EcoMod2008

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Wednesday July 2nd

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Opening Session (Room: Goethe)
	Ali BAYAR, EcoMod Claudia KEMFERT, DIW-Berlin

09:15 – 10:30 Plenary Session (Room: Goethe)
	Chair: Durmus ÖZDEMIR, EcoMod and Istanbul Bilgi University Forecasting Economic and Financial Variables with Global VARs Hashem PESARAN, University of Cambridge, UK A Small Forward-Looking Inter-Country Model: Results and Some Methodological Reflections Wojciech CHAREMZA, University of Leicester, UK Trade, Integration, and Productivity: Challenges to Trade Theory, Empirical Models, and Policy Sherman ROBINSON, University of Sussex, UK

10:30 – 11:00 Refreshment Break

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions

Session A: Growth (Room: Goethe)
	Chair: Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHE Education and Growth: Evidence from MENA countries Rimel HEBIRI, Sami KHEDHIRI The Two Faces of R&D-Based Innovation in a Small, Open Economy. How to Stimulate Productivity? Taran FÆHN, Brita BYE, Leo Andreas GRÜNFELD Filing Strategies and Patent Value Bruno VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Nicolas VAN ZEEBROECK

Session B: General Equilibrium Modeling (Room: Meitner)

	Chair: Marcel MÉRETTE Sensitivity Analysis in Economic Simulations - a Systematic Approach Tim MENNEL, Claudia HERMELING Segmented Labour Market and Private Pension Decisions Bilge ÖZTÜRK, Renginar DAYANGAÇ An OLG-CGE Modeling Framework for Bilateral Migration Marcel MÉRETTE, Guohan ZHU

Session C: Trade Issues (Room: Humboldt)

	Chair: Knud MUNK Economic Impact of a Potential FTA Between EU and ASEAN on the German Economy Konstantin KHOLODILIN, Tanja FENDEL Effects of Tariff Reform on Sudan’s Economy: Applied General Equilibrium Analysis Azharia ELBUSHRA, Ali SALIH, Marc MULLER On the Use of Border Taxes in Developing Countries Knud MUNK

Session D: Regional Modeling (Room: Mozart)

	Chair: Carlos AZZONI A Regional Econometric Model for Belgium Dirk HOORELBEKE, Delphine BASSILIÈRE, Francis BOSSIER, Frédéric CARUSO, Ingrid BRACKE Determinants of Interregional Migration Among German States and its Implications for Reducing East-West Disparities: Results from a Panel VAR Using Efficient GMM Estimation Timo MITZE, Björn ALECKE, Gerhard UNTIEDT Non-spatial Government Policies and Regional Income Inequality in Brazil Carlos AZZONI, Raul SILVEIRA-NETO

Session E: Labor Market Issues (Room: Jesse-Owens)

	Chair: Aysit TANSEL Wage Gaps in the New Zealand Labour Market Murat GENÇ, Murray SMITH What Drives Wage Inequality? Michael STIMMELMAYR Changing Returns To Education For Men And Women In A Developing Country: Turkey, 1994, 2002-2005 Aysit TANSEL

Session F: Monetary Issues (Room: Vogt)

	Chair: Ferhan SALMAN On Some Neglected Implications of the Fisher Effect Antonio RIBBA Do Exchange Rate Regimes Matter for Inflation Persistence? Theory and Evidence from the History of UK and US Inflation PKG HARISCHANDRA, George CHOULIARAKIS Can Central Bank Interventions Affect the Exchange Rate Volatility? Multivariate GARCH Approach Using Constrained Nonlinear Programming Ferhan SALMAN, Tolga CASKURLU, Mustafa PINAR, Aslihan SALIH

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