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In order to ease the logistics of the summer school, and due to the unexpectedly large number of submissions, we are forced to close the submission period on Friday April 20 instead of Monday April 30. No paper submitted after that date will be considered. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Registration for non-speakers are also closed!

Summer School on

"Economic Analysis of Heterogeneity in Social Organizations"

held at CORE on June 4-7, 2007

The school consists of lectures by

Pierre-André CHIAPPORI, Columbia University

Avinash DIXIT, Princeton University

Jean TIROLE, IDEI, Toulouse

and presentations by junior participants.

PROGRAMME 

Poster


Practical information

Description of the topic:

The issue of heterogeneity and diversity has become one of the most important challenges facing modern societies. Heterogeneity across agents plays a major role by influencing the way they interact in economic, political and social environments, which in turn changes the equilibrium outcome . Heterogeneity in agents’ characteristics, tastes, or beliefs manifests itself in various forms. Individuals can be distinguished on the basis of their wealth, location, ideology, language, or religion. Firms have different production capabilities, innovation abilities, internal organizations and market policies, whereas countries differ not only in terms of territory and population, but also exhibit various degrees of economic development, political advancement, regional disparities, or military might.

Of clear importance to the concept of diversity and heterogeneity is the interaction between benefits and drawbacks. On one hand, evidence of strong linkage exists between diversity of human capital and talents and the creativity and innovativeness in knowledge-based industries. On the other hand, the positive impact of diversity of cultural and skill assets could be mitigated by the fact that diversity and polarization may pose a threat to the cohesiveness and preservation of existing political and economic structures. For example, the recent enlargement of the European Union created a powerful union of more than 450 million people with an economy of about nine trillion Euros, while dramatically raising the level of cultural, historical, religious, linguistic and geographical diversity within the bloc.

How to submit - How to register:
Registrations and submissions are closed!

Applications are encouraged from any interested researcher, but priority will be given to doctoral students and postdoctoral  researchers or the equivalent.

  • To submit a paper:
    Those interested should submit a title for their presentation and a paper by April 30 to Sylvie Mauroy. The selection of speakers and preliminary programme will be announced by mid-may.

  • To register:
    Just send an e-mail to Sylvie Mauroy with your complete affiliation. There is no registration fee, but registration is NECESSARY before May 15.

Hotel reservation:

A limited number of rooms will be available in Louvain-la-Neuve at

CORE will provide lodging for speakers. Participants not presenting a paper are asked to make their own reservations as soon as they can. The speakers are asked to get in touch with Sylvie Mauroy. Further information can be obtained here.

Organizing Committee:

Claude d'Aspremont
Jean Hindriks
François Maniquet
Jacques-François Thisse
Shlomo Weber

Contact:

Sylvie Mauroy
CORE
34 voie du Roman Pays
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
tel: 32 10 47 43 15
mauroy@core.ucl.ac.be

This event is organised jointly with PGPPE (an ESF research networking programme).

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