Hour
Hall
Session
Speaker
08:00-9:30
Main Entrance
Registration
9:30-10:45
Anadolu
Welcome and Opening Session
Ercan UYGUR, President of the Turkish Economic Association
Guillermo CALVO, President of the International Economic Association
Abdullah GÜL, President of the Republic of Turkey
10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Keynote Lecture: "Learning from Recent Financial Turmoil"
Guillermo CALVO, Columbia University
12:00-12:15
Break
12:15-12:45
"Global Challenges and Local Response: Monetary Policy in Turkey"
Durmuş YILMAZ, Governor of Central Bank of The Republic of Turkey
13:00-14:30
Lunch
14:30-15:30
Keynote Lecture: " One Economics, Many Recipes"
Dani RODRIK, Harvard University
15:30-16:00
16:00-18:00
Topkapı
Invited Session
Today’s Current Account Balances: Should We Worry?
Organizer and Chairperson; Sara Guerschanik Calvo, Columbia University
A Cautionary Note on the Current Account Deficits in Transition Countries
Fabrizio Coricelli, University of Siena, EBRD, CEPR
All that Glitters may not be Gold: Assessing Latin America Macroeconomic Performance
Alejandro Izquierdo, Inter-American Development Bank, Ernesto Talvi,CERES
Vulnerabilities in Central and Southeastern Europe-How Much Cause for Concern?"
Piritta Sorsa, IMF
Discussant
Guillermo A. Calvo, Columbia University
Marmara
Global Economic Transformations of the 21st Century
Organizer; Lucy Badalian, Millennium Workshop Chairperson; Ruslan S. Grinberg, Institute of Economics RAS
The Ongoing Technological Revolution and the Related Transformation of the Global Economy
B. N. Kuzyk, Institute for Economic Strategies, Yu.V.Yakovets,Sorokin – Kondratieff International Institute
New Theoretical Foundations of Mutually Complementing Public/Private Partnership Between the State and the Private Enterprise
Ruslan S. Grinberg, Institute of Economics RAS Alexander Rubinstein, Institute of Economics RAS
Possible Scenarios of International Relationships and Patterns of Russian Strategic Challenges
Alexander I. Ageev, Institute of Economic Strategies RAS
The Technological Shift at the Start of the 21st Century and Its Implications for Global Economy and Finance
Lucy Badalian, Millennium Workshop
Discussants
Victor Krivorotov, Millenium Workshop, Dmitry Chistilin, Dniepropetrovsk University
Dolmabahçe
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Contributed Session 1- Exchange Rate & Growth
Foreign Debt and Fear of Floating: A Theoretical Explanation
F.Gülçin Özkan, Michael Bleaney
Oil Exports, Non Oil GDP and Investment in the GCC Countries
Nasri Harb
Exchange Rate Valuation, Capital Accumulation, and Growth
Anton Korinek
Feedbacks Between Capital Flows and Growth, Interest and Real Exchange Rate in Turkey: A Frequency Domain Approach
Nuri Yıldırım, Hüseyin Taştan
B
Contributed Session 2 – Finance & Development
Asymmetric Effects of Financial Development on South-South and South-North Trade: Panel Data Evidence from Emerging Markets
Fırat Demir, Omar S. Dahi
In Search for Definition(s) of Financial Stability
Czeslaw Mesjasz, Wojciech Rogowski
Intergenerational Education Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
Abdurrahman Aydemir
Multiple Facets of the Dutch Disease - A Comparative Note
Tanja Broz, Dinko Dubravcic
C
Contributed Session 3 - Environment
An Empirical Investigation into the Relationship Between Fish Biodiversity and Profitability
Anita Chattopadhyay Gupta
CO2 Emissions of Turkish Manufacturing Industry: A Decomposition Analysis
Elif Akbostancı, Serap Türüt-Aşık and Gül Ipek Tunç
Economic Growth, Enviromental Externalities and Sustainability of Well Being
Ratan Kumar Ghosal
Globalization, Deforestation and Global Warming
Somnath Hazra, Raj Kumar Sen
Sultan
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Contributed Session 4 – Labour & Migration
Education, Unemployment and Migration
Volker Meier, Wolfgang Eggert and Tim Krieger
Why Doesn’t Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience
Catia Batista
Do Migrants get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search
P.N. Junankar, Mahuteau Stéphane
International Spillover of Labor Market Reforms
Mai Dao
2
Contributed Session 5 – Finance & Capital Flows
Debt Denomination and Default Risk In Emergin g Markets
İnci Gümüş
Optimal Reserve Composition in the Presence of Sudden Stops: The Euro and the Dollar As Safe Haven Currencies
Roland Beck, Ebrahim Rahbari
FDI Spillovers and The Role of Local Financial Markets: Evidence From Mexico
Carolina Villegas Sanchez
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Contributed Session 6 – Labour Markets
Incentives to Work: Labour Supply Effects of a Cash-for-Care Subsidy for Non-Western Female Immigrants
Pål Schøne
Assessing Interactions between Education, Social Insurance, and Labor Market Policies: A General Equilibrium Application to Morocco
Mohamed Ali Marouani, David Robalino
Quotas in Education and Employment in the Global Perspective
Brishti Guha
Returns to Sociability
Frank Betz
Galata
Contributed Session 7 – Exchange Rates & Currency Crises
Long Run Determinants of Real Exchange Rates in Latin America
Jorge Carrera, Romain Restout
Persistent Gaps and Default Traps
Ana Fostel, Luis Catao and Sandeep Kapur
Balance Sheet Effects in Currency Crises: Evidence From Brazil
Marcio Magalhães Janot, Márcio G.P. Garcia and Walter Novaes
Financial Globalization, Convergence and Growth
Delfim Gomes Neto, Francisco José Veiga
19:30
Welcoming Reception
9:00-11:00
Financial Globalization with Imperfect Financial Markets
Organizer and Chairperson; Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland
Financial Globalization and Real Exchange Rate Volatility
Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia
Collateral Constraints and a Sudden Stop for the US: the End of Global Imbalances?
