Growth Trends and Systematic Pattern of Booms and Busts – Testing 200 Years of Business Cycle Dynamics presented by Marlon Fritz at the 11. ifo Dresden Workshop Makroökonomik und Konjunktur in Dresden

An Economic Theory of "Destabilization War" presented by Thomas Gries at the 54th Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society, March 2-5, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana

An Economic Theory of "Destabilization War" - Compromise for Peace versus Conventional, Guerilla, or Terrorist Warfare presented by Thomas Gries at the 2016 Annual International Conference of the Research Group on Development Economics, June 3-4, 2016, at Heidelberg University Heidelberg - Verein für Socialpolitik

Secular Stagnation? Statistical Evidence for an Unprecedented Phenomenon presented by Thomas Gries at the RCEF 2016 (Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance), September 16-18, 2016, at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario

Participating in the Benefits of Technical Change and Innovations, was Technical Change Social Inclusive? - A Global perspective presented by Thomas Gries at the 17. Göttinger Workshop "Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen" at the Georg-August University Göttingen

Resource price shocks, poor governance and private sector development. A simple model of resource curse presented by Natasa Bilkic and Thomas Gries at the Growth and Development Workshop Economic Growth and Development: The Structural and Institutional Factors and Money and Finance Workshop, The Great Recession: Moving Ahead, May 21-22, 2015 at the Rimini Centre For Economic Analysis at thePalacongressi DI Rimini in Rimini

Oppressive Governments, US Closeness, and Anti-US Terrorism presented by Margarete Redlin at the Jahrestagung des Vereins für Sozialpolitik, Hamburg, 7-10. September, 2014.

Maritime Piracy: Socio-Economic and Institutional Determinants presented by Margarete Redlin at the 51st Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society, Charleston, USA, 6-9. März, 2014.

Destructive Agents, Finance Firms and Systemic Risk by Thomas Gries at he 6th IFABS Conference on Alternative Futures For Global Banking, June 18-20, 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal

November, 13, 2013, Oxford, England: OxCarre BB Seminar, Thomas Gries: The resource curse: price volatility, poor governance and private sector development – A simple model

July, 22-27, 2013, Paris, France: 13th Annual SAET Conference, Thomas Gries: Theory of Entrepreneurship in Fragile States

June 21 2013, Paderborn, Germany: Oikos Hochschultag, Thomas Gries: Definition des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs aus ökonomischer Perspektive

May 02.-04, 2013, Florence, Italy: Conference Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Britta Hoyer: Network Disruption and the Common Enemy Effect - An Experiment and Eugen Dimant: Individual Corruptibility and Ambiguous Earnings - An Experimental Approach

February 23-26, 2013, Baton Rouge, USA: 4th Louisiana State University Conference on Networks, Britta Hoyer: Strategic Network Disruption and Defense

The Option to Attack: a Dynamic Decision Model of Keeping Peace or Turning Violent under Large Uncertainties presented by Thomas Gries at the Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference, June 24-26, 2013 in Milan, Italia

September 09-12, 2012, Göttingen, Germany: Verein für Sozialpolitik, Natasa Bilkic: When to Attack an Oppressive Government?

August 27-31, 2012, Málaga, Spain: European Economic Association & Econometric Society in Malaga, Natasa Bilkic: When to Attack an Oppressive Government?

Februar 27-29, 2012, Duisburg, Germany: 5th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics, Rainer Grundmann: Trade and Fertility: The Impact of Exports and Export Structures

June 18-19, 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden: 11th Nordic Conference in Development Economics, Rainer Grundmann: Trade and Fertility in Developing Countries.

Rainer Grundmann, 2012: University of Washington, Seattle, USA, International Conferences "China and the World Economy" and "The Global Economy", March 16 - 18, 2012. Topic: Trade and Fertility: Effects of Exports and Export Structure.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2012: Miami, Florida (USA), SECOND WORLD CONGRESS OF THE PUBLIC CHOICE SOCIETY, March 8-11, 2012, topic:Forces of Good and Evil: U.S. Economic and Politico-Military Power, Globalization, and Anti-American Terrorism.

Natasa Bilkic, 2012: Miami, Florida (USA), SECOND WORLD CONGRESS OF THE PUBLIC CHOICE SOCIETY, March 8-11, 2012, topic: When to Attack an Oppressive Government?

Trade Openness and Economic Growth: A Panel Causality Analysis presented by Margarete Redlin at the Economics und Management Vortragsreihe, Universität Paderborn, 12. Dezember, 2012.

Thomas Gries, 2010: Singapore, International Workshop on Inequality and Low Carbon Economy, Nanyang Technological University, 21-22 December 2010, topic: Explaining Inter-Provincial Migration in China.

