On June 12, 2018 at 5:00 pm in the Assembly Hall of the Toledo Campus will be held the Closing Ceremony of the Master in Industrial Economics and Markets and the Specialization Courses 2018.
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MrD. Miguel Ángel Ochoa de Chinchetru, President of Patronato-Fundación Francisco Corell OMEL, will give the conference “Retos para el transporte por carretera y la movilidad”.
Team composed by Miguel Ángel Cabello, Yuhao Li, Francisco Pareschi and Julius Vainora, students from P.hD. Programme in Economics from UC3M, won “Econometric Game 2018” ahead Harvard and Copenhagen University teams in a competition in which 30 universities participated.
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.
It is the third time that the UC3M has won the prize since 2007 (first year of participation of the Department of Economics) and thanks to this victory, the UC3M is placed first in the list of victories with the University of Copenhagen.
Congratulations!
More information in: La Quincena y Actualidad Universitaria
Ángel G. Perianes signs this article in the newspaper El Mundo in which he interviews different professors (among them, Diego Moreno, director of the Department of Economics) where damages of hiring the own doctorate students for the prestige of the Universities are explained, a practice that many Spanish universities still do.
Full article in El Mundo
The Department of Economy has selected the team that will represent the UC3M in the International Competition “Econometric Game 2018” that will take place from 11 to 13 April in Amsterdam.
This competition faces teams from International Universities. . The participation of UC3M is guaranteed thanks to the perfomance of our teams in the last editions. “Econometric Game 2013” was the last timein which our students were winners.
Among the challenge, our team will have 2 days to solve a case study in econometrics. In case of being finalists they will have to solve a second problem whose results will be exposed in the Econometric Game Congress where severak soeakers will talk about the methods in econometrics necessary to solve it. Solutions will be reviewed by a jury of independent and qualifed teachers who will announce the winner.
The “Econometric Game 2018” team has been selected among students from P.hD. Programme in Economics and Economic Analysis Master and it is formed by the following members:
-Yuhao Li (P.hD. Student)
-Francisco Pareschi (Master in Economic Analysis student)
-Julius Vainora (P.hD. Student and team leader)
-Miguel A. Cabello (Master in Economic Analysis student)
Proffesor Natalia Fabra recently got an European Research Consolidator Grant for her research “Current Tools and Policy Challenges in Electricity Markets”
This is the second ERC in the Department of Economics after William Fuchs ERC. The objetive of this european project is to support quality research in the EU.