📩 Ya está disponible nuestro último boletín del Departamento FAE. En él encontrarás un resumen de algunas de las noticias más destacadas y del trabajo que estamos desarrollando en nuestra comunidad académica.

📢 Our recently graduated PhD student, Alberto Pérez-Bernabeu, presented one of his research papers about housing at the 33rd Finance Forum, the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Finance Association, held at the University of Alicante (@ua.es) on 8–10 July 2026.

🎓 We are pleased to announce that Manuel Medina Magro has successfully defended his PhD thesis. The defense took place at the University of Alicante (@ua.es), with the thesis "Nowcasting with High-Frequency Information".

🎓 Nuestra compañera María Dolores Guilló, ha superado con éxito las oposiciones a cátedra.

🔎 🧐Looking for a Master’s that combines rigorous Economics, Data Science and real-world applications?

🧠📊 Missed FUR 2026? Or just want to relive it? 🎓Nearly 300 researchers from six continents came together at the University of Alicante (@ua.es) for one of the world's most prestigious conferences in behavioural science.

🔎 🧐Looking for a Master’s that combines rigorous Economics, Data Science and real-world applications?

📩 Ya está disponible nuestro último boletín del Departamento FAE. En él encontrarás un resumen de algunas de las noticias más destacadas y del trabajo que estamos desarrollando en nuestra comunidad académica.

🎓On 22 June, Juan Francisco Blázquiz defended his PhD thesis as part of a cotutelle programme between the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca and the University of Alicante (@ua.es).

🏆Alberto Pérez-Bernabeu, who recently completed his PhD at our department, has been awarded the ‘Applied Economic Analysis Young Researcher Award’ during the XVIII Applied Economics Meeting.

🧠📊 The Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference 2026 has come to an end.  🎤 Three days of cutting-edge behavioural science. Six brilliant keynotes. One unforgettable conference. 👏🎓

🧠📊 We close three incredible days of behavioural science with Mohammed Abdellaoui (HEC Paris; CNRS - @cnrs.fr), delivering the final keynote lecture of the conference: ‘From Risk to Ambiguity: The Many Lives of Probability Weighting’.

📰 El diario Información sigue haciéndose eco del FUR 2026. 🧠 Hoy publica una entrevista con José Apesteguia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra - @upf.edu), uno de los ponentes del congreso.

🧠📊 Today's plenary lecture is dedicated to Germán Bernácer, one of the most original Spanish economists of the twentieth century, whose work on uncertainty and decision-making connects perfectly with the spirit of FUR.

🧠 💡 The FUR 2026 continues at the University of Alicante. We are now ready for the next session. 🎤🌍Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela-@usc.gal) takes the stage with: ‘Insights from psychology for effective science communication: Examples from the climate crisis’. #FUR2026

🧠📊 ¡Hoy continúa el FUR 2026! Todo listo para una nueva jornada de una de las conferencias interdisciplinarias sobre ciencias del comportamiento más prestigiosas del mundo. 📍 Te esperamos en la Universidad de Alicante (@ua.es).

⚠️Finally, the seminar scheduled for today has been cancelled.⚠️ We apologize for the inconvenience.

🧠 The first keynote of FUR 2026 has begun! 🎤Sevgi Yuksel (New York University) opens the conference with: ‘People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data.’ 📊🚀 What a way to start! #FUR2026 #BehaviouralEconomics #DecisionTheory

🎓 🎉 We are thrilled to start The Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference 2026, one of the world's most prestigious interdisciplinary conferences in behavioural science.

👉 A new macro seminar is scheduled for this week. 📅🕒 Thursday, 11th June 2026 at 14:30 h 📍 Room GB/1007, on the first floor of the Germán Bernácer building 🎙 Marta Morazzoni, University College London (@ucl.ac.uk) and CEPR (@cepr.org)  📲 Title: Sorting into Entrepreneurial Teams

🎓 Last week, Hardi Ahmed successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Formal Rules and Informal Constraints: Three Essays on Development Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa’ at the University of Alicante (@ua.es).

🧠 Don't forget! This week we welcome you to FUR 2026, one of the world's most prestigious interdisciplinary conferences in behavioural science. See you there! 📅 10–12 June 2026 📍 University of Alicante (@ua.es) 🔗 https://fur2026.ua.es/en

🎤 We are excited to announce the keynote speakers for FUR 2026! 🧠 The Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference brings together some of the brightest minds in behavioural science:

👉 A new micro seminar is scheduled for tomorrow. 📅🕒 Thursday, 4th June 2026 at 14:30 h 📍 Room GB/1007 in the Germán Bernácer building 🎙 Lukas Hack, ETH Zürich and University of Mannheim (@econunimannheim.bsky.social)  📲 Title: The Systematic Origins of Monetary Policy Shocks

👉 A new applied & econometrics seminar is scheduled for this week. 📅🕒 Wednesday, 3th June 2026 at 14:30 h 📍 Room GB/1007 in the Germán Bernácer building 🎙 Gunes Gokmen, Lund University  📲 Title: Traditional Religion and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China

⏰ Last few days to apply! 🎓 Join our Master's programme, where you will learn Economics not just as theory, but by discovering what's behind the models and the data. Don't miss this opportunity! 🔗 Find out more and apply here: https://dfae.ua.es/va/eco-dat-sci.html #Masters2026 #Economics

🎓 From 10–12 June 2026, the Foundations of Utility and Risk Conference (FUR) comes to our university.

📊 This week we celebrated a new edition of the 'Annual Conference on Economic Analysis', organised by our Department. 🎤 Over two days, PhD students and young researchers presented their work in an environment marked by the exchange of ideas and scientific debate.

📊 How can you use microdata and advanced statistical tools to solve complex problems?

👉 A new applied & econometrics seminar is scheduled for tomorrow.