Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors

150

affiliated professors from 29 countries (47% international)

100%

hold PhDs

79%

hold PhDs from outside Spain

Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors are tenured or tenure-track faculty members at the School’s academic units.

New Affiliated Professors 2018-19

Joan Monras

Joan Monras

(UPF and Barcelona GSE)
PhD, Columbia University

David Rossell

David Rossell

(UPF and Barcelona GSE)
PhD, Rice and University of Texas MD Anderson

Victoria Vanasco

Victoria Vanasco

(CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

A total of 26 ERC grants have been awarded to current Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors.

European Research Council (ERC) Grants

These competitive grants support frontier research projects by top European investigators for up to five years.

A total of 26 ERC grants have been awarded to current Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors.

3 new ERC Starting Grants for Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors in 2018-19

Joan Llull (MOVE, UAB and Barcelona GSE)
“Dynamic Modeling of Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation”

Maria Petrova (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE)
“The Rise and Fall of Populism and Extremism”

Edouard Schaal (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
“Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium”

There are 17 ICREA Research Professors on the Barcelona GSE faculty.

ICREA Research Professors

The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) is a publicly funded foundation designed to attract and retain talent in Catalonia. The institution is highly selective, operating through competitive international calls and very rigorous external evaluation of candidates.

There are 17 ICREA Research Professors on the Barcelona GSE faculty.

17 Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors currently hold one of these fellowships.

Juan de la Cierva and Ramón y Cajal Fellows

These two programs of the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness provide support for hiring researchers for three years (Juan de la Cierva) or five years (Ramón y Cajal).

17 Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors currently hold one of these fellowships.

Working Papers and Publications

Publications in Top 5 Journals 2018-19

Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professors publish their research widely, including the five top journals (American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and Review of Economic Studies).

  1. Azoulay, P., Fons-Rosen, C., & Graff Zivin, J. S. (2019). Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time? American Economic Review, 109(8), 2889–2920. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20161574
  2. Becker, S. O., & Pascali, L. (2019). Religion, Division of Labor and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in Germany over 600 Years. American Economic Review, 109(5), 1764–1804. https://doi.org/10.1257/AER.20170279
  3. Caselli, F., & Ciccone, A. (2019). The human capital stock: A generalized approach: Reply. American Economic Review, 109(3), 1155–1174. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181678
  4. Conconi, P., García-Santana, M., Puccio, L., & Venturini, R. (2018). From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin. American Economic Review, 108(8), 2335–2365. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20161151
  5. Cunha, J. M., De Giorgi, G., & Jayachandran, S. (2019). The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers. The Review of Economic Studies, 86(1), 240–281. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdy018
  6. Davis, D. R., Dingel, J. I., Monras, J., & Morales, E. (2019). How segregated is urban consumption? Journal of Political Economy, 127(4), 1684–1738. https://doi.org/10.1086/701680
  7. Debortoli, D., Nunes, R., & Yared, P. (2017). Optimal time-consistent government debt maturity. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(1), 55–102. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjw038
  8. Desmet, K., Nagy, D. K., & Rossi-Hansberg, E. (2018). The Geography of Development. Journal of Political Economy, 126(3), 903–983. https://doi.org/10.1086/697084
  9. Durante, R., & Zhuravskaya, E. (2018). Attack When the World Is Not Watching? U.S. News and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Journal of Political Economy, 126(3), 1085–1133. https://doi.org/10.1086/697202
  10. Durante, R., Pinotti, P., & Tesei, A. (2019). The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV. American Economic Review, 109(7), 2497–2530. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20150958

Research Rankings and Impact

Research Rankings

In August 2019, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) ranked Barcelona GSE:

#1 Economic Institution in Spain

#4 Economics Departments in Europe

#14 Economics Departments in the world

Indicators

59

working papers added in 2018-19

56

researchers with H-index>9 (Scopus)

99

researchers with H-index>5 (Scopus)

Impact Factor

90

Total number of publications 2018-19

10

Total number of publications in top 5 journals in 2018-19