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BSE Summer Forum

Where hundreds of top researchers gather each June in workshops across dozens of topics in Economics

Calvó-Armengol Prize

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Severo Ochoa Accreditation

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EALE 2026: Labor Economists Gather in Barcelona and Libertad González Becomes President

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September 26
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Barcelona School of Economics Selected by the European Central Bank to Deliver Executive Education

in-company training
September 26
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Working Papers

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Gendered Topics and Grant Evaluations

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Lídia Farré, Ha Luong, and Judit Vall Castelló
BSE Working Paper 1608

October 2026
Working Paper

Lottery-Specific Effects and Heterogeneity: A Unified Framework

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Jose Apesteguia, Miguel Ángel Ballester, and Ángelo Gutiérrez-Daza
BSE Working Paper 1607

October 2026
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Choice by Contextual Associations

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Jose ApesteguiaandAndrea Salvanti
BSE Working Paper 1606

October 2026
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Double Selection in Causal Inference

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Christian Alemán-Pericón, Christopher Busch, Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis, and Tetyana Surovtseva
BSE Working Paper 1604

October 2026
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Mothers, Schools, and the Making of American Human Capital Mobility

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Lukas Althoff, Harriet Brookes Gray, and Hugo A. Reichardt
BSE Working Paper 1603

October 2026
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Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage

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Lukas AlthoffandHugo A. Reichardt
BSE Working Paper 1602

October 2026

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Buy Big or Buy Small? Procurement Policies, Firms’ Financing, and the Macroeconomy

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Julian di Giovanni, Manuel García-Santana, Priit Jeenas, Enrique Moral-Benito, and Josep Pijoan-Mas
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A Measure of Behavioral Heterogeneity

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Jose ApesteguiaandMiguel Ángel Ballester
October 2026
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Common Ownership and Market Entry: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

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Albert Banal-Estañol, Melissa Newham, and Jo Seldeslachts
October 2026
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Human Learning Is an Understudied but Promising Lever for Boosting Human-AI Synergy

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Julian Berger, Jason W. Burton, Ralph Hertwig, and others
October 2026
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Brownian Motion Tree Models Based on One Sample

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Jan-Christian Hütter, Chandler Squires, Michael Truell, Caroline Uhler, and Piotr Zwiernik
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Tariffs and Technological Hegemony

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Luca FornaroandMartin Wolf
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Ratcheting Up Paris

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Humberto Llavador, John E. Roemer, and Thomas Stoerk
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Labor Force Participation, Wages and Turbulence

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Francesc Obiols-HomsandVirginia Sánchez-Marcos
October 2026
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Vanished Secession Urges in Catalonia: Family Language, Media and Age Variations

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José M. Oller, Albert Satorra, and Adolf Tobeña
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Are Female-Dominated Cancers Underfunded?

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Lídia Farré, Ha Luong, and Judit Vall Castelló

BSE Focus

Research-based analysis by economists and social scientists at the Barcelona School of Economics

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Labor Economics
July 2026
Extreme Temperatures and Workplace Safety
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Business Cycles with Pricing Cascades

Macroeconomics
June 2026
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Tariffs and Technological Leadership

International Economics
June 2026
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