Institutions Trade & Economic Development
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network: Ryan Lee: (Indiana University-Bloomington) His areas of interest include International Trade, Industrial Organization and Network Formation. Maryam Naghsh Nejad (Institute for Study of Labor – IZA) Her areas of interest include development and labor economics.
The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page. Ahlin, Christian and Hyeok Jeong (2015) “The Conditional Gini: Estimation and Application to the Relationship between Wealth, Financial Use, and Income Inequality“ Ellis, Christopher, Jon C. Thompson and Jiabin Wu (2016) “Complementarities, Coordination, and Culture“ Guardado, Jenny (2016) “Office-Selling, Corruption, and Long-Term Development in Peru“ Lake, […]
The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is a new five-year £1.5 billion funding stream, announced as part of the Government’s 2015 spending review. It forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance commitment, to support cutting-edge research which addresses the problems faced by developing countries. Funding opportunities Initial GCRF funding opportunities are: Tackling antimicrobial resistance: […]
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the School of Business and Economics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have set up a joint doctoral programme in labour market research. The course programme promotes theoretical and empirical methods at an advanced level. Additionally, applicants are granted access to the excellent data resources (administrative and survey data) […]
The Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR) at the University of Bonn invite applications for a full time postdoctoral researcher position in model-based trade and environmental policy analysis starting October 1st (2016) for 1 year and 8 months (extension for further qualification possible). The selected candidate will […]
AQR-IREA is pleased to announce the 2016 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics, to be held in Barcelona on October 27th-28th, 2016. The workshop will be focused on innovation and the spatial diffusion of knowledge with emphasis in collaboration networks. Its aim is to bring together researchers in urban and regional economics who are […]
We would like to thank all the participants of the 3rd InsTED workshop for making the meeting interesting and productive. We also would like to thank the Department of Economics at Indiana University Bloomington for hosting the Workshop. We are grateful to them, and to the Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, The Ostrom Workshop, The […]
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2016 The doctoral project aims to deepen our understanding of the risk faced by economic actors in a globalized world. International trade entails numerous sources of uncertainty, generating both opportunities and losses for different countries, sectors and factors of production. Identifying the sources of risk pertaining to globalization is key to design […]
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network. Prof. Bee Yan Aw (Pennsylvania State University) Her areas of interest include development economics, international economics, and industrial organization. Yarine Fawaz (CEMFI) Her areas of interest include labor economics and education. Gary Lyn (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) His areas of interest include international trade […]
The Brexit vote on June 23rd 2016 highlights the basic fact that the costs and benefits of economic and political integration are unequally distributed across different social groups within a region. Because integration has winners and losers, when decisions on sovereignty are taken through majority voting it is possible that a majority against integration emerges even if it is […]