Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University and New York University Thomas J. Sargent, New York University, Nobel Laureate Christopher A. Sims, Yale University, Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow, MIT, Nobel Laureate Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zürich Research One of BSE's main objectives is to make Barcelona a leading community in economics research worldwide. Research rankings The Barcelona School of Economics research community constitutes one of the leading clusters of economics research in Europe. It has been ranked by RePEc among the top 15 Economics Departments in the world, the top 5 in Europe, and as the best in Spain. Severo Ochoa Research Excellence accreditations In 2011, BSE was distinguished as one of only eight Centers of Research Excellence with an international impact in the framework of the Severo Ochoa Research Excellence Program, which promotes frontier research and distinguish those institutions that are defining the global scientific debate. In 2016, it became the only center focused on economics and the social sciences to receive a second Severo Ochoa distinction. BSE received a third consecutive Severo Ochoa distinction for the period 2020–23. Research areas Behavioral and Experimental Economics Business Economics Data Science Development Economics Economic History Financial Economics Game Theory Growth and Development Health Economics Industrial Organization International Economics Labor Economics Macroeconomics Microeconomics Monetary and Fiscal Policy Political Economy Public Economics Social Choice and Mechanism Design Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods Research activities The main research activities organized by the Barcelona School of Economics include: BSE Lectures Research Recognition Program Calvó-Armengol International Prize BSE "Trobada" (annual academic gathering) BSE Summer Forum Faculty Affiliated professors Affiliated Professors of the Barcelona School of Economics are tenured or tenure-track faculty members from the BSE academic units. Among the affiliated professors there are Fellows of the Econometric Society, Fellows of the European Economic Association, Research Fellows of the Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), and Research Fellows of CESifo. They publish in the leading journals of Economics and many of the journals of the different subfields of the discipline. They also serve as coeditors and associate editors of these journals. At present there are some 150 affiliated professors, including: José Apesteguia Jordi Brandts Fernando Broner Julian di Giovanni Jan Eeckhout Jordi Galí José G. Montalvo Nezih Guner Flip Klijn Gábor Lugosi Inés Macho-Stadler Albert Marcet Alberto Martín Massimo Motta Rosemarie Nagel David Pérez-Castrillo José-Luis Peydró Marta Reynal-Querol Barbara Rossi Albert Satorra Jaume