Barcelona graduate school of economics
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The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, commonly referred to as Barcelona GSE, is an independent institution of research and graduate education located in Barcelona
, in Catalonia, Spain.
The School offers a wide range of professionally and academically-oriented degrees in Economics
and Finance
to graduate students committed to understanding the complex economic and financial processes of an increasingly global society.
As an interuniversity research institute, the Barcelona GSE also promotes excellence in scientific research in close collaboration with its four academic bodies. The School's faculty
includes a number of researchers at the forefront of the European economic research community. The Barcelona GSE was ranked third on the RePEc Top European Institutions list in April 2011, along with being named among the top 20 economic research centers in the world.http://www.barcelonagse.eu/rankings-economic-research-repec.html
, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
, IAE-CSIC and CREI) whose reputations, faculty, and resources underpin the Barcelona GSE master programs and research initiatives. The School is supported by six private institutions: The Agbar Group
, AXA Research Fund
, Banc Sabadell, Catalunya Caixa Savings Bank
, "la Caixa" Savings Bank
, and the FemCAT Foundation. It also receives public funding from the "Consolider-Ingenio 2010" initiative of the Spanish Government, launched to promote research excellence, the Catalan Government, and the Barcelona City Council.
The School was legally recognized by the Government of Catalonia
in October 2006 as a Foundation dedicated to higher education
.
, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago
. The Council is made up of 30 leading academics, including nine Nobel Laureates in Economics, who help to forge and enhance relationships between the Barcelona GSE and the wider academic community.
Members of the Scientific Council
The Barcelona GSE has been ranked by RePEc among the top 15 Economic Research Institutions and the top 10 Economics Departments in the world, the top three in Europe and as the best in Spain.
Members of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
Research Director: Omar Licandro (IAE and Barcelona GSE)
Among the Affiliated Professors there are Fellows of the Econometric Society
, Fellows of the European Economic Association
, Research Fellows of the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR)
, and Research Fellows of the CESifo. They publish in the leading journals of Economics and many of the top journals of the different subfields of the discipline. They also serve as coeditors and associate editors of these journals.
Many GSE Affiliated Professors have received public recognition for both the volume and quality of their research. They are also highly sought consultants, regularly advising governments, international organizations, financial institutions, and corporations.
Select List of Affiliated Professors
At present there are some 150 affiliated professors, including:
Select List of Guest Professors
Current master program offer:
Research Seminar, a three-day scientific conference focused on the economics of science and innovation.
Continuing education at the Barcelona GSE includes the Global Health Leadership Forum (in cooperation with Berkeley School of Public Health and UPF-CRES) and the Intensive Course on Competition Economics.
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, in Catalonia, Spain.
The School offers a wide range of professionally and academically-oriented degrees in Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
and Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
to graduate students committed to understanding the complex economic and financial processes of an increasingly global society.
As an interuniversity research institute, the Barcelona GSE also promotes excellence in scientific research in close collaboration with its four academic bodies. The School's faculty
Faculty (university)
A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas...
includes a number of researchers at the forefront of the European economic research community. The Barcelona GSE was ranked third on the RePEc Top European Institutions list in April 2011, along with being named among the top 20 economic research centers in the world.http://www.barcelonagse.eu/rankings-economic-research-repec.html
History
The Barcelona GSE was founded in July 2006 as a joint venture of four academic institutions (Universitat Pompeu FabraPompeu Fabra University
Pompeu Fabra University is a university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is widely considered to be one of the best universities in Spain and in Europe, and was ranked 1st in scientific productivity in Spain in 2009. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra...
, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Autonomous University of Barcelona
The Autonomous University of Barcelona is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain....
, IAE-CSIC and CREI) whose reputations, faculty, and resources underpin the Barcelona GSE master programs and research initiatives. The School is supported by six private institutions: The Agbar Group
Grupo Agbar
Agbar is a Spanish company dedicated to services, distribution or treatment of water. The company was founded in 1867 in Liège as Compagnie des Eaux de Barcelone by an investor from France and Catalonia . The group is present in almost all the continents as North America, South America, Asia and...
, AXA Research Fund
AXA
AXA S.A. is a French global insurance group headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. AXA is a conglomerate of independently run businesses, operated according to the laws and regulations of many different countries. The AXA group of companies engage in life, health and other forms of...
, Banc Sabadell, Catalunya Caixa Savings Bank
Caixa Catalunya
Caixa Catalunya, the trading name of Caixa d'Estalvis de Catalunya, was a Catalan savings bank headquartered in Barcelona, Catalonia. It was owned by the Barcelona Provincial Government . It was the fifth largest savings bank in Spain, and the second largest banking institution in Catalonia, after...
