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Barcelona GSE Summer Forum

June 10-28, 2013

The Barcelona GSE Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops and policy events that cover the main fields of Economics. The objective of the Summer Forum is to bring top researchers from around the globe to Barcelona to debate the present and future of the frontier of knowledge in Economics.

The Barcelona GSE will hold the first Summer Forum from June 10-28, 2013.

Policy Roundtables

The two policy roundtables listed below include panels of renowned experts and are open to the public (registration required)

Friday, June 14 at 12:30pm   Friday, June 21 at 12:30pm

Development: poverty, corruption, fragmentation and conflict

 

Lessons from the financial crisis: how much longer until the end of the crisis?

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Workshop Topics

The following is a schedule of workshops for the 2013 Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. Click on a workshop title to view details and a provisional program of speakers.

Week 1 (June 10-14)

The Current Crisis and Future Imbalances (June 10)
Organizer: Juan Carlos Conesa (UAB and Barcelona GSE)

Civil Conflict and Rationality (June 10-11)
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Time Series Analysis in Macro and Finance (June 10-11)
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Towards Sustained Economic Growth: Geography, Demography and Institutions (June 10-11)
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Theoretical and Experimental Macroeconomics (June 11-12)
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Political Institutions: Effects on Policy and Civil Conflict (June 12)
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Economics of Science and Innovation (June 12-13)
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Trade, Growth and Income Distribution (June 12-13)
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The Economic Analysis of Electoral Politics (June 13)
Organizer: Gianmarco León (UPF and Barcelona GSE)

Learning and Macroeconomics
Week 2 (June 17-21)

Asset Prices and the Business Cycle (June 17-18)
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Information, Competition and Market Frictions (June 17-18)
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Family Economics (June 18-20)
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Applied Industrial Organization (June 19-20)
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Financial Intermediation, Risk and Liquidity Management (June 19-20)
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International Capital Flows (June 19-20)
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Week 3 (June 24-28)

Dynamic Decisions (June 25-26)
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Egalitarianism and Public Economics (June 28)
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2013 Program Organizers

facultyOmar Licandro
(IAE and Barcelona GSE)
PhD, Catholic University of Louvain

Omar Licandro is Research Professor at IAE. He is also a member of CEPR. [faculty profile]
facultyJaume Ventura
(CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE Research Professor)
PhD, Harvard University

Jaume Ventura is Senior Researcher at CREI, Professor at UPF and Research Professor at Barcelona GSE. He is Fellow of the EEA and member of NBER and CEPR. [faculty profile]

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