Marcus Miller, University of Warwick
Precautionary Demand for Foreign Assets in Sudden Stop Economies: An Assessment of the New Mercantilism
Bora Durdu, Federal Reserve Board, Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland and Marco Terrones, IMF
Financial Liberalization and International Business Cycles
Vincenzo Quandrini, University of Southern California
Business Cycles in Emerging Markets
Organizer; Attila Ratfai, Central European University Chairperson; Sumru Altuğ, Koç University
Regulating Capital Flows to Emerging Markets: An Externality View
Anton Korinek, University of Maryland
Twin Peaks in Global Business Cycle Convergence
Ayhan Köse, Eswar Prasad, and Christopher Otrok, IMF
Facts of Business Cycles around the Globe
Attila Ratfai, Peter Benczur, CEU
Real Business Cycles in Emerging Countries?
Martin Uribe, Javier Garcia-Cicco and Roberto Pancrazi, Duke University
Contributed Session 8 – Finance & Contagion
Macroeconomic Announcements and Market Volatility
Elvan Aktaş
Measuring Financial Asset Return and Volatility Spillovers, with Application to Global Equity Markets
Kamil Yılmaz, Francis Diebold
Contagion and Crises Clusters: Towards A Regional Warning System?
Leila Ali, Yan Kestens
The Uncertainty Channel of Contagion
Friederike Koehler-Geib, Prakash Kannan
Contributed Session 9 – Finance
Analysis of Sectoral Credit Default Cycle Dependency With Wavelet Networks: Evidence From Turkey
Atilla Çifter, Sait Yılmazer and Elif Çifter
How Does FDI Really Affect Developing Countries’ Growth?
Dierk Herzer
Financial Integration and Fiscal Policy Efficiency in a Monetary Union
Irem Zeyneloğlu, Gilbert Koenig
Household Investment in Pension Funds: The Italian Experience
Andrea Tiseno and Monica Paiella
Contributed Session 10 – Reforms and Production
Productivity: The Impact of Privatisation and Liberalisation in Public Services
Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Ali Cevat Taşıran
International Spillovers of Domestic Reforms: The Joint Application of The Lisbon Strategy in the EU
Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, Arjan Lejour
Profit Transfers of FDI from Selected Developing Countries and Evidence from Turkey
Sevil Acar
Start-Ups by The Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects
Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
Contributed Session 11 – Globalization
Is Globalisation Unique? A Critique From A World-System Perspective
Nuno Valerio
Evolutionary Dynamics of Globalization
Naci Canpolat, Hüseyin Özel
Financial Globalization, Economic Growth and Macroeconomic Volatility
Hernan Rincon
The Leader as Catalyst: On Leadership and the Politics of Institutional Change
Sharun Mukand, Sumon Majumdar
Contributed Session 12 – Capital Flows
External Shocks, Capital Controls and Banking Crises in Emerging Markets
Joseph P. Joyce, Margaret Settli
An Evaluation of Effects of Liberalization Policies Implemented Often on Foreign Exchange Rate
Yaşar Uysal, Onur Akkaya
Capital Inflows to Developed Countries
Mehmet Caner, Steven Husted
Food and Oil Prices
Katsushi Imai, Raghav Gaiha and Ganesh Thapa
Contributed Session 13 – Monetary Policy
Do Investors React to Corporate Governance News? An Empirical Analysis for the Spanish Market
Natalia Utrero-Gonzalez, Francisco J. Callado-Muñoz
Monetary Policy Credibility and Inflation Risk Premium: A Model with Application to Brazilian Data
Alexandre Lowenkron, Marcio G. P. Garcia
Monetary Transmission in an Emerging Targeter: The Case of Brazil
Luis Catao, Douglas Laxton and Adrian Pagan
Contributed Session 14 – Prices & Cycles
An Empirical Work for Analyzing the Relationship between Stock Market Price Volatility, Concentrated Ownership, and Corporate Governance: The Case of Istanbul Stock Exchange
Hakan Kahyaoğlu, Sezer Bozkuş
Trends in Tariff Reforms and Trends in the Structure of Wages
Sebastian Galiani, Guido Porto
Examining the Impact of Globalization on the Disinflation Period of Turkey
Aytül Ganioğlu, Aslıhan Atabek
Volatility Cycles of Output and Inflation: A Good Shock, Bad Shock Story
Szilard Benk, Max Gillman and Michal Kejak
11:00-11:30
11:30-13:00
The EU Economy and Turkey
Organizer and Chairperson; Ercan Uygur, Ankara University
Policy Coordination in the EU and EU-Turkish Relations
Fiorella Kostoris, University of Rome, Free University
EMU After a Decade
Richard Portes, London Business School, CEPR
Fiscal Policy:Theory and Evidence
Organizer; Carlos Vegh, University of Maryland Chairperson; Martin Uribe, Duke University
Solving the Country Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect: Endogenous Output Dynamics in a Model of Sovereign Debt
Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland, Vivian Yue, New York University
Fiscal Policy, the Trade Balance and the Real Exchange Rate: Implications for International Risk Sharing
Tommaso Monacelli Roberto Perotti, Universida Bocconi
Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Developing Countries: Truth or Fiction?
Ethan Ilzetzki, Carlos Vegh, University of Maryland
Olivier Jeanne, IMF, Carmen M. Reinhart, University of Maryland and NBER, Ugo Panizza, UNCTAD
Contributed Session 15 – Industry & Resources
Foreign Ownership and Wages - Evidence from Turkish Panel Data
Çağatay Bircan
Growth in an Oil Abundant Economy: The Case of Venezuela
Betty Agnani, Amaia Iza
Resource Abundance, Political Corruption and Instability of Democracy
Alexander Tonis, Victor Polterovich and Vladimir Popov
Contributed Session 16 – Labour & Migration
Network Effects on Domestic Migration Flows Across Germany: A Spatial Autoregressive Perspective with Spatially Structured Origin and Destination Effects and heteroskedastic Innovations
Zimmer Markus
Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past and Future Unemployment
Steffen Rätzel, Andreas Knabe
Temporary Migration, Skill Upgrading, and Legal Status: Evidence From Mexican Migrants
Steffen Reinhold, Kevin E. Thom
Contributed Session 17 – International Trade & Employment
Skill Specific Unemployment with Imperfect Substitution of Skills
Runli Xie
The Effects of the Euro on the European Monetary Union, the Turkish Economy and the Foreign Trade
Fatih Konur
Trade in Services: The Elasticity Approach for the Case of Turkey
İdil Uz, Natalya Ketenci
Contributed Session 18 – Finance, Industry & Labour
Adverse Selection Evidence from China’s Automobile Insurance Market
Jun Wang, Feng Gao
Credibility of the CPI for Social Agreements: Is There an Appropriate Aggregation Scheme?