, "la Caixa" Savings Bank
La Caixa
La Caixa , formally Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona , is currently Europe’s leading savings bank and Spain's third largest financial institution, with a network of over 5,500 branches, more than 8,100 ATMs, a workforce in excess of 27,000 and more than 10.7 million...
, and the FemCAT Foundation. It also receives public funding from the "Consolider-Ingenio 2010" initiative of the Spanish Government, launched to promote research excellence, the Catalan Government, and the Barcelona City Council.
The School was legally recognized by the Government of Catalonia
Government of Catalonia
The Government of Catalonia is the executive branch of the Generalitat de Catalunya. It is responsible for the political action, reglamentation and administration of the Generalitat....
in October 2006 as a Foundation dedicated to higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
.
Academic Units
- Barcelona's Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - Department of Economics and Business was recently ranked first among Spanish Economics Departments according to a study published in the Spanish Economic Review. In just 16 years, the department has reached the milestone of 1,000 working papers published. The UPF was founded in 1990 as a public university committed to research and excellence. It enrolls over 9,000 students and has a teaching staff of approximately 1,000.
- The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Unit of Economic Analysis (UAB) is generally considered to be one of Spain's top three Economics Departments. The UAB was created in 1968, and with over 50,000 students, 3,000 academic and research staff and 100 postgraduate programs, the UAB is a research powerhouse.
- The Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE), is part of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and was created in the UAB campus in 1985. Its aim is to promote research in Economics at the highest scientific level.
- The Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI) is a research institute created in 1993 by the UPF and the Government of Catalonia. Its research activities focus on international economics and macroeconomics.
Scientific Council
The Barcelona GSE's Scientific Council works with faculty and administrators to ensure the quality of teaching, research, and admissions procedures. It is chaired by Prof. Hugo SonnenscheinHugo Sonnenschein
Hugo Sonnenschein was an Austrian writer from Bohemia. - External links :http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.s/s652031.htm...
, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. The Council is made up of 30 leading academics, including nine Nobel Laureates in Economics, who help to forge and enhance relationships between the Barcelona GSE and the wider academic community.
Members of the Scientific Council
- Daron AcemogluDaron AcemogluKamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian origin. He is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and winner of the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal. He is among the in the world according to IDEAS/RePEc...
, MIT - Ann Krueger, The Johns Hopkins University
- Aloisio Pessoa de Araújo, IMPA and Fundação Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro)
- Robert LucasRobert LucasRobert Lucas may refer to:* Rob Lucas , Liberal member of the South Australian Legislative Council* Robert Lucas, 3rd Baron Lucas* Robert Lucas, Jr. , economist...
, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate - Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University, Nobel Laureate
- Charles F. ManskiCharles F. ManskiCharles Frederick Manski, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, is an econometrician in the realm of Rational choice theory, an innovator in the arena of identification. Manski’s research spans econometrics, judgement and decision, and the analysis of social policy...
, Northwestern University - Orley AshenfelterOrley AshenfelterOrley Clark Ashenfelter . is an American economist. He is a professor of economics at Princeton University and also the director of the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics.Born in San...
, Princeton University - José María Maravall, Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Madrid)
- Jurgen Basedow, Max Planck Institute
- James A. Mirrlees, University of Cambridge, Nobel Laureate
- Richard BlundellRichard BlundellRichard Blundell, CBE, FBA is a British Economist and Econometrician.He is currently the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and Research Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies...
, University College London - Juan Pablo Nicolini, Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Buenos Aires)
- Robert CooterRobert CooterRobert D. Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics, began teaching in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in 1975 and joined the Boalt Hall faculty in 1980. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a recipient of various awards and...
, University of California, Berkeley - Robert PostRobert PostRobert Post is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. Post won two awards, Best Male Artist and Best Video, at Norway's equivalent of the Grammys, Spellemannprisen, in 2005 for his debut album...
, Yale University - Mathias DewatripontMathias DewatripontMathias François Dewatripont is a Belgian economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
Université Libre de Bruxelles - Edward C. PrescottEdward C. PrescottEdward Christian Prescott is an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles"...
, University of Arizona, Nobel Laureate - Jacques DrèzeJacques DrèzeJacques H. Drèze is a Belgian economist noted for his contributions to economic theory, econometrics, and economic policy as well as for his leadership in the economics profession. Drèze was the first President of the European Economic Association in 1986 and was the President of the Econometric...
