Fall 2001 seminar

IED/INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SEMINARS

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Fall 2001

September 24	Bhaskar Dutta (Indian Statistical Institute) Regionalism and Growth (Joint work with Sugato Dasgupta and Kunal Sengupta)
October 15	Pierre-Philippe Combes (CERAS/Boston University) Transport Costs Decline and Regional Inequalities: Evidence from France
October 22	Taiji Furusawa (Yokohama National University/Boston University) Threats and Concessions in Tariff Settings figure
October 29	Istvan Konya (Boston College) Optimal Immigration, Assimilation and Trade
November 5	Bill Easterly (The World Bank) Inequality does Cause Underdevelopment: New Evidence from Commodity Endowments, Middle Class Share, and other Determinants of Per Capita Income
November 12	Sharun Mukand (Tufts University/Harvard University) Policy Gambles
November 19	Yulia Rodionova (Boston University) Administrative Corruption and Investment in Russia Haldun Evrenk (Boston University) Are Honest Citizens to Blame for Corruption? An Exercise in Political Economy of Tax Evasion
November 26	Jay Surti (Boston University) Big is Better: the Role of Large Traders in Mitigating Coordination Risk
December 3 TIME CHANGE 2:30-4:00	Shang-Jin Wei (Brookings Institution) Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from Within China
December 10	Guillermo Caruana (Boston University) A Theory of Endogenous Commitment

All workshops, except where noted, are on Mondays at 3:30-5:00pm in Room 315, at 264 Bay State Road, Boston. Copies of Seminar Papers will be available in Room 510.

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