This course is an introduction to quantitative methods in the social sciences. It is mandatory and can be taken either during the first or the second year of the doctoral programme. The course will be...

In this thesis, I employ techniques from time series econometrics to study the detection of asset price bubbles and the measurement of vaccine uptake.In Chapter 1, I analyse some commonly used bubble ...

Seminar of the Inequality, Welfare and Social Justice interdisciplinary research cluster.Presentation of The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth by Chang-Tai Hsieh, Erik Hurst, Charles I. ...

The recent Rule of Law Published by the European Commission in September 2020 reasserted that no democracy can thrive without freedom of expression and with a free and pluralistic media environment. T...

4-week online and residential course Online: 28 September – October 2020This blended course starts with a four-week online block, introducing you to the basic principles of gas regulation in Europe. ...

Competition Law in Developing Countries (2020, OUP) brings together perspectives of development economics and law to tackle the relationship between competition law enforcement and economic developm...

Foundations of Development is designed to introduce graduate students to issues in the study of political and economic development. We survey a broad range of different literatures and topics. The cou...

In this debate, we deal with the changes in market design, and our proposal is to articulate the analysis on smart transactions, in the sense that they represent the bridge between the data side and t...

This objective of this course is to introduce researchers to social network analysis, with special emphasis on applications in sociology and political science. This is both a theory and a methods cour...

Legal action against political parties and politicians is far from rare; from Israel to Spain, democracies have used constitutional tools to confront parties and politicians perceived as a threat to t...

This seminar surveys the literature on international institutions, international order, and global governance, considering both classic and contemporary work. Social theoretically, we range broadly, e...

Departmental seminar

A presentation within the Inequality Working GroupThe debate over the impact of grade repetition, the practice of denying students the progression in their educational career for an additional year, h...

Session 2 of the FSR Global Energy Innovation WeekIn this online event, we intend to address, among other topics:Discuss the role of public finance in the development of green infrastructureThe role o...