New School / UMass Amherst Graduate Workshop in Economics

ecember 2-3, 2006

Download the workshop agenda here.

Gordon Hall, third floor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
418 N. Pleasant Street
for directions, please click here

The workshop gives graduate students an opportunity to present and discuss their work in a collaborative environment. Papers available as of November 30:

Abdullah Almounsor
A Development Comparative Approach to Capital Flight: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa, 1970-2002

Fatma Gul Unal
Small is Beautiful: Evidence of Inverse Size Yield Relationship in Rural Turkey
additional file with appendices

Armagan Gezici
Investment under Liberalization: Channels of Uncertainty and Liquidity

Florian Kaufmann
Staying Attached or Not: Conceptualizing, Measuring and Explaining Migration Intensity 

Tarron Khemraj
Excess Liquidity, Oligopoly Banking and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy

Maeve Powlick
Multigenerational Traps and Youth Empowerment: Development across Generations

Wesley Pech & Marcelo Milan
Behavioral Economics and the Economics of Keynes

Rohit
Concentration, Conflict & Consumption

Elizabeth Stanton
Accounting for Inequality: A Proposed Revision of the Human Development Index

Matthew Dufour
Behavioral Explorations in a Realm of Fundamental Uncertainly: A Reappraisal of the 200-2001 Financial Crisis in Turkey
additional file with graphs and tables

Ahmed Moustafa
Does Income Inequality Effect the Composition of Growth? The Case of Egypt

For more information, please contact Peter Skott at pskott@econs.umass.edu, or 413.545.0739.