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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Next March 21 at 2:20 p.m., Enrique Ide's presentation "Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy" will take place in Seminar Room B3-123-C

Enrique is a theoretical microeconomist interested in industrial organization and the economics of organizations. His research has focused on understanding how organizations deal with innovation and change, including whether firms with market power can use their privileged position to prevent the entry of new competitors with more innovative or better quality His research has been published in the American Economic Review.

Date: Thursday 21, March2024 - 14:20h

End date: Thursday 21, March2024 - 15:20h