The School  

   The Barcelona GSE Community

The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics draws on the strengths and noteworthy reputations of its four academic bodies: the Department of Economics and Business of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the Unit of Economic Analysis of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC), and the Center for Research in International Economics (CREI).

The Barcelona GSE enjoys close collaboration with these academic bodies in teaching and research as well as in the shared use of resources. This combination of innovation and accumulated experience is one of the unique features of the GSE. The affiliated professors of the Barcelona GSE constituted the academic community of the School, and all of them are tenured or tenure-track faculty members from its four academic bodies.

The two universities behind the School, the UPF and the UAB, are public universities committed to excellence. Barcelona's Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) was founded in 1990 and enrolls over 9,000 students and has a teaching and research staff of approximately 1,000. The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) was created in 1968 and it has over 50,000 students and 3,000 academic and research staff.

The Department of Economics and Business of the UPF and the Unit of Economic Analysis of the UAB are considered among the top economics departments in Europe, and their respective doctoral programs have outstanding reputations for excellence.

The Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE) is part of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and was created on the Bellaterra campus in 1985. Its aim is to promote research in Economics at the highest scientific level.

The Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI) is a research institute created in 1993 by the UPF and the Government of Catalonia. Its research activities focus on international economics and macroeconomics.

The academic collaboration among today's Barcelona GSE four academic bodies has a long tradition, first formalized in 2003 when the CREA Network was constituted. Later on, the School assumed the role of promoting scientific cooperation through its research activities.