As you may know, UAB's internet system is down since last month. We hope that it can be fully recovered asap. In the meantime, we have created a temporary MAREB wepage here: sites.google.com/view/mareb
The Catalan Competition Authority (@competenciacat) has this call for three internships in Barcelona. Open to graduates in economics and business, with knowledge of Spanish, Catalan and English. Apply by 8 March!
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Tomorrow at 18:00 (CET) our Departament’s professor David Castells will present his book “La Esquiva Búsqueda de la Prosperidad” in a colloquium in Byron Library (Barcelona). You are kindly invited! More info:
🤑Què vol dir ser realment rics? Ser feliços? De què depèn la nostra prosperitat? El professor d'Economia Aplicada de la @UABBarcelona, David Castells (@decastells), ens oferirà una resposta al col·loqui de:
📆 Dimarts 14 de desembre
🕖 18 h
📍 @byronllibreria
Us hi esperem!
PhD students interested in innovation: @open_phil has fully funded an awesome program for 25 folks in Boston, July 2022, alongside NBER Summer Institute. Great chance to meet students working in this really important field and to help build community of rigorous researchers!
NEXT DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR:
This Thursday 25th, Martín Rossi (UDESA) will present the talk "Once a Cheater, always a Cheater? Draft Evasion and Public Employment" (with G. Cruces and E. Schargrodsky).
This seminar will be on streaming format.
You can ask for the link via DM.
Next seminar at UAB Dep Applied Economics: 18 Nov 15:00 at 'Sala de Graus', Marianna Battaglia (Alicante) "Primary versus Secondary School Interventions" (with M. Hidalgo-Hidalgo)
Applied Lunch seminar:
Next Thursday November 11th, Diego Buitrago (UAB) will present his talk "The spatial pattern of job decentralization in US cities".
This will take place in Sala Anexa (FEiE UAB), at 13:30 (CET).
If you want to join us send a DM to get the Zoom link.
Next seminar at UAB Department of Business, Mon 15 November at 15h (room E2): Jose M. Martín-Flores (CUNEF) "Stock price informativeness and the propagation of idiosyncratic shocks by institutional investors" (with I. Blanco and A. Remesal)
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We would like to announce that the project "Building and shaping cities for a healthy and prosperous future", carried out by our professor Miquel-Àngel García-López (@MiquelAngelGL) has been selected in the Social Research Call 2021 (Fundació La Caixa).
Next Dept. Seminar
Georges Siotis (UC3M) will present his talk “Market Definition and Competition Policy Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Industry” w/ C. Ornaghi and M. Castanheira.
Join us this Thursday at 15:00 (CET) in Sala de Graus.
(Stay tuned for updates about streaming)
The European Economic Association @EEANews, @RoyalEconSoc and Spanish Economic Association have launched a web site for job market candidates. Well-designed and useful. Whether you are hiring or you are a candidate, check it out
ejme-candidatedirectory.org/
We remind you of tomorrow's Applied Lunch seminar, by Nandan Rao (UAB) and his talk "Facebook Ads vs. Malaria: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in India".
You can join us at 15:00 (CET). Zoom link via DM.
Next seminar at UAB Department of Business, Wed 6 Oct (TODAY!) at 15:00, Vicente Bermejo (ESADE ) “Inter-temporal scapegoats: Government turnover and fiscal adjustment” (with J.M. Abad, F. Carozzi, A. Gago). At seminar room E2. sites.google.com/site/vicent…
REMINDER:
Our candidate Juan Piedra Peña will defend his PhD thesis, entitled "Efficiency and Spatial Structure of the Public Healthcare System: The Ecuadorian Case", this afternoon, at 3:00 p.m (CET).
New paper by MAREB professor Emilio Padilla (@EmilioPadillaR1) "Reversing impatience: Framing mechanisms to increase the purchase of energy-saving appliances", Energy Economics. (with Mariateresa Silvi) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
🆕 @EconUCL is looking for an Associate Lecturer (Teacher) specialised in macroeconomics who will work closely with @WendyCarlinEcon, CORE and colleagues on u/g macro modules and in a new research centre on wealth and inequality. Info below 👇 To apply ➡️ atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engin…
New paper by MAREB professor Miquel-Àngel García-López, “Congestion in highways when tolls and railroads matter”, Journal of Economic Geography (with E Viladecans & I Pasidis).@MiquelAngelGLacademic.oup.com/joeg/advanc…