PhD in Economic Analysis

Internal Quality Assurance System of the centers

Internal Quality Assurance System for faculties and schools

The process-based management system used by the UAB faculties and schools stems from a commitment to offering degrees with their own policy on quality and measures in place to evaluate and improve performance continuously, according to the European quality standards. These elements together make up this university's Internal Quality Assurance System (SGIQ).

This system involves all the following:

• establishing and monitoring the faculty's policy and objectives regarding teaching standards, in accordance with the university’s strategic lines
• establishing and renewing the offer of PhD programmes
• processes directly linked to teaching activity: tutoring, assessment, mobility, etc.
• processes to gauge the level of satisfaction of the different groups
• processes linked to the people and resources needed: lecturers, administrative and service staff (PAS), infrastructure and services, course scheduling, academic organisation, etc.
• processes linked to the life cycles of degrees: verification (evaluation before implementation), regular monitoring, modification (continuous improvement) and accreditation (evaluation of performance and renewal of the authorisation to continue offering the programme), which seek to organise, renew and improve the offer of PhD programmes.

Verification

Evaluation process previous to the implementation of the degree: presentation of a proposal for a new PhD programme for AQU-Catalunya (Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia) to issue the binding evaluation for the Council of Universities (Ministry of Universities), which is the responsible agent for verification.

• Report on the PhD programme
• Resolution on verification by the Spanish Universities Council
• Registry of Universities, Centres and Degrees (RUCT)

Monitoring

Periodic monitoring process of the development and results of the PhD programme: self-evaluation carried out, every 3 years, by themselves.

• Monitoring report on the programme

Accreditation

Renewal process for the implementation of the degree: presentation, every 6 years since the implementation of the program, of a self-report for AQU-Catalunya to issue the binding assessment for the University Council, which is the responsible agent of accreditation.

• Self-evaluation report
• Accreditation report
• Resolution on accreditation by the Universities Council
• Registry of Universities, Centres and Degrees (RUCT)

AQU VSMA Framework

Internal Quality Assurance System of the faculty

Set of processes to manage and monitor the different aspects of degrees, with the strategic objective of ensuring continuous improvement

• Internal Quality Assurance System
• Tutoring Action Plan (PAT)
• Standing Committee

Opina UAB

A channel for suggestions, complaints and praise regarding the functioning of the UAB

PhD data

• Satisfaction surveys of Doctors
• Satisfaction surveys of thesis supervisors
• Check here the results of the doctor's job placement survey
• The PhD figures

Recognition and awards

In this link you will find the doctors who have obtained the Special Prize Award in this PhD programme.

The following prizes and honours have been awarded in relation to this PhD programme.

• In May 2010 PhD student Lorenzo Burlon received the prize for best article at the Meeting of PhDs in Montpellier (DMM, third edition).
• In November 2010 PhD student Lorenzo Burlon received the Louis-André Gérard-Varet award for the best article presented by a young economist at the annual Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET).
• In September 2011 PhD student Jan Grobovsek received the Fondazioni Eni Enrico Mattei prize for one of the three best papers to be presented at the meeting of the European Economic Association.
• In 2011 PhD Student Pau Balart received the Louis-André Gérard-Varet prize for the best article presented by a young economist at the annual meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET).
• In November 2012 PhD student Tugce Cuhadaroglu received the Louis-André Gérard-Varet prize for the best article presented by a young economist at the annual Meeting of the Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (ASSET).
• In 2011 PhD student Pau Pujolas received the prize for one of the three best papers to be presented at the 16th Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics in Vigo.