Research Events

CODE fosters economics research life in Barcelona

CODE was founded to promote research activity in microeconomic theory and its applications to organizations, networks, and decision-making. It serves as a hub for collaboration among researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Barcelona School of Economics, fostering a vibrant environment for seminars, workshops, and joint projects that connect theory with real-world economic challenges.

Upcoming Research Events

BSE Summer Forum 2026

UAB Casa Convalescència in Barcelona

Program dates: June 2-19, 2026

Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2026

Submissions should include either a full paper or an extended abstract with the main results.

The same paper cannot be submitted to more than one workshop.

BSE Summer Forum workshops on:

- Advances in Structural Shocks Identification, June 16-17, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Luca Gambetti (UAB and BSE)
        Giovanni Ricco (École Polytechnique)
- Choice and Decision, June 17, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Fernando Payró (UAB and BSE)
        Evan Piermont (Royal Holloway)
- Development Economics, June 11-12, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF and IPEG)
        Giacomo De Giorgi (IEE/GSEM, University of Geneva)
        Andre Groeger (UAB and BSE)
        Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (UPF, IPEG and BSE)
        Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF and BSE)
Income Dynamics and the Family, June 17-18, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Christopher Busch (LMU)
        Fabian Kindermann (University of Regensburg)
        Rocío Madera (Southern Methodist University)
        Hanna Wang (UAB and BSE)
Inequality and Efficiency: Models, Data and Policy Analysis, June 16-17, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Albert Marcet (ICREA-CREI, UPF and BSE)
        Francesc Obiols-Homs (UAB and BSE)
- Macroeconomics and Social Insurance, June 18-19, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Arpad Abraham (University of Bristol)
        Chris Busch (LMU Munich)
        Alex Ludwig (Goethe University Frankfurt)
        Francesc Obiols-Homs (UAB and BSE)
        Raül Santaeulalia-Llopis (NYU Abu Dhabi)
- Macroeconomics of Labor Markets, June 18-19, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Javier Fernández-Blanco (UAB and BSE)
        Virginia Sanchez (Universidad de Cantabria and CEPR)
        Ludo Visschers (University of Edinburgh and UC3M)
        Ronald Wolthoff (University of Toronto)
- Migration, June 8-9, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Lídia Farré (IAE-CSIC and BSE)
        Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
        Albrecht Glitz (UPF and BSE, IPEG, RFBerlin)
        Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB and BSE)
        Joan Llull (IAE-CSIC and BSE)
        Joan Monràs (UPF and BSE)
- Networks, June 4-5, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Ben Golub (Northwestern University)
        Matthew O. Jackson (Stanford University)
        Pau Milán (UAB and BSE)
        Tomás Rodríguez (Universidad de los Andes)
        Gabriela Stockler (UPF and BSE)
        Eduard Talamàs (IESE)
- Public Economics, June 11-12, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Martín Besfamille (PUC Chile)
        Nina Bobkova (Rice University)
        Pierre Boyer (Ecole Polytechnique and CREST)
        Caterina Muratori (UAB and BSE)
        Amedeo Piolatto (UAB and BSE)
        Luca Salvadori (UAB, BSE, IEB & TARC)
        Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University and NBER)
Relational Contracts, June 15-16, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Matthias Fahn (HKU Business School)
        Ricard Gil (IESE)
        Ameet Morjaria (MIT Sloan)
        Mar Reguant (IAE-CSIC and BSE)
        Marta Troya-Martínez (UAB and BSE)
        Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne)
Structural Microeconomics, June 11-12, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Joan Llull (IAE-CSIC and BSE)
        Ana Moreno-Maldonado (University of Mannheim)
        Hanna Wang (UAB and BSE)
- Tournaments: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (ToTEA), June 2-3, 2026

Workshop organizers:

- - - - Mikhail Drugov (UAB and BSE)
        Dmitry Ryvkin (RMIT University)

Past Research Events

Seminar Series

CODE helps run, together with the Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica and the Institut d'Anàlisis Econòmica (IAE), several seminar series that take place at the Bellaterra campus of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. These are divided along three main research areas. CODE also gives support to an internal series designed to help PhD students further their projects.

Applied Seminars

Macro Seminars

Micro Seminars

Internal workshops

Associated Networks

CODE is affiliated to several research networks spanning many different countries and research fields. Often a founding member of these organizations, CODE has long been committed to promoting a vibrant and mobile research community in Barcelona. Each of these research networks holds an annual conference, and Barcelona is often chosen to host these events. As such, CODE has been actively involved in putting together large international conferences for the following research groups.