ArnoX Detailed Program (preliminary as of May 30) June 28, 2011, Tuesday Arrival (to Göttingen) June 29, 2011, Wednesday 10:00 Sight Seeing Tour (Göttingen) 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Registration (Göttingen) 13:30 Welcome Remarks Ulrike Beisiegel 13:45 Opening Remarks Stephan Klasen 14:00 Keynote Elisabeth Sadoulet Fair Trade and Free Entry: The Dissipation of Producer Benefits in a Disequilibrium Market 15:00 Parallel 1: Growth CRC Session 1 Chair: Paulo Regis Chair: Tatyana Krivobokova Manoel Bittencourt Marcela Ibanez Inflation and Economic Growth in Latin America: Some Panel Time-Series Evidence Leaders or Managers: and experiment on group identity Discussant: Paulo Regis Discussant: Tatyana Krivobokova Maria Luisa Recalde Xiaohua Yu Survival and Growth of Argentina s Exports: A Regional Study Discussant: Manoel Bittencourt Paulo Regis The Effects of Decentralization and Spending Composition on Growth in Argentina Discussant: Maria Luisa Recalde Endogenous Matching and Contractual Choice between Agricultural Processors and Farmes in China Discussant: Marcela Ibanez Tatyana Krivobokova Smoothing parameter selection for spline estimators Discussant: Xiaohua Yu 16:30 17:00 Keynote Joachim von Braun Price Volatility, Finance and the Poor in a Global Context
18:00 18:00 CRC Advisory Board Meeting (internal) Poster Session Mouyad AL SAMARA Aram Belhadj Laura Márquez-Ramos Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso Gabriela Mordecki Ysaline PADIEU JULIO ROSALES Thomas Flochel Carlos Villalobos Juan M. Licari An Empirical Analysis of the Money Demand Function in Syria Co-Movements of business cycles in the Maghreb: Does trade matter? Trade Integration, Production Disintegration and Equalisation of Factor Prices Is there a Trade-off between Income Inequality and Environmental Quality? Regional Integration: economic growth through export diversification? Impact of Health Insurance on consumption and saving behaviours: Evidence from Rural China Economic Impact of Oil, Natural Gas and Mining Activities in Argentina Regulatory manipulation for political purposes in Brazil Characterization of inequality changes through micro-econometric Simulations. Honduras 2001 2007 The Role of Money in Frictional Financial Markets 20:00 Dinner June 30, 2011, Thursday 09:00 Keynote Chris Barrett A stochastic dominance approach to program evaluation with an application to child nutritional status in Kenya 10:00 Keynote Irene Gijbels Variable selection in generalized additive models 11:00
11:15 Parallel 2: Cross-Country Macroeconomics Parallel 3: Labor Markets Chair: Frank Westermann Chair: Fernando Zarzosa-Valdivia Jose Luis Arrufat Veronica Amarante Terms of Trade Cycles in extreme land abundant countries. 1870-2009. Spectral Analysis The effects of being out of the formal labor market on subsequent wages: evidence for Uruguay Discussant: Frank Westermann Discussant: Fernando Zarzosa-V. Gabriele Tondl Sarra Ben Yahmed Do determinants of FDI to developing countries differ Gender Wage Discrimination and Trade Openness among US and European investors? Insights from Bayesian Model Averaging Discussant: Jose Luis Arrufat Discussant: Veronica Amarante Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso Ana Rivas Maritime Transport costs and trade - A comparative analysis for Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina Fragmentation, income, gender and poverty linkages: The case of the Maquila Industry in Guatemala Discussant: Gabriele Tondl Frank Westermann How strong is the case for dollarization in Central America? An empirical analysis of business cycles, credit market imperfections and the exchange rate Discussant: Inmaculada Martinez-Z. Discussant: Sarra Ben Yahmed Fernando Zarzosa-Valdivia The Structural Real Exchange Rate And Unemployment Rates Interdependency: The Argentinean case Discussant: Ana Rivas 13:15 Lunch 14:00 Keynote Petra Todd Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools 15:00 Parallel 4: Public Policy CRC Session 2 Chair: Oswaldo Molina Chair: Dominik Noe Sukanta Bhattacharya Jann Lay 16:30 Income Inequality, Club Formation and the Quality of Public Good: A Developing Country Perspective Discussant: Oswaldo Molina Rinaldo Antonio Colome Estimation of the Relative Impact of Agricultural Policy Instruments on Efficiency Discussant: Sukanta Bhattacharya Oswaldo Molina Heterogeneous Effects of Property Rights on Housing Investment in Urban Peru Discussant: Rinaldo Antonio Colome Capital returns, productivity and accumulation in micro and small enterprises: Evidence from Peruvian panel data Discussant: Dominik Noe Chris Muris Efficient GMM estimation with a general missing data pattern Discussant: Jann Lay Dominik Noe Violent behaviour - The effect of civil conflict on domestic violence in Colombia Discussant: Chris Muris
