Conferences

2016

ESOP Conference: The Future of Egalitarianism

Time and place: Oct. 27, 2016 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Toghallen, Nobel Peace Center

How can we break the vicious cycle of increasing inequality and social unrest in the world today? Is there a future for society models with low inequality and high productivity?

ESOP was awarded the Centre of Excellence (CoE) title by the Norwegian Research Council (RCN) in 2007. The research centre has throughout these years produced a vast amount of research focusing on the links between equality, social organization, and economic performance, both in rich and poor countries. The conference marks the end of the CoE- period, but the centre continues with fresh funding.

Keynote speakers 

  • Dani Rodrik, Harvard University: "Is egalitarianism possible in a globalized world?"
    • With a proper understanding of both egalitarianism and globalization, there is no fundamental conflict. We can have an open economy that favors equity – though perhaps not a hyper-globalized economy.
  • Kalle Moene, University of Oslo: "Is there a future for society models with low inequality and high productivity?"
    • It is a challenge to break the vicious cycle of increasing inequality and social unrest in the world today. Yet the future of egalitarianism is not as bleak as many believe.
  • Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University: "Can we attain equality of opportunity for immigrants?"
    • An open society should guarantee equal access to education and work opportunities to its members. An innovative program recently implemented in Italy shows that it is possible to reduce cognitive and non-cognitive barriers perceived by immigrant students and affect their educational choices. 

The keynote speeches will be followed by a panel discussion. 

Nordic Conference in Development Economics 2016

Time and place: June 13, 2016 9:00 AM – June 14, 2016 2:00 PM, Georg Sverdrups hus

Centre for the study of equality, social organization, and performance (ESOP) at the University of Oslo is organizing the 2016 Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE16) to be held 13-14 June 2016.

The Nordic Conference in Development Economics is an excellent opportunity to share ongoing research in various sub-fields of development economics with a wide range of colleagues from all Nordic countries. Researchers and PhD candidates working in other countries are also invited to the conference.

Keynote speaker: Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) : "Development economics: Why use Experiments?"

