Updates

Felipe Valencia at the site of one of the Jesuit missions on Guarani lands in South America

A paper by Felipe Valencia '15 (GPEFM) has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and recently featured in The Washington Post. The paper, "The Mission: Economic Persistence, Human Capital Transmission and Culture in South America," won the Enrique Fuentes Quintana prize for best thesis in the Social Sciences in Spain.

Felipe Valencia got his PhD from GPEFM (UPF and BSE) in 2015. He is now Assistant Professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and a Research Affiliate of IZA.

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Andre Groeger and Hannes Mueller win 2023 Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research – BBVA Foundation Award

A paper co-authored by BSE Affiliated Professors, Andre Groeger (UAB, MOVE and BSE) and Hannes Mueller (IAE-CISC and...

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Real-Time Economics portal wins National Public-Private R&D Partnership Prize

A research team led by José García-Montalvo (UPF and BSE) that also includes Ruben Durante (UPF and BSE) and ...

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IDEA PhD candidate Mridula Duggal is a finalist for the 2023 ECB Young Economist Prize

The European Central Bank has announced the finalists for the 2023 ECB Young Economist Prize, and among them is ...

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University of Chicago podcast: "Does Bad Government Breed Populism?"

Professor Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI, UPF and BSE) spoke about his research on this subject with the University of Chicago Harris...

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