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BSE Summer Forum

The Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops that brings together hundreds of top researchers from around the globe to debate the present and future of the frontier of knowledge in Economics.

Next edition: June 2-19, 2026

2025 Edition Highlights Coming Soon!

A huge thank-you to all 900+ BSE Summer Forum workshop presenters, discussants, organizers, and participants who made the 2025 edition such a success!

Full recap and photo album coming soon!

Workshops for the 2025 Edition

Select a workshop for more details.

Summer Forum Workshops A-Z

A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union | June 18-19
Advances in Economic Research Using Bank Transactions Data | June 20
Advances in Microeconometrics | June 3-4
Advances in Structural Shocks Identification | June 5-6
Applied Industrial Organization | June 3-4
Behavioral Foundations of Information, Attention, and Belief Formation | June 10-11
Choice and Decision | June 10-11
Computational and Experimental Economics | June 5-6
Development Economics | June 18-19
Digital Economics | June 20
Economic Growth and Fluctuations | June 19-20
Economics of Institutions | June 3-4
Economics of Platforms | June 18-19
Economics of Science and Innovation | June 5-6
Entrepreneurship | June 11-12
Financial Intermediation and Risk | June 16-17
Financial Shocks, Channels, and Macro Outcomes | June 12-13
Firms in a Changing Background: New Technologies, Climate Change, and Emerging Challenges | June 3-4
Geography, Trade, and Growth | June 10-11
Growth and Productivity | June 17-18
Income Dynamics and the Family | June 12-13
International Finance and Macroeconomics | June 12-13
Machine Learning in Economics | June 12-13
Macro Development | June 18
Macro Fluctuations with Micro Frictions | June 19-20
Macroeconomics and Finance | June 10-11
Macroeconomics and Social Insurance | June 3-4
Migration | June 5-6
Monetary Policy | June 12-13
Networks | June 16-17
Networks and Firm Heterogeneity in Macro and Trade | June 5-6
Policy Evaluation in Health and Labor | June 3-4
Political Economy | June 16-17
Population Growth and Inequality Over the Long Run | June 3-4
Preferences, Bounded Rationality, and Strategic Interactions | June 10-11
Public Economics | June 16-17
Safety, Liquidity, and the Macroeconomy | June 17-18
Structural Microeconometrics | June 18-19
The Macroeconomics of Labor Markets | June 12-13
Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics | June 19-20
Tournaments: Theory, Experiments, and Applications | June 5-6

Summer Forum Workshops by Date

June 3-4

June 5-6

June 10-11

June 11-12

Entrepreneurship

June 12-13

June 16-17

June 17-18

June 18

Macro Development

June 18-19

June 19-20

June 20

Venue

As in several previous editions, the 2025 BSE Summer Forum will take place at Casa Convalescència, a beautiful setting in the center of Barcelona for sharing research and networking with colleagues.

Past Editions of the BSE Summer Forum

Summer Forum 2024

33 workshops
474 papers presented (2,296 papers submitted to workshop calls)
821 participants

Highlights from the 2024 Edition

Group photo from a BSE Summer Forum workshop in front of the Modernist venue Casa Convelescència

Summer Forum 2023

34 workshops
474 papers presented (2,141 papers submitted to workshop calls)
881 participants from 238 institutions worldwide

Highlights from the 2023 Edition

Summer Forum 2022

32 workshops
421 papers presented (1,659 papers submitted to workshop calls)
700 participants from 194 institutions worldwide

Highlights from the 2022 Edition

The Summer Forum is one of the Barcelona School of Economics research initiatives supported by the Severo Ochoa Research Excellence Program (CEX2024- 001476-S) through Spain’s State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación – AEI).