Programme Monday June 13

  • 09:00-10:30: Session 1: 
    • Corruption
      1. Ann- Sofie Isaksson: "Chinese aid and local corruption "
      2. Mengyang Zhang : "The impact of corruption on fiscal capacity using provincial panel data in China"
      3. Olga Neselevska (chair) : "Public Sector Corruption and Trust in the Private Sector"
    • Household Micro 1
      1. Anna Welander: "Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data"
      2. Charlotte Ringdal: "Is female empowerment good for child welfare?"
      3. Joe Vecci (chair): "The Fish is the Friend of Matriliny: Reef Density and Matrilineal Inheritance"
    • Finance, Insurance and Institutions
      1. Justin Valasek: "Reforming an Institutional Culture of Corruption: A Model of Motivated Agents and Collective Reputation"
      2. Katja Kalkschmied: "Rebundling Institutions: Interrelated Institutional Elements and Economic Outcomes at the Micro-Level"
      3. Anuj Pratap Singh: "Impact of Micro-insurance on Financial Outcomes and Health
      4. Benedikte Bjerge (chair): “Extreme Weather and Demand for Index Insurance in Rural India”
  • 11:00-12:15: Keynote: Development Economics: Why Use Experiments?
    • By Bertil Tungodden, Professor at the Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
  • 12:30-14:00: Session 2
    • Political and Natural Resources
      1. Nemera Gebeyehy Mamo: “Economic Consequences of Mineral Discovery and Extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is There a Curse?”
      2. Eivind Hammersmark Olsen (chair): “Early Industrialization and Protests: Evidence from African Industrial Mines”
    • Agriculture
      1. Kacana Sipangule: “Social Capital and Large-Scale Agricultural Investments: An Experimental Investigation in Zambia”
      2. Marta Kozicka: “Public Distribution System vs. Market: Analysis of Wheat and Rice Consumption in India”
      3. Ram Fishman (chair): “How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Women Farmers? Evidence from a ‘Reverse-Randomized Control Trial in Uganda”
    • Finance Micro
      1. Ggombe Kasim Munyegera: “ICT for Financial Inclusion: Mobile Money and the Financial Behavior of Rural Households in Uganda”
      2. Magnus Hatlebakk: “Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation”
      3. Tara Bedi (chair): “Access to Credit and Welfare Outcomes: Does the Gender of the Recipient Matter?”
  • 15:00-16:30: Session 3
    • Health
      1. Axel Demenet: “Health Shocks and Permanent Income Loss: The Household Business channel”
      2. Gudrun Østby: “Development Aid and Infant Mortality”
      3. Melinda Vigh (chair): “Measuring the Effectiveness of Non-randomized Policy Interventions: the Example of the One Million Initiative in Mozambique”
    • Public and Political 1
      1. Jörgen Levin: “Welfare Impact of Broadening VAT by Exempting Small-Scale Food Markets: the Case of Bangladesh”
      2. Pelle Ahlerup: “Public Goods and Tax Compliance: the Case of Local Health Care in Rwanda”
      3. Gry Østenstad (chair): “Add and Rule”
    • Aid, Inequality and Employment
      1. Rune Jansen Hagen: “Aid Dispersion: Measurement in Principle and Practice”
      2. Tuomas Malinen: “Nonlinearity and Cross-Country Dynamics of Income Inequality”
      3. Edward Asiedu (chair): “Can Employment Interventions Help Enhance Decentralized Development Participation? Evidence from Togo”
  • 17:00-18:30: Session 4
    • Household Micro 2
      1. Margaryta Klymak: “Trade Impacts of Naming and Shaming of Forced and Child Labor”
      2. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay: “Income Guarantees and Borrowing in Risky Environments. Evidence from India’s Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme”
      3. Espen Villanger (chair): ”Awareness Raising Against Domestic Violence: A Cluster Randomized Control Trial in Ethiopia”
    • Behavioral/ Experiments 1
      1. Subha Mani: “Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India”
      2. Ingrid Hoem Sjursen: “Trust and Honesty in Development. Behavioral and Survey Data from Tanzania”
      3. Jörg Langbein: “That’s my Turf: An Experimental Analysis of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries in Indonesia”
      4. Yonas Alem (chair): “Passive Learning and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India”
    • Household Micro 3
      1. Henrik Wiig: “Women Flee and Men Stay in Conflicts? A RDS sample Regression Analysis of Colombian IDPs”
      2. Saurabh Singhal: “Coffee Price Volatility and Intra-household Labour Supply: Evidence from Vietnam”
      3. Tseday Mekasha (chair): “Social Protection Programs and Household Demographic Dynamics: Capturing Unintended Outcomes”

Programme Tuesday June 14

  • 09:00-10:30: Session 5
    • Public and Political 2
      1. Matteo Alpino: “On a Mission from God: the historical roots of development aid allocation”
      2. Ola Olsson: “Tolling on the River: Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo”
      3. Felipe Starosta De Waldemar (chair): “On the Economic Consequences of Political Turnover: Evidence from Mozambican Firms”
    • Behavioral/Experiments 2
      1. Sandra Halvorsen: “Endowement Heterogenity and Efficiency in a Public Good Game of Married Couples: Evidence from Ethiopia”
      2. Utteeyo Dasgupta: “Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field”
      3. Arne Wiig (chair): “How do Voters Respond to Information on Elite Behaviour? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Tanzania”
  • 11:00-12:30: Session 6
    • Education
      1. Marine de Talancé: “Quality Perceptions and School Choice in Rural Pakistan“
      2. Nina Bruvik Westberg : “Girls’ Lead : the Role of Bride Price in Inducing on-time School Enrollment“
      3. Smriti Sharma (chair) : ”Cognitive, Non-Cognitive and Behavioral Returns to College Quality : Evidence from India“
    • Macro
      1. Marin Ferry: “Economic Volatility and Inequality: Do Aid and Remittances matter?”
      2. Miguel Nino-Zarazua: “Natural Resources, Electoral Behaviour and Social Assistance in Latin America”
      3. Neda Trifkovic: “Private Standards and Labour Productivity in the Food Sector in Vietnam”
      4. Christian Ambrosius (chair): “Do Remittances Crowd-In or Crowd-Out Public Expenditure?”
    • Climate
      1. Akampumuza Precious: “Weather Shocks and Urban Livelihood Strategies: the Gender Dimension of Household Vulnerability in the Kumi District of Uganda”
      2. Francisco Oteiza Aguirre: “Weather shocks and Agriculture: Effects and Responses in Rural Peru”
      3. Amsalu Woldie Yalew (chair): “Planned Public Adaptation to Climate Change. A CGE Analysis for Ethiopia”

