Researcher Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, Appointed Professor of the UB
Friday, 15 November 2019
Dr. Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal, researcher of the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), has recently been promoted to professor of the University of Barcelona. Viladecans-Marsal is a member of the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Business. An expert in Urban Economics, she is the director of the Cities Research Programme of the IEB…
Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal Awarded Project Grant by the Institute for Self-Government Studies
Friday, 15 November 2019
Researchers from the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) Albert Solé-Ollé and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal have been awarded funding by the Institute for Self-Government Studies (IEB) for their research project entitled “Understanding Intergovernmental Cooperation: the Effect of Political Homophily”. The research also includes Pilar Sorribas, Matteo Gamalerio, Pierre Magontier y Filippo Tassinari. The study will analyse the…
The Chair of Energy Sustainability Presents a Study on Energy Poverty in Spain
Thursday, 14 November 2019
About 22.1% of Spanish households suffering energy poverty include unemployed members, versus 7.1% of households that are not in such circumstances between the years 2011 and 2017. This is one of the main observations of the study Energy Poverty in Spain: Approach from an Income Perspective, prepared by the Chair of Energy Sustainability of the…
IEB Researchers Dirk Foremny and Javier Vázquez-Grenno—New Associate Professors of the UB
Monday, 11 November 2019
IEB researchers of the Barcelona Institute of Economics, Dirk Foremny and Javier Vázquez-Grenno, have been appointed associate professors of the University of Barcelona. This appointment is a recognition of their work and research. Dirk Foremny holds a PhD from the University of Bonn (Germany) and his areas of interest are political economy, federalism and fiscal…
Professor Judit Vall Receives Grant from the Ramón Areces Foundation
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
The Ramón Areces Foundation has published the resolution of the eighteenth National Competition for the Award of Research Grants in Social Sciences and Judit Vall, of the Barcelona Institute of Economics, has been one of the researchers named as recipient of the grant. The study in which Professor Vall will be working is entitled “The…
The IEB presents the fourth update of the “Autonomous Financing Maps”. The current financing system continues to hurt Madrid, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Madrid, the Balearic Islands and Catalonia generated tax revenues per capita well above average, but ended up with resources below the average. The case of Valencia is different, however, as the region generated revenues below the average, and after the application of the financing model, based on the index, their resources were reduced below their…
