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.
Paula Bustos and Luigi Pascali, researchers at IPEG, were awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant in the Call of 2022. The results were announced the 31st of January of 2023. The project of Paula Bustos has the title “Adaptation to climate change in developing countries”. The project for which Luigi Pascali has been awarded an ERC …
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Paula Bustos obtained the ICREA Research Professorship sponsored by IPEG. Paula works on international trade and development economics.
Marta Reynal was awarded the Prize Jaume I in Economics in the 2022 Call. This is the most important prize for an economist working in Spain. The jury point out that the Prize is awarded to her “for his contributions to the determinants of war conflicts, political economy and economic development using methodologies based on …
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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 …
Maria Petrova has been elected to the Council of the European Economic Association for the 2019-2023 term. Full list of EEA officers
In January 2019, J-PAL’s Governance Initiative awarded funding for the project “Career Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Sierra Leonean CHW Program” submitted by Erika Deserranno, Gianmarco León, Phillip Kastrau. Read more about Funded Projects
Gianmarco León has been awarded a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship for the period 2019-23.
Maria Petrova has received an Starting Grant from the European Research Council for her project, “The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism.” In the project, she will test empirically if personal experiences, information environment, and their interaction with aggregate economic shocks shape people’s political decisions.
This August, the Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award for the best paper delivered at the conference was awarded to “Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters” by Christopher Hansman (Imperial College London), Jonas Hjort (Columbia University), Gianmarco León (UPF and Barcelona GSE), and Matthieu Teachout (Columbia University). Read more about the paper