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BSE Summer Forum

Until next June!

Thank you to the more than 700 researchers who participated in BSE Summer Forum 2024! We hope to see many of you back for the 2025 edition.

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

The Summer Forum at the Barcelona School of Economics is a series of independent workshops that cover the main fields of Economics. With each edition, the BSE Summer Forum has grown in participation by top researchers, selectivity of papers chosen for each workshop, and reputation as the summer meeting point in Europe for colleagues with common research interests.

Workshops for the 2024 edition

Select a workshop to view details about its call for papers, organizers, and past editions.

2024 Workshops A-Z

Summer Forum Workshops (A-Z by title)

Workshops by Date: June 5-7

June 5-6

June 6

June 6-7

June 7

June 10-14

June 10-11

June 11

June 12-13

June 13-14

June 17-21

June 17-18

June 18

June 18-19

June 19-20

June 19-21

June 20-21

June 25-26

June 25-26

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The Summer Forum is one of the Barcelona School of Economics research initiatives supported by the Severo Ochoa Research Excellence Program (CEX2019-000915-S) through Spain's State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación - AEI).


The Barcelona School of Economics has been accredited as a Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence in all three editions of the program (2012-15, 2016-19, and 2020-23).

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

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

Summer Forum 2021

  • All 23 workshops conducted online
  • 133 institutions in 21 countries represented among speakers/discussants and organizers
  • 272 papers presented (1,499 submitted to the open call)
  • 1,159 participants connecting from 67 countries

Policy panel: "After COVID: Macroeconomic Challenges and Opportunities" with Raquel Fernández, Philip R. Lane, Carmen Reinhart, and Andrés Velasco

Watch the policy panel

Summer Forum 2019

  • 27 workshops
  • 393 papers presented (1,538 papers submitted to workshop calls)
  • 766 participants from 216 institutions worldwide
Highlights from the 2019 edition

Summer Forum 2018

  • 28 workshops
  • 357 papers presented (1,460 papers submitted to workshop calls)
  • 787 researchers from 177 institutions worldwide
Videos, photos, and highlights from the 2018 edition

Summer Forum 2017

  • 26 workshops
  • 357 papers presented (1,357 papers submitted to workshop calls)
  • 793 researchers from more than 200 institutions worldwide

Media Center
Videos, photos, and highlights from the 2017 edition

Workshop schedule (web version)

Full conference program (pdf)

Summer Forum 2016

  • 26 workshops
  • 331 papers presented (1,310 submitted to workshop calls)
  • 700+ researchers from 30 countries

Media Center
Videos, photos, and highlights from the 2016 edition

Workshop schedule (web version)

Full conference program (pdf)

Summer Forum 2015

  • 28 workshops
  • 386 papers presented (1,228 submitted to workshop calls)
  • 850 researchers from around the world

Full program [pdf]

Videos, photos, and highlights

Summer Forum 2014

  • 23 workshops
  • 305 papers presented (982 submitted to workshop calls)
  • 673 participants

Video playlist

  • Policy Roundtable with George Borjas, Caterina Calsamiglia, and Victory Lavy on Education and Immigration
  • Policy Lecture on Chinese Economy by Fabrizio Zilibotti

Full program [pdf]

Summer Forum 2013

  • 17 workshops
  • 225 papers presented (515 submitted to workshop calls)
  • 400 participants

Video Playlist

  • Policy roundtable on financial crises with Roger Farmer, Jaume Ventura, Jordi Galí, and Xavier Vives
  • Policy roundtable on development with Omar Licandro, Rohini Pande, Mark Rosenzweig, and Debraj Ray

Full program [pdf]

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