Summary of the 5th InsTED Workshop at Syracuse University

We would like to thank The Department of Economics and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, for hosting and sponsoring the 5th InsTED Workshop.  We are also grateful for sponsorship and organizational support from the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, as well as sponsorship from the Program for the Advancement of […]

Foreign Investment Boosts Sophistication of Domestic Manufacturing: New Evidence from Turkey

By Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford), Alessia Lo Turco, (Marche Polytechnic University), Daniela Maggioni (University of Catania) Recently, there has been a renewal of interest in industrial policy across the world. Advanced economies promise to use industrial policy to revive their declining manufacturing, while emerging markets hope that industrial policies will help them upgrade their […]

Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements and Lobbying

By Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University) Going back to the mid-1980s, the repeated prisoner’s dilemma has been used to model the absence of strong external enforcement mechanisms for trade agreements.[1] Cooperation is enforced by promises of future punishment for any deviation from the agreement, and the amount of cooperation that can be achieved depends on the […]

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 – July 2016

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.

Welcome new members

We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network. Prof. Reshad Ahsan (University of Melbourne) His research interests are international trade, and development economics. Prof. Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent) His primary fields are development economics, and applied microeconomics. Prof. Daniel Bernhofen (American University)  His research interests are in international economics, global […]

2016 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development in Africa, July 14th and 15th, 2016 Lisbon, Portugal.

We are looking for contributions on the broad theme of economic development in Africa. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: mobile money and financial innovation; natural resource management; the quality of education and health; migration, remittances and the brain drain; the quality of public services and political economy; or entrepreneurship and management […]