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IDB-ELSNIT Annual Conference

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The Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT) is now accepting submissions of papers examining adjustment to deeper economic integration –global and regional- (in terms of trade, FDI, migration), the challenges thereof, and adjustment policies along the economic and institutional dimensions. In particular, submitted papers should address questions such the following:

  • Adjustment to Deeper Economic Integration. More
  • Challenges to Adjusting to Deeper Economic Integration.More
  • Policies to Adjust to Deeper Economic Integration. More

Both theoretical and empirical contributions will be considered, but in all cases priority will be given to papers identifying and shedding light on relevant policy questions such as those outlined above, including case studies of policies followed by national or international organizations, in particular. Furthermore, submission of papers that, in doing this, explicitly contrast successful and failed cases, comparing countries within a certain a geographical area, is strongly encouraged. Important lessons are expected to be drawn from these contributions for Latin American and Caribbean countries.

The selected papers will be presented along invited contributions at the XV Annual ELSNIT Conference that will be hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) in London, United Kingdom, on October 20-21, 2017. This year the conference is part of a series of activities and events organized and taking place in the framework of an Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)-Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-World Trade Organization (WTO) research initiative on adjustment to deeper economic integration. In this regard, this ELSNIT conference will be followed by another meeting focused on the same topic but primarily concentrated on the Asian experiences that will be hosted by the ADBI in Tokyo in November 2017.

CALENDAR:

  • The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2017.
  • The final selection of papers will be made by June 5, 2017 by the network coordinators. More
  • The final versions of the papers must be delivered by September 20, 2017.
  • The selected papers will be presented along invited contributions at the XV Annual ELSNIT Conference that will be hosted by the CEP in London, United Kingdom, on October 20-21, 2017.

LOGISTIC INFORMATION:

The selected authors’ and invited discussants’ travel expenditures (economy class) and per diems to participate at the conference will be reimbursed by the IDB. Detailed guidelines explaining the logistics of the conference will be provided at a later stage. Please circulate this call for papers among your colleagues and other potentially interested parties.

REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

If you are interested in participating, please fill out the form online and submit your work through this website.

Job Opportunity: Readership in Development Economics, University of Cambridge

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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 recognition and excellence in research/scholarship with reference to originality, contribution to the advancement of knowledge and reputation; the successful candidate will be expected to publish in the best international journals and must have a proven capacity to take a leadership role. It is envisaged that the successful applicant will play a leading role in the research programme of the Faculty.

The successful candidate will be expected to undertake teaching (which may be in the form of lectures, seminars and classes) and will also be expected to act as an examiner, as directed by the Faculty Board. They will also be expected to undertake research with a view to publication in the best international journals and to undertake administrative tasks as directed by the Faculty Board. The Readership is a tenured position.

Appointments are subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge. Applications should include:

  • curriculum vitae
  • outline of research plans
  • full list of publications
  • three sample pieces of major work
  • teaching and research interests

The current pensionable stipend is £59,400 (Reader, University Grade 11, Point 63). In exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a supplement to the salary stated for this role of up to £25,600 for five years in the first instance. Any such supplement would be awarded on the basis of a demonstrable history of outstanding achievement and an expected future level of contribution and is entirely at the discretion of the University.

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit:

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/6564. This will take you to the role on the University’s Job Opportunities pages. There you will need to click on the ‘Apply online’ button and register an account with the University’s Web Recruitment System (if you have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 28 May 2017.

Further information can be found at www.econ.cam.ac.uk. The generic role profile for a Reader at Cambridge can also be found at Reader Role Profile

Informal enquiries can be addressed to Professor Sanjeev Goyal (email )

Please quote reference JH05696 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Workshop on Growth, Stagnation and Inequality

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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 or technological changes, such as globalization, ageing population, the rise of the service sector or falling price of investment goods, to institutional factors such as competition, financial markets, central bank policy or tax policy. While all of these explanations can play a part in the overall trends that we observe, there is little consensus on their relative importance, their interactions with one another, or the expected future path of the global economy. Importantly, these different explanations can point to different potential policies for tackling low growth and rising inequality.

This workshop, taking place on the 3rd and 4th October 2017, at the Bank of England, will bring together top researchers to discuss recent work on these different drivers and the relationship between them.  Our hope is to foster dialogue between the different approaches, and also shed light on the policy debate.

