Program

08.30-09.00

Registration

09.00-09.30

Opening by Peter Verhoef (dean FEB) and Robert Inklaar (director GGDC)

09.30-10.30

Keynote: Leticia Arroyo Abad (City University of New York and CEPR), "History never says goodbye? How the past informs current economic development"

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30

Information asymmetry in security issues: 20th century Dutch evidence

Room 1
Chair: Abe de Jong & Herman de Jong
1. Eva Mulder (Erasmus University)
2. Peter Roosenboom (Erasmus University)
3. Thalassa de Waal (UoG)

Trade and Global Value Chains

Room 2
Chair: Bart Los (UoG)
1. Bart Verspagen (UNU-Merit)
2. Sébastien Miroudot (OECD)
3. Oscar Lemmers (Statistics Netherlands)

Political Economy of Development

Room 3
Chair: Anna Minasyan (UoG)
1. Manuel Santos Silva (FU Berlin)
2. Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University)
3. Kritika Saxena (UoG)

11.30-12.00

12.00-12.30

12.30-13.30

Lunch Break

13.30-14.00

Gender and Development

Room 1
Chair: Giampaolo Lecce (University of Bergamo)
1. Charles Gottlieb (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
2. Martina Miotto (University of Padova)
3. Giampaolo Lecce (University of Bergamo)

Inequality Research in Africa: new insights

Room 2
Chair: Robert Lensink (UoG)
1. Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town)
2. Robert Osei (Ghana University; ISSER)
3. Robert Lensink (UoG)

Human capital and Economic Development

Room 3
Chair: Marcello Perez Alvarez (UoG)
1. tba
2. Federico Rossi (University of Warwick)
3. Laia Navarro-Sola (Stockholm University)

14.00-14.30

14.30-15.00

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

15.30-16.00

Growth and Development in Central and Eastern Europe

Room 1
Chair: Mikolaj Malinowski (UoG)
1. Marcin Wroński (Warsaw School of Economics)
2. Piotr Koryś (University of Warsaw)
3. Tamas Vonyo (Bocconi University)

Structural change and development

Room 2
Chair: Gaaitzen de Vries (UoG)
1. Margaret McMillan (Tufts University)
2. Marco Sanfilippo (University of Torino)
3. Kunal Sen (UNU WIDER and University of Manchester)

Health and Development

Room 3
Chair: Mariko Klasing (UoG)
1. Mariko Klasing (UoG)
2. Daniel Gallardo Albarran (Wageningen University)
3. Esmée Zwiers (University of Amsterdam)

16.00-16.30

16.30-17.00

17.00-18.00

Keynote: Doug Gollin (Tufts University), "Agriculture and Growth"

18.30-

Conference dinner for speakers, session organizers and other invited guests. Location: restaurant de Prael (approximately 19 minute walk from the conference venue)

09.00-09.30

Globalization, Productivity and Labor

Room 1
Chair: Konstantin Wacker (UoG)
1. Marcel Smolka (University of Flensburg)
2. Margarita Lopez-Forero (Banque de France)
3. Mahdi Ghodsi (WIIW)

Productivity

Room 2
Chair: Robert Inklaar (UoG)
1. Nanno Mulder (ECLAC)
2. Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University and IDE JETRO)
3. Pietro Peretto (Duke University)

09.30-10.00

10.00-10.30

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-11.30

Societal consequences of technological change

Room 1
Chair: Milena Nikolova (UoG)
1. Karim Bekhtiar (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Johannes Kelper University, Linz)
2. Lubica Nedelkoska (CID Harvard)
3. Sabrina Genz (Utrecht University)

International Development Economics

Room 2
Chair: Feicheng Wang (UoG)
1. Krisztina Kis-Katos (University of Göttingen)
2. Hale Utar (Grinnell College)
3. Feicheng Wang (UoG)

Gender and Social Norms

Room 3
Chair: Kristina Czura (UoG)
1. Wendy Janssens (Free University Amsterdam)
2. Silvia Castro (LMU Munich)
3. Hanna Fromell (Aarhus University)

11.30-12.00

12.00-12.30

12.30-13.30

Lunch Break

13.30-14.00

Skills and Regional Development

Room 1
Chair: Femke Cnossen and Sierdjan Koster (UoG)
1. Emilie Rademakers (Utrecht University)
2. Zoltan Elekes (Umea University)
3. Milad Abbasiharofteh (UoG)

Culture, Diversity and Economic Development

Room 2
Chair: Petros Milionis (UoG)
1. Robert Maseland (Radboud University Nijmegen)
2. Eren Arbatli (Durham University)
3. Mariko Klasing (UoG)

Growth and Development

Room 3
Chair: Gaaitzen de Vries (UoG)
1. Jan Jacobs (UoG)
2. Hagen Kruse (UoG)
3. Emmanuel Mensah (Utrecht University)

14.00-14.30

14.30-15.00

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

15.30-16.30

Keynote: Mary O'Mahony (King's College London), "Skills and Productivity"