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Juan José Dolado, professor of the Department of Economics, signs this article for El País, in which he talks about how the pandemic has caught the labour market between the dysfunctions of the past and the mega-trends of the future, such as the advance of automation and the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

 

Full article in El País

Interview with José Luis Ferreira

Jose Luis Ferreira, professor of the Department of Economics, calls for more daring politicians, who are able of listening to economists but above all know which ones to listen to. He also defends the application of the auction theory in the water market and in the distribution of European funds.

Full article in El Mundo

“We are moving towards a U-shaped society: the middle class will lose”

Juan José Dolado, winner of the Jaime I Economics Prize and currently a professor at the Universidad Carlos III, talks to El Confidencial about the project he is currently working on, which will show whether the social measures deployed by the government to combat the pandemic, ERTE or the minimum vital income, are effective.
This project is financed by the BBVA Foundation within the framework of a special call for research aid due to covid-19.

 

Full article in El Confidencial

Policy Research Live – The European Recovery Fund: An Effective Policy Measure to Deal with Covid-19 Consequences?

The Econ-Pol network has organized a webinar to discuss the recovery fund that is being raised to face this crisis, which will be attended by speakers Clemens Fuest (ifo) and Antonia Díaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

 

“Policy Research Live – The European Recovery Fund: An Effective Policy Measure to Deal with Covid-19 Consequences?”

Online Event: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 – 15:30 and 17:00

Department of Economics rises to 45th place of QS ranking

The Department of Economics of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid rises to 45th place of QS ranking by disciplines, placing it once again in the Top 50 in the discipline of “Economics and Econometrics”.

The QS ranking prioritizes research at universities by analyzing four indicators: the academic institution’s reputation among academics, the reputation among employers, the number of citations and the so-called h index, which measures the quality of researchers according to the number of citations their articles have received.

Along with Economy UC3M, another 18 Spanish faculties – belonging to 10 Universities – join, reaching the top 50 in their respective areas.

Source: El País, Topuniversities

New Research Honorary and Emeritus

From now, Full Professors:  Félix Lobo y Javier Ruiz-Castillo have become Honoray Members in the Institute of Economics of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Luis Corchón  becomes Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics at the Carlos III University of Madrid.

Félix Lobo is graduated in laws and Phd in Economics.  He became  Full Professor in Universidad de Santiago de Compostela and Universidad de Oviedo in 1980. From 1990 to 2017 he had a position as Full Professor in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He has been General Manager of Chemistry and Sanitary Products, President  of La Agencia Española de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutrición and currently, he is the  President of Comité Asesor para la Financiación Farmaceútica del Sistema Nacional de Salud. In 2009, H.M. Juan Carlos I, awarded him with  la Gran Cruz de la Orden Civil de Sanidad.

Javier Ruiz-Castillo, Phd in Economics in  Northwestern University, has been Full Professor in la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, General Manager of Instituto Nacional de Estadística and from 1990 to 2017, Full Professor in  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research has focused on Welfare Economics and Public Economics and recently on Scientometrics.

Luís Corchón, Phd in Economics in  Universidad Complutense de Madrid and London School of Economics has been full professor in University of Alicante (1988-1996), UPF (1996-1997) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Since 1997. His research focuses in Industrial Organization and mechanism design.