We would particularly welcome submissions on the following topics:

  • Productivity trends and drivers
  • Market power, the evolution of market structure and its implication on inequality
  • Corporate governance and the determinants of corporate investment
  • Implications of demographic trends
  • Globalization and the increasingly global role of emerging markets
  • Policies addressing inequality, secular stagnation and low growth

Keynote Speakers: Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University) and Ayşegül Şahin (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Organizers: Ignacio González (Columbia University and American University D.C.), Rana Sajedi and Gregory Thwaites (Bank of England)

Please submit papers via email to:

Deadline: June 30th, 2017. The list of accepted papers will be announced by August 1st, 2017, and authors will be expected to send the final version of papers to discussants by September 5th, 2017. Travel and accommodation reimbursements will be considered on a case-by-case basis for presenters. Please send any queries to .

Second World Congress of Comparative Economics “1917 –2017: Revolution and Evolution in Economic Development”

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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 Society (CES), The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)  and other scientific associations and networks invite you to submit proposals for  panel sessions and individual papers for the Second World Congress of Comparative Economics in St. Petersburg on June 15-17, 2017.

The Second World Congress of Comparative Economics will be held at National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University, St. Petersburg, Russia), June 15 – 17, 2017, following the first successful meeting in Rome in 2015. It is expected that the congress will bring together about 300 – 350 academics and experts from around the world to discuss a broad spectrum of economics issues in a comparative perspective, both at micro and macro level of analysis.

The Congress will include plenary sessions, workshops, as well as the editors’ panel and special events. There will also be a small exhibition area which will give participants the opportunity to meet with vendors who specialize in providing e-resources.

Keynote Speakers

  • Gerard Roland (University of California, Berkeley, USA);
  • Alexander Auzan (Moscow State University, Russia).

Topic Areas for Submission

Sessions (parallels and plenaries) and round tables of the Congress will be devoted  to a broad spectrum of theoretical and empirical contributions on the following topics:

  • institutional design and institutional dynamics;
  • catching up, cyclical development and structural transformation;
  • macroeconomic stability and macroeconomic policies;
  • development of financial and banking sector;
  • labor market and industrial relations;
  • human capital development;
  • industrial organization;
  • issues of regional development;
  • international trade and trade policy;
  • migration and foreign direct investment;
  • issues of international economic integration;
  • economic history.

The above list is not exhaustive and all submissions broadly related to the topic of socio-economic development and policy will be considered.

The Editors’ Panel

The Editors’ Panel will be chaired by Ali M. Kutan (Distinguished Research Professor of Economics and Finance, Department of Economics and Finance, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Editor, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade; Co- Editor, Economic Systems). It aims to provide attendees with an opportunity to meet, interact with, and hear the views of journal editors from leading international journals. This panel is targeted toward active researchers interested in learning about possible publication opportunities. Each invited editor will have an opportunity to present their journal, its aims, scope, and submission guidelines.

Special Issues

Papers presented at the Second World Congress of Comparative Economics are eligible, if accepted, for publication in special issues of partner journals listed below. Supporting publications confirmed for now are: Comparative Economic Studies, Review of Industrial Organization, Eastern European Economics, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Russian Management Journal, Russian Journal of Economics, and Public Administration Issues.

Working language: English.

Local organizer of the 2nd WCCE is National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (HSE University, St. Petersburg).

Contacts

For any questions about programme, submission or further information please contact the Local Organizing Committee at

URL for Further Information: https://spb.hse.ru/en/compecon/

First WID.world Conference

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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 for more than thirty countries, spanning over most of the 20th and early 21st centuries, and in some cases going back to the 19th century. To reflect the increasing scope and ambition of the database, the WTID was subsumed into WID.world in November 2015. In January 2017, with the objective of reaching yet a wider audience, we launched a new website.
The conference will be structured along three axes:
1-The releasing of the first issue of the World Inequality Report. The report will provide global estimates of income and wealth inequality drawing on the latest evidence gathered in WID.world, and will discuss implications for future research and for the global policy debate on rising inequality.
2- A session in honor of Tony Atkinson in the afternoon of December 14th.
3- The presentation of research papers on income and wealth inequality, as well as on progress made in the DINA-Distributional National Accounts agenda.  We expect to organize four sessions, for which we are welcoming submissions of completed papers or detailed drafts.

