Sergio Feijoo-Moreira, PhD 2021 by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, has been awarded with the Nada Es Gratis prize for the best job market paper 2021, entitled “The decline of entrepreneurial dynamism: A story of apples and oranges”.
More information at III Premio Nada es Gratis a Job Market Papers
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Antonia Díaz will participate in the EconPol Europe Annual Conference 2021, The State of Fiscal Resilience – How Prepared is Europe for Future Crises? to be held on 13-14 October. Antonia will chair the panel entitled Public Policy for a Green Transition.
See the programme and details at EconPol Europe Annual Conference 2021
VSET seminars is an innitiative that the professor Angel Hernando undertook with other colleagues at different UK universities to provide high quality economic theory seminars during the pandemic. Due to its success they decided to continue it this academic year starting this Thursday at 4pm (UK time), i.e. 5 pm, Madrid time.
The Virtual Seminar in Economic Theory provides a platform for scholars to present their unpublished work to a broad academic audience in the UK and abroad. The first VSET for this academic year will take place on Thursday, 7 October.
You can find the details at Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory
The ECB Forum on Central Banking is an annual event organised by the European Central Bank since 2014 which is ordinarily held in Sintra (Portugal). It provides a discussion forum equivalent to the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in the U.S. since 1982.
It brings together central bank governors, academics, financial market representatives, journalists and others to exchange views on current policy issues and discuss the Forum’s key topic from a longer-term perspective.
Department of Economics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is pleased to announce the first workshop on High-Dimensional Data Analysis, to take place Getafe Campus, on 10 September 2021.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for junior and senior researchers with a special interest in econometrics and statistics of high-dimensional data analysis, and to establish an academic network among this group. Priority of presentations will be given to PhD students that are close to finish their studies and go on the academic market.
Virtual workshop – Join the session here
The Vice-Rectorate for Communication and Culture of Universidad Carlos III interviews Antonio Cabrales, who talks about his research and the recent award received Rey Jaime I 2021 in Economics.
You can watch the full interview at Interview with Antonio Cabrales – UC3M Magazine
Georgios Siotis, associate professor in the Department of Economics, and Damien Neven from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, win the best academic article on unilateral conduct at the Concurrences Awards:
Winners are divided into different categories, such as Academic Articles, and these in turn into subcategories, such as General Antitrust, Mergers, Concerted Practices, etc. More than 280 nominees and 1200 articles reviewed to finally choose the 37 winners in each category.
More information on Academic Articles – Concurrences
Matilde P. Machado, Ricardo Mora and Karen Olivo’s research proposal “Teen pregnancy in Latin America: the mother-daughter link”, was the winner among more than 200 proposals, of the call Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America by CAF (Development bank of America).
For more information: Research Projects – Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America | CAF
Our PhD student Josef Ruzicka, with his paper “Quantile Local Projections: Identification, Smooth Estimation, and Inference” previously distributed as “Smooth Quantile Projections”, has been awarded again with the Best Paper Award, this time at the 7th Annual Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics.
The annual conference brings together leading researchers in the field to discuss and debate all aspects of econometrics, covering both its theoretical development and its applied uses.
Congratulations!
Antonia Díaz, Antonio Cabrales and Juan J Dolado participate in three recent debates organized by Nada es Gratis (through Twitch) on: