Program
The conference will take place at Hotel Flonk Groningen Centre (former Best Western Hotel Groningen Centre)
Tuesday 28 May 2024
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08.30-09.00
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Registration
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09.00-09.30
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Opening by Peter Verhoef (dean FEB) and Robert Inklaar (director GGDC)
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09.30-10.30
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Keynote: Leticia Arroyo Abad (City University of New York and CEPR), "History never says goodbye? How the past informs current economic development"
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee Break
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11.00-11.30
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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
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12.00-12.30
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch Break
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13.30-14.00
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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
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14.30-15.00
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15.00-15.30
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Coffee Break
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15.30-16.00
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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
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16.30-17.00
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17.00-18.00
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Keynote: Doug Gollin (Tufts University), "Agriculture and Growth"
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18.30-
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Conference dinner for speakers, session organizers and other invited guests. Location: restaurant de Prael (approximately 19 minute walk from the conference venue)
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Wednesday 29 May 2024
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09.00-09.30
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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) |
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09.30-10.00
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10.00-10.30
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10.30-11.00
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Coffee Break
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11.00-11.30
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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
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12.00-12.30
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12.30-13.30
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Lunch Break
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13.30-14.00
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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
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14.30-15.00
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15.00-15.30
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Coffee Break
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15.30-16.30
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Keynote: Mary O'Mahony (King's College London), "Skills and Productivity"
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