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Next May 23 at 1:30 p.m., the presentation of Florin Bilbiie will take place in the Sala de Graus.

Florin O. Bilbiie is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and researcher at the CEPR. He has previously been a professor at the University of Lausanne, the Paris School of Economics and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and scientific director of the Banque de France Chair, after holding positions at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) and HEC Paris. He held visiting positions at several central banks (NY Fed, Chicago Fed, BCE, Bank of England, Riksbank, etc.), National Bureau of Economic Research, New York University (both in New York and Abu Dhabi) and CREi Barcelona.

Florin's research focuses on business cycles and the role, effects, and optimal design of monetary and fiscal policies, in environments with firm entry/product creation, heterogeneous agents (limited participation), and/or complementarities; liquidity traps, future orientation; tax multipliers; and models with money and incomplete markets.

Date: Thursday 23, May2024 - 13:30h

End date: Thursday 23, May2024 - 14:30h

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We are pleased to inform you of the next session of the Permanent Seminar of the Current History Research Group (GReHA-CEDID). It will be titled Gender relations in Asia: history and power and will feature the interventions of Hülya Adak (Freie Universität Berlin/Orient Institut Istanbul), Alice Marie-Sophie van den Bogaert (UAB) and Manuel Pavón Belizón (UAB).

Coordinated and moderated by Fatma Sinem Eryilmaz Ünsal (UAB), the session will take place on Tuesday, May 28, at 10:00 a.m., in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UAB.

It can also be followed by streaming through this link: https://bit.ly/4bj2q4T

We hope it will be of interest to you.

Date: Tuesday 28, May2024 - 10:00h

End date: Tuesday 28, May2024 - 12:00h

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Next May 29 at 1:30 p.m., Jacob Hess' presentation will take place in Seminar Room B3-112C

Jacob Hess is a PhD in community psychology, mindfulness teacher and writer focused on exploring a more sustainable and long-term cure for depression.

He is a former board member of the National Coalition of Dialogue & Deliberation and helped create the Red Blue Dictionary and the Respect and Rebellion Dialogue Project (with Liz Joyner in the Village Square).

Date: Wednesday 29, May2024 - 13:30h

End date: Wednesday 29, May2024 - 14:20h

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Next May 31 at 1:00 p.m., Sergi Quintana's presentation will take place in Seminar Room B3-112-C

His research fields are in Applied Microeconomics, Education and Labor Economics. He is interested in career choices and investing in people's human capital.

Date: Friday 31, May2024 - 13:00h

End date: Friday 31, May2024 - 14:00h

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Next June 12 at 2:20 p.m., the presentation of Esther Arenas-Arroyo will take place.

She is associate professor of economics (tenured) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and research affiliate at the IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, at the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) of the University of Oxford and the Global Labor Organization (GLO).  His research covers topics in the fields of labor economics, migration and crime. 

He received my PhD from Queen Mary University of London. Before joining WU, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford.

Date: Wednesday 12, June2024 - 14:20h

End date: Wednesday 12, June2024 - 16:00h

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Next June 19 at 2:20 p.m., the presentation of Christian Fons-Rosen will take place

Dr. Christian Fons-Rosen is assistant professor of economics at UC Merced and researcher at MPI Munich and CEPR. His areas of interest include the economics of science and innovation, firm productivity and work. His work has been funded by the Horizon 2020 Project of the European Union and the Spanish Ministry of Education, among other agencies. Before joining UC Merced in 2018, he was an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) and has collaborated with the Bank of Spain and the Bank of England. He has held visiting positions at UC San Diego and LMU Munich.

Date: Wednesday 19, June2024 - 14:20h

End date: Wednesday 19, June2024 - 16:00h