, Université Catholique de Louvain - John RobertsJohn RobertsJohn Glover Roberts, Jr. is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist...
, Stanford University - Raquel Fernández, New York University
- Paul A. Samuelson, MIT, Nobel Laureate in memoriam
- Oliver Hart, Harvard University
- Thomas J. SargentThomas J. SargentThomas John "Tom" Sargent is an American Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winning economist, specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics...
, New York University, Nobel Laureate - James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate
- Reinhard SeltenReinhard Selten-Life and career:Selten was born in Breslau in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther. For his work in game theory, Selten won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences...
, Universitat Bonn, Nobel Laureate - Bengt Holmström, MIT
- Christopher A. SimsChristopher A. SimsChristopher Albert "Chris" Sims is an econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the Harold B. Helms Professor of Economics and Banking at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2011. The award cited their "empirical...
, Yale University, Nobel Laureate - Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University
- Robert M. Solow, MIT, Nobel Laureate
- Daniel KahnemanDaniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel laureate. He is notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics and hedonic psychology....
, MIT, Nobel Laureate - Joseph E. StiglitzJoseph E. StiglitzJoseph Eugene Stiglitz, ForMemRS, FBA, is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal . He is also the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank...
, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate - Timothy J. KehoeTimothy J. KehoeTimothy Jerome "Tim" Kehoe is a renowned American economist and professor at the University of Minnesota. His area of specialty is macroeconomics and international economics....
, University of Minnesota - Fabrizio ZilibottiFabrizio ZilibottiFabrizio Zilibotti is an Italian economist. He is currently the Head of the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy of the University of Zürich's Department of Economics. Zilibotti was previously Professor of Economics at University College London and at the Institute for International...
, University of Zürich
Research
One of the Barcelona GSE's main objectives is to make Barcelona a worldwide primary reference in economic research.Research Rankings
The GSE community constitutes one of the leading clusters of economics research in Europe. Three studies in the Journal of the European Economic Association placed it near the top of its rankings. According to P. Kalaitzidakis, T.P. Mamuneas, and T. Stengos “Ranking of Academic Journals and Institutions in Economics” (May 2002), it should be ranked 2nd, when their top 30 journals are taken into account (period 1995-1999). In another study by M. Lubrano, L. Bauwens, A. Kirman and C. Protopopescu, “Ranking Economics Departments in Europe: A Statistical Approach” (May 2003), the GSE community should be ranked #3 when their top journal list is considered (period 1991-2000). And according to J. Drèze and F. Estevan “Research and Higher Education in Economics: Can We Deliver The Lisbon Objectives?” (May 2007) the Barcelona GSE’s total research output would rank between second and third in Europe.The Barcelona GSE has been ranked by RePEc among the top 15 Economic Research Institutions and the top 10 Economics Departments in the world, the top three in Europe and as the best in Spain.
Research Areas
- Macroeconomics and GrowthMacroeconomicsMacroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of the whole economy. This includes a national, regional, or global economy...
- MicroeconomicsMicroeconomicsMicroeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of how the individual modern household and firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Typically, it applies to markets where goods or services are being bought and sold...
- Financial EconomicsFinancial economicsFinancial Economics is the branch of economics concerned with "the allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment"....
- Public Economics
- DecisionsDecision theoryDecision theory in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics is concerned with identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues relevant in a given decision, its rationality, and the resulting optimal decision...
and GamesGame theoryGame theory is a mathematical method for analyzing calculated circumstances, such as in games, where a person’s success is based upon the choices of others... - Quantitative and Experimental Methods in EconomicsExperimental economicsExperimental economics is the application of experimental methods to study economic questions. Data collected in experiments are used to estimate effect size, test the validity of economic theories, and illuminate market mechanisms. Economic experiments usually use cash to motivate subjects, in...
Research Activities
The main research activities organized by the Barcelona GSE include:- GSE Lectures
- Recognition of Research Program
- Calvó-Armengol International PrizeCalvó-Armengol International PrizeThe Calvó-Armengol International Prize is awarded every two years by the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics in cooperation with the Govern d'Andorra and the Fundació Crèdit Andorrà to "a top researcher in economics or the social sciences younger than 40 years old for his or her contribution to...
