario IEB. Videos de las 3 sesiones
Thursday, 30 December 2021
Sesión 1: El futuro del aeropuerto de Barcelona (29 de Septiembre de 2021) Sesión 2: Financiación autonómica y fiscalidad: ¿la hora de la verdad?” (27 de Octubre de 2021) Sesión 3: ¿Sanidad pública, sanidad privada o modelo híbrido? (1 de Diciembre de 2021)
Experts invited by the IEB agree on the historical significance of the recent international tax agreement, but stress that it’s early days
Friday, 3 December 2021
The agreement recently reached by 137 countries to reform the international tax system is probably the most important in a century. This is what the most reputable tax experts from around the world have been saying since the signing of the agreement in October. With this agreement, the international community responded to important challenges that…