2015

European Development Network Conference

Time and place: Dec. 2, 2015 9:00 AM – Dec. 4, 2015 2:00 PM, Professorboligen, UiO

The European Development Network Conference 2015 takes place in Oslo, 3-4 December 2015.

The event is hosted by ESOP in cooperation with EUDN.

The event is funded by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and The Department for Economic Relations and Development on behalf of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Programme

Wednesday 2 December

  • 14:15-18:30: Public event on International Poverty Measures

Thursday 3 December

  • 09.00: Introduction by François Bourguignon
  • SESSION 1
    • 09.10: Jean-Marie Baland, University of Namur: Firewood Collections, Forest Conditions, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Rural Nepal in 2003-2010 
    • 10.00: Amrita Dhillon, King’s College London: The Natural Resource Curse Revisited: Theory and Evidence from India 
    • 11:30: Selim Gulesci, Bocconi University: The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India
    • 12.20: Rachid Laajaj, Paris School of Economics: The Validity and Reliability of Skills Measurement in Rural Household Surveys
  • SESSION 2
    • 14.40: Stephan Klasen, University of Göttingen: The Impact of School Fees on Schooling Outcomes and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education
    • 15.30: Martina Viarengo, The Graduate Institute - Geneva: Nation-Building Through Compulsory Schooling During the Age of Mass Migration
    • 16.40: Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Paris School of Economics: Big Hits in Exports and Successful Firms
    • 17.30: EUDN General Assembly (restricted to full members)

Friday 4 December

  • SESSION 3
    • 08.45: Marie Boltz, University of Namur: Hiding Income and Informal Redistribution: A Lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal
    • 09.35: Lore Vandewalle, The Graduate Institute – Geneva: Increasing Trust in the Bank to Enhance Savings: Experimental Evidence from India
    • 10.25: Janneke Pieters, Wageningen University: The Gendered Labor Market Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Brazil
    • 11.40: Gani Aldashev, Université libre de Bruxelles: When Warm Glow Burns: Motivational (Mis)allocation in the Non-Profït Sector
    • 12.30: Jacobus De Hoop, Unicef: Can a Partial Schooling Subsidy Increase Child Labor? Experimental Evidence from the Philippines and Mexico
    • 14.30-15:30: Optional Visit to the National Gallery

The Welfare State and the Fight Against Inequality

Time and place: Nov. 8, 2015 2:00 PM – Nov. 9, 2015 7:00 PM, Columbia University

The issue of inequality has moved to the top of the policy agenda around the world. Many see the Welfare State, the most important bulwark against the increase in inequality, as under threat. What do we see as the pillars of the 21st Century welfare state?

In collaboration with the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia SIPA, the Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization and Performance at the University of Oslo, the International Labor Organization, and the Roosevelt Institute.

Additionally supported by the Ford Foundation, the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation.

Conference programme

Sunday, November 8, 2015

  • 1:15 - 1:30: Opening and Welcome
    • Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, and Chief Economist and Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
  • 1:30 - 3:00: Session I: Dreams and Nightmares: A General Theory of an Egalitarian Social Model
  • 3:00 - 4:30: Session II: Setting the scene:  From the 19th to the 21st Century Welfare State: Broader Mandates, More Instruments, Greater Challenges
  • 4:45 - 6:15: Session III: The Welfare Model: Western Europe vs. US

Monday, November 9, 2015

  • 9:00 - 10:30: Session IV: The Welfare Model in Europe: Scandinavian countries
  • 10:30 - 12:00: Session V: The Welfare Model in Latin America 
  • 1:00 - 2:30: Session VI: Going beyond: Facilitating work and protecting families and children
  • 2:45 - 4:15: Session VII: Innovations in Social Protection and Protecting the Older Persons
  • 4:15 - 5:00: The Construction of a 21st Century Welfare State  
  • Wrapping Up and Next Steps: Final Observations from the Conference Co-Chairs
    • Joseph Stiglitz (IPD)
    • Jan Svejnar (CGEG)
    • Jose Antonio Ocampo (IPD)
    • Kalle Moene (Norway)
    • Sandra Polaski (ILO)

Advances on the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution III

Time and place: June 25, 2015 – June 26, 2015, WZB, Berlin

ESOP organizes the third joint international conference with the Social Science Research Centre (WZB) and Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Berlin in July this year.

