Program and Papers

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Program and presentations

First Day, Wednesday, June 28:

08:30	Registration and coffee at Het Kasteel
Room Congreszaal		Chair: Marcel Timmer
09:10	Word of welcome by Herman de Jong
09:30	Opening by Dale Jorgenson
10:00	Keynote address Robert Feenstra
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Parallel Session A
Session A1 - room 1.04	Inequality in history	Chair: Jutta Bolt
Branko Milanović Graduate Center City U of New York	Towards an explanation of inequality in pre-modern societies: the role of colonies and high population density
Leticia Arroyo Abad Middlebury College	The long arm of history? The impact of colonial labor market institutions on colonial development in Peru
Francesco Venturini University of Perugia	Wealth inequality in the long run: A Schumpeterian growth perspective
Session A2 - room 1.12	Development and GVCs	Chair: Petros Milionis
Eddy Szirmai UNU-MERIT	Structural change and the ability to sustain growth
Dirk Pilat OECD	OECD work on productivity and Global value chains - an overview and cooperation with the GGDC
Daria Taglioni The World Bank	From China with Love
Session A3 - room 1.08	Sources of growth and economic policy	Chair: Gaaitzen de Vries
Yvan Guillemette OECD	The role of policies in shaping prospects for the world economy to 2060
Abdul Azeez Erumban University of Groningen	Productivity growth in the world economy
Andre Hofman University of Santiago	Sources of Growth in Latin America, 1990–2015
13:00	Lunch break
14:30	Parallel Session B
Session B1 - room 1.04	Pre-modern economic development	Chair: Ben Gales
Jan Luiten van Zanden Utrecht University	Benchmarking the Middle Ages. Tuscany in 1427 in European Perspective.
Bas ter Weel University of Amsterdam	Why did the Netherlands develop so early? The legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Debin Ma London School of Economics	Wars and States: China’s Long March towards Unification 750BC – 1910 AD
Session B2 - room 1.12	Economic development	Chair: Mariko Klasing
Peter Lanjouw VU Amsterdam	Strucural transformation in an Indian village
Janneke Pieters Wageningen University	Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Richard Bluhm Leibniz University Hanover	Top Lights -- Bright Spots and their Contribution to Economic Development
Session B3 - room 1.08	GVCs and policy	Chair: Tristan Kohl
Philipp Harms Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Offshoring and Sequential Production Chains: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Gabriel Felbermayr Ifo Institute LMU Munich	Trade Policy Analysis Using the WIOD Data
Norihiko Yamano OECD	Applications of the OECD Inter-country Inter-industry database to analysis of Trade in Value-added, Jobs and the Environment
16:00	Coffee break
Room Congreszaal		Chair: Jutta Bolt
16:30-17:30	Keynote address Nathan Nunn
19:00	Dinner in 't Feithhuis

Second Day, Thursday June 29:

