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.
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 …