Income and education effects on different measures of diet diversity

This talk is based on research that has examined the estimated income and education effects on diet diversity and if these factors are sensitive to how diet diversity is measured.

Conspicuous consumption and satisfaction over the life cycle

Manoj K Pandey will present a PhD seminar on the study of conspicuous consumption.

On the heterogeneity of terror

Most of the existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. In this talk, Professor Guenther G Schulze will use the Global Terrorism Database to show that the determinants of terror differ strongly between terror types.

Indonesia Update 2013: Regional dynamics in a decentralised Indonesia

The 2013 Indonesia Update brings together leading experts to examine Indonesia’s regional diversity and dynamics in the wake of two far-reaching, interrelated reforms – democratisation and decentralisation – which have transformed the country’s socio-economic development and political economy.

Gasoline prices and road fatalities: Evidence for a large panel of countries

In this seminar Paul Burke will review data from 144 countries over the period 1991-2010 to present the first international estimates of the gasoline price elasticity of road fatalities.

Smallholders in the Indonesian livestock sector: A household perspective

Dr Risti Permani discusses her study on preliminary insights into cattle farm households in Indonesia using data from the 2007 Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS).

On the links between the theory of comparative advantage and the network structure of trade

The network structure of trade can be used to derive a revealed measure of economic and product complexity. These properties fundamentally rely on two characteristics of trade: country diversity and product ubiquity.

Poverty, labour markets and trade liberalisation in Indonesia

Dr Krisztina Kis-Katos measures the effects of trade liberalisation from 1993 to 2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigates the labour market mechanisms behind these effects.

Political economy of change in trade restrictiveness: Theory and evidence

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How India fits into global production sharing: Experience, prospects and policy options