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13th BSE Economics “Trobada”

October 2015

The event featured a roundtable on a new data initiative, ERC Advanced Grant projects, and presentations of new Affiliated Professors.

On October 16, faculty from the BSE’s academic units met for the 13th annual Economics Trobada at CCCB in downtown Barcelona.

The "Economics Trobada" is a gathering of BSE affiliated professors that marks the beginning of the academic year, introduces new affiliated professors and their work to the research community, and serves as a venue for debate and idea exchange on current Economics issues.

Welcome to new faculty

Two new BSE Affiliated Professors presented their research at the Trobada this year. Javier Fernández-Blanco (UAB and BSE), who joined the community in 2014-15, presented his paper, “On the Effects of Ranking by Unemployment Duration.” Alexander Frug (UPF and BSE) presented “Strategic Gradual Learning and Information Transmission.”

New Affiliated Professors we welcome into the BSE community in 2015-16 are:

ibaley.jpg	Isaac Baley (UPF and BSE) PhD, New York University Research interests: Macroeconomics, Information Frictions, International Economics
afrug.jpg	Alexander Frug (UPF and BSE) PhD, Tel Aviv University Research interests: Information Economics, Game Theory, Economic Theory
msgarciasantana.jpg	Manuel García Santana (UPF and BSE) PhD, CEMFI Research interests: Macroeconomics: Trade, Growth and Development
sshelegia.jpg	Sandro Shelegia (UPF and BSE) PhD, UPF Research interests: Industrial Organization, Game Theory, Political Economy
tsohl.jpg	Timo Sohl (UPF and BSE) PhD, University of St. Gallen Research interests: Corporate Strategy, Business Models, Economies of Scope, Resource Redeployment
pzwiernik.jpg	Piotr Zwiernik (UPF and BSE, from January 2016) PhD, University of Warwick Research interests: Mathematical Statistics, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Models with Hidden Variables, Algebraic Statistics

Senior researchers share ERC projects

In addition to presentations by new faculty, this year’s Trobada program included sessions with two recipients of Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC):

Jan Eeckhout (UPF and BSE)
Principal Investigator, “Labor Market Risk and Skill Diversity: Implications for Efficiency, Policy, and Estimation”

Albert Marcet (ICREA-IAE and BSE)
Principal Investigator, “Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn”

Roundtable: Creating a Registry Level Dataset for Catalonia

The Trobada roundtable always focuses on a current, relevant issue in Economic research, and this year was no exception. Panelists spoke about the challenges and opportunities of conducting research with large datasets, and also gave the audience a sneak peak at a new collaboration between the BSE and the Statistical Institute of Catalonia (IDESCAT) which aims to create a registry-level dataset for Catalonia.

Roundtable panelists: