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Three members of the scientific committee of IPEG get the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Tim Besley, Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini got the BBVA Foundation Frontier of Knowledge Award in economics for “illuminating the connections between the economic and political worlds” and “transforming the field of political economy,” in the words of the committee’s citation.

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Marta Reynal-Querol gets an Advanced ERC Grant

Marta Reynal-Querol, Director of IPEG, was awarded an Advanced ERC Grant (2022-2027) in the latest call. The title of the project is “Colonization, early institutions and the origin of state capacity and democratization” (ORIG-STATE). The project proposes studying the origin of state capacity, democracy and political dynasties using the colonial conquest of Latin America as

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