Minerva
Center for Macroeconomics and Growth
From Stagnation to Growth
Rorschach
(Switzerland), May 2-4, 2003
***Preliminary Program***
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Friday,
May 2
Opening Remarks: 2:30 – 2:40 Eytan Sheshinski (HU) Trade,
Industrialization and the Great Divergence
Chair: Chair:
Kenneth Sokoloff (UCLA)
2:40 – 3:50 Kevin O’Rourke (Dublin) and Jeffery
Williamson (Harvard) “From
Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Growth and Distribution since 1500” Discussant: David Weil (Brown)
4:00 – 5:10 Oded Galor (Brown and HU) and
Andrew Mountford (Royal Holloway) “Why
are a Third of People Indian and Chinese: Trade, Demography and the
Great Divergence.” Discussant: Joel Mokyr (Northwestern)
***Coffee break***
Monogamy and Slavery Chair: Peter Howitt (Brown) 5:25 - 6:25 Eric Gould (HU), Omer Moav (HU) and Avi Simhon
(HU) Discussant: Jesus Fernandez Villaverde (Penn)
6:25 - 7:25 Nills-Peter Lagerloef (Concordia) “The Roads to
and from Serfdom" Discussant: David de la Croix (Louvain)
***Dinner*** |
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Saturday,
May 3 Human Evolution Chair: Oded
Galor (Brown and HU)
8:00 – 9:10 Gregory Clark (UC Davis) Discussant: John Komlos (Munich)
9:20 – 10:30 Gilles Saint-Paul (Toulouse) “On Market and Human Evolution” Discussant: Omer
Moav (HU)
*** Coffee break*** Population Chair: Fabrizio
Zilibotti (UCL)
10:50 – 12:00 Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
(Penn) “Was
Malthus Right? Economic Growth and Population Dynamics” Discussant: David
Weil (Brown)
***Lunch 12:00-2:00***
Knowledge,
Convergence and Divergence
Chair: Eytan
Sheshinski (HU)
2:00 – 3:10 Peter Howitt (Brown) and David Mayer-Foulkes (CIDE)
“R&D, Implementation and Stagnation: A Schumpeterian
Theory of Convergence Clubs” Discussant: Andreas
Irmen (Mannheim)
3:10 – 4:20 Daron Acemoglu
(MIT) Philippe Aghion (Harvard) and Fabrizio Zilibotti
(UCL) “Distance
to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth” Discussant: Daniel Tsiddon (TAU)
***Coffee***
Institutions Christian
Keuschnigg (University of St. Gallen)
4:35 – 5:45 Discussant: Moshe Hazan (HU)
5:50 – 7:00 Nathan Sussman (HU) and Yishai Yafeh (HU) Discussant: Petra Moser (MIT)
*** Coffee break***
*** Dinner*** |
Sunday, May 4 Factor Endowment, Inequality and Growth Chair: Joel
Mokyr (Northwestern)
8:00 – 9:00 Stanley Engerman
(Rochester) and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (UCLA) “Factor Endowment, Inequality, and
Paths of Development among New World Economies” Discussant: Nathan Sussman (HU)
9:00 – 10:00 Oded Galor (Brown and HU), Omer Moav (HU) and
Dietrich Vollrath (Brown) “Land Inequality and the Origin of
Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process: Theory and Evidence” Discussant: Kenneth L. Sokoloff (UCLA)
***Coffee break***
10:15– 10:40 Binyamin Berdugo (HU) and Jacques
Sadik (HU) and Nathan Sussman (HU) “Delays in Technology Adoption, Appropriate Human Capital, Natural
Resources and Growth”
Mortality and Life Expectancy Chair:
David Weil (Brown)
10:45 -11:15 Matteo Cervellati (UPF)
David de la Croix (CORE), “Early
mortality declines at the dawn of modern growth”
***quick lunch***
12:45 – 18:00 Mountain hike to the close mountains of "Alpstein"
or "Säntis" |
List of Participants
Binyamin Berdugo (HU)
Jesus Fernandez Villaverde (Penn)
Karine Gabbay (HU)
John Komlos (Munich)
Nills-Peter Lagerloef (Concordia)
Petra Moser (MIT)
Avi Simhon (HU)