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:

Gaël Le Mens
Gaël Le Mens
UPF and BSE

“The Implications of Selective Information Sampling for Individual and Collective Judgments”

ERC Consolidator Grant (2017)

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Giacomo Ponzetto
CREI, UPF and BSE

“Citizens, Institutions and Globalization”

ERC Starting Grant (2016)

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Ruben Enikolopov
Ruben Enikolopov
ICREA-UPF and BSE

“Social Media, Political Participation, and Accountability”

ERC Starting Grant (2014)

José-Luis Peydró
José-Luis Peydró
ICREA-UPF and BSE - on leave

“Debt and Persistence of Financial Shocks”

ERC Consolidator Grant (2014)

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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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