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Visita a KNUST (Universitat de Ciència i Tecnologia Kwame Nkrumah) en Kumasi (Ghana)
El gener passat, el director del departament, Iñigo Iturbe, i la Coordinadora del Màster en Economia Quantitativa, M. Angeles Carnero, van visitar KNUST (Universitat de Ciència i Tecnologia Kwame Nkrumah) en Kumasi (Ghana). La visita va ser part del programa de mobilitat del personal docent Erasmus +, que tant la Universitat d’Alacant com KNUST tenen…
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Astrofísica, Arqueologia i Economia, així són els tres projectes Prometeu de la UA que dirigeixen tres dones
Tres investigadores lideren els únics projectes del programa Prometeu per a grups d’investigació d’excel·lència – Prometeu 2019, pla públic finançat per la Conselleria d’Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana. Astrofísica Estel·lar, amb Amparo Marco, Arqueologia, amb Sonia Gutiérrez, i Economia, amb Carmen Herrero, reben les subvencions públiques del Govern regional.
Carmen Bevià, nomenada Secretària Autonòmica d’Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat Valenciana
La nostra companya Carmen Bevià ha sigut nomenada Secretària Autonòmica d’Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat Valenciana. Enhorabona, Carmen!
José García-Montalvo (Premi Jaume I 2019) visita el nostre departament
El professor José García-Montalvo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Premie Rei Jaume I d’Economia 2019) va visitar el nostre departament el passat 21 de novembre. El professor García-Montalvo va impartir un seminari titulat “Gender and credit risk: a view from the lloen officer’s desk” a les 14:30 hores. Al matí, el professor García-Montalvo va participar en un…
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Workshop per a la presentació del conveni de doctorat entre IMT-Lucca i UA-FAE
Workshop for the presentation of the agreement between IMT-Lucca and UA-FAE Friday, October 18 from 11:30 to 13:00 Place: Aula Vicens Vives 11:30 Welcome Remarks by Lola Collado 11:40 Presentation of the Agreement between IMT and UA of co-tutorship and double PhD degree by Massimo Riccaboni 12:00 Ennio Bilancini (IMT), “Does Focality…
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Conferència Inaugural del Màster en Economia Quantitativa (QED) i el Doctorat en Economia
Conferència Inaugural del Màster en Economia Quantitativa i el Doctorat en Economia, va tindre lloc el dimecres 25 de setembre a les 5:00 p.m. en la Sala Polivalent del MUA de la Universitat d’Alacant. La Conferència Inaugural va ser impartida per Ana I. Moro-Egido, catedràtica de la Universitat de Granada, amb el títol “Family arrangements, household…
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Eric Maskin (Premi Nobel 2007) va visitar el nostre departament
El professor Eric Maskin (Harvard University, Premi Nobel 2007) va visitar el nostre departament el 3 de juny de 2019. El professor Maskin es va reunir amb membres del departament, i a continuació va mantenir una xarrada amb els estudiants de postgrau del programa QED.
David Jimenez-Gomez has published (with Eszter Czibor and John List) an article on VoxEU about best practices in experimental economics, tackling (among others) the issues of experimental design, generalizability, and scalability.
https://voxeu.org/article/dozen-things-experimental-economists-should-do-more
(English) New Policies and Life Styles in the Digital Age
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Premi del Consell Social a Carmen Herrero
Carmen Herrero rep el Premi d’Investigació del Consell Social de la Universitat d’Alacant. Un reconeixement afegit a la seua carrera professional. Enhorabona Carmen!
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(English) New York, HDRO
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(English) Course: “Globalization and the energy transformation”
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La professora Carmen Herrero guardonada amb el Premi Rei Jaume I
Estem orgullosos d’anunciar que la nostra compana Carmen Herrero és una de les persones guanyadores del Premi Rei Jaume I d’Economia 2017.
