Topics: - Benchmarking euro area/EU growth and productivity growth with other advanced economies. How much could be gained from catching up with best practice? - Which factors explain the TFP wedge with the US? What is the role of human capital, workforce organisation and management practices? -...

Growth and Comparative Economic Development - Oded Galor (Brown University) Structure of the Course: Day 1: - Lecture I: From Stagnation to Growth: An overview - Lecture II: The Malthusian Epoch Day 2: - Lecture I: Theories of the Demographic Transition - Lecture II: Unified Growth Theory and...

Research in the MG programme covers long-run macroeconomic issues including: - Economic growth; - Inequality; - Political economy; - Structural change; - Macroeconomic aspects of development.

PEGNet will use the occasion of its tenth anniversary to discuss the design of the necessary transformation and structural changes of developing and emerging economies towards inclusive and sustainable growth within the context of the Post-2015 Agenda. The plenary sessions will focus...

Empirical Methods in Economic Growth and Development - Erich Gundlach (University of Hamburg and GIGA) The course discusses selected empirical methods with reference to seminal papers of the growth literature. The econometric software package Stata is used to replicate core empirical results. By...

The conference will cover a wide range of topics in the area of the economics of growth, development and technological change, including but not limited to: innovation in clean technologies (including fiscal and regulatory incentives for clean technology development), technology diffusion...

Topics: - the nexus between the quantity and the quality of growth; - key indicators of growth quality (e.g. growth variability, growth differentials across countries, environmental sustainability, income and wealth inequality); - links between indicators of growth quality and household...

Topics: - Formal and informal institutions and firms in the open economy - Natural resources and the quality of institutions - Interactions between domestic product and factor markets, institutions and comparative advantage - The role of institutions in transition - Institutional determinants of...

The Warwick Summer Workshop in Economic Growth 2015 gives researchers the opportunity to learn about frontier research and present their own research in the field of Economic Growth.

The 2015 SASE Annual Meeting seeks contributions that explore inequality, its structure, its sources, its ideological legitimations, and its politics. In keeping with SASE’s comparative and international perspective, contributions that examine these issues locally, regionally, nationally, and...