The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for the leading experts in economics and political science to meet and to exchange ideas and research results about redistribution.

This is the third joint conference focusing on the political economy of conflict and redistribution between Kai A. Konrad at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and WZB, and Kalle Moene at ESOP, UiO. WZB is the conference host.

Programme

Thursday, 25 June 2015

  • 09.45 Conference Opening 
  • 10.00 Incumbency Advantage in an Electoral Contest: Matt Cole, Ivan Pastine and Tuvana Pastine
  • 11.15 Liberty, Equality, Religiosity: Joan Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral
  • 12.00 Generalizations of the General Lotto and Colonel Blotto Games: Dan Kovenock and Brian Roberson
  • 14.00 Redistribution and Conflict: How Inequality Thwarts Collective Actions: Mariana Blanco
  • 14.45 Targeted Campaign Competition, Loyal Voters, and Supermajorities: Pierre Boyer and Kai A. Konrad
  • 16.00 How not to Build a State: Evidence from Colombia’s "False Positives": Daron Acemoglu, Leopoldo Fergusson, James Robinson Dario Romero and Juan Vargas
  • 16.45 Multiple Threats to Peace: Size Matters but not in the Way You Think: Laura Mayoral and Debraj Ray

Friday, 26 June 2015

  • 10.00 Aspirations and Inequality: Debraj Ray
  • 11.15 Ethnic Diversity, Development and Conflict: Revisiting the Evidence: José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol
  • 12.00 The Rich-poor Divide, Within-group Inequality and Conflict: Juan F. Vargas
  • 14.00 Simmering Conflicts: Halvor Mehlum and Karl Ove Moene
  • 14.45 The Political Economy of the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil: Fernanda Brollo, Eliana Laferrara and Katja Kaufmann

2013

Joint conference with WZB and Max Planck Institute

Time and place: Oct. 28, 2013 – Oct. 29, 2013, WZB, Berlin

ESOP is going to organise the conference "Advances on the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution II" with the Social Science Research Centre (WZB) and Max Planck Institute in Berlin in October this year.

The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for the leading experts in economics and political science to meet and to exchange ideas and research results about redistribution.

This is the second joint conference focusing on the political economy of conflict and redistribution between Thomas R. Cusack at WZB, Kai A. Konrad at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and WZB, and Kalle Moene at ESOP. The first joint conference was held in Berlin in June 2011.

Programme

Monday, 28 October 2013

  • 09.45 Conference Opening 
  • 10.00 Economic Crises and Fiscal Unions: Understanding Europe's Crisis: Pablo Beramendi
  • 11.15 Public Expenditure, Taxation, and Size of Government: Joan Esteban and Laura Mayoral
  • 12.00 Caps on Political Lobbying with Identity-Dependent Externalities: Bettina Klose and Dan Kovenock
  • 14.00 Choice and Over-Attribution of Individual Responsibility: Alexander W. Cappelen, Sebastian Fest, Erik O. Sørensen and Bertil Tungodden
  • 14.45 Multiple Threats to Peace: Debraj Ray
  • 16.00 Development and Domestic Terrorism: A Disaggregate Analysis: Jose G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol
  • 16.45 Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality: New data and Better Tests: Branko Milanovic

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  • 10.00 Divisive Riches: Resource Ownership, Economic Disparities, and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa: Gerald Schneider, Friederike-Luise Kelle and Tim Wegenast
  • 11.15 The Cost of Identity: Rajiv Sethi and Rohini Somanathan
  • 12.00 Guns, Lawyers, and Money: Economic Consequences of Costly Conflict: Stergios Skaperdas
  • 14.00 The Firm and the Self-Enforcing Dynamics of Crime and Protection: Halvor Mehlum
  • 14.45 The Right Type of Legislator: Andrea Mattozzi and Eric Snowberg
  • 16.00 Political Reinforcement: Karl Ove Moene

ThReD-conference 2013

Time and place: June 28, 2013 – June 29, 2013, Georg Sverdrups hus, Auditorium 2

ThReD - Theoretical Research in Development Economics, hosts their yearly conference in Oslo in June 2013 in association with ESOP.

