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Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, XI
An International Conference
Jerusalem, June 25 - 27, 2006
Program
| Saturday, June 24 |
| 19.30: Reception Dinner at the Regency Hotel |
| Sunday, June 25 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Keynote Lectures |
| From Stagnation to Growth | |
| Chair: | Eytan Sheshinski (Hebrew University) |
| Oded Galor (Brown University and Hebrew University), Omer Moav (Hebrew University and Royal Holloway), Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston) Inequality in Land Ownership, the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions, and the Great Divergence |
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| Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University), Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Understanding Growth in Europe, 1700-1870: Theory and Evidence |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Parallel Sessions A1-A3 |
| A1. From Stagnation to Growth and the Great Divergence | |
| Chair: Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University) | |
| Nico Voigtlaender, Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Why England? Demographic factors, structural change and physical capital accumulation during the Industrial Revolution |
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| Gonçalo Monteiro, Alvaro Pereira (University of York) From Growth Spurts to Sustained Growth: The Nature of Growth and Unified Growth Theory |
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| María Dolores Guilló, Fidel Perez-Sebastian (Universidad de Alicante) The Quest for Productivity Growth in Agriculture and Manufacturing |
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| A2. Openness and Growth | |
| Chair: Erich Gundlach (Kiel Institute) | |
| Thomas Barnebeck Andersen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhagen) Cross-Border Flows of People, Technology Diffusion and Aggregate Productivity |
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| Tomasz Michalski (Columbia University) Borders, Endogenous Market Access and Growth |
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| David B. Audretsch, Mark Sanders (Max Planck Institute) Globalization and the Rise of the Entrepreneurial Economy |
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| A3. Policy, Inequality and Welfare | |
| Chair: Daniele Passerman (Hebrew University) | |
| Gerardo Angeles-Castro (University of Kent) The relationship between economic growth and inequality: evidence from the age of market liberalism |
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| Emanuel Kohlscheen (University of Warwick) Why are there serial defaulters? Quasi-experimental evidence from Constitutions |
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| Avi Ben-Bassat, Momi Dahan (Hebrew University) Constitutional Commitment to Social Security and Welfare Policy |
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| 12.30 - 15.00 | Lunch Break |
| 15.00 - 16.30 | Parallel Sessions B1-B3 |
| B1. Productivity, Human Capital and Growth | |
| Chair: Elise Brezis (Bar-Ilan University) | |
| Davide Fiaschi, Andrea Mario Lavezzi (University of Pisa) Nonlinear Growth and the Productivity Slowdown |
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| Maurizio Iacopetta (Georgia Institute of Technology) Human Capital Dispersion and Incentives to Innovate |
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| Pietro Peretto (Duke University) The Employment (and Output) of Nations: Theory and Policy Implications |
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| B2. Trade and Growth | |
| Chair: David Mayer (CIDE) | |
| Erich Gundlach (Kiel Institute) The Solow Model in the Empirics of Cross-Country Growth |
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| Tomoo Kikuchi (Bielefeld University) Risk, Nonconvergence and Cycles: A Two-Country Model |
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| Harald Fadinger (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Development Accounting in a Heckscher-Ohlin World |
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| B3. Economic Sectors and Growth | |
| Chair: Sevi Rodriguez Mora (University of Southampton) | |
| Esteban Jaimovic (University College London) Sectors Expansion, Allocation of Talent and Adverse Selection in Development |
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| Jaime Alonso-Carrera, (Universidade de Vigo), Xavier Raurich, (Universitat de Barcelona) Growth, Sectoral Composition, and the Wealth of Nations |
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| Rubina Verma (University of Southern California) India’s Service Sector Growth - A “New” Revolution |
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| 16:30 - 17.00 | Coffee Break |
| 17.00 - 18.30 | Parallel Sessions C1-C3 |
| C1. Openness and Development | |
| Chair: Ben Eden (University of Haifa and Vanderbilt) | |
| Daniele Passerman, Zvika Ne'eman, Avi Simhon (Hebrew University) Corruption and Openness |
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| Elhanan Helpman (Harvard), Mark Melitz (Harvard), Yona Rubinstein (Brown and TAU) Trading Partners and Trading Volumes |
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| Laura Alfaro (Harvard), Areendam Chanda (LSU), Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Houston), Selin Sayek (Bilkent) FDI Linkages, Financial Markets and Economic Growth |
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| C2. Fertility and Population | |
| Chair: Hans-Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | |
| Leonid Azarnert (Bar Ilan University) Free Education: Where and When? |
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| Ulla Lehmijoki, Tapio Palokangas (University of Helsinki) Population Growth Overshooting and Trade in Developing Countries |
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| Matthias Doepke (UCLA), Moshe Hazan (Hebrew University), Yishay D. Maoz (University of Haifa) The Baby Boom and World War II: The role of Labor Market Experience |
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| C3. Technology, Policies and Growth | |
| Chair: Joespeh Zeira (Hebrew University) | |
| Kurt Hafner (University of Bamberg) Agglomeration, Migration and Tax Competition |
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| Danny Givon, (Hebrew University) Factor Replacement versus Factor Substitution, Mechanization and Asymptotic Harrod Neutrality |
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Cem Ertur, Wilfried Koch (Universite de Bourgogne) |
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| 19.30 | Dinner at Beit Shmuel, Jerusalem |
| 22.20 | Tour of the Western Wall Tunnels |
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| Monday, June 26 | |
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Keynote Lectures |
| Policy, Health and Growth | |
| Chair: Reuben Gronau (Hebrew University) | |
| Philippe Aghion (Harvard University), Diego Comin (New York University), Peter Howitt (Brown University) When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? |
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| David Weil (Brown University) Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Parallel Session D1-D3 |
| D1. Institutions and Political Economy | |
| Chair: Arye Hilman (Bar-Ilan University) | |
