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June 2012

III Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean

CREMed will celebrate the III Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean on 26 - 27 June 2012. The Call for Papers closes on 31st December 2011. For complete information, click here.

December 2011

CREMed Best Paper & Best Student Paper Awards 2011

Deadline for submissions closed on September 30, 2011. Submissions have been received from 13 different countries. Selection results will be announced in December, 2011.

June 2011

10th International Conference of the Middle East Economic Association

CREMed was pleased to host the 10th International Conference of the Middle East Economic Association (MEEA). The MEEA conference was held in Barcelona immediately following the CREMed II Workshop. More information available here.

II Workshop on "Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranian Process”

The II Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranean Process was held in Barcelona 21 - 22 June 2011, co-organized by CREMed (Barcelona GSE and IEMed) and the European Institute (London School of Economics).

December 2010

CREMed Best Paper Award 2009 - 2010

CREMed was pleased to award the 2009-2010 Best Paper Award to the paper:  "Economic integration and the two margins of trade: An application to the Euro-Mediterranean agreements." Authors: Sami Bensassi (Universitat Jaume I, Spain), Laura Márquez-Ramos (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso (Universitat Jaume I, Spain and Ibero-American Institute for Economic Research, University of Goettingen, Germany).  Four additional papers were selected as finalists and incorporated in the CREMed Working Paper Series. More details here.

October 2010

UPF Icària International Campus

The Center for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean is proud to be a Research Associate of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, recognized by the Spanish government for excellence in knowledge creation, research, and education. More information about the initiative here.

CEPR Development Economics Workshop

The Development Economics Workshop of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) was held on 8-9 October, 2010. Organized jointly with the Center for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (Barcelona GSE and IEMed) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. For more information, please refer to the CEPR web.

July 2010

World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies

The third World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) was organized jointly by the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Government of Catalonia in Barcelona. CREMed participated at the event with the European Institute (London School of Economics) with a Panel Series on Economies of the Mediterranean. Find the summary here.

Workshop on Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranean Process

CREMed (Barcelona GSE and IEMed) and the European Institute (London School of Economics) jointly organized the first workshop on "Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranean Process” in Barcelona, held on July 21 - 22nd. 

June 2010

"Labor markets Performance and Migration Flows in Arab Mediterranean Countries"

This European Commission study, carried out during 2009 by the European University Institute (RSCAS) Florence, was presented in Barcelona in a debate co-sponsored by the Servei d'Ocupació de Catalunya (SOC) and CREMed on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. CREMed also sponsored the public presentation of the study held the same evening at the office of the Regional Representation of the European Commission in Barcelona. The Program of the public presentation, including a link to the study, is available here.

November 2009

Lecture “The road not traveled: Education reform in the MENA region”

The Ramón Areces Foundation hosted a conference on education reform in the MENA region on November 19th 2010 in Madrid. Co-organized with the CREMed, the event featured a lecture adressed by Dr. Ahmed Galal, Director of the Economic Research Forum in Cairo, Egypt, a regional research institution covering the Arab countries, Iran and Turkey.

May 2009

Conference on “The challenges of fragility to development policy”

CREMed hosted a conference on “The challenges of fragility to development policy” on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th of May 2009 at Ciutadella Campus - Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. Jointly held with the European University Institute -European Report on Development- the event  analyzed and examined the major causes of fragility, as a deep understanding of the latter is crucial to the design of appropriate development policies.

November 2008

Inauguration of the Center for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean

The Barcelona GSE and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) presented the Center for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (CREMed) as a joint initiative on November 7, 2008. The inaugural conference on “Institutional Change and Development in the Middle East and North Africa” was given by Mustapha K. Nabli, Senior Advisor, Regional Chief Economist and Director of the Social and Economic Development Group within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region of the World Bank. More information here.