Prof. Gries, 2010: Kopenhagen, Impacts, Responses & Initial Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Low Income Countries, October 14-15, 2010, topic: Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis.

Natasa Bilkic, 2010: Glasgow, 25th Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association, August 23-26, 2010, topic: Stay in School or Start Working? - The Human Capital Investment Decision under Uncertainty and Irreversibility.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2010: Hamburg, Hamburg Lectures on Law and Economics, June 10, 2010, topic: Linkages between Financial Deepening, Trade Openness, and Economic Development: Causality Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2010: Quebec, 44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, May 28, 2010, topic: From More Butter to Less Guns, from More Guns to Less Butter? Causality between Terrorism and Economic Development.

Thomas Gries, 2010: Kyoto, Japan; Kyoto Workshop, April 10-12, Topic: Education and Income Distribution ? A Comparison of Germany and Europe.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2010: Brussels, Brussels Tax Forum, March 1-2, 2010, topic: 'Successful schemes for negotiating tax reforms: what can we learn from the economic literature?.

Thomas Gries, 2009: Berlin, Workshop zum Thema Zukunftsfähige Wirtschaftspolitik Deutschlands, November 4, 2009

Yuanhua Feng, 2009: Wuppertal, Tagung Statistische Woche 2009, October 5-8, 2009, topic: Modelling financial time series with SEMIFAR-GARCH model

Thomas Gries, 2009: Beijing, China; China and the Changing Landscape of the World Economy - Confucianism and Financial Crisis Management, September 26, Topic: Relative Poverty in Urban China: The Case of Shenzhen

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: Magdeburg, Jahrestagung 2009 des Vereins für Socialpolitik September 8-11,2009, topic: Tax Rate Harmonization and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction

Daniel Meierrieks, 2009: Magdeburg, Jahrestagung 2009 des Vereins für Socialpolitik, September 8-11, 2009, topic: Terrorism in the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.

Thomas Gries, 2009: Magdeburg, Jahrestagung 2009 des Vereins für Socialpolitik, September, 8-11, topic: Stay at school or start working? ? optimal timing of leaving school under uncertainly and irreversibility.

Natasa Bilkic, Margarethe Pilichowski, 2009: Stirling (Scottland), INFER CONFERENCE, September 4-6, 2009, topic: Stay at school or start working?- Optimal timing of leaving school under uncertainty and irreversibility.

Stefan Jungblut, 2009: Dublin (Irland), Chinese Economic Association, The Inaugural CEA and 20th CEA (UK) Annual Conference, July 23-24, 2009, topic: Exchange rate and monetary policies, reserve accumulation and the stability of economic development

Thomas Gries, 2009: Venice, CESifo workshop Venice, Juli 8-9, 2009, topic: Stay at School or Start Working?

Manfred Kraft, 2009: Jena, Verein für Sozialpolitik: Jahrestagung des Ausschusses für Evolutorische Ökonomik, Juli 2-4, 2009, Korreferat zu Schnellenbach/Baskaran/Feld: ?Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: Universität Magdeburg, Fakultätsseminar, Juni 30, 2009, topic: Unemployment, Migration and Education.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: Marseille, Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Juni 15-16, 2009, topic: Tax Rate Harmonization and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction.

Tim Krieger, 2009: Tübingen, Ökonomischer Workshop der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen , April 29, 2009, topic: The Role of Mobility in Tax and Subsidy Competition.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: München, CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 24-26, 2009, topic: Tax Rate Harmonization and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2009: Athen (Griechenland), European Public Choise Society (EPCS 2009), University of Athens, April 2-5, 2009, topic: Causal Linkages Between Domestic Terrorism, Investment and Economic Growth.

Sonja Lück, 2009:Uni Münster, 11 Workshop der wissenschaftlichen Kommission Hochschulmanagement des VHB, Februar 20-21, 2009, topic: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zur studentischen Modulevaluation.

Elmar Lukas, 2009: Berlin, hält einen Vortrag im Rahmen einer Tagung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Internationales Management in VHB an der ESCP-EAP Europäische Wirtschaftsschule, Februar 12, 2009, topic: Gradual Foreign Market Commitment under Uncertainly: The Case of International Joint...mehr »

Am 18.12.08 um 17:00 Uhr im Hörsaal B1 halten Prof. Dr. T. Gries, Prof. Dr. W. Eggert, Prof. Dr. Claus-Jochen Haake und PD Dr. S. Jungblut Vorträge zur Finanzkrise in Form einer Podiumsveranstaltung.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2008:Universität Paderborn, Finanzwirtschaftliches Forschungskolloquium, November 14, 2008, topic: Terror in the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.

