Ruben Durante is ICREA Research Professor at UPF, Affiliated Professor of the BSE, research affiliate of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He holds a PhD in Economics from Brown University, and Master degrees from Brown and Sorbonne. He works in the field of political economics, with a focus on the functioning and impact of traditional and new media in democratic societies. His work has been published in a number of top economic journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association, and has been featured extensively in the popular press.
- 2020: BBVA Foundation special grant for COVID-19 research
- 2017: European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
- 2017: American Economic Association's AEJ: Applied Economics Best Paper Award
- 2016: BSE Seed Grant, "Independence and Quality of Mass Media in the Internet Age"
Publications
Real-time inequality and the welfare state in motion: evidence from COVID-19 in Spain
Economic Policy, Vol.37, No 10, 165-199, January 2022, 10.1093/epolic/eiac008Media Attention and Strategic Timing in Politics: Evidence from U.S. Presidential Executive Orders
American Journal of Political Science, December 2021, 10.1111/ajps.12683Recognition Program
Ruben Durante and Michele Valsecchi