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  GLOBALIZATION AND THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CONFERENCE 2006  
 


Papers to be presented


Friday, November 10, 2006

Conference Session 1 Ballroom C, SLC

Samuel A. Morley
s.morley@cgiar.org
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
“Poverty Reduction in the Developing World: Some Lessons from
Latin America”

Gayatri B. Koolwal
Gbk5@cornell.edu
National Economic Research Associates
Co-Author: Shahidur R. Khandker (World Bank)

“Are Pro-Growth Policies Pro-Poor?”

Conference Session 2 Meeting Room 1, SLC (25)

Munkun Cheong
sericmk@seri.org
GPED Alumnus (Korea)
Samsung Economic Research Institute
Co-Author: Min-Jung Sohn

“Currency Crisis and the Korean Economy”

Gazi Ercel
gaziercel@gmail.com
GPED Alumnus (Turkey)
Former Governor, Central Bank of Turkey

“Globalization and the Turkish Economy”


Conference Session 3 Meeting Room 2, SLC (25)

Iskandar Simorangkir
iskandarvandy@yahoo.com
GPED Alumnus (Indonesia)

“The Openness and Its Impact to Indonesian Economy”

Conference Session 4 Meeting Room 3, SLC (25)

Amanda J. Felkey
Ajf26@cornell.edu
Cornell University

“Husbands, Wives and the Peculiar Economics of Household Public Goods”

Pham Hoang Van
van_pham@baylor.edu
Baylor University

“Dutch Disease in the Labor Market: Women, Services, and Industrialization”

Conference Session 5 Ballroom C, SLC

Andrea Maneschi
andrea.maneschi@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University

“Globalization and Economic Development: Some Eighteenth Century Views”

Conference Session 6 Meeting Room 1, SLC (25)

Eric T. Stuen
eric.stuen@colorado.edu
University of Colorado at Boulder
Co-Authors: Mushfiq Mobarak (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Keith E. Maskus (University of Colorado at Boulder)

“Foreign Graduate Students and Knowledge Creation at U.S. Universities: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations”

Conference Session 7 Meeting Room 2, SLC (25)

Garance Genicot
gg58@georgetown.edu
Georgetown University

“Does Wealth Inequality Help Informal Insurance?”

Conference Session 8 Meeting Room 3, SLC (25)

Kiril Tochkov
k.tochkov@tcu.edu
Texas Christian University
Co-Authors: Daniel Henderson (State University of New York at Binghamton)
Oleg Badunenko (European University Viadrina)

“A Drive up the Capital Coast? Contributions to Post-Reform Growth Across Chinese Provinces”

Conference Session 9 Ballroom C, SLC

Kathryn Anderson
kathryn.anderson@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University
Co-Authors: Stephen Heyneman (Vanderbilt University)
Nazym Nuraliyeva (Kazakh-Turkish Institute, Shymkent, Kazakhstan)

“The Cost of Corruption in Higher Education”

Askar Abeuov
askar.abeuov@vanderbilt.edu
GPED, Vanderbilt University (Kazakhstan)
Co-Author: Aliya Akhmetova

“Kazakhstan: Involvement into Global Economy through Different Ways of Integration after Receiving Independence”

Conference Session 10 Meeting Room 1, SLC (25)

Kusum W. Ketkar
GPED Alumnus (India)
Yeshiva University
Co-Author: Suhas L. Ketkar (Vanderbilt University)
Vanderbilt Alumnus (India)

“Liberalization and Deregulation: Performance of Banks in India”

Christophe Dongmo
christophe.dongmo@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University

“Envisioning a Developmental and Democratic Approach to Globalization in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (CEMAC)”

Conference Session 11 Meeting Room 2, SLC (25)

Teresa Deras
tmderas@hondutel.hn
Fundacion para la Inversion del Desarrollo y la Exportaciones
GPED Alumnus (Honduras)

“Study on Special Products and Trade Safeguard Mechanism for Honduras within the Doha Round negotiations of the WTO”

Dante Mossi
d_mossi@yahoo.com
Alumnus, Vanderbilt University (Honduras)
World Bank

“Poverty Reduction Strategies: Honduras’ National Urban Integrated Development Project”

Conference Session 12 Meeting Room 3, SLC (25)

Amit Khandelwal
amit.khandelwal@yale.edu
Yale University

“Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders”

Ben Zissimos
benjamin.c.zissimos@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University

“The Structure and performance of the World Market in a Cobb-Douglas Example”

