• The paper entitled "Two-tier labor markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain" (joint with con S. Bentolila, P. Cahuc y T. Le Barbanchon) by Juan J. Dolado has been awarded the second prize in the I Award Vanguardia de la Ciencia to the best article published in 2010 by researchers affiliated to Spanish institutions in all scientific disciplines. Link
• A team of researchers of the Dept. of Economics at UC3M, with Juan J. Dolado as Principal Researcher has been awarded one of the two research projects financed by the Programa de Excelencia en Educación e Investigación en Economía Monetaria, Financiera y Bancaria of the Banco de España. The title of the project is "Closing the circle: Analyzing the interaction among education, patterns of specialization and labor market performance in Spain". Link
• Vanessa Berenguer has been selected as one of the 380 most qualified Young Economists to participate in the 4th Meeting of the Winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in Lindau (Germany).
• Job Market Candidates - New!!
  

Week Seminars

• Job Market: Riccardo Masolo (Northwestern University) "Firm Wage Setting in a Dispersed Information DSGE" (Tuesday 24, 13.15 h, 15.0.06)
• Job Market: Gregory Veramendi (Northwestern University) "Labor Market Dynamics: A Model of Search and Human Capital Accumulation" (Wednesday 25, 13.15 h, 14.1.01)
• Job Market: David Rahman (University of Minnesota) "Detecting Profitable Deviations"" (Thursday 26, 13.15 h, 15.0.15)

Conferences

• X Pharmaceutical Industry Meeting. Present and future research - Program
• Industrial Economics XV Conference
• Madrid Summer Workshop On Economic Theory (M-SWET 2011)

Other Events

• Summer School 2011
  
• Madrid Microeconomic and Organization Workshop (M-MIAOW)
• PEW, Policy and Evaluation Workshop
• Mad-Mac, Madrid Macroeconomics Workshop

Ph.D in Economics

• Newsletter
• Fabian Rinnen, third year PhD student, has received a Doctoral Fellowship from the AXA Research Fund for his work on "Forecasting Risk: Realized Quantile Approach". Five such fellowships were awarded world-wide in the field of 'socio-economic risks'.
• Vanessa Berenguer,Ph.D. student, has received the James B. Ramsey award for the best paper in econometrics presented at the 18th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (SNDE).