Competitive funding such as ERC Grants support some of the most ambitious, creative projects led by researchers at the Barcelona School of Economics.
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.
The most recently awarded grants are listed first:
“Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries”
ERC Consolidator Grant (2024)
“Political Polarization: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions”
ERC Consolidator Grant (2023)
“Government Intervention and Macroeconomy: Microevidence on Transmission of Government Procurement”
“Safety, Liquidity and Crises”
ERC Starting Grant (2023)
“Optimal Immigration Policy”
“Uniform Inference with Time Series”
“Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries”
ERC Starting Grant (2022)
“The Historical Roots of Global Inequality”
ERC Consolidator Grant (2022)
“Personality, Preferences and Reference Dependence”
“Advances in Empirical Methods for Time Series and Forecasting in Unstable Environments”
ERC Advanced Grant (2022)
“The Macroeconomic Effects of Corporate Tax Reforms”
ERC Starting Grant (2021)
“Macroeconomic Trends and the Efficiency of Financial Markets”
ERC Advanced Grant (2021)
In addition to ERC Grants, researchers at BSE have successfully obtained funding in other competitive calls such as:
Recipients in the past 3 years include:
“New Tools to Estimate the Demand and Supply of Video Content: Heterogeneous Consumers, Gender, and Social Media Effects”
BBVA Foundation Leonard Grant (2024)
“Investigating the Implications of the Demand for Housing for Welfare Inequality”
“The Universal Basic Wage: Individual and Aggregate Effects of Public Policy Experiment”
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