The seventh BSE Summer Forum took place from June 10-22, 2019. Over 750 researchers from 216 institutions in 28 countries came to Barcelona to debate the present and future of the frontier of knowledge in Economics.

A total of 393 papers were presented in 27 workshops on topics across the spectrum of economic research. In this media center, you can find all the highlights and multimedia available from the Summer Forum:

Keynotes and invited speakers from all workshops

Listed alphabetically. Not all workshops had keynotes or invited speakers. See the workshop pages for the list of all speakers on each program.

• Mark Aguiar (Princeton University)
• Pol Antràs (Harvard University)
• Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)
• Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)
• George J. Borjas (Harvard University)
• James Bullard (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
• Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
• Patricia Cortés (Boston University)
• Herbert Dawid (University of Bielefeld)
• Mariacristina De Nardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
• Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University)
• Hanming Fang (University of Pennsylvania)
• Gene M. Grossman (Princeton University)
• Timothy J. Kehoe (University of Minnesota)
• Andrei A. Levchenko (University of Michigan)
• W. Bentley MacLeod (Columbia University)
• Stefan Nagel (Chicago Booth)
• Lars Nesheim (University College London)
• Jean-Charles Rochet (Swiss Finance Institute)
• John Rust (Georgetown University)
• Kenneth J. Singleton (Stanford University)
• Jonathan Skinner (The Dartmouth Institute for Health)
• Leeat Yariv (Princeton University)

Institutions with the most participants

Institution	Participants	Country
Federal Reserve System	13	US
Carnegie Mellon University	9	US
University of Chicago	9	US
London School of Economics	8	UK
University of Pennsylvania	7	US
Bank of Italy	6	Italy
Harvard University	6	US
Princeton University	6	US
University of Toronto	6	Canada
CEMFI	5	Spain
Columbia University	5	US
New York University	5	US
Stockholm School of Economics	5	Sweden
University of Oxford	5	UK
University of Warwick	5	UK
University of Zürich	5	Switzerland
Yale University	5	US

Central banks and international organizations

10 central banks represented

• Bank of Canada
• Bank of England
• Bank of Ireland
• Bank of Italy
• Bank of Spain
• Banque de France
• Deutsche Bundesbank
• European Central Bank
• Norges Bank
• United States Federal Reserve System

5 international organizations represented

• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
• International Food Policy Research Institute
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The World Bank
• Universal Rights Group

Institutions outside Europe and US/Canada

• American University in Dubai
• Brazilian School of Economics and Finance
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• ITAM
• Nanyang Technological University Singapore
• National University of Singapore
• PUC-Rio
• ShanghaiTech University
• Tel Aviv University
• Universidad de Chile
• Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
• University of Hong Kong
• University of Melbourne

Available multimedia

Videos are available for presentations by the following speakers:

• Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) 
  Humanizing Network Economics
• Patricia Cortés (Boston University)
  Globalization of Home Production and the Outcomes of Highly Skilled Native Women
• Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and BSE)
  Forward Guidance and the Exchange Rate
• Gene Grossman (Princeton University) 
  Identity Politics and Trade Policy (with Elhanan Helpman)
• Juan P. Nicolini (US Federal Reserve and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
  On the Risk of Leaving the Euro (with Manuel Macera and Albert Marcet)
• Mirjam Reutter (University of Hohenheim)
  The Morning After: Prescription-Free Access to Emergency Contraceptive Pills (with Gregor Pfeifer)

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PHOTO ALBUM

View all Summer Forum photos on Flickr

Full list of workshops in the 2019 edition

Workshops are listed alphabetically. Select a workshop to view dates, organizers, and program details.

• A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union
• Advances in Micro Development Economics
• Applied Industrial Organization
• Bounded Rationality, Cognition and Strategic Uncertainty
• Computational and Experimental Economics
• Economic Analysis of Electoral Politics
• Economic Growth and Fluctuations
• Economics of Science and Innovation
• Expectations in Dynamic Macroeconomic Models
• External Validity, Generalizability and Replicability of Economic Experiments
• Financial Intermediation and Risk
• Financial Shocks, Channels, and Macro Outcomes
• Firms in the Global Economy 
• Forecasting Political and Economic Crisis: Social Science meets Machine Learning
• Geography, Trade and Growth
• Income Dynamics and the Family
• Machine Learning for Economics
• Migration
• Monetary Policy and Central Banking
• Networks: Information, Contracts, and Communities
• Organizational Economics
• Policy Evaluation in Health
• Political Economy and Public Economics
• Political Institutions
• Stochastic Choice
• Structural Microeconometrics
• Towards Sustained Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and Human Capital

The event organizers this year were Professors Julian di Giovanni (ICREA-UPF, CREI and BSE Deputy Director for Research), Inés Macho-Stadler (UAB and BSE), and Jaume Ventura (CREI, UPF and BSE)