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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 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
ICREA-IAE and Barcelona GSE |
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 | "Never before have so few owed so much to so many"
Prof. Xavier Freixas (UPF and Barcelona GSE) plays on the famous words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to explain the impact of bank bailouts on taxpayers during the recent global financial crisis. |
Watch Video | Xavier Freixas
UPF and Barcelona GSE |
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 | From shame to game in 100 years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its destigmatization
Prof. Nezih Guner (ICREA-UAB and Barcelona GSE) develops an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its destigmatization. |
Watch Video | Nezih Guner
ICREA-UAB and Barcelona GSE |
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 | A Theory of Optimal Random Crackdowns
Do the Belgian police use speed traps effectively to put the brakes on crime? Professor Jan Eeckhout will determine if they pass inspection. |
Watch Video | Jan Eeckhout
ICREA-UPF 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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 | 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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 | New Keynesian insights on wages, aggregate demand and unemployment
Prof. Jordi Galí (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE) illustrates how the central bank's response to inflation conditions the impact that wages have on unemployment. |
Watch Video | Jordi Galí
CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE |
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 | Ethnicity and conflict: an empirical study
What are the causes of civil conflict? On the basis of recent theoretical and empirical research, professors Joan Esteban and Laura Mayoral (IAE and Barcelona GSE) and Debraj Ray (NYU) show that preexisting ethnic divisions do influence social conflict. Their analysis provides evidence that ethnic conflicts are likely to be instrumental, i.e, driven by political or economic reasons, rather than by ancestral hatreds across groups.
Funding for this project was provided by AXA Research Fund and Recercaixa. |
Watch Video | Joan-Maria Esteban and Laura Mayoral
IAE and Barcelona GSE |
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