2019-12-16: Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Member of the Advisory Council of the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell (IAE-CSIC, Barcelona GSE, IZA) is member of the recently created Advisory Council of the Office of Economic and Infrastructure Studies, which consists of ten academics and economists of renowned prestige.

2019-09-23: Lídia Farré, Francesc Ortega, and Ryuichi Tanaka have been awarded a Best Paper Award
The Editors of Labour Economics selected Lídia Farré (University of Barcelona, IAE-CSIC, and IZA), Francesc Ortega (Queens College CUNY), and Ryuichi Tanaka (University of Tokyo) as recipients of the journal's Best Paper Award for "Immigration and the Public-Private School Choice", Labour Economics (2018), Vol 51, 184-201.

2019-07-29: The Institute for Economic Analysis publishes its 2016-2018 report
The report offers an overview of the research activities that have taken place at the Institute for Economic Analysis during the years 2016, 2017, and 2018.

The 25th conference of the Coalition Theory Network, May 21-22, 2020
The Coalition Theory Network (CTN) is an association of nine high-level scientific institutions whose aim is the advancement and diffusion of research in the area of network theory and coalition formation. Its next anual conference is organized by Flip Klijn (IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE), Jordi Massó (UAB and Barcelona GSE), Pau Milán (UAB and Barcelona GSE), Antonio Miralles (UAB and Barcelona GSE), and Amedeo Piolatto (UAB and Barcelona GSE).

"Market Competition and Efficient Cooperation"
Jordi Brandts and Arno Riedl, forthcoming in European Economic Review.

"Optimal Crowdfunding Design"
Matthew Ellman and Sjaak Hurkens, forthcoming in Journal of Economic Theory, 184, November 2019.

"Personal Liberties, Religiosity and Effort"
Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral and Gilat Lev, European Economic Review, 120, 2019.

"Relative Deprivation in Tanzania"
Jean-Marc Bédhat Atsebi and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Barcelona GSE Working Paper No. 1124 - October 2019

"Voter Heterogeneity and Political Corruption"
Enriqueta Aragonès, Javier Rivas and Áron Tóth, Barcelona GSE Working Paper No. 1121 - October 2019

"Improving Schools through School Choice: An Experimental Study of Deferred Acceptance"
Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz, Barcelona GSE Working Papers Series No. 1119 - September 2019

2019-11-12: Saiz, Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Ferrer-i-Carbonell on immigrant locations and native residential preferences in Spain
The "Observatorio Social" of La Caixa has announced to publish the results of a study carried out by Albert Saiz (MIT), Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (UC3M), and Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell (IAE-CSIC, Barcelona GSE, IZA). Their study argues that conventional empirical methods overstate the degree of native flight in situations where ethnic-minority arrivals spur the creation of new neighborhoods.

2019-09-02: Farré, Fasani, and Mueller on mental disorders due to long-term unemployment in Spain
The "Observatorio Social" of La Caixa has published the results of a study carried out by Lídia Farré (University of Barcelona, IAE-CSIC, and IZA), Francesco Fasani (Queen Mary University of London), and Hannes Mueller (IAE-CSIC and BGSE). The study analyzes the effects of the collapse of the Spanish construction sector, which left many of its workers out of the labor market for long periods.

2018-05-14: AEA Video: Besley and Mueller on predation, protection, and productivity
The American Economic Association has produced a short video summarizing the findings of a paper by Timothy Besley (LSE) and Hannes Mueller (IAE-CSIC and BGSE) published in the April issue of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. In their paper, the authors examine the impact on a nation's economy when the state fails to protect companies from criminal threats.