Institutions Trade & Economic Development
23 – 24 March (Sat – Sun), 2019 The School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University will host the 14th Australasian Trade Workshop (ATW) on 23-24 March 2019. We are pleased to announce that the keynote speakers for this year will be John McLaren (Virginia) and Emanuel Ornelas (Sao Paulo). We invite colleagues […]
Applications are invited for PhD scholarships at the Department of Economics, UCPH. The chosen candidates will enrol at the Faculty of Social Sciences under Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences. Employment is to begin on 1 February 2019. Deadline for applications: 1 November 2018. The PhD programme provides PhD students with strong research training which […]
The Department of International Affairs in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track, assistant professor position in the broad area of International Development and Economic Policy. We are open to the candidate’s area of expertise, which may include development economics, politics and institutions […]
Opportunity for outstanding early career researchers in any discipline or research area (10 positions available) • Holders of the Fellowships will be lifetime members of the Sydney Society of Fellows • Full time, 3 year fixed term, salary AUD98,940 p.a, plus up to 17% superannuation and leave loading The University of Sydney […]
By Matthew T. Cole (California Polytechnic State University), Ronald B. Davies (University College Dublin), and Todd Kaplan (University of Exeter Business School and University of Haifa) Government procurement contracts are a large part of many economies, often accounting for 15-20% of GDP.[1] Given the significant size of these contracts and their public-sector nature, it is unsurprising that there […]
The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page: Abel François and Pierre-Guillaume Méon (2018) “Politicians at higher levels of government are perceived as more corrupt” Cavatorta, Elisa and Ben Groom (2018) “Do Counter-Insurgency Policies Change The Way People Make Decisions? Evidence From A Natural Experiment” Marco Giani & Pierre-Guillaume Méon (2017) […]
The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) and the Banco Central del Uruguay are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Workshop on International Macro to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 6-7 December 2018. As in previous years, we are looking for papers focusing on issues related to capital flows, […]
Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, It has been twenty years since Ronald Coase claimed, in the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, that “When the majority of economists have changed, mainstream economists will acknowledge the importance of examining the economic system in the way [of new institutional economics] and will claim […]
By Shushanik Hakobyan[1] (International Monetary Fund) With rising US trade protectionism against its major trading partners, the Generalized System of Preferences or GSP, a long-running scheme of tariff exemptions meant to aid exporters in developing countries, may get less attention. While GSP imports account for about one percent of total US imports, they account for about […]
The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page Dixit, Avinash (2017) “Fighting Corruption By Altering Equilibrium In An Assurance Game“