INFER Workshop on
Modelling Economic Resilience To External Shocks
June 1, 2015, Businnes and Economics Department, University of the Azores
Jointly organized by
INFER - International Network for Economic Research
CEEAplA - Centre of Applied Economic Studies of the Atlantic
09h30 | 10h00
Opening Session (Organizing Committee, INFER Representative)
10h00 | 11h00
Keynote-speaker: Prof. Alfredo Marvão Pereira, (The College of William and Mary)
“A New Carbon Tax in Portugal: From Necessity to Virtuosity”
11h00 | 11h15
Coffee-break
11h15 | 13h00
Session I
Chair: Elias Soukiazis
Global Engagement and Returns Volatility, Alejandro Riaño
(Discussant: Mário Fortuna)
The impact of sovereign default on Migration, Fabian Horn
(Discussant: Elias Soukiazis)
The Nature of Entrepreneurship and its Determinants: Opportunity or Necessity?, Elias Soukiazis
(Discussant: Fabian Horn)
13h00 | 14h30
Lunch
14h30 | 16h00
Session II
Chair: Mário Fortuna
Assessment of Equalization Effects of Government Transfers to Portuguese Municipalities using Panel Data Methodologies, Francisco Silva
(Discussant: Alejandro Riaño)
Welfare Impacts of Road Construction Using a Public -Private Partnership: A CGE Analysis of a Project, Mário Fortuna
(Discussant: Francisco Silva)
16h00 | 16h30
Coffee-break
16h30 | 17h30
Keynote-speaker: Prof. Júlia Seixas (Nova University of Lisbon)
"Are hybrid models well equipped to assess resilience to external shocks? The case of energy and climate.”
17h30 | 18h30
Round Table “Frontiers of Modelling Economic Resilience to External Shocks”
