PRESENTATION AND LINES OF RESEARCH

Researchers in charge

· Manuel Artís - artis@eco.ub.es

· Jordi Suriñach - jsurinach@ub.edu

Coordinator

· Enrique López Bazo- elopez@ub.edu

The AQR Group (Regional Quantitative Analysis) is integrated in the Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Spanish Economy at the University of Barcelona and as a research unit in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). The Barcelona Science Park is an essential part of the scientific, technological and business system developed by the University of Barcelona, with the support of the Caixa Catalunya and the Fundació Bosch i Gimpera. The main objective of the Park is to create a context in which to promote synergy between public research groups and business R+D+I units, thereby boosting technological innovation through basic research.

The AQR Group, with more than thirty researchers and twenty years of experience, has been recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya (the regional government) as a group of quality and excellence in economic research.

The main research activity of the group is in applied economy, specially focused on the analysis of urban and regional economic analysis.

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Research lines

· Synthetic Indicators of quality of life and economic activity.

· City bulletin of social and economic situation

· Macroeconomic forecasts/estimations.

· Historical series

· Cost-benefit analysis

· Tourism

· Surveys

· Strategical Plans

· Reports about economic themes.

· Economic growth factor and regional convergence

· Urban Economy

· Economic and Monetary integration effects

· Statistical and econometric methodology

· Labor Market

More information

· Publications

· Participation in congresses and workshops

· Members

· Research projects and contracts.

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Present and active international contacts

· Paris II University: research and teaching collaboration in different post-graduate and masters studies. FRANCE

· London School of Economics: research collaboration in regional convergence studies, developing different methodological approaches and applying them to the case of Mediterranean regions. UNITED KINGDOM

· Regional Research Institute, West Virginia, Institute: research collaboration in regional science themes and, more precisely, in spatial econometrics. USA

· Wageningen University: research collaboration for elaborating new regional welfare indicators which do not have some of the problems of previous methodologies. THE NETHERLANDS

· Odense University: research collaboration in spatial econometrics and in a global project for elaborating urban welfare indicators. DENMARK

· Institute for Urban and Regional Studies (Wien, AUSTRIA)

· Institute of Social Sciences ‘Ivo Pilar’ (Zagreb, CROACIA)

· Department of Economics and Management, Czech Technical University of Prague (Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC)

· Institute of Local Government Studies (Copenhagen, DENMARK)

· Geographisches Institut der Chrisrian Albrechts. University of Kiel (Kiel, GERMANY)

· Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinky (FINLAND)

· School of Business Administration, University of Tampere (FINLAND)

· Institute for Small and Medium Size Enterprises (Budapest, HUNGARY)

· Economic and Social Research Institute (Dublin, IRELAND)

· Centre for North South Economic Research, Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Cagliari, ITALY)

· Department of Economics, Università di Sassari (Sassari, ITALY).

· International Economics and Trade Department, Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, LITHUANIA)

· Department of Applied Economics, DAE, faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, (Cambridge, U.K.)

· Department of Innovation and Economic Organisation, Norwegian School of Management (Sandsvika, NORWAY)

· European Institute for Regional and Local Development, Uniwersytet Warszawski  (Warszawa, POLAND)

· Institute for Terotechnology (Radom , POLAND)

· Department of City and Regional Management, University of Lodz (Lodz, POLAND)

· Department of Regional Development Geography, University of Economics Bratislava (Bratislava, SLOVAKIA)

· Institute for forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Bratislava, SLOVAKIA)

· Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, SWEDEN)

· Jönköping International Business School (Jönköping, SWEDEN)

· Department d’économie politique, Université de Genève (Genève, SWITZERLAND)

· Department of Spatial Economics. Free University Amsterdam (Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS).

· Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Middle East Technical University (Ankara, TURKEY)

· Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM)

· Università Bocconi-IGIER (Milano, ITALY)

· Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales, CEPII (Paris, FRANCE)

· The Halle Institute for Economic Research, IWH, (Halle, GERMANY)

· Department of Economics, European University Institute, EUI, (San Domenico di Fiesole, ITALY)

· Econometric Institute, Erasmus Universteit, EUR (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

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Last updated: 27-01-06