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Groningen Growth and Development Centre
Faculty of Economics and Business
Groningen Growth and Development Centre Events GGDC Conference 2024

Program

The conference will take place at Hotel Flonk Groningen Centre (former Best Western Hotel Groningen Centre)

Tuesday 28 May 2024
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)
Wednesday 29 May 2024
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"
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