Institutions Trade & Economic Development
The Faculty of Economics seeks applications for a Readership in Development Economics which is a permanent senior position and is available from 1 September 2017. Candidates should have an internationally established academic reputation for excellence in research and a proven capacity to take a leadership role. Candidates must be able to demonstrate evidence of international […]
Bank of England, London 3rd & 4th October 2017 Call for Papers The global macroeconomic environment has been characterized by several key trends over the past few decades, from falling real interest rates, investment rates and productivity growth, to rising inequality and wage stagnation. Many potential drivers of these trends have been proposed, from structural […]
The European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES), The Association for Comparative Economic Studies (ACES), The Japanese Association for Comparative Economic Studies (JACES) and The Korean Association for Comparative Economic Studies (KACES) in collaboration with the Italian Association for Comparative Economic Studies (AISSEC), The Society for the Study of Emerging Markets (SSEM), The Chinese Economists […]
We are organizing the First WID.world Conference, which will be hosted by the Paris School of Economics on December 14th and 15th, 2017. WID.world was initially created as the The World Top Incomes Database in January 2011. Thanks to the contribution of over a hundred researchers, the project expanded to include series on income and wealth inequality […]
4th InsTED Workshop on “Advances in Institutions, Trade and Economic Development” joint with 9th Sao Paulo School of Economics Conference Series on “Trade & Labor and other Institutions” The workshop will take place at Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV, Brazil, May 17th-18th 2017. Sponsorship by the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development and the “Firms, Markets […]
The Italian Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AIEAA), the Manlio Rossi-Doria Centre for Economic and Social Research (Roma Tre University), the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of the University of California at Davis, and the Department of Economics, Statistics and Finance of the University of Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, CS) are offering a scholarship […]
The University of Bari “Aldo Moro” is hosting the 8th edition of the conference on the “Economics of Global Interactions” (https://goo.gl/JsUYtp). The conference is co-organized with the Centre for Experimental Research on Fairness, Inequality, and Rationality (FAIR) at NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway) and Master E.G.E.I. The event will provide scholars with the opportunity to discuss their recent contributions in […]
In static trade models with no market imperfections, the aggregate income and welfare of a small country grow when it opens to trade. In endogenous growth models, trade liberalization boosts the growth effect generated by non-diminishing returns to factors of production, or learning-by-doing, or knowledge spillovers, or other forms of endogenous technological change. Although important insights […]
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network: Prof. Swati Dhingra (London School of Economics) Her research interests are in international economics, trade policy and industrial organisation with focus on globalisation in the context of Britain and the EU, India, the US, Colombia and Thailand. Prof. Mengxiao Liu (Syracuse University) […]
The following working paper has recently been added to our working papers page Amirapu, Amrit (2017) “Justice Delayed is Growth Denied: Th Effect of Slow Courts on Relationship-Specific Industries in India “