Welcome new member
We would like to welcome Dr.Simone Moriconi (Università Cattolica di Milano) to the InsTED network. His research interests include both theoretical and applied research in the fields of public, labour and international economics.
Survey Data
The World Values Survey WVS Database Living Standards Measurement Study (institution’s website) LSMS Datasets
New data set: MOxLAD
The Montevideo-Oxford Latin American Economic History Data Base (MOxLAD) has been added under the topic of Economic Performance. MOxLAD is a partnership between the Economic and Social History Programme (PHES), of the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, and the Latin American Centre and the Department of International Development, Oxford University.
Luther G Tweeten scholarship
The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association invites applications for the Luther G Tweeten scholarship. This supports graduate student research on socioeconomic problems of Africa by especially addressing issues of food, population and environment that affect economic development, poverty and food security. The scholarship is worth up to US$2,000 and it is to be used to […]
Check out Deardorff's 'Most Assigned Readings in Trade'
We have posted a link to Alan Deardorff’s ‘Readings Most Assigned on PhD Trade Syllabi at 10 Schools, 2014’. Go to the ‘Links’ tab and scroll down to the bottom. Thanks to Alejandra Riano for bringing this post to our attention.
Call for Papers: Deadline – 7 November 2014
10th Australasian Trade Workshop School of Economics, University of Sydney 7‐8 April 2015 Local Organisers Dr Mark Melatos Professor John Romalis The School of Economics at the University of Sydney will host the 10th Australasian Trade Workshop on 7-8 April 2015. Keynote speakers will be Pablo Fajgelbaum of the University of California Los Angeles and Thibault Fally […]
Welcome new members
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network. Prof. Shushanik Hakobyan (Fordham University) Her research focuses on the impact of trade liberalization on labor market outcomes and on the relationship between trade policy and economic development. Prof. J. Anthony Cookson (University of Colorado) His fields of specialization are Corporate Finance, Industrial Organization, […]
New data set: GEDI Index
Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index has been added under the topic of Economic Performance. GEDI Index 2014 is provided by the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute.
Enhancing governance for economic development (LEGEND) central land support team
Department for International Development (DFID), GB The Department for International Development (DFID) invites tenders for its enhancing governance for economic development (LEGEND) central land support team. Tenderers will deliver some of the objectives of this new programme, which aims to improve land governance in order to increase land tenure security, thereby encouraging investment and catalysing […]
WINTER SCHOOL 2014 DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
The Department of Economics and the Centre for Development Economics at the Delhi School of Economics will hold their annual conference, the ‘Winter School’, from December 15-17, 2014. The distinguished plenary speakers this year are Professors Tom Sargent (New York University), M. Scott Taylor (University of Calgary), and Michele Boldrin (Washington University in St Louis). […]