Günther König, 2008: Universität Mannheim, Workshop des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Institutionelle Gestaltung föderaler Systeme", November, 2008, topic: Infrastructure Subsidies and Intergration in the EU.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: University of Copenhagen, Zeuthen Workshop in Public Economics, October 31, 2008, topic: Coordination and Competition with Decentralized Profit Taxation in a Repeated Game Setting.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2008: Brüssel; Network for the Economic Analysis of Terrorism- Workshop, September 22, 2008, topic: What Causes Terrorism?

Steffen Minter, 2008:Maastricht, 64th Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance, August 22-25, 2008, topic: Border Enforcement and Immigration Amnesties in an Economic Union.

Günther König, 2008: Maastricht, 64th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, August 22-25, 2008, topic: Infrastructure Investment and Integration in the EU.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: Nagoya (Japan), Nagoya University - International Conference on ?Economic Integration, Trade and Spatial Structure?, August 16-21, 2008, topic: International Tax Policy Coordination and Tax Harmonization.

Stefan Gravemeyer, Thomas Gries, Jinjun Xue 2008:Universität Paderborn, Workshop: Income Distribution and Environment Governance in Asia, Aug. 2008, topic: Discrimination, Income Determination and Inequality The case of Shenzhen.

Thomas Gries and Margarete Redlin, 2008:Universität Paderborn, Workshop: Income Distribution and Environment Governance in Asia, Aug. 2008, topic: China?s provincial disparities and the determinants of provincial inequality.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: Forschungsaufenthalt am ifo Institut (München), März 25-28, 2008. mehr »

Thomas Gries, 2008:University of Cambrigde, UK: The 19 th CEA Annual Conference ?China´s Three Decades of Economic Reform (1978-2008), April 1-2, 2008, topic: China´s provincial disparities and the determinants.

Günther König, 2008: Forschungsaufenthalt am ifo Institut(München), März 25-28, 2008. mehr »

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: Sapporo University (Japan),  präsentiert ein Papier im Fakultätsseminar. Februar 21, 2008.Titel des Papiers: "Tax Competition When Politicians Create Rents to Buy Political Support?

Tim Krieger, Michael Gorski (with Thomas Lange), 2007: Venice (Italy), CESifo/Venice Summer Institute Workshop on Longevity and Annuitization, 16-17 July, 2007, topic: Pensions, Education and Life Expectancy

Wolfgang Eggert, Tim Krieger, 2007 (with Volker Meier): Munich (Germany), CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 18-20, 2007, topic: Education, Unemployment and Migration.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Gries wird bei der Tagung der Nationalökonomischen Gesellschaft (NoeG) in Klagenfurt einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Regional Disparity and World Market Integration in China - A Model of Endogenous Regions with Labor Market Frictions and Path Dependency" halten.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eggert wurde als Mitglied in den Finanzwissenschaftlichen Ausschuss des Verein für Socialpolitik aufgenommen.

Wolfgang Eggert: Gastvortrag im wissenschaftlichen Kolloquium der Universität Linz, Titel: "Does Tax competition increase public sector efficiency?", am 10. Januar 2007

Tim Krieger: Präsentation auf der Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik (26.-29.9.2007 in Bayreuth), "Public pensions and return migration"

Wolfgang Eggert: Presentation at 62nd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (28.-31.8.2007 Paphos, Zypern), "Corporate Tax Systems and Cross Country Profit Shifting: Formula Apportionment vs. Separate Accounting"

International Workshop on Economic Growth and Income Convergence across Cities and Towns in South Africa. June 6th 2006, University of Paderborn, C5.221 Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Th. Gries in co-operation with the Research Unit "Work Well: Research Unit for People, Policy and Performance" North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa. Gefördert von der Volkswagenstiftung

Ganztägiger Workshop des Lehrstuhls für Finanzwissenschaften. 24.03.2006 in Raum C5.221. Der Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft veranstaltet in Zusammenarbeit mit Herrn Prof. Gries und seinen Mitarbeitern vom Lehrstuhl für Internationale Wachstums- und Konjunkturtheorie einen ganztägigen Workshop für alle interessierten Professoren und Studenten der der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Paderborn.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Reiß: Dynamics and E-Learning, Vortrag bei der Tagung der American Economic Association, Boston (MA), 06. - 08. Januar 2006

2006: Perth, Western Australia, 35th Australian Conference of Economists, topic: Persistent bank concentration and limited growth of SMEs in Russia

2006: Beijing, WTO, China, and the Asian Economies, IV: Economic Integration and Economic Development, topic: Reducing Regional Disparity through WTO?-Endogenous Formation of Regions, Labour Market Frictions and Multiple Equilibria

