CAGE: Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy
Interim Conference 2013
28th – 31st May 2013
Scarman House, University of Warwick
Tuesday 28th May
Session 1:‘Accounting for the Great Divergence’,
Chair: Professor Stephen Broadberry
08:45
09:00
09:15
Registration and Coffee
Introduction and Welcome
Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi)
10:15
10:45
Coffee
Debin Ma (LSE)
11:45
Stephen Broadberry
(LSE/CAGE)
Lunch
12:45
“Growth and Inequality in the Great Divergence
Debate: Mughal India, Stuart England and
Tokugawa Japan Compared”
“Political Institutions and Long Run Growth in
China”
“Accounting for the Great Divergence”
14:00
Sandra de Pleij (Utrecht)
Co-Author: Jan Luiten van
Zanden (Utrecht)
“Accounting for the Little Divergence: The
Determinants of Economic Growth in Europe,
1300-1800”
15:00
Bob Allen (Oxford)
“Factor Prices and the Industrial Revolution: A
Marxist Perspective”
16:00
16:30
Coffee
Jaime Reis (ICS,
Universidade de Lisboa),
Conceição Andrade Martins
(ICS, Universidade de
Lisboa) and Leonor Freire
Costa (ISEG, Universidade
Técnica de Lisboa)
17:30
19:00
Roundtable
Dinner
“From Great Power to Economic Backwater:
Portugal’s GDP, 1500-1850”
Future developments
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Wednesday 29th May
Tuesday 28 May 2013: 6pm: Welcome drinks reception
Session 2: ‘The Role of Cultural and Political Factors in Institutional Change
and Development’,
Chair: Professor Sharun Mukand and Professor Sascha Becker
08:45
Session 1
Registration and Coffee
Chaired by Bishnu Gupta (Warwck)
08:55
09:00
Introduction and Welcome
Helios Herrera (Columbia)
Co-Authors: Luigi Guiso and Massimo
Morelli
Coffee
Chaired by Mark Harrison (Warwck)
10:00
Session 2
“A culture based theory of fiscal
union desirability”
10.15
Ola Olsson (U Gothenburg)
Co-Authors: Christopher Paik
“A Western Reversal Since the
Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of
Early Agriculture”
11:15
Enrico Spolaore (Tufts)
Co-Authors: Romain Wacziarg
“How Deep Are the Roots of
Economic Development?”
12:15
Lunch
Session 3
Chaired by Fabian Waldinger
(Warwick)
Gerard Roland (Berkeley)
Co-Authors: Yuriy Gorodnichenko
“Culture, Institutions and
Democratization”
14.30
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton)
Co-Authors: Omar Garcia Ponce
“Critical Junctures: Independence
Movements and Democracy in Africa”
15.30
Session 4
Coffee
Chaired by Chris Woodruff (Warwick)
15.45
Yann Algan (Sciences Po)
Co-Authors: Thierry Mayer and
Mathias Thoenig
Elias Papaioannou (LBS)
Co-Authors: Stelios Michalopoulos and
Gregoios Siourounis
Dinner
13.30
16.45
19:00
“The Economic Incentives of Cultural
Transmission: Spatial evidence from
Naming Patterns”
“Natural Belief”
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Thursday 30th May
Session 3: ‘The Political Economy of Redistribution and Income Inequality in
Developed Democracies’,
Chair: Professor Vera E. Troeger
09:00
09:15
09:30
Registration and Coffee
Introduction and Welcome: Vera E.
Troeger
Lena Schaffer (ETH Zurich)
co-author: Gabriele Spilker (ETH Zurich)
10:30
David Rueda (Oxford) and Daniel
Stegmueller (Essex)
11:30
12:00
Coffee
Lucy Barnes (Oxford)
13:00
Lunch
14.00
Pablo Beramendi (Duke)
co-author: Philipp Rehm(Ohio)
Torben Iversen (Harvard) and David
Soskice (LSE)
15.00
16.00
16.30
17.30
19:00
Coffee
Massimo Morelli (Columbia)
co-authors: Madhav S. Aney and
Maitreesh Ghatak
Close
Dinner
Adding another Level: Individual
Responses to Globalization and
Government Welfare Policies
Redistribution and Insurance: The
Effects of Income Expectations on
Preferences in Western Europe
Preference over Taxation
Who gives, who gains?
Progressivity and Preferences
Information, Social Networks and
Interest-Based Voting: Consequences
for Distributive Politics
Can Market Failure Cause Political
Failure?
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Friday 31st May
Session 4: ‘Poverty and Welfare’,
Chair: Professor Sayantan Ghosal
08:30
08:55
09:00
Registration and Coffee
Introduction and Welcome
Francesco Bogliacino (Konrad Lorenz)
Co-Authors: G. Grimalda and P. Ortoleva
09:45
“Learning with Others - A Field
Experiment on the Formation of
Aspirations in Rural Ethiopia”,
12:15
13:00
Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse (IFPRI –
Addis Ababa)
Co-authors: T. Bernard, S. Dercon, K.
Orkin
Koen Decancq (Antwerp)
Co Authors: F. Maniquet and M.
Fleurbaey
Coffee
Sancahari Roy (Warwick)
Co Authors: S. Ghosal, S. Jana, A. Mani,
S. Mitra
Anandi Mani (Warwick)
Lunch
14:00
Karen Macour (Paris)
14.45
Sonia Bhalotra (Bristol)
Co-Authors: I.Clots-Figueras and L. Iyer
“Demand Versus Returns? Pro-Poor
Targeting of Business Grants and
Vocational Skills Training”
“Path-Breakers: Does Women’s
Political Participation Respond to
Electoral Success?”
15.30
15.45
Coffee
Patricio Dalton (Tilburg)
Co Authors: S. Ghosal and A. Mani
16.30
Pieter Serneels (East Anglia)
Co-Author: S. Dercon
Concluding Remarks and Finish
10:30
11:15
11:30
17:15
"Violence, Aspirations and Effort: An
Experimental Analysis"
"Multidimensional Poverty
Measurement: Shouldn't we take
preferences into account"
“Aspirations and Poverty: Evidence
from a Randomized Field Experiment
in India”
“Poverty and Cognitive Behaviour”
"Digit Ratios and Aspirations:
Evidence from the lab"
“Aspirations, Poverty and Education:
Evidence from India”
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