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Conference |
| Agglomeration Economies and Regional Growth |
 
 
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20-21 May 2005
Cagliari, Italy |
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May 20, 2005 |
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Registration |
8:30-9:00 |
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| Plenary Session
1 |
9:00-11:00 |
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Stephen Parente |
University of Illinois |
Chairman |
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| Robust Determinants
of Economics Growth |
Antonio Ciccone |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
and CEPR |
Speaker |
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Marek Jarocinski |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
Discussant |
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| Capital
Taxation and Local Labor Markets Institutions |
Yasuhiro Sato |
Nagoya University and
CORE |
Speaker |
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| Jacques-François
Thisse |
CORE, PSE and CEPR |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions
1a |
11:15-13:15 |
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| Regional
Growth I |
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Paul Cheshire |
LSE |
Chairman |
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| Empirical
Growth Models with Spatial Effects |
Bernard
Fingleton |
Cambridge University |
Speaker |
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| Enrique Lopez-Bazo |
Universitat de Barcelona |
Discussant |
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| Variety,
Diversification and Regional Economic Growth in the Netherlands |
Frank van
Oort |
Utrecht University |
Speaker |
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| Thijs Verburg |
Utrecht University |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions 1b |
11:15-13:15 |
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| Transport
and Trade |
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Diego
Puga |
University
of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR |
Chairman |
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| European
Integration, FDI and the Internal Geography of Trade: Evidence from Western-European
Border Regions |
Miren Lafourcade |
PSE and University of
Evry |
Speaker |
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| Elisenda
Paluzie |
University of Barcelona |
Discussant |
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| The
Political Economy of Urban Transport-System Choice |
Harris Selod |
LEA-INRA – Paris,
Universite de Paris 1 and CREST-LEI and CEPR |
Speaker |
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| Jan
Brueckner |
University of California,
Irvine |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions 2a |
14:30-16:30 |
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| Regional
Growth II |
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Antonio Ciccone |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
and CEPR |
Chairman |
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| The
Cohesion vs Growth Tradeoff: Evidence from EU Regions (1980- 2000) |
Matthieu
Crozet |
University
of Paris I |
Speaker |
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| Pamina Koenig |
CREST and University of
Paris I |
Discussant |
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| Agglomeration
Economies and Growth in Italian Local Labour Systems - 1991-2001 |
Raffaele Paci |
CRENOS- Università
di Cagliari |
Speaker |
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| Stefano
Usai |
CRENOS- Università
di Cagliari |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions 2b |
14:30-16:30 |
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| Economic
Geography and Outsourcing |
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Giorgia Giovannetti |
Italian Institute for
Foreign Trade and University of Florence |
Chairman |
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| Labor
Market Pooling, Outsourcing and Contracts in Chamberlinian Cities |
Pierre
Picard |
University of Manchester |
Speaker |
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| David
Wildasin |
University of Kentucky |
Discussant |
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| International
Outsourcing and Deindustrialisation: Threat or Opportunity? |
Frédéric
Robert-Nicoud |
University of Geneva and
CEPR |
Speaker |
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Plenary Session 2 |
16:45-17:45 |
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Bernard Fingleton |
Cambridge University |
Chairman |
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| Macroeconomic
Effects of the Geography of Technological Change |
Attila
Varga |
Pécs University |
Speaker |
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| Hans Joachim
Schalk |
University of Münster |
Discussant |
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May 21, 2005 |
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Plenary Session 3 |
9:00-11:00 |
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes |
GREQAM-Université
Aix-Marseille, PSE and CEPR |
Chairman |
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| Rising
Trade Costs? Agglomeration and Trade with Endogenous Transaction Costs |
Gilles
Duranton |
LSE and CEPR |
Speaker |
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| Michael Storper |
UCLA and LSE |
Discussant |
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| Analysing
Growth and Distribution Dynamics: Isolating Divergence Factors |
Paul Cheshire |
LSE |
Speaker |
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| Stefano Magrini |
Universita Ca'Foscari
di Venezia |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions 3a |
11:15-13:15 |
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Employment,
Wages and Market Potential |
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Gianmarco Ottaviano |
Università Bocconi
- Milano, Università di Bologna and CEPR |
Chair |
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| Regional
Wage and Employment Responses to Market Potential in the EU |
Keith Head |
University of British
Columbia |
Speaker |
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| Thierry Mayer |
CEPII, PSE and CEPR |
Discussant |
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| Urbanization
Externalities, Market Potential and Spatial Sorting of Skills and Firms |
Giordano Mion |
CORE |
Speaker |
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| Paolo Natticchioni |
University of Rome ‘La
Sapienza’ |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions 3b |
11:15-13:15 |
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| Regional
Disparities |
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Attila Varga |
Pécs University |
Chairman |
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| The
Dynamics of Regional Inequalities |
Salvador
Barrios |
European Commission |
Speaker |
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| Eric
Strobl |
University of Paris X-
Nanterre |
Discussant |
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| Knowledge
Flows and Regional Disparities in Europe: Geographic vs. Functional Distance |
Mario Maggioni |
Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore |
Speaker |
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| T.Erika Uberti |
Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions 4a |
14:30-15:30 |
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| Monopolistic
Competition |
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Frédéric
Robert-Nicoud |
University of Geneva and
CEPR |
Chairman |
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| General
Equilibrium Models of Monopolistic Competition: CRRA versus CARA |
Kristian Behrens |
CORE |
Speaker |
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| Yasusada
Murata |
Nihon University |
Discussant |
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Parallel Sessions 4b |
14:30-15:30 |
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| Fiscal
Competition |
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Sylie Charlot |
INRA-CESAER, Dijon |
Chairman |
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| Does
Local Taxation Affect Businesses' Decisions |
Henry
Overman |
LSE and CEPR |
Speaker |
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| Gilles
Duranton |
LSE and CEPR |
Discussants |
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| Laurent Gobillon |
CREST and INED |
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| Plenary
Session 4 |
15:45-17:45 |
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Fabiano Schivardi |
Banca d’Italia and
CEPR |
Chairman |
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| Testing
the 'Home Market Effect' in a Multi-Country World: A Theorybased Approach |
Gianmarco
IP Ottaviano |
Università
Bocconi - Milano, Università di Bologna and CEPR |
Speaker |
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| Learning
from the Decisions of Others |
Diego Puga |
University of Toronto,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR |
Speaker |
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