Program - Central-German Doctoral Program Economics (CGDE)

March 6, 2014
CGDE Doctoral Workshop - Program (1)
Tuesday - March 11, 2014
09.45 - 10.00
Welcome Address
10.00 – 11.00
Role of Credit Markets in Poverty Reduction
Bernard Oyayo (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
Discussant: Thomas Krause (IWH)
11.00 – 12.00
GDP and The Size of the Informal Economy: Empirical
Evidence using a Dynamic Factor Model
Pablo Duarte (Leipzig University)
Discussant: Christian Ochsner (ifo Dresden)
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch Time
13.00 – 14.00
The Trickle-Down Growth Hypothesis Revisited: Publicly
Financed Higher Education versus Redistributive Transfers
Sebastian Böhm (Leipzig University), Volker Grossmann
(University of Fribourg), and Thomas Steger (Leipzig University)
Discussant: Geraldine Dany (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
14.00 – 15.00
Inequality, Growth and Democratization
Sven Baumgarten (Leipzig University)
Discussant: Mark Kirstein (TU Dresden)
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break
15.30 – 16.30
The Importance of Space in the Income InequalitySatisfaction-Relationship
Christine Kalenborn (TU Dresden)
Discussant: Maike Irrek (IWH)
16.30 – 17.30
Efficiency Losses from Decentralizing Job Placement
Services – Evidence from a German Policy Experiment
Michael Weber (ifo Dresden)
Discussant: Bastian Gawellek (Leipzig University)
17.30 – 18.30
On the political economy of revenue forecasts – Evidence
from OECD countries
Robert Lehmann (ifo Dresden)
Discussant: Alexander Fink (Leipzig University)
19.30
Informal get-together in a local pub (at your own expenses)
March 6, 2014
CGDE Doctoral Workshop - Program (2)
Wednesday - March 12, 2014
09.00 – 10.00
Migration of students and graduates and its effect on the
financing of higher education
Tina Haußen (FSU Jena) and Silke Uebelmesser (FSU Jena)
Discussant: Wolfgang Nagl (ifo Dresden)
10.00 – 10.30
Coffee Break
10.30 – 11.30
The Impact of Sovereign Default on Migration
Fabian Horn (OVGU Magdeburg)
Discussant: Stefan Gießler (IWH)
11.30 – 12.30
Commuting behavior in two-worker households
Ulrike Tenner (TU Dresden)
Discussant: Marco Sunder (Leipzig University)
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch Time
13.30 – 14.30
Allocation Methods for Indivisible Goods
Martin Kohl (Leipzig University)
Discussant: André Casajus (HHL, Leipzig University)
14.30 – 15.30
Taxation and incentives to innovate: a principal-agent
approach
Diego d'Andria (FSU Jena)
Discussant: Maria Näther (Leipzig University)
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.00
A Counterfactual Analysis of Real Effective Exchange Rates
During the Euro Era
Gregor von Schweinitz (IWH)
Discussant: Robert Lehmann (ifo Dresden)
March 6, 2014
Venue
The 2nd CGDE workshop will take place at
Universität Leipzig
Paulinum, Room P 801 (Paulinum building (8th floor) on the University campus)
Augustusplatz 10
04109 Leipzig
WORKSHOP
Get-Together
The get-together (11 March at 7:30 p.m.) will take place at the “Bayerischer Bahnhof
– Gasthaus & Gosebrauerei”. We will go there together after the end of the Workshop
program. In case you want to join us later, the address reads: Bayrischer Platz 1,
04103 Leipzig, Tel.: 0341/12457-60.
March 6, 2014
Dress Code
Casual
In case of any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact Ms. Sprenger
(0341/97 33540).
Uwe Cantner
FSU Jena
Oliver Holtemöller Andreas Knabe
OVGU
IWH & MLU
Halle-Wittenberg Magdeburg
Thomas Steger
Universität
Leipzig
Marcel Thum
TU Dresden &
ifo Dresden

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