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Micro-Macro Determinants of Growth in Emerging Economies
20-21 June 2016
The UCL SSEES Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (CCSEE) hosted its first conference on “Micro-Macro Determinants of Growth in Emerging Economies” on 20-21 June 2016.
The conference's objective was to focus on the long term and endogenous factors explaining low growth in emerging economies, in particular:
- Micro-macro determinant of productivity
- Financial development and the resilience of financial systems to crises
- Technology upgrading, i.e. the transition from efficiency-based growth towards innovation-based growth.
- The integration of emerging economies into the global economy
Programme and papers presented
Keynotes
Monday 20 June 2016
Elodie Douarin, Raphael Espinoza and Slavo Radosevic welcomed the participants to the first CCSEE conference at UCL SSEES.
Keynote 1: Paul de Grauwe (London School of Economics)
Keynote 2: Xiaolan Fu (University of Oxford)
Keynote 3: Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School)
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Keynote 4: Chiara Criscuolo (OECD)
- Towards the global productivity frontier: a growing gap?
Keynote 5: Slavo Radosevic (UCL SSEES)
Session 1
Monday 20 June 2016
Innovation and Learning
Chaired by Tomas Cvrcek (UCL SSEES)
- Iciar Lacasa (University of Bremen): Paths of Technology Upgrading in Emerging Economies: Analysis Based on Patent Data
- Naditha Mathew (IBIMET-National Research Council and University of Pisa): The cost-quantity relationships and the diverse models of “learning by doing” - evidence from a developing economy
- Tomas Cvrcek (UCL SSEES): Social learning and the adoption of steam power
Growth; Structural Change
Chaired by Katarina Rimegova (Institute for Strategy and Analysis, Government Office of the Slovak Republic)
- Alessandro Melcarne (University of Eastern Piedmont and the Centre for Research and Documentation "Luigi Einaudi"): Justice delayed, growth denied: evidence from a comparative perspective
- Maksym Ivanyna (Joint Vienna Institute and Michigan State University): Structural reform priorities in emerging Europe and Central Asia
- Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University), Martin Hulenyi and Katarina Rimegova (Institute for Strategy and Analysis, Government Office of the Slovak Republic): Regional economic growth in the EU: economic integration and redistribution
Session 2
MONDAY 20 JUNE 2016
Firm's growth and internationalisation
Chaired by Cagatay Bircan (EBRD)
- Olivier Lamotte (Paris School of Business): From shadow to light: theimpact of informal economy on the export propensity of emerging economy firms
- Emanuele Pugliese (Institute of Complex Systems, CNR, Rome): Growing wise: firm's scope, coherence and performance in India
- Naditha Mathew (IBIMET-National Research Council and University of Pisa): Determinants of export market participation: the case of India
- Cagatay Bircan (EBRD): Trade liberalisation and reallocation: the role of foreign ownership
Transition by Innovation
Chaired by Tomasz Mickiewicz (Aston Business School)
- Ivan Yegorov (Ukraine Institute of Economy and Forecasting): National Report 'Innovation Ukraine 2020'
- Attila Havas (Institute of Economics, CERS, HAS): STI policies and framework conditions for innovation - It takes (at least) two to improve innovation performance
- Esin Yoruk (Coventry Business School, University of Coventry): Technology upgrading of middle-income economies: a new framework and evidence
- Jae-Yong Choung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology): Key activities for trasnition from catch-up to post catch-up
Session 3
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Financial Development
Chaired by Euguene Nivorozhkin (UCL SSEES)
- Yuemei Ji (UCL SSEES): Moral hazard and Chinese local government debt: an empirical analysis using urban construction investment bonds
- Ergys Islamaj (World Bank, Research Department): Sectoral economic ownturns and costs of financial crises
- Euguene Nivorozhkin (UCL SSEES): The Russian stock market in the aftermath of the Ukrainian crisis
Productivity growth and spillovers
Chaired by Edvard Orlic (Bournemouth University)
- Hanna Morsy (EBRD): Growing without changeing: a tale of Egypt's weak productivity growth
- Edvard Orlic (Bournemouth University): Cross sectoral FDI spillovers and their impact on manufacturing productivity
Session 4
Tuesday 21 June 2016
Productivity and Innovation Chaired by Martin Kilduff (UCL School of Management)
- Helena Schweiger (EBRD): The role of innovation and management practices in determining firm productivity in developing economies
- Randolph Bruno (UCL SSEES): Determinants of productivity gap in the EU: a multilevel perspective
Human Capital Chaired by Marcela Veselkova (Institute for Strategy and Analysis, Government Office of the Slovak Republic)
- Sultan Orazbayev (UCL CLIE): International knowledge flows and the administrative barriers to mobility
- Chiara Amini (UCL SSEES): A comparative analysis of health services in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and Senegal
- Marcela Veselkova (Institute for Strategy and Analysis, Government Office of the Slovak Republic): Impact of European Funds on Student Performance in Slovakia