DOWNLOAD THE IEB REPORT 4/2018 80% of household financial wealth diverted to tax havens belongs to the richest 0.1% of the population It is estimated that 8% of the world’s household wealth is found in these countries Tax evasion rates are 10 times higher among the richest population compared to national averages. This is one…

The Sala de Graus of the School of Economics of the University of Barcelona will bear witness to the holding of the 3rd Meeting on Transport Economics and Infrastructure, organized by the IEB, and will be held on January 18. The event will be divided into four sessions wherein research related to public transport, railway…

IEB researcher, Daniel Montolio, and KSNET researcher, Pere Taberner, are the authors of the latest INFO-IEB, “Gender Differences Under Test Pressure and their Impact on Academic Performance: a Quasi-Experimental Design”. In this publication, they summarize the methodology and the results of the IEB Working Paper 2018/21 which analyses the gender differences in academic performance under…

The Institute of Economics of Barcelona (IEB-UB), in collaboration with the Naturgy Foundation, organized in Madrid the debate ‘The challenge of energy poverty: causes and proposals’ in which Spanish and international experts analyzed energy poverty in Spain and from a global perspective. During the seminar, the main measures to deal with a situation that affects…

The IEB and the Diputació de Barcelona held the Conference on Experiences of Cooperation and Assistance between municipalities, in which various experts analyzed different models of inter-municipal cooperation and assistance that allow reducing spending in local administrations and providing a more efficient service. The conference was attended by the director of Public Governance and Territorial…

IEB analyses the evolution of the available resources for each autonomous region in the third update to the “Autonomous Community Financing Map Madrid, the Balearic Islands and Catalonia were the worst affected regions by the current autonomous community financing system from the period 2012-2016 (the latest data available), according to the third update of the…