| Sayantan Ghosal, Eugenio Proto (University of Warwick) Why did (not) the East Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Intra-Elite Conflict and Risk Sharing |
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| Gustav Hansson, Ola Olsson (Göteborg University) Country Size and the Rule of Law: Resuscitating Montesquieu |
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| Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia University), Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado), Yoram Weiss (Tel-Aviv University) Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market |
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| D2. Endogenous Growth and Policy | |
| Chair: Bjarne S. Jensen (Copenhagen Business School) | |
| Elise Brezis (Bar-Ilan University) An optimal mechanism for the evaluation of R&D |
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| Tapio Palokangas (University of Helsinki) Competition, Imitation and Growth with Non-Diversifiable Risk |
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| Alberto Bucci (University of Milan) Product Market Competition, R&D Effort and Economic Growth |
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| D3. Spatial Economics and Growth | |
| Chair: Pietro Peretto (Duke University) | |
| Gilad Aharonovitz (Tel-Aviv University) Migration of Firms, Home Bias and the Geographical Distribution of Growth |
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| Carmen Camacho (Louvain-la-Neuve), Raouf Boucekkine (CORE and IRES), Benteng Zou, (Bielefeld University) The spatial Ramsey model |
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Felipa Mello Sampayo (ISCTE) |
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| 10.30 - 14.00 | Lunch Break |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Parallel Session E1-E3 |
| E1. Inequality, Mobility and Growth | |
| Chair: Itzhak Zilcha (Tel-Aviv University) | |
| Maia Guell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Sevi Rodriguez Mora ( University of Southampton), Chris Telmer Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames |
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| Reto Foellmi, Manuel Oechslin (University of Zurich) Equity and Efficiency under Imperfect Credit Markets |
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| Nathan Sussman (Hebrew University) Income Inequality in Paris in the Heyday of the Commercial Revolution |
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| E2. Health and Growth | |
| Chair: David Weil (Brown University) | |
| Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon), Chris Papageorgiou (Louisiana State University), Fidel Perez-Sebastian (Universidad de Alicante) Diseases and Development |
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| Francesco Ricci (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Marios Zachariadis (University of Cyprus) Determinants of Public Health Outcomes: A Macroeconomic Perspective |
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| Gilad Sorek (Tel-Aviv University) Advancing Medical Technology, Aging Population, and Economic Growth |
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| E3. Brian Drain, Migration and Growth | |
| Chair: Yoram Weiss (Tel-Aviv University) | |
| Michael Ben-Gad (University of Haifa) Capital skill Complementarity and the Immigration Surplus |
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| Andrew Mountford (Royal Holloway), Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan University) The Brain Drain and the World Distribution of Income and Population growth |
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Piotr Stryszowski (Tilburg University) |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 - 17.30 | Parallel Sessions F1-F3 |
| F1. Land and Resources | |
| Chair: David Mayer (CIDE) | |
| Anne D. Boschini, Jan Pettersson, Jesper Roine (Stockholm University) Resource curse or not: A question of appropriability |
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| E. Bilancini, Simone D’Alessandro (University of Siena) Functional Distribution, Land Ownership and Industrial Takeoff: The Role of Effective Demand |
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| Manuel Oechslin (University of Zurich) Creditor Protection and the Dynamics of the Distribution in Oligarchic Societies |
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| F2. Finance, Openness and Growth | |
| Chair: Maia Guell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) | |
| Wolf-Heimo Grieben (University of Konstanz) Globalization with Labor Market Frictions and Non-Scale Growth |
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| Luca De Benedictis (University of Macerata) Openness, Specialization and Growth |
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| Manoel F. Meyer Bittencourt (University of Bristol) Financial Development and Inequality: Brazil 1985-99 |
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| F3. Growth and Demand | |
| Chair: Arthur Fishman (Bar-Ilan University) | |
| Bjarne S. Jensen (Copenhagen Business School), Paul de Boer (Erasmus University) Long-Run Patterns of Demand: The Expenditure System of the CDES Indirect Utility Function - Theory and Applications |
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| Albert de Vaal (Radboud University Nijmegen), Joachim Stibora (Kingston University) Does Preferential Trade Benefit Poor Countries? A General Equilibrium Assessment with Nonhomothetic Preferences |
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C. Simon Fan, (Lingnan University), Yifan Hu (University of Hong Kong) |
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| 19.30 | Dinner at Caravan Restaurant, Abu-Gosh |
| Tuesday, June 27 | |
| 9:00 - 10.30 | Plenary Session |
| Endogenous Growth and Human Capital | |
| Chair: Peter Howitt (Brown University) | |
| Joseph Zeira (Hebrew University) Machines as Engines of Growth |
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| Pietro Peretto (Duke University), John Seater (NCSU) Augmentation or Elimination? |
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| David Mayer (CIDE) Development and Underdevelopment: 1500 – 2000 |
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| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Parallel Sessions G1-G2 |
| G1. Human Evolution and Growth | |
| Chair: Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University) | |
| Oded Galor (Brown University and Hebrew University), Omer Moav (HU and Royal Holloway) Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy |
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| Garett Jones (Southern Illinois University) IQ in the Ramsey Model: A Naive Calibration |
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| Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Process of Development |
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| G2. Human Capital and Policies and Trade | |
| Chair: Avi Simhon (Hebrew University) | |
| Moshe Hazan (Hebrew University) Longevity and Lifetime Labor Input: Data and Implications |
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| Fali Huang (Singapore Management University) The Co-evolution of Economic and Political Development |
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Ariel Burstein (UCLA), Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Northwestern University) |
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| 12:30 -13:30 | Lunch |
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