Institutions Trade & Economic Development
“Does Investment Spur Growth Everywhere? Not Where Institutions Are Weak” by Thibaut Dort, Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Khalid Sekkat Abstract We investigate the impact of investment on growth in a sample of developed and developing countries, conditioning the marginal effect of investment on institutional quality. The panel structure of our dataset allows controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and dealing […]
We would like to welcome the following new member of the InsTED network. Dr Petros Sekeris (University of Portsmouth) His research interests are in applied microeconomics, including in development economics, the political economy of developing countries, institutional economics, and in the economics of conflicts.
The Department for International Development (DFID a department of the UK government) invites tenders to establish a centre of excellence on impact evaluation of international development. The centre will provide a range of services which will develop and strengthen the evidence base for what works and what does not work in international development, as well […]
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network Prof Chad P. Bown (World Bank) His research interests are in the political economy of international trade laws and institutions, trade policy negotiations, and trade disputes. Dr Qi Zhang (LSE & University of Oxford) His primary research fields are international trade, and industrial organization, […]
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network Ahmad Lashkaripour (Penn State University) His research interests are in international trade, and industrial organization. Prof Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan) His research to date studies the interplay between international trade and economic institutions, the impact of trade on macroeconomic fluctuations, and the consequences […]
Kose, M.A., E. Prasad, K. Rogoff and S.-J. Wei (2009) “Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal” IMF Staff Papers 56(1): 8-62. [Working paper version]
The S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy will be awarded for the 2014-15 academic year to support advanced research at the University of California, Berkeley. For the purposes of this fellowship, natural resources are defined broadly to include environmental resources. The fellowship encourages, but is not limited to, policy- oriented […]
We would like to welcome our new research assistant, Kritchasorn Jarupasin, to InsTED. He is a PhD student in the department of economics at the University of Exeter Business School and his PhD thesis is on topics relevant to the network. Thanks to the University of Exeter Business School’s seedcorn research fund and the HASS […]
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network Prof Nuno Limão (University of Maryland) His primary research interests are in international trade, trade policy, and political economy. Prof Catia Montagna (University of Aberdeen) Her research interests are in firms in the global economy, labour markets trade and FDI, globalisation and the welfare state, […]
The following article has been accepted for publication by the European Economic Review “Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements” by Nuno Limão and Kamal Saggi Abstract Developing countries now account for a signfi cant fraction of world trade and two thirds of the membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually […]