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:
“Macroeconomic Trends and the Efficiency of Financial Markets”
ERC Advanced Grant (2021)
“Econometrics for Macroeconomic Policy Evaluation”
ERC Starting Grant (2021)
“Colonization, Early Institutions and the Origin of State Capacity and Democratization”
“Foundations for Antitrust and Policy on Digital Plaftorms”
ERC Consolidator Grant (2021)
“Understanding the Energy Transition with a Machine Learning Toolbox”
ERC Consolidator Grant (2020)
“Information, Markets and the Macroeconomy”
ERC Starting Grant (2020)
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”
News about all grants and awards
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