Plenary Session 1 Ballroom C, SLC

T.N. Srinivasan
t.srinivasan@yale.edu
Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics
Economic Growth Center, Yale University

“Development, Globalization and the DOHA Round”

Jeffrey G. Williamson
jwilliam@fas.harvard.edu
Laird Bell Professor of Economics
Harvard University

“Globalization and Underdevelopment in the Pre-Modern Third World”


Saturday, November 11, 2006

Plenary Session 2 Ballroom C, SLC

L. Alan Winters
lwinters@worldbank.org
The World Bank
Professor, University of Sussex
Co-Authors: Thomas W. Hertel (Purdue
University)
Roman Keeney (Purdue University)
Maros Ivanic (The World Bank)

“Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries”


Conference Session 13 Meeting Room 1, SLC (25)

Mazhar Islam
mazhar.islam@email.aamu.edu
GPED Alumnus (Bangladesh)
Alabama A & M University

“The Role of FDI, R&D Expenditures, Financial Institutions, and International Trade on Economic Growth in Selected Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis”

Mario Crucini
mario.j.crucini@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University
Co-Authors: Inkoo Lee (KIEP)
Moto Shintani (Vanderbilt)
Chris Telmer (Carnegie-Mellon)

“Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Variation”

Conference Session 14 Ballroom C, SLC

David C. Garlow
David.Garlow@AIG.com
American International Group

“Civil War Prediction and Insurance against Political Violence”

Suhas Ketkar
suhas.ketkar@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt Alumnus (India)
Vanderbilt University

“Diaspora Bonds: Track Record and Potential”

Conference Session 15 Meeting Room 2, SLC (25)

Luciana Echazu
lechazu@memphis.edu
The University of Memphis

“Corruption and the Balance of Gender Power”

Santanu Chatterjee
schatt@terry.uga.edu
University of Georgia
Co-Author: A.K.M. Mahbub Morshed (Southern Illinois University)

“Infrastructure Provision and Macroeconomic Performance”

Conference Session 16 Ballroom C, SLC

Jorge Jatoba
jorgejatoba@gmail.com
GPED Alumnus (Brazil)
Institute for Studies on Labor and Society

“Labor Market Adjustment in Ecuador under the Free Trade Agreement with the United States”

Jong Hun Kim
Jong.h.kim@vanderbilt.edu
GPED Alumnus (Korea)

“Investment and Financing Constraints around the Korean Financial Crisis”

Roberto Moraes
bobcamps@portoweb.com.br
GPED Alumnus (Brazil)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

“Brazil, Argentina, and Globalization”

Conference Session 17 Meeting Room 1, SLC (25)

Chris Ahlin
c.ahlin@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University
Co-Author: Jocelyn Lin

“Luck or Skill? MFI [Microfinance Institutions] Performance in Macroeconomic Context”

Jonathan Zinman
jzinman@dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College
Co-Author: Dean S. Karlan (Yale University and M.I.T.)

“Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts”

Conference Session 18 Meeting Room 2, SLC (25)

Ismail Adam
ismail@jpa.gov.my
GPED Alumnus (Malaysia)
Public Service Department, Malaysia

“Globalization: Policy Options—The Malaysian Experience”

Dennis Tao Yang
deyang@vt.edu
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Co-Authors: Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)
Xiaodong Zhu (University of Toronto)

“Agriculture and Aggregate Productivity: A Quantitative Cross-Country Analysis”

Conference Session 19 Meeting Room 3, SLC (25)

Grant Miller
ngmiller@stanford.edu
Stanford Medical School and NBER
Co-Author: Piedad Urdinola (Universidad Nacional de
Colombia)

“Is Mortality in Developing Countries Procyclical? Evidence from Colombia’s Coffee-Growing Regions”

Bibhudutta Panda
bpanda1@lsu.edu
Louisiana State University
Co-Authors: Sudipta Sarangi (Louisiana State University)
Pushkar Maitra (Monash University)

“Idle Child: the Household’s Buffer”

Plenary Session 3 Ballroom C, SLC

Kaushik Basu
Kb40@cornell.edu
C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics; Director, Program on Comparative Economic Development
Cornell University

“Labor Rights and Globalization”

James Foster
james.e.foster@vanderbilt.edu
Professor of Economics Vanderbilt University

“External Capabilities”


More information will be posted on this site as it becomes available.

Contact:
Professor Andrea Maneschi
(andrea.maneschi@vanderbilt.edu)
Mouzon Siddiqi
(mouzon.w.siddiqi@vanderbilt.edu)

 
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