Yoel Finkel, Victoria Roshal
Breaking the Child Labour Trap : The Endogenous Effect of Public Intervention
Joydeb Sasmal
Contributed Session 19 – Monetary Policy
Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy in Brazil
Marcelo Savino Portugal, Edilean Kleber da Silva
Central Banks’ International Reserve Holdings:An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Currency Crises and Economic Globalisation
Andreas Steiner
Panel Cointegration Analysis for Stock Exchange, Exchange Rates and Interest Rates:An Application to the European Union
Sadullah Çelik, Pınar Deniz
Contributed Session 20 – Education & Health
Left Behind: Intergenerational Mobility of Education and Health Status in the Midst of HIV
Mevlüde Akbulut-Yüksel, Belgi Turan
Pollution Intensity, Globalization, and the Composition of Manufacturing
Joel F. Bruneau
Shocks, Coping and Outcomes for Pakistan’s Poor: Health Risks Predominate
Rasmus Heltberg, Niels Lund
Contributed Session 21 – Poverty & Trade
Ethnic Tension, Instability and Trade: Case of Turkish Exports to Iraq
Can Erbil, Ayla Oğuş
Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Sabina Alkire, James Foster
Do Changes in the Labour Market Take Families out of Poverty? Household and Aggregate Determinants in Leaving Poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Regions
Ana Flavia Machado, Rafael Perez Ribas
Lunch Break
Keynote Lecture: “Trade and Development in Theory and History”
Ronald FINDLAY, Columbia University
Imbalances and Adjustment Mechanisms
Organizer and Chairperson; Andrés Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
A Quantitative Assessment of the Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate and the Current Account Balance
Kaiji Cheny, Ayse Imrohoroglu and Selahattin Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California
On the Relevance of Exchange Rate Regimes for Stabilization Policy
Bernardino Adao, Banco de Portugal, CEPR, Isabel Correia Banco de Portugal and Pedro Teles, Banco de Portugal, CEPR
Equilibrium Default
Hugo Hopenhayn, University of California, Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contributed Session 22 – Capital Flows & Banking
Global Capital Flows, Foreign Financing and US Interest Rates
Ashok Bardhan, Dwight Jaffee
Globalization in Historical Perspective
Özlen H. Birol
Interest-Based Banking System vs. Interest-Free Banking System: Case Turkey
Ali Soylu, İrfan Kalaycı
Exchange Rate Regimes and Fiscal Discipline: The Role of Capital Controls
Guillermo Vuletin
Contributed Session 23 – Business Economics
Managerial Turnover and Performance in Outside Boards: Ownership Makes the Difference
Miguel Garcia-Cestona, Esteban Lafuente
Optimal Policy for FDI Incentives: An Auction Theory Approach
Israel Luski, Mosi Rosenboim
Optimal Regulation of Competing Rating Agencies
Anno Stolper
Vertical FDI versus Outsourcing: The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity
Arti Grover
Contributed Session 24 – International Finance
Financial Globalization and Stock Price Volatility: A Rational Expectation Model
Saikat Bhattacharyya
Futures Markets, Commodity Prices and the Intertemporal Approach to The Current Account
Elif C. Arbatlı
Dollar Borrowing in Emerging Markets: An Underinsurance Puzzle
Business Cycle Synchronization in Monetary Unions
Alexandra Ferreira Lopes, Álvaro M. Pina
Contributed Session 25 – Financial Economics
Modelling Risk Premia in the Foreign Exchange Market: Evidence from Survey Data
Remzi Uçtum, Georges Prat
Nonlinearity and Persistence in PPP: Does Controlling for Nonlinearity Solve the PPP Puzzle
Rehim Kılıç
Financial and Real Sectors Inflation Expectations in Turkey: Evidence from Panel Data
Ece Oral, Hülya Saygılı, Mesut Saygılı and Sibel Özge Tuncel
Financial Integration with Heterogeneous Home Financial Market Access
Juliana Dutra Araujo
Contributed Session 26 – Economic Thought
Hicksian Persuasions
Guglielmo Chiodi, Peter Edwards
On Economic Freedom
Simrit Kaur
What Has 100 Billion Dollars Worth of Debt Relief Done For Low-Income Countries
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Aart Kraay
The Barriers to Entry on the Economic Thought
Ana Rosado Cubero
Contributed Session 27 – Migration & Labour Markets
Immigration Conflicts
Lex Zhao, Junko Doi
Migration and the EU Labour Market: Granger Causality Tests on a Panel VAR
Subrata Ghatak, Tomoe Moore
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods?
Mutlu Yüksel
Squeezing Out The Marginalized? On the Effect of Loosing Unemployment Benefits for Non-Western Immigrants
Ines Hardoy
Contributed Session 28 – Globalization & FDI
Globalization, Technical Change and Income Distribution: A Macro Approach
Piero Ferri
Global Liquidity Glut or Global Savings Glut? A Structural VAR Approach
Michael Fidora, Thierry Bracke
Foreign Direct Investment and Host Country Policies: A Rationale for Using Ownership Restrictions
Bilgehan Karabay
FDI in OECD: Separate Effects from Political and Fiscal Vertical Decentralization
Margarita M. Kalamova
“Turkey: A Real Conversion Story”
Mehmet Şimşek, State Minister
Financial Globalization and Global Imbalances
Organizer and Chairperson; İbrahim H. Çanakcı, Undersecretariat of Treasury of Turkey
Risk Sharing, Finance and Institutions in International Portfolios
Jean Imbs, International Banking and Finance
Country Insurance: The Role of Domestic Policies
Paolo Mauro, IMF
Financial Globalisation and International Financial Instability
Richard Portes, London Business School and CEPR
Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and International Reserves
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
Indian Economy at a Crossroads
Organizer; Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University Chairperson; Ronald Findlay, Columbia University
Political Economy of Policy Making in India
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
What Constrains Indian Manufacturing?
