The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) is an institution for research and graduate education in

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finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

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, and the

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s located in

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

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. The school's academic offer includes

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s as well as summer schools, professional courses, and in-company training. BSE research has been ranked among the top Economics Departments in the world. The school is accredited by th
Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency
(AQU).

History

Established as the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), the institution was legally recognized by the

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in October 2006 as a foundation dedicated to

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. The School was created with the objective to foster scientific cooperation between four existing academic and research units in Barcelona: *Universitat Pompeu Fabra— Department of Economics and Business * Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona — Unit of Economic Analysis * Institute for Economic Analysis * Centre for Research in International Economics The School's board of trustees includes both private and public institutions. The school changed its name to Barcelona School of Economics in 2021.

Scientific Council

The BSE Scientific Council works with faculty and administrators to ensure the quality of teaching, research, and admissions procedures. The council is made up of leading academics, including several

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. The first chair of the Scientific Council was

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(1940-2021), President Emeritus of the

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, who held the position from 2008 until 2021. Members of the Barcelona School of Economics Scientific Council * Daron Acemoglu, MIT * Aloisio Araujo, IMPA and Fundação Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro) *

Orley Ashenfelter Orley Clark Ashenfelter (born October 18, 1942) is an American economist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. H ...

, Princeton University * Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University *

Richard Blundell Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952, Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician. Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and ...

, University College London *

Janet Currie Janet Currie is a Canadian-American economist and the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, where she is Co-Director of the Center for Health and Wellbeing. S ...

, Princeton University *

Partha Dasgupta Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (born on 17 November 1942), is an Indian-British economist who is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Personal ...

, University of Cambridge *

Mathias Dewatripont Mathias François Dewatripont (born 27 December 1959) is a Belgian economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He studied economics at the ULB, ...

Université Libre de Bruxelles *

Darrell Duffie James Darrell Duffie (born May 23, 1954) is a Canadian financial economist and is Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the author of numerous research articles, and several books, incl ...

, Stanford Graduate School of Business * Raquel Fernández, New York University * Oliver Hart, Harvard University, ''Nobel Laureate'' * James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, ''Nobel Laureate'' *

Bengt Holmström Bengt Robert Holmström (born 18 April 1949) is a Finnish economist who is currently Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with Oliver Hart, he received the Central Bank of S ...

, MIT, ''Nobel Laureate'' * Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University * Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota *

Anne Krueger Anne Osborn Krueger (; born February 12, 1934) is an American economist. She was the World Bank Chief Economist from 1982 to 1986, and the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2001 to 2006. She is current ...

, The Johns Hopkins University *

Justin Yifu Lin Justin Yifu Lin (; born on October 15, 1952) is a Chinese economist and professor of economics at Peking University. He served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 2008 to 2012. He has been appointed as China S ...

, Peking University * Robert Lucas, University of Chicago, ''Nobel Laureate'' * Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University * Eric S. Maskin, Harvard University ''Nobel Laureate'' * Preston McAfee, former Chief Economist of Microsoft * Roger Myerson, University of Chicago ''Nobel Laureate'' * Juan Pablo Nicolini, United States Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis *

Edward C. Prescott Edward Christian Prescott (December 26, 1940 – November 6, 2022) was an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: ...

, University of Arizona, ''Nobel Laureate'' * Hélène Rey, London Business School *

John Roberts John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005. Roberts has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including ''Nati ...

, Stanford University *

Alvin Roth Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritus at Harvard University.

, Stanford University, ''Nobel Laureate'' *

Ariel Rubinstein Ariel Rubinstein (Hebrew: אריאל רובינשטיין; born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in economic theory, game theory and bounded rationality. Biography Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the School of Ec ...

, Tel Aviv University and New York University * Thomas J. Sargent, New York University, ''Nobel Laureate'' *

Christopher A. Sims Christopher Albert Sims (born October 21, 1942) is an American econometrician and macroeconomist. He is currently the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Together with Thomas Sargent, he won the N ...

, Yale University, ''Nobel Laureate'' *

Robert M. Solow Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (; born August 23, 1924) is an American economist whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He is currently Emeritus Institute Professor of Economics at the Ma ...

, MIT, ''Nobel Laureate'' *

Nancy Stokey Nancy Laura Stokey (born May 8, 1950) has been the Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago since 1990 and focuses particularly on mathematical economics while recently conducting research a ...

, University of Chicago *

Fabrizio Zilibotti Fabrizio Zilibotti (born September 7, 1964) is an Italian economist. He is the Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics at Yale University. Zilibotti was previously Professor of Economics at University College London, the Unive ...

, University of Zürich

Research

One of BSE's main objectives is to make Barcelona a leading community in economics research worldwide.

Research rankings

The Barcelona School of Economics research community constitutes one of the leading clusters of economics research in

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. It has been ranked by RePEc among the top 15 Economics Departments in the world, the top 5 in Europe, and as the best in Spain.

Severo Ochoa Research Excellence accreditations

In 2011, BSE was distinguished as one of only eight Centers of Research Excellence with an international impact in the framework of the Severo Ochoa Research Excellence Program, which promotes frontier research and distinguish those institutions that are defining the global scientific debate. In 2016, it became the only center focused on

and the

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to receive a second Severo Ochoa distinction. BSE received a third consecutive Severo Ochoa distinction for the period 2020–23.

Research areas

Behavioral Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or organisms as we ...

and

Experimental Economics Experimental economics is the application of experimental methods to study economic questions. Data collected in experiments are used to estimate effect size, test the validity of economic theories, and illuminate market mechanisms. Economic expe ...

Business Economics Business economics is a field in applied economics which uses economic theory and quantitative methods to analyze business enterprises and the factors contributing to the diversity of organizational structures and the relationships of firms with ...

Data Science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...

