Activities
Friday, February 16 2024
Dia · Setmana
09:38
Closing of the period for the submission of applications
Description:
We inform you that this year's call for the UAB Solidarity Fund is open for members of the PDI and PAS:
XL Call for University Cooperation Projects for Global Justice in Southern countries (L1) and Education for Global Justice activities in the UAB environment (L2).
The application period will end on March 29, 2023.
We also inform you that the ES2023-2024 Call is open for postgraduate, master's and doctoral students to promote their participation in university cooperation actions linked to their studies. The application period will end on March 31, 2023.
The rules and forms for the two calls are available on the Fundació Autònoma Solidària (FAS) website.
In case of any doubt, you can contact: fas.cooperacio@uab.cat
Date: Friday 16, February2024 - 09:38h
End date: Friday 29, March2024 - 09:37h
11:06
Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Economic Research
Description:
The Banco Sabadell Foundation, with the aim of encouraging and recognizing the work of Spanish researchers in the fields of economic, business and social knowledge, and contributing to the analysis and formulation of alternatives that promote social well-being, announces the call for the XXIII Prize Banco Sabadell Foundation for Economic Research.
The prize amount is 30,000 euros.
More information about the rules of the awards (also available on the website in Catalan) and how to submit a candidacy at the following link: https://www.fundacionbancosabadell.com/convocatorias/premios/
Date: Friday 16, February2024 - 11:06h
End date: Monday 1, April2024 - 23:00h
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
09:00
Growth vs Climate Conference (ICTA-UAB)
Description:
UAB's Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) is organizing the conference Growth vs Climate, to be hold between March 13th-15th 2024 here at the Hotel Campus. You are very welcomed to submit your abstract and/or participate in the event. Even though the official deadline for abstract submission is next Sunday the 15th, there will be an extension. The themes and other practical information can be found at the conference website: https://www.growthvsclimate2024.org/
Date: Wednesday 13, March2024 - 09:00h
End date: Friday 15, March2024 - 17:00h
Monday, March 18, 2024
14:45
Presentation by Nicola Fuchs- Schündeln
Description:
On March 18 at 14:45, we will find Nicola Fuchs- Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt) in the IAE Seminary Room.
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is a professor of Macroeconomics and Development at Goethe University in Frankfurt. Prior to joining Goethe University in 2009, she was an assistant professor at Harvard University. She received her PhD in economics from Yale University in 2004 and holds an honorary doctorate from Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg.
She is director of the CEPR macroeconomics and growth program, chair of the Review of Economic Studies, and an elected member of the Econometric Society. He received the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Science Foundation, Germany's highest scientific award, and the 2016 Gossen Prize from the German Economic Association. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Scientific Advisory Councils of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action of Germany and the Central Bank of Germany.
It has many affiliations with international research networks.
Date: Monday 18, March2024 - 14:45h
End date: Monday 18, March2024 - 15:45h
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
14:40
Presentation by Evan Permont
Description:
Next March 19 at 2:40 p.m., Evan Piermont's presentation will take place in Seminar Room B3-123-C
Evan is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London. Study decision theory and its applications
Date: Tuesday 19, March2024 - 14:40h
End date: Tuesday 19, March2024 - 15:40h
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
13:30
Presentation Jim Constain
Description:
Next March 20 at 1:30 p.m., Jim Constain's presentation will take place in the Sala TBC.
Jim Constain has been a staff economist at the Bank of Spain since 2006. He obtained a doctorate in economics from the University of Chicago in 1997, and has been a professor at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and Carlos University. III (Madrid), as well as a frequent visitor to the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research studies how realist frictions affect the dynamics of macroeconomic general equilibrium models. He has particularly focused on labor market search frictions, incomplete insurance markets, nominal rigidities, heterogeneous information aggregation, and costly decision making. Much of his recent work studies macroeconomic policy interactions in the euro area.
Date: Wednesday 20, March2024 - 13:30h
End date: Wednesday 20, March2024 - 14:30h