The 2019 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics – VII JRC Regional Modelling Workshop, will be held in Barcelona on October 24th-25th, 2019 in “Sala de Graus Ernest Lluch”, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona.
Final programme
| Thursday, October 24th 2019 | |
| 9:30 | Welcome and opening act: Ramon Alemany (Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitat de Barcelona)
Enrique López-Bazo (AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona) and Andrea Conte (European Commission, JRC) |
| 9:45 | 1st Contributed session: Economic Growth
Chair: Enrique López-Bazo (AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Giuseppe Albanese (Bank of Italy), Guido de Blasio (Bank of Italy) and Andrea Locatelli (Bank of Italy): “Regional policy and local TFP: evidence from Southern Italy” | |
| Karen Miranda (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Miguel Manjón-Antolín (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Óscar Martínez-Ibáñez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili): “Growth, heterogeneous technological interdependence, and spatial externalities: Theory and Evidence” | |
| Olga Ivanova (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) and Mark Thissen (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency): “Predicting long-term regional growth for European NUTS2 regions using the global structural change spatial CGE model” | |
| 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:45 | 2nd Contributed session: Economic Policy
Chair: Patrizio Lecca (European Commission, JRC) |
| Filippo Boeri (London School of Economics), Marco Di Cataldo (London School of Economics) and Elisabetta Pietrostefani (London School of Economics): “Out of the darkness: Re-allocation of confiscated real estate mafia assets” | |
| Damiaan Persyn (European Commission, JRC): “Estimating wage rigidities in European regions” | |
| Michiel Gerritse (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Tinbergen Institute), Frank Van Oort (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Zhiling Wang (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Industrial Transfer Policies in China: migration, urbanization and upgrading” | |
| 13:15 | Informal lunch |
| 14:30 | 3rd Contributed session: Trade
Chair: Jorge Diaz Lanchas (European Commission, JRC) |
| José L. Zofío (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Jorge Díaz‐Lanchas (European Commission, JRC), Damiaan Persyn (European Commission, JRC) and Javier Barbero (European Commission, JRC): “Estimating Regional Trade Elasticities in the EU Internal Market Using Generalized Transport Costs” | |
| Giovanni Mandras (European Commission, JRC): “The EU Regions Integration in Global Value Chains” | |
| Michael Brei (LEM, University of Lille), Agustin Perez-Barahona (THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise & École Polytechnique) and Eric Strobl (University of Bern): “Protecting Species Through Legislation: The Case of Sea Turtles” | |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 | 4th Contributed session: Fiscal Policy
Chair: Raúl Ramos (AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Plamen Nikolov (European Commission) and Paolo Pasimeni (European Commission and Institute for European Studies (IES) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)): “Fiscal Stabilization in the United States: Lessons for Monetary Unions” | |
| Patrizio Lecca (European Commission, JRC): “Fiscal consolidation and its asymmetric regional effects” | |
| 20:30 | Workshop dinner (by invitation only). |
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Friday, October 25th 2019 |
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| 9:30 | Keynote: Alexander Lembcke (Economist, OECD): “Why do regional divides matter for national policy makers?”
Chair: Vicente Royuela (AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| 10:15 | 5th Contributed session: Social Institutions
Chair: Vicente Royuela (AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Javier Barbero (European Commission, JRC): “Quality of Government and EU regions: an impact assessment using the RHOMOLO model” | |
| Attila Varga (University of Pécs), Norbert Szabó (University of Pécs) and Tamás Sebestyén (University of Pécs): “Economic Impact Estimation of Smart Specialization Policy” | |
| Jorge Diaz-Lanchas (European Commission, JRC): “What drives the regional opposition to the European integration process?” | |
| 11:45 | Coffee break |
| 12:30 | Keynote: Marco Vivarelli (MAE, Catholic University, UNU-MERIT, IZA, GLO): “Embodied and Disembodied Technological Change: The Sectoral Patterns of Job-Creation and Job-Destruction”
Chair: Andrea Conte (European Commission, JRC) |
| 13:30 | Closing Remarks
Vicente Royuela (AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona) and Andrea Conte (European Commission, JRC) |
| 13:45 | Informal lunch |
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