NYU Development Research Institute 2015 Annual Conference:
Beyond the Nation State
How traders, migrants and ethnic networks are driving economic growth in the developing world
Friday, November 13, 2015 from 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Kimmel Center Rosenthal Pavilion
10th Floor, 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
NYU Development Research Institute cordially invites you to attend our 2015 Annual Conference, titled “Beyond the Nation State: How traders, migrants and ethnic networks are driving economic growth in the developing world.”
Conference Agenda:
8:30am – 9:00am Registration and Breakfast
9:00am – 9:15am Conference Introduction by NYU Provost David W. McLaughlin
9:15am – 10:45am Session 1:
Diego Daruich (New York University), William Easterly (New York University), and Ariell Reshef (University of Virginia) – “The Surprising Size and Instability of Hyper-Specialization in Exports”
Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School), Thorsten Beck (Cass Business School, London), and Charles W. Calomiris (Columbia Business School) – “Foreign Bank Entry and Entrepreneurship“
10:45am – 11:15am Coffee break
11:15am – 12:45pm Session 2:
Yaw Nyarko (New York University) – “Cross-border Technology Flows for Success: The African Mobile Revolution”
Michael Clemens (Center for Global Development), *paper with Lant Pritchett (Harvard Kennedy School) – “The Economic Case for Migration Restrictions“
12:45am – 1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm – 3:15pm Session 3:
Hui Kian Kwee (University of Toronto) – “Socio-Religious Institutions and Economic Migration: Case Study of the Bai Clansmen from Anxi, Fujian in Southeast Asia, c. 1880-present“
Cheikh Anta Babou (University of Pennsylvania) – “The Murid Ethic and the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: Faith, Business and Mobility among Murid Immigrants in Gabon”
3:15pm – 3:30pm Coffee break
3:30pm – 5pm Session 4:
Stylianos Michalopoulos (Brown University), *paper with Louis Putterman and David N. Weil (Brown University) – “The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University) – “Education and Long-term Social Mobility in Benin”
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