Jesús Gonzalo, Professor of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and 2025 Research Award winner from the Community of Madrid, was the keynote speaker at University Day 2026.
The event, dedicated this year to research, was held under the motto “We are a public university; research sets us apart.” During his speech, Jesús Gonzalo emphasized the essential role of research as a pillar of university excellence, highlighting that “if you don’t engage in research, you cannot teach.”
Professor Jan Stuhler has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his project “Mobility, Sorting and Inequality with Extended Kinship Data (EXKIN).” The project will develop a new conceptual and empirical framework to better understand how socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations.
Stuhler will first create a unified theoretical model that links the main measures of intergenerational mobility. He will then apply this framework to large-scale kinship networks using administrative register data and other population-wide sources.
The project is expected to deliver the first consistent framework spanning a wide range of mobility measures and to offer fresh insights into long-term inequality dynamics. Its findings may support more effective social policies by improving our understanding of how family background shapes individual outcomes.
Cuerpo de la noticia: The Julián Marías Research Award of the Community of Madrid recognizes the excellence of a scientific and professional career in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Professor of Economics at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Jan Stuhler, has been recognized with the XXIV Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Economic Research for his empirical research in the fields of labor economics and public economics, with a particular focus on intergenerational mobility.
The Financial Times conducts a quarterly survey known as the FT-Booth Macroeconomic Survey, which gathers insights from leading economists at top American institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Princeton, UCLA, Northwestern University, and UC Berkeley. Among the few European economists participating is Professor Evi Pappa from UC3M.
Professor Pappa has twice made the front page of the Financial Times thanks to her insightful contributions. The first occasion was on March 17th, 2024, in the article “Fed will have to keep rates high for longer than markets anticipate, say economists,” where she discussed the conduct of monetary policy in the US. The second time was on June 29th, 2025, in the piece titled “Donald Trump’s fiscal policy and Fed attacks imperil US haven status, say economists,” addressing the negative consequences of Trump’s policies on US Treasury bonds.
The University of Stockholm hosted the last edition of the ENTER Jamboree Conference held on 9-10 June.
The ENTER Network (European Network for Training in Economic Research) to which the Department of Economics belongs organises every year the annual Conference in one of the 8 Universities that form this Network.
In this edition the following Ph.D students attended the Conference as presenters and discussants.
– Sofía Sánchez
– Oleksandra Cheipesh
– Vedant Bhardwaj
– Bohdan Kalinichencko
– David Díaz-Villarejo
– Andrea del Pizzo
– Alejandro Puerta
The professor, Andrés Erosa, has participated in representation of the Faculty of the Department.
The Department of Economics is organizing a conference for our PhD alumni to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the UC3M Economics PhD program.
The conference will take place on June 5-6, 2025 and will feature a distinguished lecture by Pedro H.C. Sant’Anna (Emory University) on new Difference-in-Differences Methods.
The Royal Economic Society (RES) has appointed Professor Antonio Cabrales as a Founding Fellow, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of economics. Founded in 1890, the RES is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious economic associations, and its Fellowship program honors individuals who have made a significant impact on the discipline.
The announcement was made by RES President and Nobel Laureate Prof. Sir Christopher Pissarides, who revealed the names of the inaugural group of Fellows. The full list can be found here.
Professor Cabrales joins a distinguished group of economists whose work has advanced economic research, policy, and education at both national and international levels.
Our team, consisting of David Díaz-Villarejo, as captain, Andrey David Ramos, Carlos Pérez y Piero Bertino will participate in the next edition of the Econometric Game which takes place in Amsterdam from April, 9 to 10.
This competition, which involves teams from a selection of International Universities, challenges its participants to solve a case study of Econometrics subsequently evaluated by a jury of independent and qualified professors.
The UC3M Department of Economics has won the competition three times since 2007 (the first year of participation of the Department of Economics). In 2018, the team composed of Miguel Ángel Cabello, Yuhao Li, Francisco Pareschi, and Julius Vainora, won the contest ahead of Harvard and Copenhagen University teams in a competition in which 30 universities participated. The UC3M is one of the few universities that has won the award three times.
The best political system is…
Based on research by Luis C. Corchón and Guadalupe Correa-Lopera
On this occasion, we share a summary of research by Antonio Romero and Carmelo Rodriguez, exploring school allocation systems that balance equity and efficiency while ensuring fairness.