Committe:

  • Jean-Marie Baland
  • Debraj Ray
  • Kalle Moene

Organizers: ThReD in association with ESOP and with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affiars.

Programme

Day 1: Friday 28 June

  • 09:15 - 10:15 The Salience of Savings: Focusing Effect and the Poverty Trap: Andrea Canidio
  • 10:30 - 11:30 Group Formation with Fixed Group Size: Complementarity vs. Substitutability: Christian Ahlin
  • 11:45 - 12:45 Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks: Garance Genicot
  • 14:15 - 15:15 Perspectives, Opinions, and Information Flows: Rajiv Sethi and Muhamet Yildiz
  • 15:30 - 16.30 Endogenous Insurance and Informal Relationships: Xiao Yu Wang
  • 16:45 - 17:45 Intergenerational Mobility and the Welfare State: Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan Napel 

Day 2: Saturday 29 June 

  • 09:15 - 10:15 Elite Power Sharing in Africa: Patrick Francois, Ilia Rainer, and Francesco Trebbi
  • 10:30 - 11:30 Implications for Economic Theory of Conflict. Hindu-Muslim Violence in India: Anirban Mitra and Debraj Ray
  • 11:45 - 12:45 The Battle of Regimes: Halvor Mehlum and Kalle Moene
  • 14:15 - 15:15 Compound Interest Mistakes under Risk:Karna Basu
  • 15:30 - 16:30 Status, Corruption, and Incentives: Amrita Dhillon and Antonio Nicolò
  • 16:45-17:45 Public good provision and communication in the household: Roberta Ziparo

2012

ESOP Conference on the Economics of the Nordic Model

Time and place: Sep. 14, 2012 10:00 AM – Sep. 15, 2012 4:30 PM, Oslo

Collaboration with Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies.

Programme

Friday September 14

  • 10:00 – 10:45 Nordic Model – An Interpretation: Erling Barth and Kalle Moene
  • 10:45 – 11:30 On the Measurement of Income Mobility: Rolf Aaberge and Magne Mogstad
  • 11:45 – 12:30 A Life Cycle Model of Health and Retirement: The Case of Swedish Pension Reform: Johanna Wallenius
  • 13:45 – 14:30 Nordic Model in the Information Economy: Science and Engineering, R&D and Innovation with Modest Income Differences: Richard Freeman
  • 14:30 – 15:15 Wealth Inequality in the Very Long Run: Reflections on “Nordic Exceptionalism”: Mattia Fochesato and Sam Bowles 
  • 15:30 – 16:15 Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Claus Thustrup Kreiner
  • 16:15 – 17:00 Elasticity of Earnings: Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data: Håkan Selin and Jukka Pirttilä

Saturday September 15

  • 09:30 – 10:15 Family Earnings Dynamics and the Insurance of Labor Market Shocks: Richard Blundell, Michael Graber and Magne Mogstad
  • 10:15 – 11:00 In-Work Benefits: The short and the Long Run: Ann-Sofie Kolm
  • 11:15 – 12:00 Redistributive Taxation in a Partial-Insurance Economy: Kjetil Storesletten, Jonathan Heathcote and Gianluca Violante
  • 12:00 – 12:45 Choosing Size of Government under Ambiguity: Infrastructure Spending and Income Taxation: Charles Manski
  • 14:00 – 14:45 Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?: Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad
  • 14:45 – 15:30 Kantian Equilibrium, Social Ethos, and Pareto Efficiency: John Roemer
  • 15:45 – 16:30 Trade Shocks, Regional Labor Markets and Worker Mobility: Kjell Salvanes, Ragnhild Balsvik and Sissel Jensen

6th Nordic Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics

Time: Aug. 8, 2012 – Aug. 11, 2012

The 6th Nordic Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics will be held in Strömstad, Sweden on August 8-11, 2012. This Symposium is an annual conference intended to promote the research of young Nordic researchers interested in macroeconomics and finance.