- Community seminars and conferences
- Annual Barcelona GSE "Trobada"
Barcelona GSE Research Committee
The Barcelona GSE receives valuable support from the Government of Catalonia to develop its research initiatives for scientific cooperation, particularly the Recognition Program, which are guided by the School's Research Council. Until 2009, the research initiatives of the GSE were consolidated under the Barcelona GSE Research Network (formerly known as CREA). Since January 2010, the Research Committee continues to develop all of the initiatives that were previously grouped under the Research Network.Members of the Barcelona GSE Research Committee
- Jordi GalíJordi GalíJordi Galí is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today...
, Director of the Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI) - Clara Ponsatí, Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC)
- Antoni Bosch, Head of the Department of Economics and Business of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
- Jordi Caballé, Head of the Unit of Economic Analysis of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
Research Director: Omar Licandro (IAE and Barcelona GSE)
Affiliated Professors
The Barcelona GSE derives its core strength from the faculty of its four academic institutions, which employ over one hundred renowned scholars, some of whom are also Affiliated Professors at the Barcelona GSE.Among the Affiliated Professors there are Fellows of the Econometric Society
Econometric Society
The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation with statistics and mathematics. It was founded on December 29, 1930 at the Stalton Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio....
, Fellows of the European Economic Association
European Economic Association
The European Economic Association is a professional academic body which links European economists. It was founded in the mid-1980s. Its first annual congress was in 1986 in Vienna, Austria...
, Research Fellows of the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR)
Centre for Economic Policy Research
The Centre for Economic Policy Research , a registered charity founded in 1983 by Richard Portes , FBA, CBE, is a network of over 700 researchers based mainly in universities throughout Europe, who collaborate through the centre in research and its dissemination...
, and Research Fellows of the CESifo. They publish in the leading journals of Economics and many of the top journals of the different subfields of the discipline. They also serve as coeditors and associate editors of these journals.
Many GSE Affiliated Professors have received public recognition for both the volume and quality of their research. They are also highly sought consultants, regularly advising governments, international organizations, financial institutions, and corporations.
Select List of Affiliated Professors
At present there are some 150 affiliated professors, including:
- Salvador Barberà
- Fernando Broner
- Antonio Ciccone
- Juan Carlos Conesa
- Xavier Freixas
- Jordi GalíJordi GalíJordi Galí is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today...
- Javier Gil-Bazo
- Juan José Ganuza
- Nezih Guner
- Albert MarcetAlbert MarcetAlbert Marcet is a Spanish economist, specialized in Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. He is professor of Economics at the London School of Economics...
- Massimo Motta
- Francesc Obiols
- David Pérez-Castrillo
- Jaume Ventura
- Hans-Joachim Voth
Guest Professors
Apart from the Affiliated Professors who make up the core of the school's faculty and come from its founding institutions, the Barcelona GSE is proud to invite professors from other universities as well as practitioners in economics and related fields. They bring the right combination of scholarship and practical experience to the classroom.Select List of Guest Professors
- Simon Evenett
- Jordi Gual
- Simon JohnsonSimon Johnson (economist)Simon Johnson is a British American economist. He is the 'Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has held a wide variety of academic and policy-related positions, including...
- Timothy KehoeTimothy J. KehoeTimothy Jerome "Tim" Kehoe is a renowned American economist and professor at the University of Minnesota. His area of specialty is macroeconomics and international economics....
- Edoardo Levy-Yeyati
- Xavier Sala-i-MartinXavier Sala-i-MartinXavier Sala-i-Martin is a professor of economics at Columbia University.Sala-i-Martin earned his degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1985 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990, both in economics...
- Reinhilde VeugelersReinhilde VeugelersReinhilde Veugelers is Professor of Managerial Economics, Strategy and Innovation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She has been a visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Stern Business School ,...
Master Programs
The Barcelona GSE offers master programs leading to two master degrees: Economics and Finance and Specialized Economic Analysis.Current master program offer:
- Competition and Market Regulation
- Economics
- Economics of Public Policy
- Economics of Science and Innovation
- Finance
- Health Economics and Policy
- International Trade, Finance, and Development
- Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets
Summer School and Continuing Education
The Barcelona GSE's academic offer includes a menu of short summer school programs that is updated each year. Recently these have included banking, microeconometrics, and labor economics tracks. The GSE also organizes the Zvi GrilichesZvi Griliches
Hirsh Zvi Griliches was an economist at Harvard University. He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in an assimilated Jewish family that spoke Russian at home. During World War II he was sent to the Dachau concentration camp...
Research Seminar, a three-day scientific conference focused on the economics of science and innovation.
Continuing education at the Barcelona GSE includes the Global Health Leadership Forum (in cooperation with Berkeley School of Public Health and UPF-CRES) and the Intensive Course on Competition Economics.