International Conference " Korea and the World Economy", University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 10.-12.12.2005. On the Dynamics of Innovative Strategic Alliances in Korea, Vortrag von B.M. Gilroy und E. Lukas

2005: Frankfurt, Tagung des Ausschusses, topic: FDI and Endogenous Formation of Regions in Developing Countries

2004: Beijing, Sino-German Conference: Technical Innovation and Management, topic: International Technology Spill-Over, Regional Agglomeration and Development

2004: Oxford, Centre for the Study of African Economies, topic: The Economic Geography and Determinants of Manufactured Exports from South Africa. The questions that this paper seeks to address is: how did the various sub-national regions in South Africa benefit from rising manufacturing exports since 1994, and what factors determines the differential manufacturing export performance of South Africa?s sub-national regions? Based on various theoretical models of the possible determinants of differential export performance across subnational regions, we estimate the determinants of exports (across 354 magisterial districts in South Africa using panel data over the period 1996 to 2000. We estimate two models, a ?Skills-to-Land Heckscher Ohlin Model? following Wood and Berge (1997) and a ?Geography Hecksher-Ohlin-Von Thünen model? following Redding and Venables (2003) and the new trade theory. We find that only 22 magisterial districts in South Africa is responsible for 85% of the country?s manufacturing exports, and that the geography-new trade theory model (with distance, market effects and fixed costs) offers a better explanation for the manufactured export performance of the country?s magisterial districts. We conclude that those magisterial districts in South Africa that will contribute more towards generating manufactured exports, are those that are larger in terms of economic size, with good foreign market access and know-how of foreign markets, that faces competitive transport costs on their exports (and imports) and that has a good local institutional support framework, such as an local government that creates the right conditions for fixed investment.

2004: Brussels, Workshop, Economic Integration, Innovation Dynamics and Growth, topic: Interbank Market Frictions, International Banks and Growth in Economies in Transition

2003: St. Petersburg, Comments on: Edward M. Graham, Do Export Processing Zones Attract FDI and its Benefits?

2003: Oita, Japan, Symposium University of Oita, topic: Imperfect Financial Intermediation and Growth ? an Analysis of the sluggish Growth in Japan and Germany in the 90s

2002: Seattle, Western Economic Association, topic: Employment Effects of Factor Mobility ? a Theoretical Analysis with Heterogeneous Labor. In many countries the gap between the unemployment rates and/or wages for skilled and unskilled labor increased over the past two decades. While there is an extended literature on the effects of trade integration on employment, little is known about the effects of factor mobility on different skill segments of the labor market. Adopting the flow approach to labor markets, we develop a model of persistent structural unemployment. Two segments of the labor market are distinguished, one for skilled and one for unskilled workers. For each segment the long term unemployment equilibrium is derived. Allowing for international factor mobility we analyze the effect of capital mobility and labor migration on relative factor prices, optimal factor allocation and the opportunity costs of vacancies in the different segments of the labor market. The main finding is that skilled labor will always gain from increasing capital mobility while the effects for the unskilled is ambiguous. The ambiguous effect for unskilled is the result of a general positive effect of capital mobility on aggregate employment and a negative reallocation affecting the unskilled: The negative effect can be reduced or even reversed if capital mobility is complemented by policies like additional human capital investments. Labor mobility affects the own segment negatively: Unskilled/skilled mobile labor negatively affects the unskilled/skilled labor market segment. The cross effects are non symmetric: The mobility of skilled can affect unskilled positively as well as negatively. The mobility of unskilled has no effect on the skilled labor market segment.

2002: Duisburg, Workshop: Information Technologies and Globalization, Comments on: Freund, C.L. / Weinhold, D., Internet Dynamics, Trade and Globalization

2001: Johannesburg, South African Economic Association, topic: Catching-up, Falling Behind, and the role of FDIs. This paper intends to focus on the role of FDIs for the development process. We introduce a short theoretical model which gives an idea of some stylized development mechanisms as well as the effects of the domestic factors and FDIs on the development process. The model captures a convergence as well as divergence regime. As the country is backward the R&D sector is describing the imitating process. Foreign direct investments, human capital and technological spill over effects are important factors for the production of the national good as well as for the imitation of technologies. It is shown that the economy will face a divergence regime as long as the domestic factor, human capital endowment, is below a critical level. Although FDIs are important for the process of catching?up the switching condition for upgrading as well as the national level of the technological position is solely determined by the stock of domestic resources. Without a sufficient domestic factor, no take off to a dynamic catching-up process takes place. Therefore the results emphasize the importance of the domestic factor. The role of FDIs may be generally overestimated, especially with respect to the question of convergence or divergence. Having reached this critical level of human capital, the process of upgrading towards the industrialized world is not linear, but s-shaped. Successful catching up requires the closing of the technological gap towards the leading countries of the industrialized world. FDIs are important for the level and speed of GDP growth Therefore, political risks and increasing uncertainty will lead to a decreasing level of FDIs and will reduce the path as well as the steady?state income level of the economy

