Call for Papers – Special Issue on Developments in the Convergence and Determinants of Growth, and Productivity
The Nottingham University Business School China and Zhongnan University of Economics & Law will host a workshop on the theme of the topic above on 27-28 September 2023. The workshop will be organised as a hybrid event both in-person and online and will take place at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, in Ningbo. Following the workshop, a Special Issue of Open Economies Review will publish a selection of papers presented at the workshop in early 2024. The journal invites theoretical and empirical paper on the workshop theme to be included in this Special Issue.
Subject
The meaning and measurement of growth convergence was revisited recently at a NBER forum where Kremer et al (2021) find that the previous findings of non-convergence has been reversed and that since 1990 there has been a tendency to unconditional convergence. This finding has sparked a debate on the methodology of measuring convergence. Barro (2015) highlights that country fixed effects probably over-estimates convergence in short-span data, but fixed effects is probably right in long-span data. Acemoglu and Molina (2022) argue that a causal framework should include country fixed effects and allow for institutional and economic heterogeneity. The issue of unconditional or conditional convergence speak to whether the fundamentals of growth are complemented with variable drivers of institutions, culture, government policy, and human capital development. The Special Issue will examine the big picture of growth convergence, and its drivers but also the micro picture of industries and firms operating within a common market and regulatory framework.
Topics (include - but are not limited to)
- Demography, population growth, taxation, and fiscal policy
- Saving and investment
- Quality of institutions - rule of law, openness to markets
- Openness - International Trade; Foreign Direct Investment, Decentralisation
- Endogenous growth models, technological advances, digitisation, and microeconomic studies
- Econometric issues related to estimating growth, convergence, and drivers of growth
- Micro-studies of industries operating in a common regulatory framework, and single currency
Submission procedure
Please submit your completed paper or extended abstract by email attachment to both Bruno Deschamps (Bruno.DESCHAMPS@nottingham.edu.cn) and Kent Matthews (matthewsk@cardiff.ac.uk). The deadline for the submission for the workshop is 30 June 2023. Participants will be informed of acceptance by 31 July 2023. The deadline for submission for the Special Issue is 30 November. After a standard – but accelerated – refereeing process decisions will be made by 31 January 2024 and invited revisions will be due by 31 March 2024.
People
Guest Co-Editor: Dr Bruno Deschamps, Associate Professor in Economics, Nottingham University Business School China
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Kent Matthews, Professor in Banking, Nottingham University Business School China
Keynote speaker
Professor Ron Smith, Professor of Applied Economics, Birkbeck University of London
Professor Yong Wang, Academic Deputy Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University
PhD symposium speaker
Professor Steven Dellaportas, Professor of Accounting, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Section Editor, Journal of Business Ethics
Local organisers
Dr Kian Howe Ong, Assistant Professor in Economics, Nottingham University Business School China
Professor Baoshun Wang, Professor in Taxation, School of Public Finance and Taxation
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