Past events
Congested (non-linear) export spillover in China: A firm-level analysis
Associate Professor Ligang Song, Director, China Economy Program, will present this paper which uses the Chinese firm-level data to investigate the possible nonlinear export spillover against the background of linear export spillover effects, which are often assumed in literature.
Is happiness really a warm gun? The political consequences of US weapons sales
Eik Swee will present a paper on the political consequences of United States weapons sales.
Economic consequences of terrorism: Geography matters
This paper analyses the effect of geography on terrorism. In particular, this paper hypothesizes that a terrorist attack in financial hubs of a country will have significantly higher economic cost than a similar attack in a remote part of the country.
Is there a Southeast Asian development model?
This paper asks the question, does it make sense to contemplate a ‘Southeast Asian development model’? Given the regional diversity, such a model does not yet exist. But over time, these countries are converging with respect to their openness, their macroeconomic management and some aspects of their social policy. This paper was prepared for a special issue of the Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies in honour of the late Dr Mahani Zainal Abidin.
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).
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