Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal

Professor of Economics. Trying to understand how cities work #UniversitatdeBarcelona @FundacioIEB #IcreaAcademia

[IEB @FundacioIEB]

Day 1 of the 8th Workshop on #UrbanEconomics!

It kicks off with two parallel sessions on some of the key challenges in urban economics:
-  Housing Taxation & Rental Markets, chaired by Albert Solé-Ollé
-  Segregation & Displacement, addressing,  chaired by Jordi @jofre_monseny

[IEB @FundacioIEB]

The first plenary session of the IEB 8th Workshop on #UrbanEconomics is now underway.

Gabriel @Ahlfeldt, from @HumboldtUni, is presenting "The Economics of Architecture"

[IEB @FundacioIEB]

📣 8th Workshop on #UrbanEconomics.

📅 June 17-18, 2026
📍 Barcelona

Keynote speakers:
🗣️ Gabriel @Ahlfeldt  (@HumboldtUni)
🗣️ Lu Han (@UWMadison) 

Info & registration 👉 https://t.co/PvZXDf5AuB

[CEMFI @CEMFInews]

⏳LAST CALL! Less than 48 hours to apply for a scholarship for the CEMFI Housing Market course at UIMP in July. Taught by Duranton, Kocharkov, Puga, and Sánchez-Marcos
🗓️Deadline: May 28
🌐Registration and Scholarships: https://t.co/mqnz7w4UBu
#LastCall #CEMFI #HousingEconomics

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

Final reminder: deadline is May 21st!

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

Thanks to everyone who came to the UEA European Meetings in Barcelona and to all those from CREI, BSE, and the program committees who worked behind the scenes to make it happen.

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

Congratulations to Yoshiki Wiskamp (London School of Economics) who won the student prize at our European #UEA2026 meeting in Barcelona this weekend.
https://t.co/alEZZ7sHlb

Read his research papers: https://t.co/U1FQrmiiVM

[The Economic Misfit @EconomicMisfit]

The Universitat de Barcelona and the IEB - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona are offering 2 fully funded PhD scholarships in Economics.

Funding: €18,000/year + full tuition + travel grants

Application Deadline: April 30, 2026

Read more here: https://t.co/XJJOczhefa

[Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal @eviladecans]

@dgbailey I was so saddened to read this. I met Lisa many years ago during my visit to Birmingham and never forgot her warmth and smile. She was a truly extraordinary woman. My heartfelt condolences to you, Mikey and your family.

[IEB @FundacioIEB]

📣 #CallForPapers for the 8th Workshop on #UrbanEconomics
📌 Deadline: March 15th

📅 June 17-18, 2026
📍 Barcelona

Keynote speakers:
🗣️ Gabriel @Ahlfeldt  (@HumboldtUni)
🗣️ Lu Han (@UWMadison) 

Info👉 https://t.co/PvZXDf5AuB

[Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal @eviladecans]

This is the time of the year when we can enjoy the nice tradition by @ProfDiegoPuga highlighting his favourite 10 Urban Economics published papers in 2025. Thanks Diego!!!

[Diego Puga @ProfDiegoPuga]

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics & #SpatialEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2025, continuing with a tradition started in 2018 (order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

[Rosa Sanchis-Guarner @RosaSanchisG]

Positions open at our department for the roles of AP and postdoc, for applied econ fields including labour, environmental and urban. Please email me if any questions: https://t.co/etq9NU8O7p @UrbanEconomics #urbaneconomics @econjob

[João Pereira dos Santos @JPSantos_econ]

📢#CallforPapers for the @iseg Lisbon Urban and Public Economics Mini Workshop on Housing 🇵🇹
🗓️February 26 and 27, 2026
More information👇
Please RT #EconTwitter

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

Thanks to everyone for a great weekend in Montréal at our North American #UEA2025 meeting, hosted by Université du Québec à Montréal.

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

This weekend's North American #UEA2025 meeting, hosted by Université du Québec à Montréal, featured keynotes by Cecile Gaubert & Keith Head and 60+ paper sessions.

https://t.co/mC8VfnHJr2

Thanks to local organizers Kristian Behrens, Julien Martin & Florian Mayneris.

[Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal @eviladecans]

@m_saintmary @warwickecon Enhorabona!

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

The best NBER summer institute session starts today: Urban Economics

It's exciting to this take off as a policy and research area.

Making cities work better — in rich and poor countries both — would solve so many of our problems.

Starts at 830 ET, should be on NBER youtube.

[Urban Economics Association @UrbanEconomics]

Three days of great lectures and student talks at our
summer school hosted by @TuftsEconomics. Thanks to the students, faculty, and organizers.

[Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal @eviladecans]

I joined @timsvengali on the @voxeu podcast about Barcelona’s Superblocks and their electoral effects CEPR DP: https://t.co/Y9mbKonpYc
👥 Joint work with the great team @celiaestruch, @FilippoT7 & #AlbertSoleOlle
🙏 Thanks to Tim for the thoughtful conversation!

[VoxEU @voxeu]

Do car bans cost votes?

@eviladecans @UniBarcelona talks to @timsvengali about Barcelona’s “Superblocks” and whether car-free zones hurt local politicians at the ballot box.

Listen here: https://t.co/HvRd7jEKlE

[Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal @eviladecans]

It was a pleasure to participate in this great event.

Amazing to see how excellent is the research done by these young women.

Thank you very much to the organizers @Ele_ren94 and @crescenzi_r Looking forward to the 2nd edition!

[LSE Geography & Environment @LSEGeography]

That's a wrap on the 1st Workshop of Early Career Women in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics, which took place at LSE on 12-13 May! 🎓

Thank you to our keynotes: @eviladecans and @r_ortegaargiles

Here's a reminder of the full programme: https://t.co/InXiH4hyE6