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www.barcelonagse.eu Contents Barcelona GSE at a glance... ......................................... 1 Research ........................................................................... 14 Welcome to Barcelona GSE ...........................................2 Barcelona GSE affiliated professors ................... 14 Our history ....................................................................... 3 Barcelona GSE research and faculty in numbers ........................... 15 The Barcelona GSE Scientific Council ..................... 4 Barcelona GSE research professors ..................... 16 Master’s programs ........................................................... 6 Doctoral programs ................................................... 17 Economics and Finance ........................................ 7 Research activities ................................................... 18 Specialized Economic Analysis ............................ 8 Awards, accreditations and grants .........................20 Data Science ......................................................... 10 Students and alumni ..................................................... 22 Continuing education ................................................. 11 Student placement ................................................... 22 Summer Schools ................................................... 12 Our global community ............................................ 24 Professional courses .............................................. 13 Where we are .................................................................. 26 Useful contacts ................................................................ 28 We are in the top 1% of the world’s best research institutions Number 1 in Spain Barcelona GSE at a glance... Number 5 in Europe Number 15 worldwide Our programs: (Source: RePEc) 3 master’s degrees, with a choice of 7 specialized programs 2 PhD programs A comprehensive series of continuing education, with 2012-2015 summer schools and professional courses attracting over 600 2016-2019 participants from around the world Our students and alumni: A global network of over 1700 alumni 85% international students 18 Over 200 students from 55 countries each year, and rising grants from the An average of 120 registered PhD students each year European Research Council 90% of our students in careers or research positions within 6 months of graduating 75% in professional career paths 25% in academic career paths 700 Our community participants in our annual Summer Forum 32 of the world’s finest economists on our Scientific Council, including 12 Nobel Laureates 156 affiliated professors from 30 countries 20 research professors supported by our endowment fund of students in careers % or research positions 90 within 6 months 1 Welcome to the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics We are a young institution with just over 10 Barcelona GSE researchers. Financial support for all these years of history, but we have already achieved programs and awards will continue as part of our commitment high recognition. Our master’s degrees are to support economics frontier research. Approved with Excellence by the Spanish Transfer of knowledge is key for us. Our research community is Ministry of Education, and we have received also responsible for the delivery of our three master programs Severo Ochoa Research Excellence distinction (with their seven specialist programs), our popular short from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and professional courses, and our Summer School, an annual event Competitiveness for the second time – the only offering over 40 different economics-related courses which social sciences institution to be awarded this attracts over 600 participants. accolade. Our alumni consistently achieve high-level careers and research We constantly strive to attract and retain talent posts; they are our greatest ambassadors and contribute to in the research arena and the Severo Ochoa our ongoing success. The continued growth of the school and Excellence award funding has allowed us to our accomplishments would not be possible without them, support projects with increasing international or without the dedication of the Barcelona GSE professors, visibility. Our Summer Forum brings over 700 researchers, staff, students and, of course, our sponsors, our researchers and academics to Barcelona each Board of Trustees and Scientific Council. We are grateful to all of June; our Calvó-Armengol Prize is a valuable you for your continued support and commitment. award presented biannually to an outstanding researcher in economics or social sciences under the age of 40; we deliver numerous Prof.Teresa Garcia-Milà Prof. Ramon Marimon research programs that directly support Director Chairman of the Board of Trustees PhD, University of Minnesota PhD, Northwestern University Board of Trustees Institutional members: Academic members: The Board of Trustees is chaired by AXA Research Fund Government of Catalonia Manuel Arellano Prof. Ramon Marimon. Our Honorary Ministry of Economy and (CEMFI) Banc Sabadell President is Joaquín Almunia, and Knowledge Antonio Cabrales our Secretary is Paulina Beato. The Barcelona City Council Spanish National (University College London) Board includes representatives from CaixaBank Research Council the founding academic institutions, Juan Rubio-Ramirez private and public institutions, and Center for Research in Universitat Autònoma de (Emory University) International Economics Barcelona distinguished academics in the field of Joaquim Silvestre economics. FemCat Foundation Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UC Davis) 2 Our history Barcelona Graduate School of The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics The institutional design of the Barcelona GSE is a was founded in 2006 as a private, non-profit, collaborative enterprise; it improves and expandsEconomics institution. the research and educational capacities of the internationally-established Barcelona economics Its aim was to enhance frontier research and group. As a public-private partnership, with a Board of postgraduate education in economics and related Trustees as a governing body, our mandate is to serve disciplines. Three characteristics defined the novel society at large. As a graduate school with a new range graduate school: its location and history, its institutional of master’s programs, we enhanced the capacity of the design, and its international character. existing UPF and UAB PhD offering and developed our The history was provided by an already active own new programs and research activities. international research group in economics in Barcelona. Our international character is something of which we It can be traced back to the late 1970s, with the return are very proud. From the outset, the faculty and the of several Catalan economists who had been awarded students of the Barcelona GSE have come from (and PhDs in the United Kingdom and United States. In the gone on to) many different countries. We use English 1980s, these economists started a pioneer master’s as our common academic language, and we benefit program in economics, taught in English, at the from a wide cultural diversity. We pursue the highest Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). international standards of excellence in research and The group subsequently expanded with the foundation postgraduate education, and are steered in this by of the Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica of the Consejo the strategic guidance and advice of world-leading Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAE-CSIC), on economists that form our Scientific Council. the Bellaterra campus. At the turn of the 1990s, the In academia, 10 years is a very short period. But often, Universtitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) was founded and, a this early period signals the reputation and development few years later, the Centre de Recerca en Economia of an institution significantly, particularly during difficult Internacional (CREi), both on the Ciutadella campus. times. We have moved steadily forward through these Although informal collaboration among the researchers years of economic crises, gaining recognition both of these four academic units always existed, it wasn’t nationally and internationally; we are proud to be ranked until the early 2000s that formal joint research activities by RePEc as being in the top 1% economics research started to take place, supported by Spanish public institutions worldwide, and number one in Spain. research funding. With this, the seeds of the Barcelona GSE were sown. Department of Economics and Economic History Unit of Economic Analysis 3 The Barcelona GSE Members of the Barcelona GSE Scientific Council Scientific Council Hugo Sonnenschein Matthew O Jackson (Honorary President) Stanford University Chairman, University of As part of our commitment to the highest Chicago Daniel Kahneman academic standards, we receive strategic (Nobel Laureate) guidance from our Scientific Council, Daron Acemoglu Princeton University comprised of 32 of the world’s most Massachusets Institute of experienced academic economists. Technology Timothy J Kehoe The credentials of our council members University of Minnesota include the highest honors and Aloisio Pessoa de Araújo IMPA and Fundação Getulio Anne Krueger memberships in the world of economics: Vargas The John Hopkins University 12 Nobel Laureates; presidents and vice presidents of national and international Orley Ashenfelter Justin Yifu Lin economic institutions; fellows of economic Princeton University Peking University and financial