General Program	Location	Friday June 5th		Saturday June 6th
HOME	8:00 8:45 Continental Breakfast	South Bay Lounge	Transportation from the hotel at 8:00 am. There will be continental breakfast at the conference venue.
	8:45 9:45 Plenum	South Bay	Keith Maskus, "Southern Innovation and Backward Knowledge Spillovers: A Dynamic FDI Model"			William Maloney, "Export Quality and Development"
	9:45 10:00 Coffee
	10:00 10:50 Plenum	South Bay	Edward Leamer, "Putting Neurofacturing in a Heckscher-Ohlin Model"			Bent Sorensen "Deep Financial Integration and Volatily"
	10:50 11:00 Break
	11:00 13:00 Parallel Sessions	North Ridge	1. Trade, competitiveness and economic growth			7. Trade and welfare effects
		West Coast A	2. Institutions and political regimes			8. Financial system development
		West Coast B	3. International trade and economic growth			9. Exchange rates, structural transformation
	13:00 14:00 Lunch	South Bay
	14:00 16:00 Parallel Sessions	North Ridge	4. Population dynamics, culture, political personalities			10. Knowledge spillovers and economic growth
		West Coast A	5. Innovation and economic growth			11. Technological change and welfare
		West Coast B	6. Technological progress, economic development			12. Foreign direct investment
	16:00 16:15 Coffee
	16:15 17:00 Plenum	South Bay	Lorenzo Caliendo. The University of Chicago. “On the dynamics of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory” Bjarne S. Jensen, "Basic Dynamic International Trade Models: Looking back and forward"			David Mayer-Foulkes, "Economic Fundamentals of the 2008 Economic Crisis"
	19:00 23:00 Dinner					Conference Dinner. Bus leaves at 18:15 from hotel Angeleno
	Conference Web Page degitxiv.cide.edu			Conference e-mail degitxiv@gmail.com
	Friday June 5th 11:00 13:00			14:00 16:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
	1. Trade, competitiveness and economic growth North Ridge 4. Population dynamics, culture, political personalities
	Robbert Maseland. Radboud University Nijmegen. “Trade with recyclable resources”			Alberto Bucci. ¤State University of Milan, Italy. “Transitional Dynamics in the Solow-Swan Growth Model with AK Technology and Logistic Population Change”
	Juan Felipe Mejia. Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart. “It’s not just about signing FTAs: The challenge of boosting Colombia’s intra-industry trade”			Oksana Leukhina. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “The Role of Mortality in the Transmission of Knowledge”
	Hildegunn Stokke. Norwegian University of Science and Technology “Trade barriers to growth in South Africa: Endogenous investment-productivity-trade interaction”			Shankha Chakraborty. University of Oregon. “Culture and Occupational Choice”
	Biswajit Mandal. Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. “General Trading Costs in Pure Theory of International Trade”			Christian Alcocer. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, México. “Do heads of state affect convergence? Latin America during the second half of the XX Century”
	2. Institutions, political regimes and economic growth West Coast A 5. Innovation and economic growth
	Maurizio Iacopetta. Georgia Institute of Technology. “Formal Education and Public Knowledge”			Tapio Palokangas. University of Helsinki, Finland. “Optimal Patent Length and Patent Width for an Economy with Creative Destruction and Non-Diversifiable Risk”
	Anna Larsson. Stockholm University, Sweden. “Democracy as a Middle Ground: A Unified Theory of Development and Political Regimes”			Patricia Prüfer. Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) & CentER, Tilburg University. “The FDI-Growth Nexus in Latin-America: The Role of Source Countries and Local Conditions”
	Albert de Vaal. Radboud University Nijmegen. “Institutions and the relation between corruption and economic growth”			Tom-Reiel Heggedal. Statistics Norway, Research Department. “On R&D and the undersupply of emerging versus mature technologies”
	Mathieu Couttenier. Paris School of Economics, France. “Relationship Between Natural Resources and Institutions”
	3. International trade and economic growth West Coast B 6. Technological progress, economic development and growth
	Francesco Grigoli. Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Varese, Italy. “The impact of trade integration on business cycle synchronization for Mercosur countries”			Yuko Arayama. Nagoya University, Japan. “How Do We Theorize the Pattern of Technological Transfer Which could Result in “Geese Flying Pattern” of Asian Economic Growth?”
	Pedro Gil. University of Porto, Portugal. “Endogenous Growth, Industry Dynamics and the Direction of Technological Knowledge”			Areendam Chanda. Louisiana State University. “Technology-Skill Complementarity and International TFP Differences”
	Xavier Raurich. Universitat de Barcelona. “Transitional Dynamics in an Endogenous Growth Model with Heterogeneous Consumption Goods”			Paul de Hek. Erasmus University Rotterdam. “On the Evolution of Stochastic Growth Rates”
	Lucian Cernat. Chief Economist Unit, DG Trade, European Commission. ”Assessing the trade impact of the global financial turmoil: A CGE analysis”			Paulina Echeverria Garaigorta. The University of Basque Country. "Sudden Stops in Hong Kong: A two-sector neoclassical model"
	Saturday June 6th 11:00 13:00			14:00 16:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
	7. Trade and walfare effects North Ridge 10. Knowledge spillovers and economic growth
	Bulent Unel. Louisiana State University. “Quality Heterogeneity and Global Economic Growth”			Montserrat Vilalta-Bufi. Universitat de Barcelona. “Learning-by-doing or learning-by-hiring: On the diffusion of knowledge and growth.”
	Assaf Sarid. University of Haifa, Israel. “Trade Agreements, Bargaining and Economic Growth”			Karl Jacobsen. Statistics Norway, Research Department “Knowledge spillovers and the timing of R&D policy”
	Sebastian Vollmer. University of Göttingen. “EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements. Empirical Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa”			Fernando Tohmé. Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET, Argentina “Economic Growth in a Two-Agent Economy”
	8. Financial system development and economic growth West Coast A 11. Technological change and welfare
	Volker Böhm. Bielefeld University. " Sovereign Risk in International Bond Markets and Nonconvergence"			Alireza Jay Naghavi. University of Bologna, Italy. “On the Political Complementarity between Globalization and Technology Adoption”
	Paulina Echeverria Garaigorta. The University of Basque Country. “Business cycles in a neoclassical small open economy model: The case of Hong Kong.”			Josh Hall. Drexel University, Philadelphia. “Within and Across Country Inequality in a Model of Trade and Endogenous Growth”
	Anne Jurkat. Goethe University, Germany. “Endogenous Specialization and Factor Substitution in a Monetary Growth Model”			Eduardo Pérez Pérez. Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. “Biased technological change, impatience and welfare”
	9. Exchange rates, structural transformation West Coast B 12. Foreign direct investment
HOME	Rodolfo Cermeño. CIDE, México. “Exchange rate volatility and trade flows in Mexico”			Binyamin Berdugo. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel “How does Investors' Legal Protection affect Productivity and Growth?”
	Saikat Sinha Roy. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. “Exchange rate pass-through in India. An exploration with Sectoral Import Prices.”			Arti Grover. Delhi School of Economics. “Vertical FDI versus Outsourcing: The Role of Host Country Human Capital”
	El-Hadj Bah. University of Auckland, New Zealand “A Three-Sector Model of Structural Transformation and Economic Development”			Bethuel Kinuthia. Africa Studies Centre, Leiden. “Industrialization in Malaysia: Changing role of Government and Foreign Firms”
	Murat Üngör. University of Southern California, LA. “De-industrialization of the Riches and the Rise of China”