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2025-03-10 — In English. Talk by Lídia Farré at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), presenting her research on the causes and consequences of gender gaps in the labor market. She emphasizes the role of within-household specialization in understanding the persistent gender gaps in the labor market. She also presents results on how public policies can change gender norms.

2025-02-25 — In Spanish. Talk by Mar Reguant on "Challenges and Successes in the Energy Transition" as part of the CSIC "Exploring Frontiers with the National Awards" conference series. Using case studies from Spain, Chile, and the United States, Mar Reguant provides a detailed analysis of data, methodologies, and key findings, highlighting policy implications and future steps for advancing the energy transition.

2025-01-27 — In Spanish. Talk by Ángel López at the Residencia de Investigadores CSIC in Barcelona about how Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming multiple sectors of the economy. In this talk, Ángel López provides a brief introduction to AI and its main types of learning, and explores how AI and pricing algorithms influence market competition and decision-making processes.

2024-11-12 — In Catalan. Martí Mestieri at the Catalan Economic Society 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics Lecture: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson – How Institutions Affect Societal Prosperity. Martí Mestieri presents the key contributions of the laureates and discusses an original research paper on industrialization without job creation.

2024-11-27 — In Spanish. Two-day workshop organized by INE and CSIC in which users and producers of Spanish labor market statistics share their experiences regarding the use of different statistics. Joan Llull participates in the workshop (starting around 4:11:00) as Econometric Society Data Editor to talk about data access requirements for reproducibility.

2024-10-21 — In Catalan. Talk by Mar Reguant at the Residencia de Investigadores CSIC in Barcelona. Renewable energy is often seen as difficult to use due to its intermittent nature and the fact that it is sometimes generated far from where it is needed. But are these challenges impossible to overcome? This talk explores these issues and highlights successful solutions, focusing on Chile and the Iberian Peninsula—two regions with abundant renewable energy.

2024-01-23 — In Catalan. Lídia Farré at the Catalan Economic Society 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics Lecture: Claudia Goldin – Why do gender gaps persist in the labor market? To mark the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Claudia Goldin (Harvard), Lídia Farré presents the laureate's key contributions and discusses recent advances in research on the gender gap in the labor market.

2023-08-31 — In English. Roundtable organized and moderated by Joan Llull in which four prominent economists (Guido Imbens, Nobel Laureate and Editor of Econometrica, Marie Connolly, Data Editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics, Sule Alan, Co-Editor of Economic Journal, and José G. Montalvo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) debate about open science requirements and data sharing policies when data production is costly.