Call for Papers: 'Micro-Macro Determinants of Growthin Emerging Economies'

The UCL SSEES Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (CCSEE) is hosting its first conference on “Micro-Macro Determinants of Growth in Emerging Economies”, to take place on 20-21 June 2016, University College London (London).

The objective of this conference will be to focus on the long term and endogenous factors explaining low growth in emerging economies, in particular:

(i) Micro-macro determinant of productivity

(ii) Financial development and the resilience of financial systems to crises

(iii) Technology upgrading, i.e. the transition from efficiency-based growth towards innovation-based growth.

(iv) The integration of emerging economies into the global economy

The submission deadline is 8 April 2016.

The confirmed keynote speakers are: Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School), Chiara Criscuolo (OECD), Paul de Grauwe (LSE), Slavo Radosevic (UCL, SSEES).

More information is available on the call for papers.