Workshop on Advances in Economic Growth

Thursday 18th & Friday 19th August 2011

Castlecliffe, School of Economics & Finance
University of St Andrews

We would like to thank for generous funding the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).

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Thursday 18th August 2011

8:45 - 9:15	Registration / Coffee / Tea
9:15 - 9:30	Welcome
9:30 - 10:30	Sascha Becker (Warwick) "Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia" (joint with Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann)
10:30 - 11:30	Shankha Chakraborty (Oregon) "Twin Transitions" (joint with Anna-Maria Aksan)
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee / Tea Break
12:00 - 13:00	Max Gillman (Cardiff) "Dynamic Taylor Condition within an Endogenous Growth Monetary Economy" (joint with Michal Kejak)
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 - 15:15	Alex Trew (St Andrews) "Spatial Takeoff"
15:15 - 16:15	Dimitrios Varvarigos (Leicester) "Pollution Abatement as a Source of Stabilisation and Long-Run Growth" (joint with Theodore Palivos)
16:15 - 16:45	Coffee / Tea Break
16:45 - 17:45	Anne P. Villamil (Illinois and Manchester) "The Effects of Credit Subsidies on Development" (joint with A. Antunes and Tiago Cavalcanti)
20:00	Dinner at St Andrews Links Clubhouse

 

 Friday 19th August 2011

8:45 - 9:00	Coffee / Tea Break
9:00 - 10:00	Gonzalo Forgue-Puccio (St Andrews) "Foreign Aid: A Fillip for Development or a Fuel for Corruption" (joint with Keith Blackburn)
10:00 - 11:00	Luis Angeles (Glasgow) "On the causes of the African slave trade and African underdevelopment"
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee / Tea Break
11:30 - 12:30	Parantap Basu (Durham) "An Adjustment Cost Model of Inequality Dynamics" (joint with Yoseph Getachew)
12:30 - 13:30	Tiago Cavalcanti (Cambridge) "Social Structure and Human Capital Dynamics" (joint with Chryssi Giannitsarou)
13:30	Lunch

 

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Gonzalo Forgues-Puccio	gff2@st-andrews.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1334 462440 Mobile: 07786 928457
Alex Trew	awt2@st-andrews.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1334 461950 Mobile: 07736 465214
For accommodation, travel and expenses enquiries:
Angela Hodge	ah33@st-andrews.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1334 46420

 

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The workshop is to be held at the School of Economics & Finance, and accommodation is in New Hall, a University residence. Please refer to the pdf map or the Google map below. Guests that have booked accommodation can check-in at New Hall after 2pm on 8 September and check-out is 10am on the day of departure. Breakfast at New Hall is from 7:30 to 9:00am. Registration will take place in the School on the Tuesday from 8:45am. We will arrange for transportation from New Hall to the School in the event of inclement weather, but it is a beautiful (10 minute) walk from New Hall to the School on a sunny day. There will be someone in the New Hall lobby ready to show guests the way to the School at around 8:30am. Please get in touch with the organisers if you have specific queries.

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Trains: The nearest train station is at Leuchars, which is ten minutes from St Andrews by taxi. Local Taxis: Taxi companies wait outside the station (across the footbridge), but otherwise two local companies are HM Taxis (01334 474700) and Williamsons Taxis (01334 839279). Airports: Dundee (15 miles from St Andrews), Edinburgh (50 miles) and Glasgow (90 miles). Public transport from Dundee can take 30 minutes (or a 15 minute taxi); from Edinburgh about 2 hours and from Glasgow about 3 hours.

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There will be no dinner provided at New Hall on the Wednesday night but there are a number of good, reasonably priced local restaurants along South Street, Market Street and St Mary’s Place, including: Pizza Express (Italian) Logie’s Lane Byre Theatre (Scottish) South Street Nahm Jim (Thai/Japanese) Market Street Zizzi's (Italian) South Street

You can see information about other eateries here. Some information about St Andrews and the region is available from: Visit Scotland (official Tourist Board) www.saint-andrews.co.uk www.visit-standrews.co.uk