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 | Decentralizing Equality of Opportunity
How can individual policymakers achieve social justice at both the macro and micro level when addressing concrete, everyday distributive problems? Professor Caterina Calsamiglia discusses the social justice problem and its implications for effective policy design, particularly in the area of affirmative action. |
 Watch Video | Caterina Calsamiglia
UAB and Barcelona GSE |
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 | The Economics of Happiness
Does earning a higher salary really make a person happier? Not permanently, according to Professor Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell. Her research in happiness economics has shed new light on what determines a person's happiness, particularly the effects of income changes and other life events on subjective satisfaction. |
Watch Video | Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
ICREA IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE |
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 | How Do People Perceive Risk in Everyday Situations?
Professor Robin Hogarth uses a novel new methodology to demonstrate that even relatively simple measures of mood state can have a significant effect on perception of risk. |
Watch Video | Robin Hogarth
ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE |
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 | Stock Market Volatility and Learning
Professor Albert Marcet discusses his pioneering research showing that simple models of learning can explain what appear to be puzzles from the viewpoint of the (fully) rational expectations literature. |
Watch Video | Albert Marcet
IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE |
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 | Growth, Democracy, and Civil War
Latest research by Professor Antonio Ciccone reveals a link between downturns of international commodities prices and the outbreak of civil war in Sub-Saharan African countries. Additional analysis suggests that a country's form of government may be a crucial factor in predicting civil war in the case of economic depression. |
Watch Video | Antonio Ciccone
ICREA-UPF, CREI, and Barcelona GSE |
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 | Designing Contracts For University Spin Offs
Professors Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo (Barcelona GSE and UAB) share their research on what makes a university spin-off likely to succeed. |
Watch Video | Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo
UAB and Barcelona GSE |
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 | "Betting on Hitler: The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany"
According to new research by Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor Joachim Voth, firms supporting the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) outperformed the stock market by 5-10% after the Nazi party seized power in 1933. |
Watch Video | Joachim Voth
ICREA-UPF, CREI, and Barcelona GSE |
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