OxCarre 5th Annual Conference
Department of Economics
27-29 June 2011
Programme
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27 June
Session 1: Structural Change
Chair: Tony Venables
13.30-14.30 "Harnessing Oil Revenues in Ghana"
Rick van der Ploeg (OxCarre), Radek Stefanski* (OxCarre), Samuel Wills (OxCarre)
Discussant: David Vines (Oxford)
14.30-15.30 "African Cities and the Structural Transformation: Evidence from Ghana and Ivory Coast"
Remi Jedwab* (Paris School of Economics & LSE)
Discussant: Christopher Adam (CSAE)
16.00-17.00 "Subnational Resource Curse: Do Economic or Political Institutions Matter?"
Alexander Libman* (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
Discussant: Paul Segal (University of Sussex)
17.00-18.00 "The Structural Manifestation of the 'Dutch Disease': The Case of Oil Exporting Countries"
Kareem Ismail* (IMF)
Discussant: Lucas Bretschger (ETH Zurich)
28 June
Session 2: Volatility and Diversification
Chair: Sweder van Wijnbergen
9.00-10.00 "The Three Epochs of Oil"
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard), Eyal Dvir* (Boston College)
Discussant: Karlygash Kuralbayeva (OxCarre)
10.00-11.00 "What Can We Learn from Primary Commodity Prices Series which is useful to Policymakers In Resource-Rich Countries?"
Kaddour Hadri* (Queens University Belfast)
Discussant: Miklós Koren (Cental European University)
11.15-12.15 "Volatility, Diversification and Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries"
Silvana Tenreyro (LSE), Miklós Koren (Central European University)
Discussant: Adeel Malik (Oxford)
12.15-13.15 "International Trade and Natural Resources"
Tony Venables (OxCarre), Michele Ruta*(WTO)
Discussant: Sweder van Wijnbergen (University of Amsterdam)
Session 3: Diversification
Chair: Rick van der Ploeg
14.15-15.15 "The Network Structure of Economic Output"
Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard), César Hidalgo* (Harvard)
Discussant: Adrian Wood (Oxford)
15.15-16.15 "The Risk Content of Exports: A Portfolio View of International Trade"
Julian di Giovanni (IMF), Andrei Levchenko* (University of Michigan and NBER)
Discussant: Beata Javorcik (Oxfrd)
Session 4: Public Spending in Resource-Rich Economies
Chair: Philip Daniel
16.30-17.30 "On the Contribution of Public Capital and Investment Processes in Developing Economies"
Sanjeev Gupta* (IMF), Alvar Kangur (IMF), Chris Papageorgiou (IMF), Abdoul Wane (IMF)
Discussant: Sambit Bhattacharyya (CSAE)
17.30-18.30 "Fiscal Rules, Public Investment, and Growth"
Luis Servén* (World Bank)
Discussant: Philip Daniel (IMF)
29 June
Session 4: Public Spending in Resource-Rich Economies (contd)
Chair: Ragnar Torvik
9.00-10.00 "Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War"
Massimo Morelli (Columbia University), Dominic Rohner*(IEW-Zurich)
Discussant: Anke Hoeffler (CSAE)
10.00-11.00 "Equilibrium Checks and Balances"
Daron Acemoglu (MIT), James Robinson (Harvard), Ragnar Torvik* (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Discussant: Rick van der Ploeg (OxCarre)
11.15-12.30 Join Natural Resource Charter Conference
Session on resource-rich country experiences
Andres Velasco (Harvard; Former Minister of Finance, Chile)
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