Jaume Ventura, Professor of the Department of Economics and Business of the UPF and CREI Researcher, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project “Globalization, Economic Policy and Political Structure”.

The category of Advanced Grants is reserved for well-established top researchers of any nationality or age, who are scientifically independent and have a recent high-level research track-record and profile which identifies them as leaders in their respective fields.

The project is organized around two themes. The first one is the handling of enforcement externalities. One of the key roles of governments is to enforce contracts. When these contracts involve domestic and foreign residents, governments have the temptation to enforce selectively so as to shift income to domestic residents at the expense of foreigners. The second theme is the evolution of political structure. The world is currently organized into states or centralized jurisdictions. This project studies the hypothesis that globalization leads to an alternative political structure based on a set of overlapping jurisdictions.

Direct access to the pdf file with a press release of the European Research Council (ERC)

https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/press_release/files/erc_press_release_adg2015_results.pdf

Here you will find a list of the ERC grants won by faculty of the DEE