7th INFER Annual Conference in Economic Research 2005
Special topic:
October 7 - 9, 2005
at the Lancaster Hall Hotel, London, United Kingdom
The organisation and realisation of our Annual Conference would not have been possible without the generous support of our main sponsor:
Paper submission and publication
Programme Overview
Friday, October 7
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Opening of
the Conference |
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15:30 – 16:15 |
Introductory Lecture (1): |
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16:15 – 17:00 |
Introductory Lecture (2): |
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17:00 – 17:30 |
Coffee Break |
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17:30 – 18:15 |
Introductory Lecture (3): |
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18:15 – 19:00 |
Introductory Lecture (4): |
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20:00 |
Conference
Dinner sponsored by Carillon plc., |
Saturday, October 8
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9:00 – 10:30 |
Parallel Sessions I, II, and III |
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10:30 – 10:50 |
Coffee break |
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10:50 – 12:20 |
Parallel Sessions I, II, and III |
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12:20 – 13:40 |
Lunch sponsored by Carillon plc., Restaurant of the Lancaster Hall Hotel |
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13:40 – 15:10 |
Parallel Sessions I, II, and III |
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15:10 – 15:20 |
Break |
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15:20 – 16:50 |
Parallel Sessions I, II, and IV |
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16:50 – 17:10 |
Coffee break |
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17:10 – 18:40 |
Parallel Sessions IV, V, and VI |
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20:00 |
General Meeting of INFER members |
Sunday, October 9
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9:00 – 9:45 |
Meeting of the INFER Working Group Institutional Economics |
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9:45 – 10:30 |
Meeting of the INFER Working Group Growth and Business Cycles |
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9:00 – 10:30 |
Parallel Sessions V and VI |
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10:30 – 10:50 |
Coffee break |
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10:50 – 12:20 |
Parallel Sessions IV, V and VI |
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12:20 – 12:50 |
Plenary Session |
Please find here a pdf-file with the programme overview, the sessions, all abstracts and more details on the venue.
Session I: Open Track
Chair: Frederic B.
Jennings,
Jr.
a)
Carsten
Colombier:
Testing the
Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies Using Modified M-Estimator
Discussant:
Frederic B.
Jennings,
Jr.
b)
Sinikka Hämäläinen:
Return Migration and Optimal Tax Rules: A Hysteresis Case
Discussant: Helena
Marques
c) Helena
Marques:
Migration
creation and diversion in the EU: Are CEECs immigrants crowding-out the rest?
Discussant: Sinikka
Hämäläinen
d) Carlos
Vieira, Isabel Vieira:
Foreign exchange markets’ seasonal
effects in the newly integrated EU countries: what can they tell us?
Discussant: Alexandre
Jeanneret
e) Alexandre
Jeanneret:
Does
Exchange Rate Volatility Really Depress Foreign Direct Investment in OECD
Countries? An Empirical Study
Discussant: Carlos
Vieira
f) Michael
Pickhardt:
Club
Goods and the Dichotomy of Public versus Private Goods
Discussant:
Frederic B.
JENNINGS, Jr.
g) Frederic
B. JENNINGS,
Jr.:
Time, Knowledge and Pricing: Toward
a Horizonal Theory of Choice
Discussant: Michael
PickhardT
Session II:
Regional Labour Markets and Innovation
Chair: Adrian Kuah
a) Elke
Amend, Patrick Herbst:
Human Capital
Formation under Product Market Uncertainty
Discussant:
Uwe
Blien
b) Uwe
Blien,
Johannes Ludsteck, Jens Suedekum: What has
caused regional employment growth differences in East Germany?
Discussant:
Patrick Herbst
c) Georg
Lun:
The effect of Immigration on Output, Capital
and Productivity investigated with spatial econometric methods: evidence for
Italy
Discussant:
Adrian Kuah
d) Thomas
Baumert, Mónica Martínez-Pellitero:
Analysing Regional Innovation Systems through a
multi-perspective econometric approach: The Spanish case
Discussant:
Charlie
Karlsson
e) Martin
Andersson, Charlie
Karlsson:
Knowledge Accessibility and Regional Economic
Growth
Discussant:
Thomas
Baumert
f) Filip
Abraham, Jan
Van
Hove: Intra-Industry Trade and Technological
Spillovers: The Case of Belgian Manufacturing
Discussant:
Christoph
Tribl
g) Petra
Huck, Klaus Salhofer, Christoph
Tribl:
Spatial Competition
among Cooperatives: The Case of Milk Processors in Northern Germany
Discussant: Jan
Van Hove
Session III: Regional
Convergence and Regional Policy
Chair: Michael H. Stierle
a)
Santiago Lago-Peñas, Diego
Martínez-López:
Convergence and Public Investment:
Regional Policies revisited
Discussant:
Florence BOUVET
b) Florence
BOUVET:
European Union Regional Policy and its Effects on Regional Living Standards:
A Complete Study
Discussant:
Diego Martínez-López
c) Simón SOSVILLA-RIVERO, José A. Herce
European cohesion policy and the Spanish economy: Evaluation and prospective
Discussant: Andrea Mario Lavezzi
d) Davide
Fiaschi, Andrea Mario
Lavezzi: Growth and Convergence Across European,
Regions: an Empirical Investigation
Discussant:
Simón SOSVILLA-RIVERO
e)
Gabriele TONDL, Goran Vuksic:
What helps regions in
Eastern Europe catch up? The role of foreign investment, human capital and
geography
Discussant:
Falko
Juessen
f) Falko
Juessen:
A distribution dynamics approach to regional
GDP convergence in reunified Germany
Discussant:
Gabriele TONDL
Session IV: Specialisation and
Integration
Chair: Michael H.
