MMF RESEARCH GROUP (MMF)
CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS AND FINANCE (CIMF)
SEMINAR
EUROPEAN CONVERGENCE
Winstanley Lecture Theatre,
Trinity College, Cambridge
Friday, 16th May 2008
Programme
14.00 - 16.00 Session 1
Mike Wickens: Is the Euro Sustainable?
Sebastian Dullien and Ulrich Fritsche: Are Unit Labour Cost Divergences in
EMU Pathological: Some Theoretical Considerations and Lessons from Germany
and the United States
Jon Temple: Increasing returns, structural change and convergence in Europe
16.00-16.30
Coffee
16.30 - 18.30 Session 2
Philip Arestis, Evangelia Desli and Georgios Chortareas: Efficiency and
Convergence in the EU
Luisa Corrado and Melvyn Weeks: The Emergence of Regional Convergence
Clubs across the EU: Asymptotic Versus Bootstrapped Inference
Elisabete Silva: Spatially Explicit Convergence and Divergence in the
Urban Realm at the European scale
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