6th Annual CIRANO-Sam M. Walton College of Business Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance Call For Papers

On behalf of CIRANO and the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, the organizers invite papers for the 6th Annual Workshop on Networks in Trade and Finance to be held Friday September 29 and Saturday September 30, 2017 in Montreal, Canada. This conference builds on the successful CIRANO Workshops on […]

Research Fellowships UNSW SYDNEY

Economics – Resources Economics – Public Finance Economics – Microeconomics Economics – Macroeconomics Economics – International Economics – Industrial Organization Economics – General One of Australia’s leading research & teaching universities Vibrant campus life with a strong sense of community & inclusion Enjoy a career that makes a difference by collaborating & learning from the […]

Welcome new members – May 2017

We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network: Prof Ana Lucia Abeliansky (University of Göttingen) Her research interests are international trade, foreign direct investment and technological change. Prof Sotiris Blanas (Lancaster University) His main research interests lie in the field of international trade with special focus on international trade and […]

PhD Scholarships at The University of Queensland School of Economics

FUNDING DESCRIPTION: The UQ School of Economics invites applications from highly talented and motivated students to its PhD program. ABOUT THE PROGRAM The UQ School of Economics PhD Program attracts the brightest and best students in Australia and abroad, preparing them for successful careers in academia, government and business. The PhD program of the School […]

Scholarships: PhD-Program "Taxation and social policy under growing inequality”

Joint with Hans-Böckler-Foundation, the Free University of Berlin is awarding three-year phd-stipends to support research on public economics and inequality. The selected candidates will participate in the phd-program titled “Taxation and social policy under growing inequality”. Candidates must be fluent in German. Deadline for the application is 30/06/2017. Area of Study or Research: Economics Politics […]

Asymmetric Shocks in Trade Distances

The correlation between trade and income has been extensively documented in empirical research.  But the ‘endogeneity issue’ of whether trade increases income or income increases trade has not received a definite answer.  The first attempts to solve the endogeneity issue involved the use of geographical instruments.  A natural choice of instrument is the geographical distance from one […]

New Working Papers April 2017

The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page Andersen, Thomas B. and Peter S. Jensen (2017) “Preaching Democracy“ Baier, Scott L., Amanda Kerr and Yoto V. Yotov (2017) “Gravity, Distance, and International Trade“ Berkowitz, Daniel,  Hong Ma and Shuichiro Nishioka (2017) “Does Capital-Labor Substitution or Do Institutions Explain Declining Labor Shares?“ […]

Welcome new members – April 2017

We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network: Prof. Elisa Cavatorta (King’s College London) Her research interests are in the fields of behavioural and experimental economics and development economics. Prof. Tommaso Tempesti (University of Massachusetts Lowell) His research fields are international trade, labour economics and health economics. Dr. Hyunjoo Yang (Korea […]

IDB-ELSNIT Annual Conference

The Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT) is now accepting submissions of papers examining adjustment to deeper economic integration –global and regional- (in terms of trade, FDI, migration), the challenges thereof, and adjustment policies along the economic and institutional dimensions. In particular, submitted papers should address questions such the following: Adjustment to Deeper Economic […]