Paper submission. Please submit your paper in pdf format by email to  by September 1st, 2017, indicating whether you will require funding, and whether you are a PhD student. Decisions are expected to be announced by September 11th, 2017.

Attending but not presenting a paper. Please send an email to  with your name and affiliation by September 17th, 2017. Note that it may not be possible to accept all requests if demand exceeds the space available.

For updates on this Call for Papers. Please see the call for papers published in WID.world.

2017 InsTED / Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV Workshop

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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 and Values” cluster, University of Exeter Business School, is gratefully acknowledged.

Keynote speakers:

Amit Khandelwal (Columbia Business School)

Gianmarco Ottaviano (London School of Economics)

Scott Taylor (University of Calgary)

Submissions are now closed.

A current version of the workshop program can be found here.
For travel information and logistics click here.

Organizers: Emanuel Ornelas (Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV), Vladimir Ponczek (Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV), Ben Zissimos (Exeter) and Isleide Zissimos (Exeter)

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Giovanni Anania Scholarship 2017

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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 in memory of Giovanni Anania. The scholarship will be awarded to a PhD candidate enrolled in the first or second year of an Italian doctoral program (i.e. 31th and 32nd doctoral cycles) whose research project focuses on one of the following fields: 
– international trade, 
– international negotiations and agreements on market liberalization, 
– sectoral and trade policies in the agri-food sector. 
The scholarship is worth € 5,000.00 as a contribution to cover the expenses for a stay study and research period, tuition-free, at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of the University of California at Davis. The winner will be entitled to attend lectures and seminars organized by the Department. The time spent at UC Davis is a minimum of 4 months, preferably in the Fall term 2017-2018 and in any case not after Spring 2018. Thanks to the International Agricultural Trade Consortium (IATRC) the winner can also attend the IATRC’s Annual December Meeting free of charge.  
The selection will be made by a committee of three members designated by the institutions that sponsor the scholarship.  
The applications will be evaluated on the basis of a research project whose academic objectives and methodologies must be clearly specified. The description of the project, written in English, must not exceed 15,000 characters. In case of research projects receiving equal evaluations, preference shall go to candidates born in Calabria region. 
The deadline for the 2017 Call for Applications is April 30th. By this date, applications must have been transmitted to  along with: 
– research project description 
– copy of an identity document 
– certificate of registration at the doctoral cycle 
– letter of recommendation from the doctoral program supervisor or coordinator. 
The results of the evaluation procedure will be communicated to candidates by May 15th 2017. The winner shall commit to carrying out the program described in the Call – whose details will be agreed upon with the participating institutions – under penalty of revocation of the award and related benefits. 
At the end of the period, the beneficiary will write a summary (in English) on the activities carried out at UCD. Publications resulting from research activities carried on, entirely or partially, thanks to this Scholarship should acknowledge the grant received. 
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)

Call for Papers: 8th International conference “Economics of Global Interactions”

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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 the following areas:

–        Theoretical and empirical aspects of International Trade;
–        Determinants and effects of International Migration and FDI;
–        Institutions and Economic Development;
–        Globalization, sustainability and the environment;
–        (Plenary session) Global inequality

Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. A discussant will be assigned to each paper presented at the conference.

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Frédéric Docquier (UCLouvain, Belgium)
Prof. Alexander Cappelen (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
Prof Karl Ove Moene (University of Oslo, Norway; TBC).

Submission guidelines and timetable
Submissions of papers or extended abstracts are expected by June 5th, 2017, to the following address: 
Decisions will be communicated by June 30th, 2017. The full paper is expected by the end of July.

Organizers:
Nicola Coniglio (University of Bari, Italy),
Kjetil Bjorvatn (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)

We will be grateful if you can forward the information to collegues / graduate students who might be interested.

Best wishes,

Nicola Coniglio (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy)
Kjetil Bjorvatn (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)

More information: https://goo.gl/JsUYtp /  http://www.uniba.it/ricerca/dipartimenti/dse

Trade Liberalization, Heterogenous Firms and Growth

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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 into the relationship between trade and growth can be derived from these models, the mechanism through which this process takes place is still not well-understood.  One promising perspective is offered by new trade models that focus on how the production choices made by heterogeneous firms affect growth.