Poonam Gupta, Delhi School of Economics
India and China: Trade and Foreign Investment
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
Contributed Session 29 – International Economics
Does Comparative Advantage Make Countries Competitive? A Comparison of China and Mexico
Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann, Sebastian Vollmer and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso
Exploring Determinants of the Firm Boundary for Swedish Multinationals
Susanna Thede, Markus Lindvert
Export Orientation and Productivity: A Firm Level Investigation
Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Levent Erdoğan
Labour Productivity Ratio and International Comparison of Economic Performance. Formalization of the PPP Theory and Preliminary Examinations
Dobija Mieczyslaw
Contributed Session 30 – Macroeconomics & Monetary Policy
Contracting Models of the Phillips Curve Empirical Estimates for Middle-Income Countries
Nihal Bayraktar, Pierre-Richard Agenor
Liquidity Shortages and Monetary Policy
Gerhard Illing, Jin Cao
Measuring Monetary Policy Independence Across Regions
Ulrich Volz, J. James Reade
Re-examining the Threshold Effects in the Inflation-Growth Nexus: OECD Evidence
Elif Öznur Kan, Tolga Omay
Contributed Session 31 – Education & Distribution
Redistributive Conflict, Decentralization and Secession: Evidence from Bolivia’s Referendum for Departmental Autonomy
Werner Hernani-Limarino
Do Economic Crises Increase Schooling?: Evidence from Argentina
Florencia Lopez Boo
Schooling and Political Participation in a Neoclassical Framework:Theory and Evidence
Filipe Campante, Davin Chor
Is Subsidizing Students Uniformly a Pareto Improvement?
Muharrem Yeşilırmak, Kuzey Yılmaz
Contributed Session 32 – Education & Distribution
Distributional Effects of Public Education Transfers in Greece
Panos Tsakloglou, Christos Koutsambelas
Economics of Discounting the Future - British Experience and Lessons to be Learned
Erhun Kula
Implementation via Code of Rights
Kemal Yıldız, Semih Koray
Culture, Beliefs and the Inequality-Growth Nexus
Martin Strieborny
Contributed Session 33 – International Trade
The Wise Use of Dummies in Gravity Models: Export Potentials in the Euromed Region
Juan M. Ruiz, Josep M. Vilarrubia
Discriminatory Indirect Taxation in International Tax Competition
Sebastian G. Kessing
Modeling and Forecasting the Yield Curve Under Model Uncertainty
Paola Donati, Francesco Donati
Inequality and the Import Demand Function
Margarita Katsimi, Antonis Adam and Thomas Moutos
Contributed Session 34 – Microeconomic Theory & Risk
Accountability and Value for Money in Private Finance Initiative Contracts
İstemi Demirağ, Iqbal Khadaroo
Corruption, Growth and Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization: A Theoretical Game Model
Raffaella Coppier, Roy Cerqueti and Gustavo Piga
Explorations on Monotonicity in Social Choice Theory
Battal Doğan, Semih Koray
Relative Risk Aversion is Constant: Evidence from Panel Data
Monica Paiella, Pierre-André Chiappori
Contributed Session 35 – International Economics & Incentives
On The Relevance of Exchange Rate Regimes for Stabilization Policy
Pedro Teles, Bernardino Adao and Isabel Correia
The Effect of Foreign Service on Trade Volumes and Trade Partners
Josep M Vilarrubia, Ruben Segura-Cayuela
The Efficiency of Stock-Based Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Abdullah Yavaş, Steven Huddart
Dynamic Effects of Offshoring
Denis Stijepic, Helmut Wagner
Sovereign Risk
Organizer; Oya Celasun, IMF Chairperson; Carmen M.Reinhart, University of Maryland, NBER
How Does Private Foreign Borrowing Affect The Risk of Sovereign Default in Developing Countries
Oya Celasun, IMF, Philipp Harms, Aachen University
The Cost of Sovereign Default
Eduardo Borensztein, IMF, Ugo Panizza, UNCTAD
Indexed Debt: An Applied Framework
Guido Sandleris, Universidad Torcuato Di Tela, Horacio Saprizia, Rutgers Business School and Filippio Taddei Collegio Carlo Alberto
Economic and Political Liberalization in Transition Countries
Organiser and Chairperson; Fabrizio Coricelli, University of Siena, EBRD, CEPR
A Tale of Two Reversals: Theory and Evidence on the Relationship Between Economic and Political Liberalization
Nauro Campos, Brunel University, CEPR, Fabrizio Coricelli University of Siena, EBRD,CEPR
Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization
Elias Papaioannou, Darthmouth College
Reform and Inequality During the Transition: An Analysis Using Panel Household Survey Data, 1990-2005
Lire Ersado, The World Bank Branko Milanovic, The World Bank
Contributed Session 36 – Trade, Growth & Development
Export, Imports and Economic Growth - Time Series Evidence from India
Siddharth Shastri
Overall Trade Specialization and Economic Development: Countries Diversify
Luca De Benedictis, Marco Gallegati and Massimo Tamberi
Contributed Session 37 – Income, Wage & Regional Disparities
Gini Decomposition by Gender: Turkish Case
Ezgi Kaya, Ümit Şenesen
Is Deregulation A Cure Against Discrimination? An Empirical Study of the Deregulations of the Swedish Bus and Taxi Sectors and the Wage Differentials Between Swedish Born and Foreign Born
Mikael Ohlson
Prevalence of Overweight Rural to Urban Adults in the State of Georgia
Zulal S. Denaux, Attila Cseh and Jamie Brogdon
Contributed Session 38 – Political Economy
Sincere Lobbying Formation
Galina Zudenkova
Travelling Agents? Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Anandi Mani, Lakshmi Iyer
Why Do Populist-Outsiders Get Elected? The A.B.C. of Populism
Sebastian Miller
Contributed Session 39 – Industry, Trade & Innovation
Intellectual Property Protection and Technology Transfer: Evidence from US Multinationals
Sunil Kanwar
National Productive Structure and Innovative Dynamics: Finding the (Endogenous) Path to Convergence
Luís Pina Rebelo, Jorge Cerdeira
Intra-Industry Trade: An Empirical Examination of US Auto-Industry
Ayşegül Ateş, Kemal Türkcan
Contributed Session 40 – Factor Movements & Banking Regulation
Horizantal and Vertical Spillovers from FDI in the Italian Productive Sector
Filippo Reganati, Rosanna Pittiglio and Edgardo Sica
Regulation, Market Discipline and Moral Hazard in Banking
Levent Yıldıran
Uncertainty over the Immigration Quota System
Sergio Vergalli, Michele Moretto
Contributed Session 41 – Fiscal & Welfare Economics
Budget Deficits and Interest Rates: A Fresh Perspective
Ari Aisen, David Hauner
Sectorial Welfare Cost of Inflation
Andrea Zaghini
Tax Incidence Analysis in Turkey, 2003
Özlem Albayrak
Contributed Session 42 – Money, Banking & Trade
Banking System, Fiscal Externality and Soft Budget Constraint in Transition
Fabian Gouret
The Political Economy of Seigniorage
Francisco José Veiga, Ari Aisen
Does Foreign Exchange Intervention Work for Inflation Targeters?