International Trade and Unemployment in a Vintage Growth Model presented by Thomas Gries at the 72nd Annual Conference, July 9-13, 1997 in Seattle, Washington

Catching Up. Capital Formation and Structural Change presented by Thomas Gires at the International Conference of the university of Potsdam, October 13-14, 1995 in Potsdam, Germany

Quantitative Economics Days

held on the 4th and 5th of April, 2017. The QEDs are a workshop aimed at researchers who use econometrics, experiments or mathematical models.

November, 13, 2013, Oxford, England: OxCarre BB Seminar, Thomas Gries: The resource curse: price volatility, poor governance and private sector development – A Simple Model

July, 22-27, 2013, Paris, France: 13th Annual SAET Conference, Thomas Gries: Theory of Entrepreneurship in Fragile States

June 21 2013, Paderborn, Germany: Oikos Hochschultag, Thomas Gries: Definition des Nachhaltigkeitsbegriffs aus ökonomischer Perspektive

May 02.-04, 2013, Florence, Italy: Conference Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Britta Hoyer: Network Disruption and the Common Enemy Effect - An Experiment and Eugen Dimant: Individual Corruptibility and Ambiguous Earnings - An Experimental Approach

February 23-26, 2013, Baton Rouge, USA: 4th Louisiana State University Conference on Networks, Britta Hoyer: Strategic Network Disruption and Defense

September 09-12, 2012, Göttingen, Germany: Verein für Sozialpolitik, Natasa Bilkic: When to Attack an Oppressive Government?

August 27-31, 2012, Málaga, Spain: European Economic Association & Econometric Society in Malaga, Natasa Bilkic: When to Attack an Oppressive Government?

Februar 27-29, 2012, Duisburg, Germany: 5th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics, Rainer Grundmann: Trade and Fertility: The Impact of Exports and Export Structures

June 18-19, 2012, Gothenburg, Sweden: 11th Nordic Conference in Development Economics, Rainer Grundmann: Trade and Fertility in Developing Countries.

Rainer Grundmann, 2012: University of Washington, Seattle, USA, International Conferences "China and the World Economy" and "The Global Economy", March 16 - 18, 2012. Topic: Trade and Fertility: Effects of Exports and Export Structure.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2012: Miami, Florida (USA), SECOND WORLD CONGRESS OF THE PUBLIC CHOICE SOCIETY, March 8-11, 2012, topic:Forces of Good and Evil: U.S. Economic and Politico-Military Power, Globalization, and Anti-American Terrorism.

Natasa Bilkic, 2012: Miami, Florida (USA), SECOND WORLD CONGRESS OF THE PUBLIC CHOICE SOCIETY, March 8-11, 2012, topic: When to Attack an Oppressive Government?

December 12, 2011, Paderborn, Germany: Economics and Management Workshop, Margarete Redlin: Trade Openness and Economic Growth: A Panel Causality Analysis

Thomas Gries, 2011: Maastricht (Niederlande), MsM 1st. Annual Research Conference, November 10-12, 2011. Topic: Climate and Industrial Policy in an Asymmetric World.

Rainer Grundmann, 2011: Paris (France), International Conference on New Evidence on Poverty Traps at the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), October 6 & 7, 2011. Topic: Economic Development and Population Dynamics: Causality Evidence from African Count

Thomas Gries, 2011: San Diego (USA), Western Economic Association International 86th Annual Conference, June 29 ? July 3, 2011, topic: Enterpreneurs, Endogenous-Institutions ans Market Efficiency.

Thomas Gries, 2011: Peking (China), International Symposium on Income Distribution and Economic Turning Point in China, October 30 & 31. Topic: Poverty and income inequality in China.

Thomas Gries, 2010: Singapore, International Workshop on Inequality and Low Carbon Economy, Nanyang Technological University, 21-22 December 2010, topic: Explaining Inter-Provincial Migration in China.

Prof. Gries, 2010: Kopenhagen, Impacts, Responses & Initial Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Low Income Countries, October 14-15, 2010, topic: Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and a Global Economic Crisis.

Natasa Bilkic, 2010: Glasgow, 25th Annual Meeting of the European Economic Association, August 23-26, 2010, topic: Stay in School or Start Working? - The Human Capital Investment Decision under Uncertainty and Irreversibility.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2010: Hamburg, Hamburg Lectures on Law and Economics, June 10, 2010, topic: Linkages between Financial Deepening, Trade Openness, and Economic Development: Causality Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2010: Quebec, 44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, May 28, 2010, topic: From More Butter to Less Guns, from More Guns to Less Butter? Causality between Terrorism and Economic Development.

