Presentation Slides
| Introductory Lectures: | |
| Oded Galor (Brown) |
Growth and Comparative Development - An Overview |
| Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown) |
Incorporating GIS in the Comparative Economic Inquiry: Part I & Part II |
| Invited Sessions: | |
| Sascha Becker (University of Warwick) | Political Regimes and Individual Preferences |
| Carl-Johan Dalgaard (University of Copenhagen) | Eye Disease, the Fertility Decline, and the Emergence of Global income differences |
| James Fenske (University of Oxford) | Warfare in African History |
| Moshe Hazan (Tel-Aviv University) | Higher Inequality, Higher Education? The Changing Role of Differential Fertility |
| Omer Moav (University of Warwick) | Geography, Transparency, and Institutions |
| Luigi Pascali (University of Warwick) | The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development |
| Contributed Sessions | |
| Sumedha Bajar (Institute for Social and Economic Change) | The Infrastructure - Output Nexus: Regional Experience from India |
| Mauro Bambi (University of York) | Endogenous Growth and Wave-Like Business Fluctuations |
| Richard Bluhm (Maastricht University / UNU-MERIT) | Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? On the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps |
| Malik Curuk (Tilburg University) | Protestantism as a Rational Choice |
| Markus Eberhardt (University of Nottingham) | Agricultural Technology and Structural Change |
| Joseph Flavian Gomes (University of Essex) | The Health Costs of Ethnic Distance: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Boris Gershman (American University) | Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Trust: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Christian Jensen (University of South Carolina) | Competition as an Engine of Economic Growth with Producer Heterogeneity |
| Ori Katz Tel-Aviv University | Economic Mobility and the Sorting Hypothesis |
| Birgit Kirschbaum (University of Greifswald) | Trade in a two sector endogenous growth model with two accumulating factors |
| Marc Klemp (Copenhagen University / Brown University) | The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation |
| Theodore Koutmeridis (University of St Andrews) | The Market for "Rough Diamonds": Information, Finance and Wage Inequality |
| Astrid Krenz (University of Goettingen) | Agglomeration of Knowledge: A Regional Economic Analysis for the German Economy |
| Anjan Kumar Saha (Monash University) | Genetic Distance, Economic Growth and Top Income Shares |
| Eliana Lauretta (University of Birmigham / Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan) | Finance And Growth: Understanding The Switch From Virtuous To Bad Cycles In The Finance-Growth Relationship |
| Dunli Li (Queen's University Belfast) | The Impact of Entrepreneurship on Schumpeterian Endogenous Growth: Theory and Evidence |
| Anastasia Litina (University of Luxembourg) | Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Trust: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Vincenzo Lombardo (University of Naples Parthenope) | The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation |
| Fabrice Murtin (OECD) | Unified Growth Empirics |
| Guzman Ourens (Université catholique de Louvain) | The long-term impact of trade in an asymmetric world |
| Oguz Oztunali (Bogazici University) | Directed Technical Change and Government Policy |
| Timur Natkhov (Higher School of Economics) | Colonization, Social Structure and Development: The Long-term Effect of Russian Settlement in the North Caucasus, 1890s-2000s |
| Pierre Pecher (Université Catholique de Louvain) | The impact of the number of included ethnic groups on economic growth in weakly-institutionalized power-sharing economies. |
| María Pilar (Martínez-García University of Murcia) | Less than exponential growth with non-constant discounting |
| William Pouliot (University of Birmingham) | Pollution, Mortality and Optimal Environmental Policy |
| Luca Spinesi (University of Rome) | At the Onset of the Original Capital Accumulation |
| Aleksandar Vasilev (American University in Bulgaria) | The welfare effect of flat income tax reform: the case of Bulgaria |
| Hosny Zoabi (The New Economic School) | Retirement Age across Countries: The Role of Occupations |
| Participants: | |
| Yasin Acar (University of Warwick) | |
| Christine Achieng Awiti (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) | |
| Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen (University of Copenhagen) | |
| David Castells-Quintana (University of Barcelona) | |
| David Chivers (University of Manchester) | |
| Bohdana Dub (Dnipropetrovsk State Academy of Finance) | |
| Juan-Pedro Garces-Voisenat (Durham University) | |
| Corina Gribincea (National Institute for Economic Research of Academy of Science from Moldova) | |
| Rania Ihab Naguib (University of Plymouth) | |
| Irina Kholodenko (University of Warwick) | |
| Nika Koreli (University of Warwick) | |
| Joan Jennifer Martínez Palomino (University of the Pacific Research Centre) | |
| Sebastian Otten (Ruhr University Bochum) | |
| Mauro Rota (University of Rome) | |
| Cristina Ruiz Bedia (University of Cantabria) | |
| Shrabani Saha (University of Lincoln) | |
| Ruth Maria Schueler (Ifo Institute) | |
| Mehdi Senouci (Ecole Centrale Paris) | |
| Arthur Silve (Paris School of Economics and Sciences Po) | |
| Chrysovalantis Vasilakis (University of Warwick) | |
| Fangya Xu (Plymouth Business School) | |
| Yi Zhou (Department of Demography, UC Berkeley) | |