The Summer Forum is a series of independent workshops that cover the main fields of Economics. With each edition, the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum has grown in participation by top researchers, selectivity of papers chosen for each workshop, and reputation as the summer meeting point in Europe for...

This workshop will bring together applied economists working in the fields of global linkages, international economics, productivity growth and firms dynamics to discuss the most recent academic research. We are particularly (even though not exclusively interested in contributions that analyze...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss recent developments on the identification of the real effects of financial frictions. We are particularly interested in applied theoretical and empirical work using micro data on the interplay between financial institutions, financial shocks and their...

The general objective of the workshop is to reassess the overall framework of the EU along three dimensions: Monetary union; Fiscal union; Banking union. Specific objectives include but are not restricted to: (i) the sustainability of sovereign debt, and of union-wide sharing mechanisms, (ii)...

This workshop will bring together experts in banking, regulation, and financial economics to discuss the most recent academic research on financial intermediation. Topics: - Regulation of systemic risk, pro-cyclicality, capital and liquidity regulation, systemically relevant banks and...

This workshop invites cutting edge research that tries to forecast rare negative events using quantitative methods of evaluating risk. We explicitly invite researchers from all fields, inside and outside of academia and using methods spanning from expert opinion to machine learning. The goal of...

The past ten years has seen an explosion of interest in large and heterogeneous datasets and the statistical and computational techniques needed to handle them. Most of the innovation in this area has come in statistics and computer science departments, but recently economists have also begun to...

We welcome empirical and theoretical submissions of frontier research in all of the current topics of this field. We invite submissions from experienced researchers as well as promising young scholars in the field. Topics: Relational contracts; Theory of the Firm; Incomplete Contracts; Internal...

The aim of the workshop is to explore the impact of public policies on health outcomes. Papers that analyze either the short or the long term impact of the introduction of a public policy on health outcomes are particularly encouraged. Some examples of policies include: labor market reforms,...

The Workshop provides a venue for the most prominent applied microeconomists that work in the fields of Political and Public Economics to gather and present their most recent work in front of a selected audience. Topics include, but are not restricted to, Political Agency, Political...