Stierle
a)
Eckhardt BODE, Frank Bickenbach:
Measures of Regional
Specialization and Sectoral Concentration
Discussant:
Ulrike STIERLE-VON SCHÜTZ
b)
Michael H. STIERLE, Ulrike STIERLE-VON
SCHÜTZ:
Concentration and Specialisation in an Enlarged EU
Discussant:
Eckhardt BODE
c)
Selin Sayek, Tushar Poddar:
Regional Dispersion of Investment:
Evidence from India
Discussant:
Michael H.
Stierle
d)
Pascal Hetze:
Asymmetric Economic Integration under Regional Technology
Spillovers and the Effects on Unemployment and Growth
Discussant:
Annekatrin Niebuhr
e) Annekatrin
Niebuhr:
Spatial Effects of European
Integration: Do Border Regions Benefit Above Average?
Discussant:
Pascal Hetze
Session V: Impact of public
policies on regional development
Chair: Frederic B.
Jennings, Jr.
a)
Sandy Freret:
Spatial analysis of horizontal fiscal interactions on local
public expenditures: the French case
Discussant:
Arnaud Bilek
b)
Arnaud Bilek:
Local Public Choice: Some original results about School
Spending in France
Discussant:
Sandy Freret
c)
Carole Dembour, Xavier Wauthy:
Tax competition in the presence of
network effects
Discussant:
Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz
d)
Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz:
Fiscal Design and the location of economic activity
Discussant:
Carole Dembour
e) Sonia
Ben Kheder:
Foreign direct investment and environmental regulation: a
panel-data comparative analysis
Discussant:
Jan Jacob Trip
f) Jan
Jacob Trip:
Measuring Quality of Place: a
Comparison of Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Discussant:
Sonia Ben Kheder
Session VI: Agglomeration economics
Chair: Adrian Kuah
a)
Pascal Mossay:
A Theory of Rational Spatial Agglomerations
Discussant:
Eckhardt Bode
b)
Eckhardt Bode:
On the Spatial Magnitude of Metropolitan Areas
Discussant:
Pascal Mossay
c)
Norman Sedgley, Bruce Elmslie:
Do We Still Need Cities? Evidence on
Rates of Innovation from Count Data Models of Metropolitan Statistical Area
Patents
Discussant:
Andrea Schrage
d)
Andrea Schrage:
Economic Analysis of Traffic Congestion and Accidents
Discussant:
Norman Sedgley
e) Hailin
Sun, Luoping Sun:
Industrial Clusters and Transaction
Cost
Discussant:
Adrian Kuah
f) Adrian
Kuah,
John Day:
Revisiting the Porter Diamond: Applying a Factor
Competitiveness Matrix to the Singaporean Financial Cluster
Discussant:
Hailin Sun
Paper submission and publication
Deadline for paper submission was June 1, 2005. All papers have been peer reviewed and authors have been notified.
We thank all our reviewers for their helpful work.
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Dagmar Alpen |
Oppenheim Research GmbH, Germany |
Joerg Lackenbauer |
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany |
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Salvador Barrios |
European Commission, Belgium |
Helena Marques |
Loughborough University, UK |
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Michael Boeheim |
Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria |
Chris Richter |
Loughborough University, UK |
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Agnieszka Domanska |
Higher School of International Commerce and Finance, Poland |
Werner Sesselmeier |
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany |
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Nadiya Dubrovina |
Kharkov National Economic University, Ukraine |
Edward Shinnick |
University College Cork, Ireland |
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Henrik Egbert |
Universität des Saarlandes, Germany |
Michael Stierle |
European Commission, Belgium |
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Olena Etokova |
Wisconsin International University Ukraine, Ukraine |
Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz |
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany |
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Frank Fichert |
University of Applied Sciences, Germany |
Claudia Stirböck |
Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany |
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Martin Hallet |
European Commission, Belgium |
Michael Thiel |
European Commission, Belgium |
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Christoph Hausen |
Gothaer Asset Management AG, Germany
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Carlos Vieira |
Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
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Bodo Herzog |
University of Bamberg, Germany |
Isabel Vieira |
Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
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Frederick B. Jennings |
Center for Ecological Economic and Ethical Education, USA |
Klimis Vogiatzoglou |
University of Patras, Greece |
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Beatrice Knerr |
University of Kassel, Germany |
Rainer Wichern |
European Commission, Belgium |
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Holger Kolb |
Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS), Germany |
Inmaculada Martinez Zarzoso |
University of Jaume I, Spain |
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Adrian Kuah |
Bradford University, School of Management, UK |
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Questions concerning the special topic of the conference can be sent to: Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz, usc@fiwi.rwth-aachen.de.
Questions concerning the open track can be sent to: Frederic B. Jennings, Jr., Ph.D., ecologicaleconomics@yahoo.com
It is envisaged that papers of this conference will be published in a Conference Volume by INFER.
Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz, RWTH Aachen University, Germany: usc@fiwi.rwth-aachen.de.
Frederic B. Jennings, Jr., Ph.D., Center for Ecological Economic and Ethical Education, USA, ecologicaleconomics@yahoo.com
Michael Stierle, European Commission, Belgium, michael.stierle@cec.eu.int
Adrian Kuah, Bradford University School of Management, United Kingdom: a.kuah@bradford.ac.uk