Herman Kamil
Does Trade Integration Contribute to Peace?
Jong Wha Lee
Keynote Lecture: "Indian Growth Miracle: What Can We Learn from It?"
Arvind PANAGARIYA,Columbia University
Capital Account Regimes, Capital Flows and Financial Vulnerability in Asia: Myth and Reality
Organizer and Chairperson; Yılmaz Akyüz, UNCTAD
The Current Global Financial Turmoil and Asian Developing Countries
Yılmaz Akyüz , UNCTAD
The Management of Cross Border Capital Flows and Macroeconomic Stability in China
Yongding Yu, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Financial Liberalization and the New Dynamics of Growth in India
C.P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Hot Money and Capital Control: The Case of Thailand
Suthy Prasartset, Thawatchai Jittrapanun, Chulalongkorn University
Financial Policy and Management of Capital Flows in Malaysia
Martin Khor, Third World Network
Financial Globalization and Emerging Markets
Organizer, Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland Chairperson, Masahiko Aoki, Stanford University
Sovereign Default, Private Creditors and IFIs
Emine Boz, IMF
Emerging Market Business Cycles Revisited: Learning about the Trend
Emine Boz, IMF, Christian Daude, IADB and Bora Durdu, Federal Reserve Board
Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Stability
Sebnem Kalemli Özcan, Bilkent University
Financial Globalization and Productivity Growth
Ayhan Köse, Marco Terrones, IMF
Contributed Session 43 – Financial Markets & Money
Internal Capital Markets and Lending by Multinational Bank Subsidiaries
Ralph de Haas, Iman van Lelyveld
International Currency Portfolios
Michael Kumhof
Regime Changes in the Relationship Between Stock Prices and Monetary Policy
Mehmet İvrendi, Bülent Güloğlu
Revisiting Stock Market Index Correlations
Mehmet Dalkır
Contributed Session 44 – International Trade
Trade Intensity and Business Cycle Correlation
Hasan Vergil
Trade, Conflicts, and Political Integration: Explaining the Heterogeneity of Regional Trade Agreements
Vincent Vicard
Tariffication of Tariff Rate Quotas under Oligopolistic Competition:The Case of the European Union Import Regimes for Bananas
Margherita Scoppola
Maritime Transport Costs and Trade: New Data and New Evidence
Patricia Sourdin, Jane Korinek
Contributed Session 45 – International Trade & Labour Markets
International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States
Mine Zeynep Şenses, Pravin Krishna
Is the WTO Article XXIV bad?
Monika Mrazova, David Vines and Ben Zissimos
Trade Liberalization and Skill Premium: A Non-Monotonic Relationship
Cemile Yavaş
International Trade and Domestic Distortions: Modelling the Transition Process
Francesco Saraceno, Jan-Luc Gaffard
Contributed Session 46 – European & Transition Economies
Testing the Tax Competition Theory: How Elastic are National Tax Bases in Western Europe?
Silvia Rocha-Akis, Aleksandra Riedl
Transition, Regional Features and Economic Performance
Marcello Signorelli, Enrico Marelli
World Economy at the Crossroads in the Post- Socialist Era: Emerging Issues before the Socialist and the Less Developed Countries
I.D. Gupta
Markov Switching Regimes and the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate Determination: Evidence From the Central and Eastern European Markets
Georgios Kouretas, Manolis M. Syllignakis
Contributed Session 47 – Capital Movements
Foreign Capital, Environmental Regulation and Welfare in a Small Open Economy
Kausik Gupta
Labour Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment
Doina Maria Radulescu, Peter Egger
Foreign Aid and Sovereign Credit Worthiness
Karl Pedersen
Contributed Session 48 – Public Economics & Income Distribution
The Effect of Public Sector Investments on Socioeconomic Development in Turkey
Abdülkadir Civan, Ahmet Çalışkan and Mehmet Karakuyu
Determinants of Integration and its Impact on Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin
Hülya Ülkü, Alex M. Danzer
Optimal Taxation of Capital Income in Models with Endogenous Fertility
Petrucci Alberto
Twin Peaks or Three Components? Analyzing the World´s Cross-Country Distribution of Income
Sebastian Vollmer, Hajo Holzmann and Julian Weisbrod
Contributed Session 49 – Human & Social Capital
A Global Perspective on the Non-Observed Economy, Inequality, Corruption and Social Capital
J. Barkley Rosser, Ehsan Ahmed and Jr. Marina V. Rosser
Private Investment in Higher Education: Comparing Alternative Funding Schemes
Bernhard Eckwert, Itzhak Zilcha
Settling with Multiple Plaintiffs
Alper Nakkaş
09:00- 11:00
Financial Integration and Monetary Policy
Organizer and Chairperson; Erdem Başçı, Central Bank of The Republic of Turkey
Monetary Policy and Financial Fragility
Guillermo Calvo, Columbia University
Monetary Policy in a Financially Integrated Economy: Is There Room for an Independent Monetary Policy?