Objective

The symposium is an academic research conference in the area of macroeconomics. It is primarily aimed at promoting frontier contributions by junior macroeconomic researchers. A connection to the Nordic countries is an advantage but not a prerequisite. The symposium allows the junior researchers to present and discuss their research and to receive advice and constructive criticism from more senior macroeconomic scholars.

Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Reis, Columbia University

Topics

Papers on all topics broadly associated with macroeconomics are welcome including “standard” macroeconomic analysis (real and monetary business cycles, labor markets, growth etc.) and issues such as public finance, human capital accumulation, firm dynamics, asset pricing, heterogeneous agents, income distribution, credit markets and political economy.

Format

Long and short presentations by the junior researchers, some of which will have formal discussants, and a plenary presentation.

Organizing committee

  • Kjetil Storesletten, Dept. of Economics & ESOP, University of Oslo
  • John Hassler, IIES, Stockholm University
  • Per Krusell, IIES, Stockholm University
  • Niku Määttänen, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
  • Morten O. Ravn, University College London
  • Jon Steinsson, Columbia University
  • Johannes Elgvin, Dept. of Economics & ESOP, University of Oslo
  • Siril Kvam, Dept. of Economics & ESOP, University of Oslo (administration)

Programme

Wednesday August 8

  • 13:50 – 14:00 Welcome presentation
  • 14:00 – 14:45 The Cost of Living and its Implications for Inequality and Poverty Measures for China
    • Presenter: Ingvild Almås
  • 15:00 – 15:50 Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
    • Presenter: Hans Holter. Discussant: Paul Klein
  • 16:00 – 16:45 Fiscal Policy in an Unemployment Crisis
    • Presenter: Pontus Rendahl 
  • 17:00 – 17:50 Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation
    • Presenter: Sebastian Findeisen. Discussant: Elena Mattana

Thursday August 9

  • 09:00 – 09:45 The Financial Accelerator of Fiscal Policy
    • Presenter: Christoph Winter
  • 09:45 – 10:35 Man-Bites-Dog Business Cycles
    • Presenter: Kristoffer Nimark. Discussant: Ricardo Reis
  • 10:50 – 11:35 Bargaining over a Coca Cola - Reference Prices as a Source of Price Rigidity
    • Presenter: Emma Svensson
  • 11:35 – 12:25 Evidence of Nominal Wage Rigidity and Wage Setting from Icelandic Microdata
    • Presenter: Josef Sigurdsson. Discussant: Paolo Gelain
  • 14:00 – 14:45 Information Acquisition and Learning from Prices Over the Business Cycle
    • Presenter: Taneli Mäkinen
  • 15:00 – 16:00 Keynote address: The Role of Automatic Stabilizers in the U.S. Business Cycle
    • Presenter: Ricardo Reis
  • 16:30 The perennial Sweden-against-the-rest soccer match!

Friday August 10

  • 09:00 – 09:45 Interest Rates and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Role of Financial Frictions
    • Presenter: Adam Gulan
  • 09:45 – 10:30 The Home Bias of the Poor: Terms of Trade Effects and Portfolios Across the Wealth Distribution
    • Presenter: Tobias Broer
  • 10:50 – 11:35 Real Exchange Rate Variability in a Two-Country Business Cycle Model
    • Presenter: Håkon Tretvoll
  • 11:35 – 12:20 Financial Integration and Financial Stability
    • Presenter: Dmitriy Sergeyev
  • 14:00 – 14:45 The Power of Whispers: A Theory of Rumor, Communication and Revolution
    • Presenter: Heng Chen
  • 15:00 – 15:50 Petro Populism
    • Presenter: Gisle Natvik Discussant: Alessia Russo
  • 16:00 – 16:45 Testing Coalition-Proof Dynamic Risk-Sharing
    • Presenter: Tessa Bold
  • 17:30 Departure for conference dinner at Ekenäs Skärgårdshotell at Koster island

