Barcelona School of Economics

The Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) is an internationally renowned institute for research and graduate education in economics, finance, data science, and the social sciences located in Barcelona, Spain.

The school's academic offer includes Master's degrees as well as summer schools, professional courses, and in-company training.

BSE research has been ranked among the top Economics Departments in the world.

The school is accredited by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU).

History
Established as the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), the institution was legally recognized by the Government of Catalonia in October 2006 as a foundation dedicated to higher education.

The School was created with the objective to foster scientific cooperation between four existing academic and research units in Barcelona:


 * Universitat Pompeu Fabra— Department of Economics and Business
 * Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona — Unit of Economic Analysis
 * Institute for Economic Analysis
 * Centre for Research in International Economics

The School's board of trustees includes both private and public institutions.

The school changed its name to Barcelona School of Economics in 2021.

Scientific Council
The BSE Scientific Council works with faculty and administrators to ensure the quality of teaching, research, and admissions procedures. The council is made up of leading academics, including several Nobel Laureates in Economics.

The first chair of the Scientific Council was Hugo Sonnenschein (1940-2021), President Emeritus of the University of Chicago, who held the position from 2008 until 2021.

Members of the Barcelona School of Economics Scientific Council


 * Daron Acemoglu, MIT
 * Aloisio Araujo, IMPA and Fundação Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro)
 * Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University
 * Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University
 * Richard Blundell, University College London
 * Janet Currie, Princeton University
 * Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
 * Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
 * Darrell Duffie, Stanford Graduate School of Business
 * Raquel Fernández, New York University
 * Oliver Hart, Harvard University, Nobel Laureate
 * James J. Heckman, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate
 * Bengt Holmström, MIT, Nobel Laureate
 * Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University
 * Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota
 * Anne Krueger, The Johns Hopkins University
 * Justin Yifu Lin, Peking University
 * Robert Lucas, University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate
 * Charles F. Manski, Northwestern University
 * Eric S. Maskin, Harvard University Nobel Laureate
 * Preston McAfee, former Chief Economist of Microsoft
 * Roger Myerson, University of Chicago Nobel Laureate
 * Juan Pablo Nicolini, United States Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
 * Edward C. Prescott, University of Arizona, Nobel Laureate
 * Hélène Rey, London Business School
 * John Roberts, Stanford University
 * Alvin Roth, Stanford University, Nobel Laureate
 * Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University and New York University
 * Thomas J. Sargent, New York University, Nobel Laureate
 * Christopher A. Sims, Yale University, Nobel Laureate
 * Robert M. Solow, MIT, Nobel Laureate
 * Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago
 * Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zürich

Research
One of BSE's main objectives is to make Barcelona a leading community in economics research worldwide.

Research rankings
The Barcelona School of Economics research community constitutes one of the leading clusters of economics research in Europe. It has been ranked by RePEc among the top 15 Economics Departments in the world, the top 5 in Europe, and as the best in Spain.

Severo Ochoa Research Excellence accreditations
In 2011, BSE was distinguished as one of only eight Centers of Research Excellence with an international impact in the framework of the Severo Ochoa Research Excellence Program, which promotes frontier research and distinguish those institutions that are defining the global scientific debate.

In 2016, it became the only center focused on economics and the social sciences to receive a second Severo Ochoa distinction.

BSE received a third consecutive Severo Ochoa distinction for the period 2020–23.

Research areas

 * Behavioral and Experimental Economics
 * Business Economics
 * Data Science
 * Development Economics
 * Economic History
 * Financial Economics
 * Game Theory
 * Growth and Development
 * Health Economics
 * Industrial Organization
 * International Economics
 * Labor Economics
 * Macroeconomics
 * Microeconomics
 * Monetary and Fiscal Policy
 * Political Economy
 * Public Economics
 * Social Choice and Mechanism Design
 * Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods

Research activities
The main research activities organized by the Barcelona School of Economics include:


 * BSE Lectures
 * Research Recognition Program
 * Calvó-Armengol International Prize
 * BSE "Trobada" (annual academic gathering)
 * BSE Summer Forum

Affiliated professors
Affiliated Professors of the Barcelona School of Economics are tenured or tenure-track faculty members from the BSE academic units.

Among the affiliated professors there are Fellows of the Econometric Society, Fellows of the European Economic Association, Research Fellows of the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), and Research Fellows of CESifo. They publish in the leading journals of Economics and many of the journals of the different subfields of the discipline. They also serve as coeditors and associate editors of these journals.

At present there are some 150 affiliated professors, including:


 * José Apesteguia
 * Jordi Brandts
 * Fernando Broner
 * Julian di Giovanni
 * Jan Eeckhout
 * Jordi Galí
 * José G. Montalvo
 * Nezih Guner
 * Flip Klijn
 * Gábor Lugosi
 * Inés Macho-Stadler
 * Albert Marcet
 * Alberto Martín
 * Massimo Motta
 * Rosemarie Nagel
 * David Pérez-Castrillo
 * José-Luis Peydró
 * Marta Reynal-Querol
 * Barbara Rossi
 * Albert Satorra
 * Jaume Ventura

Guest professors
Some of the scholars and professionals who have taught at the Barcelona School of Economics as guest professors are:


 * Simon Johnson
 * Timothy Kehoe
 * Xavier Sala-i-Martin
 * Reinhilde Veugelers

Academic programs
The academic programs of the Barcelona School of Economics attract a highly international group of students in several main programs.

Master's degrees
The Barcelona School of Economics offers master's programs leading to three different master's degrees:

Master's Degree in Economics and Finance
 * Economics
 * Finance
 * PhD Track Program

Master's Degree in Specialized Economic Analysis
 * Competition and Market Regulation
 * Economics of Public Policy
 * International Trade, Finance, and Development
 * Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Markets

Master's Degree in Data Science
 * Data Science for Decision Making
 * Data Science Methodology

PhD programs
There are two PhD programs in the Barcelona School of Economics community, one at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and one at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Both programs are organized jointly with BSE:


 * International Doctorate in Economic Analysis (IDEA).
 * Graduate Program in Economics, Finance and Management (GPEFM).

Other academic programs
BSE offers summer school programs, professional courses, and in-company training throughout the year.

Campuses
The Barcelona School of Economics has two campuses: Ciutadella campus (UPF) and Bellaterra campus (UAB).