Thomas Gries, 2010: Kyoto, Japan; Kyoto Workshop, April 10-12, Topic: Education and Income Distribution ? A Comparison of Germany and Europe.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2010: Brussels, Brussels Tax Forum, March 1-2, 2010, topic: 'Successful schemes for negotiating tax reforms: what can we learn from the economic literature?.

Thomas Gries, 2009: Berlin, Workshop zum Thema Zukunftsfähige Wirtschaftspolitik Deutschlands, November 4, 2009

Yuanhua Feng, 2009: Wuppertal, Tagung Statistische Woche 2009, October 5-8, 2009, topic: Modelling financial time series with SEMIFAR-GARCH model

Thomas Gries, 2009: Beijing, China; China and the Changing Landscape of the World Economy - Confucianism and Financial Crisis Management, September 26, Topic: Relative Poverty in Urban China: The Case of Shenzhen

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: Magdeburg, Jahrestagung 2009 des Vereins für Socialpolitik September 8-11,2009, topic: Tax Rate Harmonization and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction

Daniel Meierrieks, 2009: Magdeburg, Jahrestagung 2009 des Vereins für Socialpolitik, September 8-11, 2009, topic: Terrorism in the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.

Thomas Gries, 2009: Magdeburg, Jahrestagung 2009 des Vereins für Socialpolitik, September, 8-11, topic: Stay at school or start working? ? optimal timing of leaving school under uncertainly and irreversibility.

Natasa Bilkic, Margarethe Pilichowski, 2009: Stirling (Scottland), INFER CONFERENCE, September 4-6, 2009, topic: Stay at school or start working?- Optimal timing of leaving school under uncertainty and irreversibility.

Stefan Jungblut, 2009: Dublin (Irland), Chinese Economic Association, The Inaugural CEA and 20th CEA (UK) Annual Conference, July 23-24, 2009, topic: Exchange rate and monetary policies, reserve accumulation and the stability of economic development

Thomas Gries, 2009: Venice, CESifo workshop Venice, Juli 8-9, 2009, topic: Stay at School or Start Working?

Manfred Kraft, 2009: Jena, Verein für Sozialpolitik: Jahrestagung des Ausschusses für Evolutorische Ökonomik, Juli 2-4, 2009, Korreferat zu Schnellenbach/Baskaran/Feld: ?Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: Universität Magdeburg, Fakultätsseminar, Juni 30, 2009, topic: Unemployment, Migration and Education.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: Marseille, Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Juni 15-16, 2009, topic: Tax Rate Harmonization and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction.

Tim Krieger, 2009: Tübingen, Ökonomischer Workshop der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen , April 29, 2009, topic: The Role of Mobility in Tax and Subsidy Competition.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2009: München, CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 24-26, 2009, topic: Tax Rate Harmonization and Asymmetric Tax Competition for Profits with Repeated Interaction.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2009: Athen (Griechenland), European Public Choise Society (EPCS 2009), University of Athens, April 2-5, 2009, topic: Causal Linkages Between Domestic Terrorism, Investment and Economic Growth.

Sonja Lück, 2009:Uni Münster, 11 Workshop der wissenschaftlichen Kommission Hochschulmanagement des VHB, Februar 20-21, 2009, topic: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie zur studentischen Modulevaluation.

Elmar Lukas, 2009: Berlin, hält einen Vortrag im Rahmen einer Tagung der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Internationales Management in VHB an der ESCP-EAP Europäische Wirtschaftsschule, Februar 12, 2009, topic: Gradual Foreign Market Commitment under Uncertainly: The Case of International Joint...mehr »

Am 18.12.08 um 17:00 Uhr im Hörsaal B1 halten Prof. Dr. T. Gries, Prof. Dr. W. Eggert, Prof. Dr. Claus-Jochen Haake und PD Dr. S. Jungblut Vorträge zur Finanzkrise in Form einer Podiumsveranstaltung.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2008:Universität Paderborn, Finanzwirtschaftliches Forschungskolloquium, November 14, 2008, topic: Terror in the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.

Günther König, 2008: Universität Mannheim, Workshop des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms "Institutionelle Gestaltung föderaler Systeme", November, 2008, topic: Infrastructure Subsidies and Intergration in the EU.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: University of Copenhagen, Zeuthen Workshop in Public Economics, October 31, 2008, topic: Coordination and Competition with Decentralized Profit Taxation in a Repeated Game Setting.

