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  • Matthew Jackson receives the Frontiers of Knowledge Award

    The 14th edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management has gone to Matthew Jackson, Professor of Economics at Stanford University and member of the Scientific Committee at MOVE, for his work on networks and their roles in transactions of economic and social life. Get the full information on this award on this link.

  • Sergi Basco awarded XII Premi Societat Catalana d’Economia

    Housing bubbles: origins and consequences is MOVE's research fellow Sergi Basco Marascaró work that has been awarded by the Societat Catalana d'Economia on the last edition, in which ceremony Basco received the award from Andre Mas-Colell, former Head of Economics of the Generalitat de Catalunya and a fellow of the SCE. For more information about Basco's work, please, visit the SCE website on this link.

  • Hugo Sonnenschein died Thursday at 80

    We were very saddened to learn that Prof. Hugo Sonnenschein passed away on July 15 at the age of 80. Prof. Sonnenschein had a strong impact on the Bellaterra research community in many different ways. He was “Honoris Causa” doctor of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and president of the Barcelona GSE scientific advisory committee. He mentored many members of our research community, including MOVE's current President of the Board of Trustees and founder Prof. Salvador Barberà.

    He graduated from Purdue University in 1964 and was professor at the universities of Minnesota, Massachusetts, Northwestern, and Princeton. He also developed a successful career as a university administrator: he was Dean at Penn, Provost at Princeton, and President of the University of Chicago. He received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in 2009.

    Our profession and the Barcelona research community in particular will be perpetually in debt with Prof. Sonnenschein for all his service, support, and scientific contributions.

    From Fundació MOVE, we want to send our sympathy and our deepest condolences to his family and friends. Rest in peace.

  • Joan Llull awarded Outstanding Research Contribution for work on international migration

    MOVE director and research fellow Joan Llull has been awarded by SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, for his article: "Understanding international migration: evidence from a new dataset of bilateral stocks (1960 - 2000)", SERIEs 7, pp 221-255, August 2016. Llull's paper has been granted the 2020 Award for an outstanding research contribution. 

    The jury, formed by Klaus Desmet, Luisa Fuster, and Maia Güell, considers that:

     “This is a novel and careful study that improves our understanding of the determinants of migration flows. The paper makes several contributions. First, using data from the National Statistics Office from 24 OECD countries it constructs a new data set on bilateral migrant stocks with information on immigrants from 188 countries. Second, it develops an empirical methodology to estimate gravity-style equations in the presence of grouped data, avoiding the biases introduced by conventional empirical strategies based on imputations. Third, using the novel data set and methodology, the paper finds evidence that the expected income gains of prospective migrants have heterogeneous effects on the composition of migrants by country of origin, as migration responses depend critically on the distance between the sending and receiving country. These results have profound implications for the design of immigration policies.”

    We congratulate Joan Llull on this award. 

  • Joan Llull appointed Data Editor of The Economic Journal

    MOVE director and research fellow Joan Llull has been appointed Data Editor of The Economic Journal, as announced by the Royal Economic Society (RES). 

    "Fostering transparency and reproducibility is key for research credibility. EJ is joining other leading journals in that effort. Joan will not only ensure that pre-acceptance replication checks happen in the best conditions for authors but also work, with other data editors and stakeholders, to develop and promote best practices", they announced via Twitter. The American Economic Association, the Review of Economic Studies, the Econometrics Journal and the Canadian Journal of Economics are some of other leading journals that have recently incorporated the Data Editor role. 

    We wish Joan the best in this new endeavor.