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(English) 3ª Trobada URV-UA
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(English) aLK Workshop
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(English) ExperimetriX
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(English) The hot hand is back!
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(English) Health Economics Workshop
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Adam Sanjurjo’s research on the “Hot hand” featured in The Economist
Our colleague Adam Sanjurjo and Josh Miller U. Bocconi) have written a couple of articles about the hot hand fallacy. Their research has recently been highlighted in The Economist. Click below to see the article.
(English) Carlos Cueva’s research on hormones in financial markets featured in international media
(English) The hormones testosterone and cortisol may destabilise financial markets by making traders take more risks, according to a study.
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Carmen Herrero becomes president of ASSET
Our colleague Carmen Herrero has been recently elected as president of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorist. Congratulations Carmen!
ArbolMat
Last September 24, the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society and Universia presented the new profiles in the so called ArbolMat, the tree of Mathematics. This is a gallery of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American mathematicians in a wide sense, selected on the basis of their contributions to the field, or as their role in promoting excellence…
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Giovanni Ponti joins the Editorial Board of PLoS ONE
Starting September 1st, 2014, Giovanni Ponti joins the Editorial Board of PLoS ONE, as Academic Editor specialized in Behavioral end Experimental Economics. PLoS ONE is the top publication of the Public Library of Science of the United States, and covers –basically- any research field from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. Published first in 2006, PLoS ONE…
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LaTEx in the media
The Laboratory for Theoretical and Experimental Economics (LaTEx) has recently been visited by Diario Información. Here we reproduce the article, in Spanish: ¿Qué factores fomentan la iniciativa emprendedora? ¿Cuándo es sostenible la cooperación entre personas? ¿Qué aspectos psicológicos explican la inestabilidad en los mercados financieros? ¿Quién arriesga más a la hora de invertir, los hombres o las…
DetailsCarmen Herrero’s Honorary Degree
We are proud to announce that our colleague Carmen Herrero will receive a Degree Honoris Causa by the University of Granada. We have created this page that includes all the relevant information and related events.
Prof. Francesco Turino gets tenure
We are proud to announce that our colleague Francesco Turino has successfully completed his tenure-track period in the department and we congratulate him for this achievement. Professor Turino is a macroeconomist who has published very good quality papers in journals like the European Economic Review or the Review of Economic Dynamics. We are confident that he will keep this…
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Spain’s Current Situation
Aspen Institute España together with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid organize a seminar on October 4, 5 in La Moraleja, Madrid, under the sponsorship of Fundación Urrutia Elejalde, Uría Menéndez and Campus BBVA. The objective of the seminar is to facilitate the possibility of discussion among a group of about 50 economists and researchers coming form different fields, so…
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Alicante Mini-Workshop in Health Economics
The departament of Fundamentos del Análisis Económico hosts the Mini-Workshop in Health Economics on June 14th. The organizers are Lola Collado and Climent Quintana-Domeque. The workshop will take place in Sala Ernest Lluch, from 9.15 to 14.10. For more details, click here.
QED Conference 2013
The QED Conference took place this year in Vienna, on May 3rd-4th. Carmen Herrero presented a brief summary of the history of the QED Network, which is is formed by nine institutions at this moment.
See further detailed info about our QED program here.
Poverty in Spain
On May 15th, the reports “Desarrollo humano en España. 1980-2011” and “La pobreza en España y sus comunidades autónomas. 2006-2011” about poverty in Spain, were released by IVIE (Valencia Institute of Economic Research) and Bancaja Foundation. The research team was formed by Carmen Herrero (U. Alicante) and Antonio Villar (U. Pablo Olavide and a former faculty member of our department),…
DetailsSurnames and Social Mobility
Lola Collado‘s paper “Intergenerational linkages in consumption patterns and the geographical distribution of surnames”, joint with I. Ortuño-Ortín and A. Romeu, appears in The Economist‘s article Nomencrazy, that talks about social mobility and surnames.