Juan José Dolado, professor at the Universidad Carlos III and his research team, have been awarded one of the 4 grants for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 scientific research teams in Economics and Social Sciences by the BBVA Foundation.
The project selected carries out an evaluation of the policies applied in Spain during the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath, emphasising the role of DSGE models with heterogeneous agents and sectors.
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Evi Pappa Full Professor in the Department of Economics has been invited to participate as a keynote speaker at the ECB’s Annual Conference in Sintra where the best macroeconomists in the world meet with the central bankers of the main developed countries.
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
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
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
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).
Online Event: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 – 15:30 and 17:00
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