Daniel Meierrieks, 2008: Brüssel; Network for the Economic Analysis of Terrorism- Workshop, September 22, 2008, topic: What Causes Terrorism?

Steffen Minter, 2008:Maastricht, 64th Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance, August 22-25, 2008, topic: Border Enforcement and Immigration Amnesties in an Economic Union.

Günther König, 2008: Maastricht, 64th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, August 22-25, 2008, topic: Infrastructure Investment and Integration in the EU.

Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: Nagoya (Japan), Nagoya University - International Conference on ?Economic Integration, Trade and Spatial Structure?, August 16-21, 2008, topic: International Tax Policy Coordination and Tax Harmonization.

Stefan Gravemeyer, Thomas Gries, Jinjun Xue 2008:Universität Paderborn, Workshop: Income Distribution and Environment Governance in Asia, Aug. 2008, topic: Discrimination, Income Determination and Inequality The case of Shenzhen.

Thomas Gries and Margarete Redlin, 2008:Universität Paderborn, Workshop: Income Distribution and Environment Governance in Asia, Aug. 2008, topic: China?s provincial disparities and the determinants of provincial inequality.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: Forschungsaufenthalt am ifo Institut (München), März 25-28, 2008. mehr »

Thomas Gries, 2008:University of Cambrigde, UK: The 19 th CEA Annual Conference ?China´s Three Decades of Economic Reform (1978-2008), April 1-2, 2008, topic: China´s provincial disparities and the determinants.

Günther König, 2008: Forschungsaufenthalt am ifo Institut(München), März 25-28, 2008. mehr »

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eggert, 2008: Sapporo University (Japan),  präsentiert ein Papier im Fakultätsseminar. Februar 21, 2008.Titel des Papiers: "Tax Competition When Politicians Create Rents to Buy Political Support?

Tim Krieger, Michael Gorski (with Thomas Lange), 2007: Venice (Italy), CESifo/Venice Summer Institute Workshop on Longevity and Annuitization, 16-17 July, 2007, topic: Pensions, Education and Life Expectancy

Wolfgang Eggert, Tim Krieger, 2007 (with Volker Meier): Munich (Germany), CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 18-20, 2007, topic: Education, Unemployment and Migration.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Gries wird bei der Tagung der Nationalökonomischen Gesellschaft (NoeG) in Klagenfurt einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Regional Disparity and World Market Integration in China - A Model of Endogenous Regions with Labor Market Frictions and Path Dependency" halten.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Eggert wurde als Mitglied in den Finanzwissenschaftlichen Ausschuss des Verein für Socialpolitik aufgenommen.

Wolfgang Eggert: Gastvortrag im wissenschaftlichen Kolloquium der Universität Linz, Titel: "Does Tax competition increase public sector efficiency?", am 10. Januar 2007

Tim Krieger: Präsentation auf der Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik (26.-29.9.2007 in Bayreuth), "Public pensions and return migration"

Wolfgang Eggert: Presentation at 62nd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (28.-31.8.2007 Paphos, Zypern), "Corporate Tax Systems and Cross Country Profit Shifting: Formula Apportionment vs. Separate Accounting"

International Workshop on Economic Growth and Income Convergence across Cities and Towns in South Africa. June 6th 2006, University of Paderborn, C5.221 Veranstalter: Prof. Dr. Th. Gries in co-operation with the Research Unit "Work Well: Research Unit for People, Policy and Performance" North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa. Gefördert von der Volkswagenstiftung

Ganztägiger Workshop des Lehrstuhls für Finanzwissenschaften. 24.03.2006 in Raum C5.221. Der Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft veranstaltet in Zusammenarbeit mit Herrn Prof. Gries und seinen Mitarbeitern vom Lehrstuhl für Internationale Wachstums- und Konjunkturtheorie einen ganztägigen Workshop für alle interessierten Professoren und Studenten der der Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Paderborn.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Reiß: Dynamics and E-Learning, Vortrag bei der Tagung der American Economic Association, Boston (MA), 06. - 08. Januar 2006

2006: Perth, Western Australia, 35th Australian Conference of Economists, topic: Persistent bank concentration and limited growth of SMEs in Russia

2006: Beijing, WTO, China, and the Asian Economies, IV: Economic Integration and Economic Development, topic: Reducing Regional Disparity through WTO?-Endogenous Formation of Regions, Labour Market Frictions and Multiple Equilibria

International Conference "" Korea and the World Economy"", University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 10.-12.12.2005. On the Dynamics of Innovative Strategic Alliances in Korea, Vortrag von B.M. Gilroy und E. Lukas

2005: Frankfurt, Tagung des Ausschusses, topic: FDI and Endogenous Formation of Regions in Developing Countries