Development Economics Development economics is a branch of economics which deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus is not only on methods of promoting economic development, economic growth and structural ...

Economic History Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and i ...

Financial Economics Financial economics, also known as finance, is the branch of economics characterized by a "concentration on monetary activities", in which "money of one type or another is likely to appear on ''both sides'' of a trade". William F. Sharpe"Financia ...

Game Theory Game theory is the study of mathematical models of strategic interactions among rational agents. Myerson, Roger B. (1991). ''Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict,'' Harvard University Press, p.&nbs1 Chapter-preview links, ppvii–xi It has appli ...

* Growth and Development *

Health Economics Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics is important in determining how to improv ...

Industrial Organization In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perf ...

International Economics International economics is concerned with the effects upon economic activity from international differences in productive resources and consumer preferences and the international institutions that affect them. It seeks to explain the patterns and ...

* Labor Economics *

Macroeconomics Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole. For example, using interest rates, taxes, and ...

Microeconomics Microeconomics is a branch of mainstream economics that studies the behavior of individuals and firms in making decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources and the interactions among these individuals and firms. Microeconomics fo ...

Monetary Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are ...

and

Fiscal Policy In economics and political science, fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxes or tax cuts) and expenditure to influence a country's economy. The use of government revenue expenditures to influence macroeconomic variab ...

Political Economy Political economy is the study of how Macroeconomics, economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and Economy, national economies) and Politics, political systems (e.g. law, Institution, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied ph ...

Public Economics Public economics ''(or economics of the public sector)'' is the study of government policy through the lens of economic efficiency and equity. Public economics builds on the theory of welfare economics and is ultimately used as a tool to improve ...

* Social Choice and Mechanism Design *

Statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

Econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

and

Quantitative Methods Quantitative research is a research strategy that focuses on quantifying the collection and analysis of data. It is formed from a deductive approach where emphasis is placed on the testing of theory, shaped by empiricist and positivist philoso ...

Research activities

The main research activities organized by the Barcelona School of Economics include: * BSE Lectures * Research Recognition Program *

Calvó-Armengol International Prize The Calvó-Armengol International Prize is awarded every two years by the Barcelona School of Economics in cooperation with the Government of Andorra to "a top researcher in economics or the social sciences younger than 40 years old for his or her ...

* BSE "Trobada" (annual academic gathering) * BSE Summer Forum

Faculty

Affiliated professors

Affiliated Professors of the Barcelona School of Economics are tenured or tenure-track faculty members from the BSE academic units. Among the affiliated professors there are Fellows of the

Econometric Society The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field. It is an independent organization with no connections to societies of professional mathematicians or statisticians. ...

, Fellows of the

European Economic Association The European Economic Association (EEA) is a professional academic body which links European economists. It was founded in the mid-1980s. Its first annual congress was in 1986 in Vienna and its first president was Jacques Drèze. The current pres ...

, Research Fellows of the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), and Research Fellows of CESifo. They publish in the leading journals of Economics and many of the journals of the different subfields of the discipline. They also serve as coeditors and associate editors of these journals. At present there are some 150 affiliated professors, including: * José Apesteguia * Jordi Brandts * Fernando Broner * Julian di Giovanni *Jan Eeckhout *

Jordi Galí Jordi Galí (born January 4, 1961) is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today. He is currently the director of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI, the Center fo ...

* José G. Montalvo * Nezih Guner * Flip Klijn * Gábor Lugosi * Inés Macho-Stadler * Albert Marcet * Alberto Martín * Massimo Motta * Rosemarie Nagel * David Pérez-Castrillo * José-Luis Peydró * Marta Reynal-Querol * Barbara Rossi * Albert Satorra * Jaume Ventura

Guest professors

Some of the scholars and professionals who have taught at the Barcelona School of Economics as guest professors are: * Simon Johnson * Timothy Kehoe *

Xavier Sala-i-Martin Xavier X. Sala i Martín (also ''Sala-i-Martin'' in English) is a Spanish-born Catalan-American economist and professor of economics at Columbia University. Sala i Martin is one of the leading economists in the field of economic growth.http://w ...

* Reinhilde Veugelers

Academic programs

The academic programs of the Barcelona School of Economics attract a highly international group of students in several main programs.

Master's degrees

The Barcelona School of Economics offers master's programs leading to three different master's degrees: Master's Degree in Economics and Finance
Economics

Finance

PhD Track Program
Master's Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis
Competition and Market Regulation

Economics of Public Policy

International Trade, Finance, and Development

Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets
Master's Degree in Data Science
Data Science for Decision MakingData Science Methodology

PhD programs

There are two PhD programs in the Barcelona School of Economics community, one at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and one at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Both programs are organized jointly with BSE:
International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA)

Graduate Program in Economics, Finance and Management (GPEFM)

Other academic programs

BSE offers summer school programs, professional courses, and in-company training throughout the year.

Campuses

The Barcelona School of Economics has two campuses
Ciutadella campus (UPF)
and
Bellaterra campus (UAB)

Alumni ambassadors

The Barcelona School of Economics counts on an international network of alumni ambassadors, selected from renowned past students. Barcelona Chapter * Daniele Alimonti * Ilaria Vigo * Thomas Woiczyk Berlin Chapter * Andreas Michalovcik * Mario Schäfer Brussels Chapter * Nuno Almeida Lima Chapter * Gabriela Lopez London Chapter * Swasti Gupta * Angelo Martelli Madrid Chapter * Isaac Ré Delgado New York Chapter *

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Paris Chapter * Thang Nguyen

References

External links

Barcelona School of Economics websiteUniversitat Pompeu Fabra - Economics and Business Department.Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Unit of Economic AnalysisInstitute for Economic Analysis (CSIC)Center for Research in International Economics (CREI)
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