Workshops: Complete List
February 20, 2013 “The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition Towards Gibrat`s Law” Macroeconomics Jordan Rappaport (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) February 26, 2013 "Unified Empirical Likelihood Methods for Random Coefficient Autoregressive Models with Robust Unit Root Tests" Econometrics Jonathan Hill (University of North Carolina) February 27, 2013 "Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting" Macroeconomics Benjamin Moll (Princeton University) March 4, 2013 "Approximate Implementation" Economic Theory Ludovic Renou (University of Essex) March 5, 2013 "Fuzzy Changes in Changes" Econometrics Xavier D`Hautfoeuille (CREST-ENSAE) Clément de Chaisemartin (CREST) March 6, 2013 "Fiscal Unions" Macroeconomics Ivan Werning (MIT) March 7, 2013 "Informed Trading and Expected Returns" Applied Microeconomics James Choi (Yale School of Management) March 11, 2013 "Robust Implementation under Complete Information" Economic Theory Rene Saran (Yale University) March 12, 2013 "Multiscale Adaptive Inference on Conditional Moment Inequalities" Econometrics Timothy Armstrong (Yale University) March 13, 2013 "Urbanization with and without Structural Transformation" Macroeconomics Remi Jedwab (George Washington University) March 14, 2013 "The Policy Elasticity" Applied Microeconomics Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard/NBER) March 18, 2013 tba Economic Theory Philip Reny (University of Chicago) March 19, 2013 "Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Econometrics Christoph Rothe (Columbia University) March 20, 2013 "Smithian Growth Through Creative Organization" Macroeconomics Andrew Newman (Boston University) March 21, 2013 "Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development," Applied Microeconomics Tom Vogl (Princeton) April 1, 2013 "History Dependent Risk Attitude" Economic Theory Kareen Rozen (Yale University) April 2, 2013 "Efficient Inference with Time-Varying Identification Strength" Econometrics Otilia Boldea (Tilburg University) April 3, 2013 "Optimal Capital versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth" Macroeconomics Jesus Fernandes-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania) April 4, 2013 "Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints" Applied Microeconomics Chris Udry (Yale University) April 8, 2013 "Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies" Economic Theory David Miller (UCSD) April 9, 2013 "Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply" Department Faculty Seminar Richard Blundell (University College London) April 10, 2013 "Maintaining Central-Bank Solvency under New-Style Central Banking" Macroeconomics Ricardo Reis (Columbia University) April 15, 2013 "Farsightedness and Stable Sets" Economic Theory Rajiv Vohra (Brown University) April 16, 2013 Rationalization and Identification of Discrete Games with Correlated Types Econometrics Quang Vuong (New York University) April 17, 2013 "Learning Leverage Shocks and the Great Recession" Macroeconomics Patrick Pintus (Aix-Marseille University) April 18, 2013 Family Welfare Cultures Applied Microeconomics Magne Mogstad (UCL) April 22, 2013 “Screening with an Approximate Type Space” Economic Theory Andrea Prat (Columbia University) April 23, 2013 Improved Likelihood Ratio Tests for Cointegration Rank in the VAR Model Econometrics Peter Boswijk (University of Amsterdam) April 25, 2013 "Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence" Applied Microeconomics David Dorn (CEMFI/Harvard) April 30, 2013 "Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program" Econometrics Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago) May 1, 2013 "From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: a Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions" Macroeconomics David de la Croix (Universite catholique de Louvain) May 2, 2013 "Replacing a Shove with a Nudge: A Small Unconditional Cash Transfer for Education" Applied Microeconomics Esther Duflo (MIT) May 8, 2013 "The Great Divergence: A Network Approach" Macroeconomics Holger Strulik (University of Goettingen) We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Growth is generated through human capital accumulation and knowledge externalities. The available knowledge in any country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world generates a ``Great Divergence', that is increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the industrial revolution, followed by a ``Great Convergence', that is decreasing world inequality after the take-off of trailers and latecomers. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network produces not only convergence at the aggregate level but also an extraordinary diversity of individual growth experiences of initially identical countries, including differentiated take-offs to growth as well as overtaking and falling behind in the course of world development.
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