Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

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The Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona GSE common short form, is an independent university research center for graduate education in Barcelona, Spain. It was in July 2006, established as the Excellence Initiative of four academic institutions ( University Pompeu Fabra, Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish Research Council (IEA - CSIC) and the Centre for research in international economics) whose reputation, faculties and structures, the master support programs of the Barcelona GSE. In addition, the University of five private institutions is encouraged and supported, the Agbar Group, the FemCAT Foundation and the banks Banc Sabadell, Caixa de Catalunya and La Caixa. The Barcelona GSE is also funded by the Consolider Ingenio - 2010 initiative of the Spanish government, proclaimed to excellent research to reward.

The university was recognized by the Catalan regional government as a foundation for higher education in October 2006.

Research and teaching

The Barcelona GSE offers a range of academic postgraduate degrees in economics and finance. These financial statements are consistently international in nature and attract an international student body. In the academic year 2012/ 13 92 % of the student body was international students (41% non-Europeans ) and 42% of tenured faculty were non - Spaniards (79% PhDs outside Spain ). 44% of Absolvten in 2012 participated in the connection to the master training a PhD doctoral program or started a career in science. The research is conducted in close cooperation with the four founding institutions and is funded by the Spanish and Catalan government as an elite university. It is advised by a 30-member scientific advisory board in teaching and research issues, which includes 11 Nobel Laureates. The Trustee Committee is headed by Joaquín Almunia, the Spanish EU commissioner.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board

  • Daron Acemoğlu, MIT
  • Aloisio Pessoa de Araújo, and Fundação Getulio Vargas IMPA (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Robert E. Lucas, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate
  • Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University, Nobel Laureate
  • Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University
  • Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
  • José María Maravall, Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (Madrid )
  • Jürgen Basedow, Max Planck Institute
  • James Mirrlees, University of Cambridge, Nobel Laureate
  • Richard W. Blundell, University College London
  • Juan Pablo Nicolini, Universidad Torcuato di Tella ( Buenos Aires )
  • Robert Cooter, University of California, Berkeley
  • Robert Post, Yale University
  • Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • Edward C. Prescott, University of Arizona, Nobel Laureate
  • Jacques Drèze, Université Catholique de Louvain
  • John Roberts, Stanford University
  • Raquel Fernández, New York University
  • Paul A. Samuelson, MIT, Nobel Laureate
  • Oliver Hart, Harvard University
  • Thomas Sargent, New York University
  • James Heckman, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate
  • Reinhard Selten, University of Bonn, Nobel Laureate
  • Bengt Holmström, MIT
  • Christopher Sims, Yale University
  • Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University
  • Robert M. Solow, MIT, Nobel Prize
  • Daniel Kahneman, MIT, Nobel Prize
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate
  • Timothy J. Kehoe, University of Minnesota
  • Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich

Research Ranking

In the ranking based on the RePEc data the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics is currently being conducted as the third most important business school in Europe behind the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford.

Contributing Institution

By maintaining close partnerships with its founding members in research and teaching, the Barcelona GSE is trying to benefit from their high reputation. The institutions that were involved in the founding of the Barcelona GSE are:

  • The University Pompeu Fabra (UPF ), founded in 1990 as a public university. The university has 9,000 students and a teaching apparatus of about 1,000 faculty members. The UPF has recently been set according to a study by the Spanish Economic Review, at number 1 Spanish economy faculties.
  • The Autonomous University of Barcelona ( UAB ) goes back to the year 1968. With more than 50,000 students, 3,000 people in academic and research-related careers and 100 postgraduate programs, the UAB is one of the largest universities in Spain. The unit for economic analysis is generally regarded as one of Spain's most important in this field.
  • The Institute for Economic Analysis ( Institute for Economic Analysis ) ( IAE) is part of the Spanish Scientific Council (CSIC ) and was established in 1985 on the campus of UAB.
  • The Centre for Research in International Economics ( Centre for Research in International Economics ) ( CREI ), founded in 1993 is one of the UPF and the Catalan Regional Government Research Institute.

The Barcelona GSE Research Network ( CREA) is supported by the Catalan regional government in order to offer excellent research and a framework for research groups in Catalonia.

Campus

The Barcelona GSE has two campuses: the Ciutadella campus of the UPF and the Bellaterra campus of UAB. Four master programs are associated with the Ciutadella campus of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona city center (M.Sc. in Economics, MSc. In Finance, MSc. In Competition and Market Regulation, MSc. In International Trade, Finance, and Development ), while master's programs on the be taught campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (M.Sc. in the Economics of Science and innovation, MSc. in Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets ).

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