Collaborations
Collaborations
CEMFI collaborates with public and private institutions and participates in joint research projects and networks.
EnergyEcoLab brings together a group of researchers committed to carrying out rigorous policy-relevant research in the area of Energy and Environmental Economics. Using sound theoretical, empirical, and simulation tools, researchers at EnergyEcoLab explore market design and policy issues that arise in the transition to a low carbon economy. EnergyEcoLab is based at CEMFI, and has various links with researchers worldwide. It is founded by the European Research Council's ERC Advanced Grant ENERGY-IN-TRANSITION, led by Natalia Fabra.
Global Economic Challenges (GEC) Network
CEMFI is a member of the Global Economic Challenges (GEC) Network. The network will sponsor a series of international workshops that bring together leading scholars with policymakers to discuss the most important and pressing economic problems of the twenty-first century. The following workshops were organized within the network’s activities:
Households in the Twenty-first Century: Marriage, Fertility, and Challenges for Public Policy, March 24, 2025.
- Conference on Aging, November 17, 2023.
Professors Samuel Bentolila and Monica Martinez-Bravo coordinate with J-PAL Europe a team of researchers that are evaluating 23 randomized controlled trials on social inclusion policies linked to the minimum income scheme in the areas of education, digitalization, housing and energy poverty, social support and benefit non-take up, and work and entrepreneurship. The projects were promoted by the General Secretariat for Inclusion of the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations, with funding from the European Union’s NextGenerationEU program, as part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
SHARE is a survey jointly developed with institutions from 28 other European countries. Professor Pedro Mira and CEMFI have been responsible for the ten survey waves so far undertaken in Spain: the first three were funded by the European Commission, the fourth by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (formerly, MICINN), the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth by the European Commission and the Bank of Spain, and the tenth by the European Commission and the Ministry for the inclusion, Social security and migration.