Saturday August 11

  • 09:00 – 09:50 Short-Time Work and the Macroeconomy
    • Presenter: Almut Balleer. Discussant: Alessandro Mennuni
  • 10:00 – 10:50 Business Cycle Dependent Unemployment Benefits with Heterogeneous Agents and Precautionary Savings
    • Presenter: Mark Strøm Kristoffersen. Discussant: Timo Boppart
  • 11:00 – 11:45 The Replacement Ratio, Unemployment and Wage Setting
    • Presenter: Vesna Corbo
  • 14:00 – 16:00 Departure of bus to Oslo Airport Gardermoen

2011

Conference on "Advances on the Political Economy of Conflict and Redistribution"

Time and place: June 9, 2011 1:00 PM – June 11, 2011 1:00 PM, Berlin

Organizers: ESOP, Max Planck Institute, Social Science Research Center Berlin

Programme

Thursday, 9 June 2011 

  • 14:00 – 14:15 Conference Opening 
  • 14:15 – 15:00 Is there Legacy from Historical Conflicts? Evidence from Africa: Tim Besley and Marta Reynal-Querol
  • 15:00 – 15:45 Aggressive Elites and Vulnerable Entrepreneurs - Trust and Cooperation in the Shadow of Conflict: Halvor Mehlum and Kalle Moene 
  • 16:15 – 17:00 The Economics of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Conflict in India: Anirban Mitra and Debraj Ray
  • 17:00 – 17:45 Social Insurance, Work Ethic, and Growth: Giacomo Corneo 

Friday, 10 June 2011 

  • 09:30 – 10:15 The Demographic Distribution of Social Preferences: Alexander W. Cappelen, Erik Ø. Sørensen* and Bertil Tungodden
  • 10:15 – 11:00 Fairness – Rules, Equilibria, and Experimental Evidence: Werner Güth
  • 11:30 – 12:15 Aspirations of the Middle Class: Voting on Redistribution and Status Concerns: Kai A. Konrad and Florian Morath
  • 12:15 – 13.00 Social Identification and Ethnic Conflict: Nicholas Sambanis and Moses Shayo
  • 14:00 – 14:45 Conflict, Democracy, and Inequality: Karl Wärneryd
  • 14:45 – 15:30 Should Poor Countries Care about Inequality? Martin Ravallion 
  • 16:00 – 16:45 Cross-border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico: Oeindrila Dube
  • 16:45 – 17:30 tba: Kai A. Konrad 

Saturday, 11 June 2011 

  • 9:30 – 10:15 Preferences for Redistribution and the Roles of Self-interest, Egalitarianism, Fairness and Incentives: Louis Putterman
  • 10:15 – 11:00 Economic Growth and the Rise of Political Extremism: Theory and Evidence: Markus Brückner and Hans Peter Grüner
  • 11:15 – 12:00 tba: Libby Wood 

Conference: "The political economy of the Gulf States: When does oil become sand in the machinery?"

Time: May 4, 2011 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

The Gulf Research Unit at The University of Oslo has the great pleasure of announcing our annual conference, this year entitled “The political economy of the Gulf States: When does oil become sand in the machinery?”. The conference will dive into questions such as; is there a resource curse at play? Does resource wealth have a negative effect on the political and economic performance of the Gulf States? And furthermore, could the resource wealth have a negative effect beyond the borders of the Gulf Region?

In an attempt to answer these questions, the speakers present their ongoing research on how the Gulf States' resource wealth relates to their migration policies, economic growth, demographic transition, regime durability, oil pricing policies and gasoline
subsidization policies.

How has resource wealth affected the migration policies of the Gulf States? Does having the majority of the population consist of foreign workers affect the democratization process in the relevant Gulf States? How does resource wealth affect the growth impact of demographic transition? To what extent can resource wealth explain regime durability in the Gulf States? What are the effects of OPEC's policy on oil extraction for the oil market? To what extent does OPEC behave strategically and what are the consequences for importers and for non-OPEC oil exporters? How is the effectiveness of transport policy instruments affected by OPEC's market power and how do different policy instruments affect oil prices? How can we explain the wasteful gasoline subsidization in the Gulf States?

