Research Grants

Competitive funding such as ERC Grants support some of the most ambitious, creative projects led by researchers at the Barcelona School of Economics.

BSE Research grants

ERC Grants

European Research Council (ERC) Grants have become indicators of world-class research across all academic disciplines.

Project proposals are evaluated by international peer reviewers, and scientific excellence is the sole criterion for selection.

44
ERC Grants awarded to current BSE Affiliated Professors and Research Fellows
19
ERC Starting Grants
for researchers with 2-7 years of experience
13
ERC Consolidator Grant
for mid-career 
researchers
12
ERC Advanced Grants
for exceptional 
research leaders

On-going ERC Grants in the BSE research community

The most recently awarded grants are listed first:

Geert Mesters
Geert Mesters
UPF and BSE

“Econometrics for Macroeconomic Policy Evaluation”

ERC Starting Grant (2021)

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Marta Reynal-Querol
Marta Reynal-Querol
ICREA-UPF and BSE

“Colonization, Early Institutions and the Origin of State Capacity and Democratization”

ERC Advanced Grant (2021)

Sandro Shelegia
Sandro Shelegia
UPF and BSE

“Foundations for Antitrust and Policy on Digital Plaftorms”

ERC Consolidator Grant (2021)

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Mar Reguant
Mar Reguant
ICREA-IAE-CSIC and BSE

“Understanding the Energy Transition with a Machine Learning Toolbox”

ERC Consolidator Grant (2020)

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Victoria Vanasco
Victoria Vanasco
CREI, UPF and BSE

“Information, Markets and the Macroeconomy”

ERC Starting Grant (2020)

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Albert Marcet
Albert Marcet
ICREA-CREI, UPF and BSE

“Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn and are Heterogeneous”

(2018)

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Maria Petrova
Maria Petrova
ICREA-UPF and BSE

“The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism”

ERC Starting Grant (2018)

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Jan Eeckhout
Jan Eeckhout
ICREA-UPF and BSE

“Market Power and Secular Macroeconomic Trends”

ERC Advanced Grant (2019)

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Fernando Broner
Fernando Broner
CREI, UPF, and BSE

“International Capital Flows and Emerging Markets”

ERC Starting Grant (2010)

Jordi Galí
Jordi Galí
CREI, UPF and BSE

“Heterogeneity, Monetary Policy and Economic Fluctuations”

ERC Advanced Grant (2019)

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Luca Fornaro
Luca Fornaro
CREI, UPF and BSE

“Economic Fluctuations, Productivity Growth and Stabilization Policies: A Keynesian Growth Perspective”

ERC Starting Grant (2019)

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Libertad González

“The Causal Effect of Public Policy and Income on Child Health and Human Capital”

ERC Consolidator Grant (2017)

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Other Grants

In addition to ERC Grants, researchers at BSE have successfully obtained funding in other competitive calls such as:

BBVA Foundation Leonardo Grants

Recipients in the past 3 years include:

Rosa Ferrer
Rosa Ferrer
UPF and BSE

“New Tools to Estimate the Demand and Supply of Video Content: Heterogeneous Consumers, Gender, and Social Media Effects”

BBVA Foundation Leonard Grant (2024)

Joan Monràs
Joan Monràs
UPF and BSE

“Investigating the Implications of the Demand for Housing for Welfare Inequality”

BBVA Foundation Leonard Grant (2024)

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta

“The Universal Basic Wage: Individual and Aggregate Effects of Public Policy Experiment”

BBVA Foundation Leonard Grant (2024)

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