16:45 Parallel 5: Poverty Parallel 6: Institutions Chair: Maria Anna Santos Chair: Mauro Salvo Stephan Klasen Basilia Aguirre Dollar a Day Re-Revisited Trust and tax morale in Latin American & Caribbean countries Discussant: Maria Anna Santos Discussant: Mauro Salvo Pedro Moncarz Boris Branisa The role of federal transfers in regional convergence in human development indicators in Argentina Reexamining the link between gender and corruption: The role of social institutions Discussant: Stephan Klasen Discussant: Basilia Aguirre Felix Povel Rivayani Rivayani Vulnerability to downside risk in developing countries: Do bribes work? What can subjective probabilities tell us? Discussant: Pedro Moncarz Discussant: Boris Branisa Maria Anna Santos Mauro Salvo In search of a multidimensional poverty index for Latin America Money Laundering in the Brazilian Football Sector: international transfers of football players and their vulnerabilities Discussant: Felix Povel Discussant: Rivayani Rivayani 20:00 Dinner July 1, 2011, Friday 09:00 Parallel 7: Health Parallel 8: Education Chair: Andrea Locatelli Chair: Elke Schaffland Mariana De Santis Hector Gretel Inequity and inequality in preventive health care among older adults in Argentina in 2000 Argentina, Chile and Mexico in PISA 2009 A Decomposition Analysis of the Gap in Reading Scores Discussant: Andrea Locatelli Discussant: Elke Schaffland Niels Kemper Lucia Luzi Consumption insurance and illness in rural Thailand and Vietnam Long-Term Impact of Health and Nutrition Status on Education Outcomes for Children in Rural Tanzania Discussant: Mariana De Santis Discussant: Hector Gretel Andrea Locatelli Elke Schaffland Behavioral Response to an Anti Malaria Spraying Campaign, with Evidence from Eritrea Discusant: Niels Kemper Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil: Treatment Evaluation of the Bolsa Família Program on Education Discussant: Lucia Luzi 10:30 11:00 Keynote Alain de Janvry Can a populist political party bear the risk of granting property rights? Electoral outcomes of Mexico s second land reform 12:00 Closing Remarks for Part 1 (Göttingen)
12:15 Transfer to Merseburg 15:30 16:00 18:00 Welcome Remarks for Part 2 (Merseburg) Round Table and Poster Session 20:00 Dinner July 2, 2011, Saturday 08:30 Session 1: Policy Chair: Guihery Laurent Gaaitzen de Vries Deconstructing the BRICs Discussant: Guihery Laurent Rossana Patron Early school dropouts in developing countries: When more schooling is not worth the effort. Discussant: Gaaitzen de Vries Eckhard Freyer Aspects of the solar power project DESERTEC between Algeria and Central Germany Discussant: Rossana Patron Guihery Laurent Regional railway transport and reg.-urban mobility: Learning from Leipzig Region for Latin America Discussant: Eckhard Freyer 10:30 11:00 12:30 Session 2: Trade Chair: Felicitas Nowak-L.D. Fernando Borraz Distributive Effects of Regional Trade Agreements on the Small Trading Partners Discussant: Felicitas Nowak-L.D. Gabriela Mordecki Uruguayan exports and real exchange rate: a sectoral analysis through VECM models - 1993-2010 Discussant: Fernando Borraz Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. The Role of Maritime Transport Costs, Tariffs and the Real Exchange Rate in Chile s Export Trade with the EU: An Augmented Gravity Model Approach Discussant: Gabriela Mordecki Lunch
13:30 15:30 16:00 17:30 Session 3: Finance Chair: Angel Enrique Neder Ana Maria Cerro Currency Crises and Institutions. The Case of Argentina 1862-2004 Discussant: Angel Enrique Neder Ricardo Descalzi Credit constraints and the asymmetric CA presponse to TOT shocks Discussant: Ana Maria Cerro Osvaldo Meloni Crises as Fiscal Sustainability Devices. Argentina, 1867-2006 Discussant: Ricardo Descalzi Angel Enrique Neder Financial Sector and Economic Growth in Latin America and the European Union Discussant: Osvaldo Meloni Session 4: Markets Chair: Guzman Ourens Rossana Patron Public expenditures on education and skill formation: Is there a simple rule to maximize skills? Discussant: Guzman Ourens Adriana Perluffo The Effects of International Linkages on Productivity and the Demand for Skilled Labour Discussant: Rossana Patron Guzman Ourens Uruguay at the mirror Discussant: Adriana Perluffo End of Conference (Sight Seeing Tour and Informal Dinner) July 3, 2011, Sunday Departure (from Merseburg)