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Seminar on Economic History and Development

Jointly sponsored with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), the seminar series invites scholars to present research in the fields of economic history, growth and development.

Led by Professors Holger Wolf (CGES) and Tarik Yousef (CCAS), the series aims to provide perspectives from a variety of relevant disciplines, including economics, history, political science and international relations.

2004-2005 Program

• January 2005
• Dietmar Harhoff, Director, Institute for Innovation Research and Technology Management, University of Munich, "Patent Opposition in Europe - Who is Bashing Whom?"
• April 2005
• Ellen Meade, Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institute and Associate Fellow of Chatham House, "Publicity of Debate and the Incentive to Dissent: Evidence from the US Federal Reserve"
• Prof. Volker Clausen, Professor of Economics, University of Essen (Germany), "Aging in Open Economies: Comparing the US and Germany"
• Massimo Florio, Professor of Public Economics; Jean Monnet Chair of Economics of European Integration; Head of the Department of Economics, Business, and Statistics at the University of Milan, "Does Privatization Matter? The Performance of British Telecom over 40 Years"