Vittorio Corbo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
The Role of International Reserves
Maurice Obstfeld, University of California, Berkeley
Contributed Session 50 – Financial & Monetary Integration
Modeling the Economic Effects of Bank Regulation and Supervision
Bilin Neyapti
Assessing Financial Integration in European Union Equity Markets, 1990-2006: Panel Unit Root and Multivariate Cointegration and Causality Evidence
Helen Higgs, Andrew Worthington
On the Optimum Currency Area (OCA) in Europe: New Panel Evidence Including a Negotiating Country, Turkey
Utku Utkulu, Naib Alekperov
Size Effect of Monetary Union and Welfare
Hiroya Akiba
Contributed Session 51 – Indian Economy: Globalization & Migration
Globalisation and the Plight of Indigenous Communities in India
John Felix Raj
Migration, Livelihood and Well-being: Evidence from Indian City-Slums
Arup Mitra
Regional Divergence of Growth in India (1970-2002): A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Manoj Kumar Sanyal, Panchanan Das
Split-Ticket Voting: An Implicit Incentives Approach
Contributed Session 52 – Capital Movements, Trade & Monetary Policy
Optimal Monetary Policy under Asset Market Segmentation
Rajesh Singh, Amartya Lahiri and Carlos Vegh
Optimal Stabilization Policy in a Model with Endogenous Sudden Stops
Alessandro Rebucci, Gianluca Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok and Eric R. Young
Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach
Erhan Artuç, Shubham Chaudhuri and John McLaren
Why Should Emerging Market Countries (Still) Concern Themselves with Capital Inflows?
Manuel Agosin, Franklin Huaita
Contributed Session 53 – Exchange Rates & Fiscal Policy
Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Affect the Long Run Properties of Real Exchange Rates?
Christian Dreger, Eric Girardin
Exchange Rate and Fundamentals: The Case of Brazil
Marcelo L. Moura, Adauto R. S. Lima and Rodrigo M. Mendonça
The Historical Background of Liberalization in Turkey
V. Necla Geyikdağı, Yaşar Geyikdağı
One Way or Another: Fiscal Sustainability in Argentina, 1867-2004
Osvaldo Meloni, Ana María Cerro and Tatiana Soria Genta
Contributed Session 54 – International Markets & Firm Behaviour
Export Premia and Sub-Contracting Discount Passive Strategies and Performance in Domestic and Foreign Markets
Davide Vannoni, Tiziano Razzolini
Control Theory Methods for Macro Models with Stochastic Micro Foundations
Robert Tonita, Jorge Goncalve and Glenn Vinnicombe
Exchange Rate, Employment and Hours: What Firm-Level Data Say
Francesco Nucci, Alberto F. Pozzolo
International Price Dispersion and Market Structure
Özlem İnanç
Contributed Session 55 –Knowledge, Uncertainty & Europe
Knowledge Flows Across European Regions
Stefano Usai, Raffaele Paci
Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Performance in the European Union and Implications for the Objectives of Monetary Policy
Stilianos Fountas, Donal Bredin
Automatic Stabilisation, Discretionary Policy and the Stability Pact
Jérôme Creel, Francesco Saraceno
Quantifying the Psychological Costs of Unemployment: The Role of Permanent Income
Andreas Knabe, Steffen Rätzel
Contributed Session 56 – Public Policy & Labour
Analysis of Attrition Patterns in the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey, 2000–2002
İnsan Tunalı
Political Institutions and Human Development: Does Democracy Fulfil its "Constructive" and "Instrumental" Role?
Maria Ziegler, Sebastian Vollmer
Electoral Threshold, Representation, and Parties’ Incentives to Form a Bloc.
Andrei Bremzen, Georgy Egorov and Dmitry Shakin
Does a Federal Country Need Federal Transfers When it has Labor Mobility?
Tiago Neves Sequeira, Alexandra Ferreira Lopes
Savings, Investment, Employment and the Current Account: The Turkish Case
Organizer; Ercan Uygur, Ankara University Chairperson; Ronald Findlay, Columbia University
What Has Been the Role of Investment in Turkey's Growth Performance, 1950-2008?
Sumru Altuğ, Koç University
Exchange Rates, Private Savings and the Current Account in Turkey
Ercan Uygur, Ankara University
Saving Trends in Developing Countries
Luis Serven, World Bank
Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence From Turkey
Fırat Demir, University of Oklahoma
Vulnerability to External Factors: Is Latin America Out of the Woods Yet?
Organizer; Alejandro Izquierdo, Inter-American Development Bank, Chairperson; Gerardo Della Paolera, American University in Paris
Capital Flow Bonanzas: Past and Present
Carmen Reinhart, University of Maryland, NBER Vincent Reinhart American Enterprise Institute
Booms and Busts in the Latin America: The Role of External Factors
Alejandro Izquierdo, Randall Romero, Inter-American Development Bank and Ernosto Talvi, CERES
A Tale of Three Countries: Economic Development in Argentina, Autralia and Canada since Independence
Garciela Kaminsky, Johns Hopkins University, Pablo Vega-Garcia, George Washington University
The Role of External Shocks in Latin America's Lost decade
Andrés Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Contributed Session 57 – International Finance
Welfare Implications of a Second Lender in the International Markets
Luis Opazo
Sovereign Debt Crises Through the Prism of Primary Bond Markets
Sebastian Nieto Parra
Sovereign Risk and Procyclical Fiscal Policy in Emerging Market Economies
Yui Suzuki
Are Emerging Asia’s Reserves Really Too High
Marta Ruiz-Arranz, Milan Zavadjil
Contributed Session 58 – Fiscal Policy, Inflation & Europe
The European Union's Fiscal Policy and Economic Integration
Irene Kyriakopoulos
The Impact of Reference Norms on Inflation Persistence When Wages are Staggered: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Results
Markus Knell, Alfred Stiglbaue
The Maastricht Inflation Criterion: What is the Effect of Expansion of the European Union?
