Events and Announcements  December 29: Holiday Reception for Economists with Ties to Catalonia  January 14: Barcelona Economics Lecture Esther Duflo (MIT) "Fighting Poverty Effectively: Creating Experimentation in Development Economics”  January 11 - 17: Global Health Leadership Forum UC Berkeley School of Public Health Sponsored by Barcelona GSE/CRES/UC Berkeley  February 13: Barcelona GSE Open Day  Download 2007-2008 Barcelona GSE Annual Report  Ongoing: Applications to the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Past Event Highlights November  Opening Ceremony of GSE 2008-2009 Academic Year Watch Video  Mustapha K. Nabli (World Bank) “Institutional Change and Development in the Middle East and North Africa (download presentation)” October  VI Trobada of the Barcelona GSE Research Network  John Campbell (Harvard University) “What are the Risks of Government Bonds?” September  Academic Year Kick Off Party for Students and Faculty August  EEA-ESEM 2008 Conference at Bocconi University July  “Wellington” Building Inaugurated  Don Rubin and Guido Imbens (Harvard University) “Can an economist and a statistician agree on statistical methods?” Selected News   Barcelona GSE Welcomes New Affiliated Professors   Graduates of GSE Class of 2007-2008 Encounter Success in Job Markets and PhD Programs   GSE Receives More ERC Grants than Any Other Economics Institution   GSE Research Network Opens Call for Recognition of Research Program   Center for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (CREMed) Inauguration   Prof. López-Casasnovas Incoming President of International Health Economics Association  More The Calvó-Armengol International Prize Opens Call for Nominations The 2009 edition of the Calvó-Armengol International Prize has opened their call for nominations.  More Meet the Barcelona GSE Class of 2008-2009 Meet the 124 students from 30 countries composing the Barcelona GSE class of 2008-2009.  More GSE RESEARCH “Designing Contracts for University Spin-offs” Professors Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo (UAB and Barcelona GSE) share what makes a spin-off likely to succeed.  More GSE Research Network Recent Publications  Jordi Caballé. "Estate Taxes, Consumption Externalities, and Altruism". (joint with Jaime Alonso-Carrera and Xavier Raurich). Journal of Public Economics, 92(7): 1751-64, July 2008.  Nicola Gennaioli. "Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms". (joint with Francesco Caselli). Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123(3): 1197-1250, August 2008.  Xavier Freixas. "The Role of Interbank Markets in Monetary Policy: A Model with Rationing". (joint with José Jorge). Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 40(6): 1151-76, Sept 2008.  Doh-Shin Jeon and Sjaak Hurkens. "A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing: No Termination-Based Price Discrimination". RAND Journal of Economics, 39(3): 822-49, Sept 2008.  More GSE EXPERIENCE  EYE ON ALUMNI: Find out what graduates are doing now and hear their reflections on their time spent at the GSE.  GSE ON YOUTUBE Visit our channel on YouTube to view a digital digest of some of the GSE community’s most dynamic events.  BOARD MEMBER INSTITUTIONS  Subscribe/Unsubscribe        Send the newsletter to a friend