2004: Beijing, Sino-German Conference: Technical Innovation and Management, topic: International Technology Spill-Over, Regional Agglomeration and Development

2004: Oxford, Centre for the Study of African Economies, topic: The Economic Geography and Determinants of Manufactured Exports from South Africa. The questions that this paper seeks to address is: how did the various sub-national regions in South Africa benefit from rising manufacturing exports since 1994, and what factors determines the differential manufacturing export performance of South Africa?s sub-national regions? Based on various theoretical models of the possible determinants of differential export performance across subnational regions, we estimate the determinants of exports (across 354 magisterial districts in South Africa using panel data over the period 1996 to 2000. We estimate two models, a ?Skills-to-Land Heckscher Ohlin Model? following Wood and Berge (1997) and a ?Geography Hecksher-Ohlin-Von Thünen model? following Redding and Venables (2003) and the new trade theory. We find that only 22 magisterial districts in South Africa is responsible for 85% of the country?s manufacturing exports, and that the geography-new trade theory model (with distance, market effects and fixed costs) offers a better explanation for the manufactured export performance of the country?s magisterial districts. We conclude that those magisterial districts in South Africa that will contribute more towards generating manufactured exports, are those that are larger in terms of economic size, with good foreign market access and know-how of foreign markets, that faces competitive transport costs on their exports (and imports) and that has a good local institutional support framework, such as an local government that creates the right conditions for fixed investment.

2004: Brussels, Workshop, Economic Integration, Innovation Dynamics and Growth, topic: Interbank Market Frictions, International Banks and Growth in Economies in Transition

2003: St. Petersburg, Comments on: Edward M. Graham, Do Export Processing Zones Attract FDI and its Benefits?

2003: Oita, Japan, Symposium University of Oita, topic: Imperfect Financial Intermediation and Growth ? an Analysis of the sluggish Growth in Japan and Germany in the 90s

2002: Seattle, Western Economic Association, topic: Employment Effects of Factor Mobility ? a Theoretical Analysis with Heterogeneous Labor. In many countries the gap between the unemployment rates and/or wages for skilled and unskilled labor increased over the past two decades. While there is an extended literature on the effects of trade integration on employment, little is known about the effects of factor mobility on different skill segments of the labor market. Adopting the flow approach to labor markets, we develop a model of persistent structural unemployment. Two segments of the labor market are distinguished, one for skilled and one for unskilled workers. For each segment the long term unemployment equilibrium is derived. Allowing for international factor mobility we analyze the effect of capital mobility and labor migration on relative factor prices, optimal factor allocation and the opportunity costs of vacancies in the different segments of the labor market. The main finding is that skilled labor will always gain from increasing capital mobility while the effects for the unskilled is ambiguous. The ambiguous effect for unskilled is the result of a general positive effect of capital mobility on aggregate employment and a negative reallocation affecting the unskilled: The negative effect can be reduced or even reversed if capital mobility is complemented by policies like additional human capital investments. Labor mobility affects the own segment negatively: Unskilled/skilled mobile labor negatively affects the unskilled/skilled labor market segment. The cross effects are non symmetric: The mobility of skilled can affect unskilled positively as well as negatively. The mobility of unskilled has no effect on the skilled labor market segment.

2002: Duisburg, Workshop: Information Technologies and Globalization, Comments on: Freund, C.L. / Weinhold, D., Internet Dynamics, Trade and Globalization

2001: Johannesburg, South African Economic Association, topic: Catching-up, Falling Behind, and the role of FDIs. This paper intends to focus on the role of FDIs for the development process. We introduce a short theoretical model which gives an idea of some stylized development mechanisms as well as the effects of the domestic factors and FDIs on the development process. The model captures a convergence as well as divergence regime. As the country is backward the R&D sector is describing the imitating process. Foreign direct investments, human capital and technological spill over effects are important factors for the production of the national good as well as for the imitation of technologies. It is shown that the economy will face a divergence regime as long as the domestic factor, human capital endowment, is below a critical level. Although FDIs are important for the process of catching?up the switching condition for upgrading as well as the national level of the technological position is solely determined by the stock of domestic resources. Without a sufficient domestic factor, no take off to a dynamic catching-up process takes place. Therefore the results emphasize the importance of the domestic factor. The role of FDIs may be generally overestimated, especially with respect to the question of convergence or divergence. Having reached this critical level of human capital, the process of upgrading towards the industrialized world is not linear, but s-shaped. Successful catching up requires the closing of the technological gap towards the leading countries of the industrialized world. FDIs are important for the level and speed of GDP growth Therefore, political risks and increasing uncertainty will lead to a decreasing level of FDIs and will reduce the path as well as the steady?state income level of the economy