Karsten Staehr, John Lewis
Contributed Session 59 –Global Warming
Strategic Information Acquisition and the Mitigation of Global Warming
Florian Morath
UN Approval of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Projects in Developing Countries: The Political Economy of the CDM Executive Board
Florens Flues, Axel Michaelowa and Katharina Michaelowa
Weather Insurance: Managing Risk Through an Innovative Retail Derivative
Jeremy Tobacman, Shawn Cole and Petia Topalova
Contributed Session 60 – Risks & Banking
The Risk Management Approach of the Federal Reserve System - A Model For the European Central Bank
Magdalena Malinowska
Investment Credit Availability Bank Enterprise Relations in Poland
Joanna Tyrowicz
Bank Failures in an Era of Financial Crises in Turkey: A Duration Model Analysis
Hakan Ercan, Özgü Evirgen
Contributed Session 61- Asia & Turkey: Public & Private Finance
Determinants of Net Private Savings Investment Gap in Turkey
Süleyman Değirmen, Ahmet Şengönül
Is Fiscal Decentralization Conflict Abating? Routine Violence and District Level Government in Java, Indonesia
Zulfan Tadjoeddin, Mansoob Murshed
Real and Financial Integration in East Asia
Jong-Wha Lee, Soyoung Kim
Contributed Session 62 – Macroeconomics & Risks
Sources of Macroeconomic Fluctuations in Turkey
Gülcay Tuna, Mehmet Balcılar
Consumption Heterogeneity and Long Run Risk
Victoria Galsband, Mathias Hoffmann
A Small State-Space Model of the Australian Economy
Jeffrey Sheen, Shawn Leu
Contributed Session 63 – International Trade
Economic Partnership Agreements and WTO Negotiations. A Quantitative Assessment of Trade Preference Granting and Erosion İn The Banana Market
Giovanni Anania
The Determining Role of EU in Turkey’s Trade Flows: A Gravity Model Approach
Özgül Bilici, Erkan Erdil and İ. Hakan Yetkiner
The Single Currency's Effects on Eurozone Sectoral Trade: Winners and Losers?
Claudio Vicarelli, Sergio de Nardis and Roberta De Santis
Keynote Lecture: “Financial Globalization and Emerging Markets: What Have We Learned?”
Maurice OBSTFELD, University of California, Berkeley
Global Imbalances and New Reserve Systems
Organizer; Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University Chairperson; Guillermo Calvo, Columbia University
Reforming the Global Reserve System
Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University, Bruce Greenwald Columbia University
The Instability and Asymmetries of the Global Reserve System
Jose Antonio Ocampo, Columbia University
Yilmaz Akyüz, UNCTAD, Yongding Yu, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Heiner Flassbeck, UNCTAD
Contributed Session 64 – Globalization, Business & Risks
Exchange Rate Exposure, Foreign Currency Borrowing and the Use of Derivatives: Evidence from Brazil
José Luiz Rossi Júnior
On the Economic Analysis of Central Asia: Globalization, Transition or Development?
George E. Wright
Austrian-Turkish Business Relations – Why Way Behind CEE Level?
Peter Kruhumber
Contributed Session 65 – Financial Markets & Labour
Financial Market Imperfections and Firm Level Investment: Evidence from a Panel of Turkish Corporations
Hakan Ercan, Bahsayis Temir
Financial Market Imperfections, Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Trade on Entrepreneurial Selection and Industry Productivity
Tsechien Hsu
Subsidizing Extra Jobs: Promoting Employment by Taming the Unions
Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb
Wage Taxation in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Silvia Rocha-Akis
Contributed Session 66 – Information, Uncertainty & Optimum Policy
Price and Volume Response to Public Information
Transaction Costs, Incomplete Asset Markets and Exchange Rate Indeterminacy
Nan Li
Towards an Understanding of Choice under Uncertainty and Intertemporal Preference within a Unified Framework: An FMRI Study of Risky and Intertemporal Decision-Making
Hiroyasu Yoneda, Sobei H. Oda
Optimal Policy of Minimum Wage and Earned Income Tax Credit
Miki Malul, Luski Israel
Contributed Session 67 – Labour Markets & Employment
The Analysis of Unemployment in Romania through Duration Models
Daniela-Emanuela Danacica, Ana-Gabriela Babucea
Labor Informality Effects of a Poverty Alleviation Program
Leonardo Gasparini, Francisco Haimovich and Sergio Olivieri
Employment Effects of Low Wage Subsidies
Jukka Pirttilä, Kristiina Huttunen and Roope Uusitalo
National Prices and Wage Setting in a Currency Union: With Reference to Wage Restraint under EMU
Marcelo Sánchez
Contributed Session 68 – Common Currencies, Financial Integration & Euro
Convergence and Anchoring of Yield Curves in the Euro Area
Refet Gürkaynak, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher and Eric Swanson
Business Cycle Synchronicity and the Euro: Some New Evidence
Sébastien Wälti
Do Common Currencies Facilitate the Net Flow of Capital Among Countries
Slavi T. Slavov
The Growth Effects of International Financial Integration and Exchange Rates: Theory and Empirics
Cesar M. Rodriguez
Global Financial Markets: Debts, Reserves, and Turbulence
Organizer; Carmen M.Reinhart, University of Maryland, NBER Chairperson; Vincent R. Reinhart, American Enterprise Institute
A New Era of International Financial Integration: Global, Market, and Regional Factors
Marco Cipriani, George Washington University, Graciela L. Kaminsky, George Washington University, NBER
A Tractable Model of Precautionary Reserves or Net Foreign Assets
Christopher Carroll, Johns Hopkins University, Olivier Jeanne, IMF
Domestic Debt: The Forgotten History
Carmen M. Reinhart, University of Maryland, NBER, Kenneth S. Rogoff, Harvard University, NBER
Alejandro Izquierdo, InterAmerican Development Bank
The Turkish Economy Seven Years after the 2001 Crisis
Organizer; Oya Celasun, IMF Chairperson; Ahmet Tıktık, SPO
Inflation Expectations and Monetary Policy in Turkey
Y. Soner Başkaya, A. Hakan Kara and Defne Mutluer, Central Bank of The Republic of Turkey
Expansionary Fiscal Consolidations: New Evidence from Turkey
Fatih Özatay TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Sectoral Asymmetries, Currency Mismatch and Sudden Stops
Mustafa Kılınç, Central Bank of The Republic of Turkey
Turkey's Experience with the 'Unholy Trinity': What Role for Economic Policy?
