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Ideas with impact: Prof. Carles Vergara’s climate research cited by White House
Research on climate change by Prof. Carles Vergara was cited in the 2023 U.S. Economic Report of the President, an annual report presented to Congress which outlines the government’s economic policy priorities. The research, which looks at wildfires in California and their impact on real estate markets, is cited in a chapter dealing with how to better manage weather risk in a changing climate.
Award-winning research: IESE Alumni Association honors six professors
Professors Sebastian Reiche, John Almandoz, Fabrizio Ferraro, Javier Zamora, Josep Valor and Beatriz Muñoz-Seca received the 2022 Research Excellence Awards from IESE’s Alumni Association. The research covered areas from the compatibility of green investment and public policy, to using artificial intelligence in business operations.
Gender & pay equity: Marta Elvira in Nature Human Behaviour
IESE professor Marta Elvira, working with a global team of researchers, has coauthored "Within-Job Gender Pay Inequality in 15 Countries," published in Nature Human Behaviour. Analyzing millions of datapoints from novel administrative datasets, the paper helps further our understanding of how and why the gender pay gap still exists.
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