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Fostering Research Excellence

Highlights from BSE activities and initiatives that promote scientific rigor in Economics research

BSE Summer Forum

Where hundreds of top researchers gather each June in workshops across dozens of topics in Economics

Calvó-Armengol Prize

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Severo Ochoa Accreditation

BSE has been distinguished as a Center of Research Excellence by Spain’s State Research Agency.

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AI, Trade Wars, and Jobs: Can Industrial Policy Meet the Moment?

Scientific Council
June 25
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Jordí Galí Honored with BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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June 25
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The Labor Supply Curve is Upward Sloping: The Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks

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BSE Working Paper: 1496 | June 25
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Jonathan Vogel, Andreas Kostøl, Sigurd Galaasen, Joan Monràs,
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Bilingual Education and Identity

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BSE Working Paper: 1495 | June 25
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Antonio Di Paolo, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ramon Caminal,
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What’s in a u?

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BSE Working Paper: 1494 | June 25
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Antonio Penta, Larbi Alaoui,
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Employment Allocation: from Branches to Extended Subsystems

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BSE Working Paper: 1493 | May 25
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Ana-Isabel Guerra, Ferran Sancho,
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Corruption and Renegotiation in Procurement

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BSE Working Paper: 1492 | May 25
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Leandro Arozamena, Federico Weinschelbaum, Juan-José Ganuza,
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Social Pensions and Intimate Partner Violence against Older Women

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BSE Working Paper: 1491 | May 25
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Hen Ya, Giulia La Mattina, Cristina Bellés Obrero,

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Ideological Consistency and Valence

Games and Economic Behavior
February 25
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The Global Financial Resource Curse

Open Access
February 25
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Global Financial Cycle, Household Credit, and Macroprudential Policies

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Camelia MinoiuIrina MihaiJosé-Luis PeydróRead more
and Mircea Epure
Management Science, Business Economics
December 24
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E-invoicing, tax audits and VAT compliance

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Innocente MurasiJohn KarangwaChristos KotsogiannisRead more
and Luca Salvadori
Journal of Development Economics, Business Economics
December 24
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ESPE special issue

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Libertad González
political economy, Journal of Demographic Economics
December 24
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Online academic exams: Does multiplicity of exam versions mitigate cheating?

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Marc Vorsatz and Flip Klijn
Social Choice and Mechanism Design, International Review of Economics Education
December 24
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The impacts of armed conflict on human development: A review of the literature

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Hannes Mueller
conflict, political economy, World Development
December 24
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Geopolitical risks and prudential merger control

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Martin Peitz and Massimo Motta
political economy, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice
December 24
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Modeling noisy learning in a dynamic oligopoly experiment

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Rosemarie Nagel
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
December 24
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Political Parties and Public Policies. A Review of the Spanish Evidence

CESifo Economic Studies, Public Economics
November 24

BSE Focus

Research-based analysis by economists and social scientists at the Barcelona School of Economics

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Labor Economics
June 2025
Immigration, Inequality, and Income Taxes
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Economic Development in Pixels

Development Economics
June 2025
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Land-Use Regulation and Declining Construction Productivity

Public Policy
May 2025
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