08:45	Arrival and coffee at Het Kasteel
09:00	Parallel Session C
Session C1 - room 1.04	Long-run economic development	Chair: Eddy Szirmai
Stephen Broadberry Oxford University	Growing, Shrinking and Long Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development
Giovanni Federico University of Pisa	World population 1800-1938
Riitta Hjerppe University of Helsinki	Historical National Accounts changed the views of Finland's past development.
Session C2 - room 1.12	International comparisons of prices and real income	Chair: Robert Inklaar
Ingvild Almås Stockholm University	Consistent international comparisons with heterogeneous tastes
Prasada Rao The University of Queensland	Spatial Chaining Methods for International Comparisons of Prices and Real Expenditures
John Devereux Queens College, CUNY	Prices and Quantities in Historical Income Comparisons
Session C3 - room 1.08	Trade and growth in (Eastern) Europe	Chair: Gaaitzen de Vries
Robert Stehrer Vienna Institute for Int. Economic Studies	Value added trade and production integration in the Wider Europe
Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Lennart Kaplan University of Göttingen	The Effects of the CEEC's Accession on Sectoral Trade: A Value Added Perspective
Ilya Voskoboynikov Higher School of Economics Moscow	Labor productivity growth and structural change in the union republics of the USSR in 1966-1990
10:30	Coffee break
Room Congreszaal		Chair: Bart Los
11:00	Keynote address Beata Javorcik
12:00	Lunch break
13:00	Parallel Session D
Session D1 - room 1.04	Beyond GDP	Chair: Janneke Pieters
Leandro Prados de la Escosura Universidad Carlos III	International Well-being Inequality in the Long Run
Daniel Gallardo Albarrán University of Groningen	Health and Development during the 20th century
Mariko Klasing University of Groningen	The International Epidemiological Transition and the Education Gender Gap
Session D2 - room 1.12	Intangible capital	Chair: Carolina Castaldi
Jonathan Haskel Imperial College London	Productivity, Misallocation and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Europe and the US
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio LUISS University	Are there spillovers from public intangibles?
Tsutomu Miyagawa Gakushuin University	Declining Rate of Return on Capital and the Role of Intangibles in Japan -An Empirical Study Using Japanese KLEMS (JIP) Database-
Session D3 - room 1.08	GVCs and services	Chair: Marcel Timmer
Sebastièn Miroudot OECD	Services in global value chains and global value chains in services
Nanno Mulder ECLAC	The stagnation of Latin America’s share in global goods exports: Is the lack of incorporated services to blame?
Michael Peneder Austrian Institute of Economic Research	De-industrialisation and comparative advantage in the global value chain
14:30	Coffee break
15:00	Parallel Session E
Session E1 - room 1.04	Productivity and structural change	Chair: Robert Inklaar
Kyoji Fukao Hitotsubashi University	The Role of Structural Transformation in Regional Productivity Growth and Convergence in Japan: 1874 - 2008
Osamu Saito Hitotsubashi University	Economic growth and structural change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan
Nicholas Oulton London School of Economics	The mystery of TFP
Session E2 - room 1.12	Innovation and intellectual property	Chair: Bart Los
Alessandro Nuvolari Sant'Anna School of Adv. Studies Pisa	The Quality of English Patents, 1700-1850: Some New Estimates Using Multiple Indicators
Carolina Castaldi Eindhoven University of Technology	Innovation, Technological Variety and Income Inequality: Evidence from European regions
Room Congreszaal		Chair: Herman de Jong
16:30	Keynote address Nick Crafts
17:30	Transport to dinner location by bus Bus departs from the front of the conference centre
18:00-	Dinner and dinner speech by Bart van Ark
22:30	Transport back to Groningen

Third Day, Friday June 30:

08:45	Arrival and coffee at Het Kasteel
09:00	Parallel Session F
Session F1 - room 1.04	Trade and development	Chair: Robert Inklaar
Philip McCann Sheffield University Management School	Promoting regional growth and innovation: relatedness, revealed comparative advantage and the product space
Petros Milionis University of Groningen	Regional Prices Differences and Economic Development Gaps
Xianjia Ye University of Groningen	Task Space: the Shift of Comparative Advantage in Globalized Production
Session F2 - room 1.12	Firms, productivity and GVCs	Chair: Gaaitzen de Vries
Peter Gal OECD	The Best versus the Rest: the Global Productivity Slowdown, Divergence Across Firms and the Role of Public Policy
Oscar Lemmers Statistics Netherlands	The role of different types of firms in GVCs
Martin Gornig German Institute for Economic Research	High productive firms: where are they at home?
Session F3 - room 1.08	Selected topics	Chair: Bart Los
Leigh Gardner London School of Economics	Gains from economic imperialism? Reconstructing quantitative estimates of Liberian economic performance
Nuno Palma University of Groningen	Spending a Windfall: American Precious Metals and Euro-Asian Trade 1531-1810
Robert Hill University of Graz	The Treatment of Owner Occupied Housing in the CPI and its Implications for Monetary Policy
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Parallel Session G
Session G1 - room 1.04	Polarization of labor	Chair: Bart Los
Remco Oostendorp VU Amsterdam	The evolution of skill premia around the world
Gaaitzen de Vries University of Groningen	Global Supply Chains and the Demand for Non-Routine Jobs
Session G2 - room 1.12	Growth and development	Chair: Jutta Bolt
Kerstin Enflo Lund University	Failed Towns? Urbanization and Agricultural surplus in Sweden 1570-1810
Harry Wu Hitotsubashi University	How do China and India compare on growth and productivity performance in the post-reform Era?
Session G3 - room 1.08	Productivity and trade	Chair: Marcel Timmer
Emmanuel Dhyne National Bank of Belgium	Local sourcing and production efficiency
Antoine Berthou Banque de France	Productivity, (Mis)allocation and trade
Room Congreszaal		Chair: Robert Inklaar
12:00	Keynote address Eric Bartelsman
13:00-	(Takeaway) Lunch, end of conference

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