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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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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

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Next March 22, throughout the day, the presentation of Jérèmy Lucchetti will take place in the Sala de Graus.

Jeremy Laurent-Lucchetti is Professor of Economics at the Geneva School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva. He finished his Ph.D. at HEC Montreal (University of Montreal) in 2009 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bern and visiting researcher at the Toulouse School of Economics. His research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, environmental economics and development economics and focus on explaining the roots of violent conflict. He is a member of the CEPR Policy and Research Network (PRN) on "Conflict Prevention: Policies for Peace". He has published in scientific journals such as the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Games and Economic Behavior or the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. He has worked on several political reports for various institutions such as the United Nations, the Ministry of Transport of Quebec or the Ministry of Agriculture of Canada.

Date: Friday 22, March2024 - 09:00h

End date: Friday 22, March2024 - 20:00h

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You are invited to the seminar that will take place on Friday, March 22 at 3:00 p.m., in the E2 seminar room with Lineth Rodríguez (GBSB Global Business School) who will present her paper "Linking secondary plastics suppliers and consuming companies: The Role of Purchasing ” (together with Katia PICAUD-BELLO, ESSCA School of Management).

This article focuses on the drivers and barriers to purchasing plastics in secondary markets and the role of purchasing in facilitating the link between suppliers of secondary plastics and consumer companies. The supply chain literature has largely investigated secondary markets from a closed-loop systems perspective. Plastic is one of the materials that has long been associated with the circular economy in open-loop systems and is considered a valuable resource in the secondary market. A relevant issue for companies buying from the plastics secondary market is the low degree of control over the quality of incoming material delivered from suppliers, especially in the case of multiple suppliers providing the same waste. Recent studies point to the critical role that coordination between suppliers plays in increasing the production and use of recycled plastics. Therefore, the alignment of material properties, production techniques and product designs for recycling requires greater sharing of information practices. The role of purchasing in facilitating information exchange practices between secondary suppliers of plastics and consumer companies is explored.

Date: Friday 22, March2024 - 15:00h

End date: Friday 22, March2024 - 17:00h