Political
Economy
Training and Mobility
of Researchers Network
Workshops and
Conferences
The following workshops and conferences have been hosted by CEPR in conjunction with the Political Economy network...
The Network has organized several workshops and conferences. The network structure has been very instrumental in fostering collaboration in research and scientific interaction. Network members met at various workshops and conferences during the course of this project including:
European Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics
which was held in Sintra, Portugal in May 1999. It was partially funded by this TMR project, with substantial supplementary funding provided by Banco de Portugal.
ESSIM is an annual meeting that brings together economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for macroeconomists from different universities and countries to discuss research in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term collaborative relationships. Another important aim of ESSIM is to provide young researchers with the opportunity to meet and discuss their work with senior economists. ESSIM 1999 brought together around sixty economists for a period of four and a half days. To foster the desired interaction, participants were asked to stay for the entire duration of the Symposium. The programme combined workshop sessions with time for collaboration and consultation. (To this end, facilities were made available for collaborative research.) There were two plenary sessions each morning in which the papers with the most general appeal were presented to all participants. In the afternoons there were two parallel meetings consisting of two sessions devoted to the discussion of more specialized papers. The time during the afternoon between the plenary and the parallel sessions was available to participants to interact and work together. As in previous years, TMR Network participants contributed greatly to the success of the event, either by the presentation of high quality papers, or by taking part in the general discussion of other papers.
The
Network's Mid-Term Review Meeting
was held prior to ESSIM and was attended by senior members of each team as
well as, wherever possible, young researchers hired under the auspices of
the project.
The Political Economy of Economic Policy Conference
held in Florence in June 1997, coorganized by Gérard Roland, scientist in charge at ECARES and Ramon Marimon of EUI at Florence. This conference was mainly organized by the European Science Foundation for which Gérard Roland acted as a chairman but was also partially financed out of the TMR grant. The conference not only included partners from the TMR network but also provided an opportunity to interact with first rate scholars from the US, the UK and other European Participants. Papers were presented by members of the network:
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Bernard Caillaud (Paris) and Jean Tirole (IDEI): “Parties as Political Intermediaries”,
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Roland Bénabou (IDEI) “Unequal Societies”,
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Torsten Persson (IIES) , Gérard Roland (ECARES) and Guido Tabellini (IGIER): “Public Finance, Accountability and Comparative Politics”
There were paper presentations by 3 graduate students from the network: 2 graduate students from ECARES (Anouk Rivière and Micael Castanheira) and one from DELTA (Rüdiger Ahrend).
Other participants in the conference from the network were:
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DELTA: Gilles St-Paul , Thierry Verdier,
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IDEI: Jean-Jacques Laffont, Isabelle Brocas, David Martimort, Falconieri and Alessandro Lizzeri
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IGIER: Marco Ottaviano, Jorge Soares
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ECARES: Mathias Dewatripont, Patrick Bolton, Juan Carrillo,
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PSEPF: Alex Cukierman
This conference was an important event in Europe in the field of the analysis of political institutions and played a very important role in for the network. It was also one of the important conferences in economics in the world in 1997.
The European Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics
held in Vouliagmeni, Greece, in May 1997. This symposium, considered to be the pre-eminent European macroeconomics meeting, was attended by around 60 economists. It was partially funded by the TMR project, with substantial supplementary funding provided by the Bank of Greece.
The symposium was organized by the Scientist-in-Charge of this network, Philippe Weil (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and CEPR) in collaboration with Daniel Cohen (Université de Paris I, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and CEPR) and Francesco Giavazzi (IGIER, Università Bocconi, Milano, and CEPR). Many of the members of the network participated, together with other researchers funded by non-TMR sources. Papers were presented at this conference by network participants such as Gilles Saint-Paul (DELTA, Paris and CEPR); Tryphon Kollintzas (IMOP, Athens and CEPR); and Joseph Zeira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEPR). Other network participants contributed to the general discussions of other papers.
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