The first set of models in the literature on growth with trade and heterogeneous firms is underpinned by the Melitz model.  Growth is driven by endogenous technology diffusion and trade is one of the components influencing firms’ technology choices.  In one study for example, given changes in trade costs, firms have to decide whether to upgrade their technology, taking into account the fixed costs of upgrading.  In another study, firms have to choose between process innovation (raising productivity) and product innovation (increasing variety).  In both approaches, static gains from trade are offset by a reallocation of labor from the production of goods to activities centred on market entry and product adoption.  Even though there is a loss in varieties produced and consumed, reductions in trade costs increase the rate of technology adoption and economic growth.

A second branch of the literature includes models that build on a Ricardian framework to analyze the effects of trade liberalization on the creation and diffusion of ideas.  This setting highlights the role of intermediate goods in the growth process in an environment with many asymmetric countries.  The setting also makes it possible to separate gains from trade into static and dynamic components.  The static component is based on the gains from specialization, underpinned by comparative advantage, whereas the dynamic component is derived from the gains through the flow of ideas.  This dynamic component of gains from trade is found to play an important role in explaining growth miracles in countries such as South Korea.  This result brings about a significant advance in our understanding of the relationship between trade openness and growth.  However, other growth channels are still open to investigation.  For example, in both branches of literature identified above, foreign direct investment was not part of the analyses but it clearly plays a role in knowledge transfer.

Alvarez, Fernando and Robert E. Lucas (2007) “General equilibrium analysis of the Eaton-Kortum model of international trade,” Journal of Monetary Economics, 54(6): 1726-1768. [working paper]

Atkeson, Adrew and Ariel T. Burstein (2010) “Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade, ” Journal of Political Economy, 118 (3): 433–484. [working paper]

Coe, David and Elhanan Helpman (1995) “International R&D Spillovers, ” European Economic Review, 39 (5): 859-887. [working paper]

Buera, Paco and Erza Oberfield (2015) “Global Diffusion of Ideas,” Working Paper.

Eaton, Jonathan and Samuel Kortum (1999) “International Technology Diffusion: Theory and Measurement,” International Economic Review, 40 (3): 537-570.

Eaton, Jonathan and Samuel Kortum (2001) “Technology, trade, and growth: A Unified Framework,” European Economic Review, 45 (4-6): 742-755. [working paper]

Perla, Jesse, Christopher Tonetti and Michael Waugh (2015) “Equilibrium Technology Diffusion, Trade, and Growth, ” Working Paper.

Sampson, Thomas (2016) “Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade, and Growth,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131 (1): 315-380.

PhD Economics at York

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FUNDING DESCRIPTION:

We are recruiting new PhD students in Economics for the next academic year (2017-2018) and some PhD studentships are available:

As one of the largest economics departments in the UK we offer a great diversity of research expertise and research-led teaching. The Department has been constantly ranked top 10 in the UK and top 70 in the world. Our research strategy is founded on six research clusters, Microeconomic Theory, Macro economics and Finance, Econometrics, Applied Microeconometrics, Health Economics, and Economic History, which promote, sustain and monitor research excellence and embrace opportunities for external funding, as well as engagement with research users and impact. Our academic community of staff, students and visitors is both intellectually vibrant and international in perspective. We aim to deliver research excellence via contribution to discipline, research supervision and relevance to the broader economy and society.

Our PhD programme includes some taught PhD modules during their first two years. Nevertheless, the vast majority of a PhD student’s time is devoted to personal research work, which is conducted in regular consultation with the student’s supervisor(s). We are keen that our PhD students be involved in the general research and teaching of the Department. Students are expected to actively participate in seminars and workshops organised by the Department of Economics and to play an active role in the Department research clusters.

For more details on how to apply for a PhD in Economics and funding please see
https://www.york.ac.uk/economics/postgrad/research-degrees/msc-research/

Area of Study or Research:

  • Economics
  • Finance
  • Politics
  • Education
  • Statistics

Application Requirements:

  • Personal data/curriculum vitae
  • Personal Statement
  • English proficiency certificate
  • Research Proposal
  • Transcript of records

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