Papers and presenters

  • “The political economy of Gulf democratisation”: Giacomo Luciani (Princeton University Global Scholar and Senior Consultant, Gulf Research Center, Dubai)
  • “Migration into resource rich economies”: Halvor Mehlum & Karl Ove Moene (University of Oslo)
  • “Resource rent, demographic bonus, and economic development: Theory and evidence”: Kjetil Bjorvatn (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH)) & Mohammad Farzanegan (University of Dresden)
  • ”Modeling OPEC behaviour”: Ådne Cappelen (Statistics Norway (SSB))
  • “The effects of transport regulation on the oil market - Does market power matter?”: Knut Einar Rosendahl (Statistics Norway (SSB)) (co-authored with Snorre Kverndokk)
  • “Gasoline subsidization as a political tool”: Ingrid Krüger (University of Oslo)
  • "Consequences of conflict for the MENA region": Håvard Strand (The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)) (co- authored with Scott Gates, Håvard Hegre & Håvard M. Nygård)
  • "Oil and political survival": Silje Aslaksen (University of Oslo) (co-authored with Jørgen Juel Andersen)

2010

Conference on Social Conflict in Delhi, India

Time and place: Apr. 9, 2010 9:00 AM – Apr. 10, 2010 5:00 PM, Delhi School of Economics

A CSCW/ESOP workshop in cooperation with the Delhi School of Economics on social conflict.

Programme

Day 1: Friday April 9

  • 9.30 – 11.00 a.m: Session I: Hindu-Muslim I
    • Saumitra Jha (Stanford GSB) and Steve Wilkinson (Yale): Veterans and Ethnic Cleansing in the Partition of India
    • Roma Chatterjee (DSE): Collective Violence, Rehabilitation and Community in Dharavi, Mumbai
  • 11.30 a.m – 1.00 p.m: Session II: Hindu-Muslim II
    • Deepak Mehta (DSE): Words that Wound: Archiving Hate in the Making of Hindu and Muslim Publics in Bombay
    • Anirban Mitra (NYU) and Debraj Ray (NYU): Uneven Growth: The Economics of Hindu-Muslim Conflict
  • 2.00 – 3.30 p.m: Session III: Conflict Over Resources 
    • Tapas Kundu (Oslo): Conflict and Mobility: Resource Sharing Between Groups
    • Silje Aslaksen (Oslo): Oil and Political Survival: The roles of Institutions and Appropriability
  • 4.00 – 5.30 p.m: Session IV: Naxalites
    • Nandini Sundar (DSE): Counterinsurgency and Regrouping: Experiences from India
    • Oeindrila Dube (NYU) and Suresh Naidu (UC Berkeley): Maoists, Minerals and Environmental Change

Day 2: Saturday April 10

  • 9.30 – 11.00 a.m: Session V: Strategic Violence
    • Joan Esteban (Barcelona): Strategic Mass Killings
    • Elisabeth Wood (Yale): Sexual Violence during War: Explaining Variation
  • 11.30 a.m – 1.00 p.m: Session VI. Contested Spaces
    • Amita Baviskar (IEG): Extraordinary Violence and Everyday Welfare: The State and Development in Rural and Urban India
    • Bhaskar Dutta (Warwick) Development and Land Acquisition
  • 2.00 – 3.30 p.m: Session VII: Caste and Policy
    • Zoya Hassan (JNU): Defining Social Inequalities in India: The Politics of State Response
    • Rajeev Sethi (Barnard) and Rohini Somanathan (DSE): Caste Hierarchies and Social Mobility in India
  • 4.00 – 5.30 p.m: Session VIII: Conflict and Peace
    • Halvor Mehlum (Oslo) and Kalle Moene (Oslo): Conflict, Peace and Poverty
    • Halvor Mehlum (Oslo) and Kalle Moene(Oslo): From Class Conflict to Collaboration

2009

Adam Smith on the Conditions of a Moral Society: The Interdisciplinary Adam Smith Conference

Time and place: Aug. 27, 2009 9:00 AM – Aug. 29, 2009 4:00 PM, University of Oslo

ESOP and CSMN (Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature) will organize a joint conference 27-29 August 2009 The Interdisciplinary Adam Smith Conference
celebrating the 250th anniversary of The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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