Economics Summer Schools at Barcelona GSE
The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics welcomes the summer with a diverse range of summer schools in economics and related fields. These short summer programs are addressed to researchers, professionals and graduate students who want to improve their competences in specific fields of knowledge. Renowned academics and leading practitioners teach our summer school courses and our students come from all over the world, allowing a closer interaction between Summer School participants and the expert guest professors.
2010 Barcelona GSE Summer Schools in Economics
The course offering includes three professionally-oriented summer schools: Barcelona Labor Economics Summer School, Barcelona Banking Summer School, and Barcelona Microeconometrics Summer School. The courses are designed with modularity so that participants can customize their own summer school program, tailored to their individual goals and interests.
A fourth summer program, the Zvi Grilliches Research Summer School, has a research focus on science and innovation, with a format similar to a scientific seminar.
Dates: June 21 - June 25, 2010 | Director: Maia Güell (University of Edinburgh, UPF and Barcelona GSE) |
Courses: Determination of Wages, Incentives in Organizations, Labor Market Outcomes, and Topics in Personnel Economics
Courses: Banking Theory, Empirical Banking - Imperfect Competition, Risk Management and Regulation of Banks, and Empirical Banking - Methodological Aspects
Courses: Dynamic Micro Models and Policy Evaluation: Theory and Empirical Applications, Panel Data Linear Analysis, Policy Evaluation: Estimating Average, Marginal, and Policy-Relevant Effects of Interventions, and Dynamic Panel Data Models and Non-linear Panel Data Models.
New! Microeconometric Lab available to all participants enrolled in one standard BMiSS course.
Dates: July 12- July 14, 2010
Directors: Elena Huergo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Isabel Busom (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Practical Information
Language
All Barcelona GSE Economics Summer Schools are given in English.
Location
The Labor Economics, Banking and Microeconometrics summer schools are taught at the Ciutadella campus of the Barcelona GSE, site of the Pompeu Fabra University. The campus is located in downtown Barcelona, within walking distance of both the beach and the city's financial, cultural and governmental centers.
The Zvi Griliches Research Summer School is taught at the Casa Convalescència, one of the buildings located within the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau grounds - declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO for its singular architectural and artistic beauty.
Admissions Process
Labor Economics, Banking, and Microeconometrics Summer Schools:
Starting date: March 1
Closing date: May 31
Applications will be evaluated by the program directors and candidates will be informed of their decision. A document will be attached to our response with payment information. At the conclusion of the Summer Schools, participants will receive a certificate for the number of ECTS credits completed. Interested students should check with their universities to see if these credits are transferable.
Research Summer School:
Closing date: March 31
Interested candidates should send an original piece of research, finished or in progress, covering any economic aspect of technological innovation. PhD students must include a letter from their thesis advisor. Please send submissions to research-ss@barcelonagse.eu
The Zvi Griliches Summer School is offering a limited amount of grants to cover travel expenses to PhD students.
Other Summer Programs at the UPF-Ciutadella Campus
CREI (Center for Research in International Economics) is offering the 12th edition of its Barcelona Macroeconomics Summer School (BMSS) from June 21-July 2, 2010.
The Laboratory for Experimental Economics (LeeX) in the UPF's Department of Economics and Business will host its first LeeX International Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics (LICTEM-2010) from June 11-12, 2010.
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