Cevdet Akçay Yapı Kredi Bank, Murat Üçer, Istanbul Analytics
Contributed Session 69 – Public Policy, Banking & Finance
The Promises and Failures of Local Provision of Public Services in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sevinç Rende,Stephen P. Coelen and Dorothy Rosenberg
The Role of Guarantees in Bank Lending
Alberto Franco Pozzolo
A Comparison of International Financial Crisis and Investment Opportunities for Foreign Capital: Turkey, Russia and Hong Kong
Şaziye Gazioğlu, Ülkem Başdaş
When Do Foreign Banks Begin to Matter?
Jie Mao, Guanyi Ben Li
Contributed Session 70 – Wages, Prices & Fiscal Policy
Understanding Wage Inequality: Trade, Technology, and Location
Chul Chung, Bonggeun Kim
Decentralized Wage Negotiations: Slow Downs Versus Stockpiling
Yavuz Günalay, Süheyla Özyıldırım
Does Price of an Essential Non-Renewable Resource Necessarily Grow?
I. Hakan Yetkiner, Beatriz Gaitan and Richard S.J. Tol
Rent-Seeking Distortions and Fiscal Procyclicality
Ethan Ilzetzki
Contributed Session 71 – Public Policy & The Indian Economy
On Devastating Droughts
Raghav Gaiha, Kenneth Hill and Vani S. Kulkarni
Economic Growth in India 1950-2003: Testing Kaldor’s Engine of Growth Hypothesis
Panchanan Das
Election Results and Opportunistic Policies: An Integrated Approach
Linda Gonçalves Veiga, Toke S. Aidt and Francisco José Veiga
Electricity Provision and Industrial Development:Evidence from India
Juan Pablo Rud
Contributed Session 72 – FDI, Growth & Transition
FDI and Change in Factor Intensity of Exports and Imports of Emerging Markets (1991-2005): A Panel Cointegration Approach
Faruk Aydın, Hülya Saygılı
Agricultural Distortions, Structural Change, and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
Talan B. İşcan, Benjamin N. Dennis
Economics and the Demographic Transition
Luis Angeles
Contributed Session 73 - Markets & Government
Monopolistic Competition and the Dependent Economy Model
Romain Restout
The Effect of Trade Openness on Optimal Government Size under Endogenous Firm Entry
Sandra Hanslin
Who Buys Whom in International Oligopolies with FDI and Technology Transfer?
Francesca Sanna-Randaccio, Leo Grunfeld
Optimal Penalty for Investment Delay in Public Procurement Contracts: Evidence from the Italian Experience
Chiara D'Alpaos, Michele Moretto and Paola Valbonesi
Contributed Session 74 – Patents & Comparative Economics
The Patent Quality Control Process: Can We Afford an (Rationally) Ignorant Patent Offices?
Jing-Yuan Chiou
A Critique of the New Comparative Economics
J. Barkley Rosser Jr., Marina V. Rosser
Contributed Session 75 – Inflation Targeting & Dollarization
Dangerous Liaisons? An Empirical Assessment of Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Regimes
Horacio Aguirre, Tamara Burdisso
Inflation and Dollarization in Turkey
Müge Karacal, Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
Trade, Offshoring and the Invisible Handshake
Bilgehan Karabay, John McLaren
The New Economics of the Brain Drain: Brain Gains and Economic Growth
Organiser and Chairperson; Oded Stark, University of Klagenfurt
The Brain Drain as a Catalyst of Human Capital Gains, Welfare Improvement and Economic Growth
Oded Stark, University of Klagenfurt
An Optimal Selective Migration Policy in the Absence of Symmetric Information and in The Presence of Skill Formation Incentives
Alessandra Casarico, Universita Bocconi, Silke Uebelmesser University of Munich
Heterogeneous Human Capital and Benefical Brain Drain: Theory and Evidence from China
C. Simon Fan, Lingnan University, Oded Stark, University of Klagenfurt and Xiangdong Wei, Lingnan University
J. Barkley Rosser Jr., James Madison University
Contributed Session 76 – Choice & Market Experiments
Risk and Career Choice: Evidence from Turkey
Asena Caner, Çağla Ökten
The Limits of Choice: Saving Decisions and Basic Needs in Developed Countries
Sahra Wagenknecht
What Students Learn From Market Experiments and What They Don't
Haitani Ryohei, Sobei H.Oda
Contributed Session 77- Human Capital & Growth
The Role of Human Capital in Economic Growth: Evidence From Greek Regions
Nikos Benos, Stelios Karagiannis
Specific Human Capital Investments in Weak Skills under Uncertain Terms of Trade
Toshihiro Ichida
Economic Growth, Globalisation and Human Capital: Empirical Evidence from India
D. K. Nauriyal, Bimal K. Sahoo and Anil Dixit
Contributed Session 78 – Central Asia & Russia
Managing an Oil Boom: Has Kazakhistan Used its Energy Resources to Promote Diversification through Support for Agriculture?
Richard Pomfret
The Determinants of Regional Growth and Convergence in China, India and Russia
Kiril Tochkov, Oleg Badunenko
Econometric Estimates of Hedonic Price Indexes for Personal Computers in Russia
Aleksandr Parkhomenko, A. Redkina, and O. Maslivets
Contributed Session 79 – Turkey: Social & Political Developments
Impact of The 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of The 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey
Ali T. Akarca, Aysıt Tansel
The Determinants of Life Expectancy in Turkey
Ferda Halıcıoğlu
Income Differentials, Gender and Education in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
H. Mehmet Taşçı, Oktay Öksüzler and Ramazan Taş
Contributed Session 80 – Unemployment & Poverty
Unemployment Convergence in Transition
Joanna Tyrowicz, Piotr Wojcik and David Katrencik
Do Institutions Matter in Poverty Reduction? Prospects of Achieving the MDG of Poverty Reduction in Asia
Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi Imai
India's Economic Reforms and Poverty
Eckhard Siggel
Contributed Session 81 – Total Factor Productivity
Total Factor Productivity: The Residual After "All"
Hande Tanergüçlü, Constance Smith
More Growth or Fewer Collapses?A New Look at Long Run Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jorge Arbache, John Page
The Evolution and Determinants of Frontier Total Factor Productivity Growth in Tunisia
Sofiane Ghali, Pierre Mohnen
Keynote Lecture: "Global Warming and Global Social Justice"
Joseph STIGLITZ, Columbia University
15:30-16:30
Closing Panel
Closing Cocktail (To be confirmed)