Seminar: Political Economy of Trade Policy

Heinrich Ursprung and Bertrand Koebel
Fall 2011
Academic Writing Workshop
22th – 25th November 2011, University of Strasbourg
The workshop is restricted to 12 doctoral students, 6 from the University of Konstanz and 6
from the Université de Strasbourg. The Université Franco-Allemande will bear the travel and
accommodation costs for the participants from Konstanz and Strasbourg.
The objective of the workshop is to improve the participants’ academic writing skills. In the
course of the workshop the participants will revise a first draft of a paper and prepare it for
submission to a journal. The instruction will be “hands on”, i.e. in interaction with the
instructors the participants will analyze manuscripts and published work in order to gain a
better appreciation of good professional writing in economics.
Instructors:
Arye Hillman, Bar-Ilan University
Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Université de Strasbourg
Heinrich Ursprung, University of Konstanz
Bertrand Koebel, Université de Strasbourg
You can apply to participate by sending a first version of one of your papers to
[email protected]
Doctoral students specializing in all fields can apply.
For the workshop you need a Laptop that can access WLAN.
Some Literature
William Thomson: A guide for the young economist, MIT Press, 2001
D. McCloskey: The writing of economics, McMillan, 1987
W. Strunk Jr. and E.B. White: The elements of style, McMillan1979
Hal R. Varian: What I've Learned about Writing Economics, April 17, 2001
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/writing-economics.html
Axel Leijonhufvud: Life Among the Econ. Western Economic Journal 11, 327–337,
September 1973. http://unicast.org/enclosures/life-econ.pdf
Paul Dudenhefer: A Guide to Writing Economics
http://www.econ.duke.edu/ecoteach/undergrad/manual.pdf
Participants, Topics, and Mentors:
Université de Strasbourg
Xi Chen, [email protected]
On Estimating the CES Production Function with Biased Technical Change: A Control
Function Approach
Christian Martinez Diaz, [email protected]
Collective research efforts in the laboratory: Complementarities in the scientific production
Audrey Menard, [email protected]
How might Bilateral and Multilateral Aid Impact African State Governance
Frédéric Olland, [email protected]
Comparative Advantage and Growth with Heterogeneous Firms
Pierre Pessarossi, [email protected]
Choice of Corporate Debt in China: The Role of State Ownership
Walliya Premchit, [email protected]
What Makes a Champion of Manufacturing Trade? The Sectoral Analysis of Foreign Market
Access and Supply Capacity on Export Performance
Universität Konstanz
Mattes Achim, [email protected]
Hedge Fund Herding
Reuter Tim, [email protected]
Collusion Facilitators and Optimal Fines
Schaarschmidt Steffen, [email protected]
Diversification Benefits from Small Caps: a European Co-movement Analysis
Schüler Stefan, [email protected]
Credit Spread Interdependencies of European States and Banks During the Financial Crisis
Seiberlich Ruben, [email protected]
Shrink your Weight
Slavutskaya Anna, [email protected]
Pooling Hedge Fund Risk Exposures Within One Style
Program, November 2011
Tuesday (22nd November)
12:30
14:15-15:45
16-18:
19:30
lunch
lecture 1 (Ursprung): Dos and don’ts (room Ehud)
assignment 1 (room Ehud)
dinner: Brasserie La Bourse
Wednesday (23rd November)
8:30-10:00
10:30-12:00
12:15
13-15
15:30-17:00
17:30-18:30
19:30
lecture 2 (Hillman): Style (room 026)
tutorial 1 (Ursprung, room 026)
lunch
assignment 2 (room 026)
tutorial 2 (Hillman, room 026)
meeting with mentor
dinner: Maison Kammerzell
Thursday (24th November)
8:30-10:00
conseil
10:30-12:00
12:15
13:15-14:45
15:30-17:00
19:30
lecture 3 (Dos Santos Ferreira/Koebel): How to present technical stuff, salle du
assignment 3 (salle du conseil)
lunch
tutorial 3 (Dos Santos Ferreira/ Koebel), salle du conseil
prepare paper for last inspection (salle du conseil)
dinner: L’Ami Schutz
Friday (25th November)
8:30-10:00
10:30-12:00
12:15
presentations (salle du conseil)
meeting with mentor (salle du conseil)
lunch
Practical details
How to go to the Faculty?
By Tramway
(from train station or center town)
From train station (Gare Centrale) or from center town (station Homme de Fer), take
TRAM C going to Neuhof/Rodolphe Reuss and stop at station Observatoire (5 stations next
to Homme de Fer).
The Pôle Européen de Gestion et d'Economie (PEGE) is about 200m from this station away.
Take left, the boulevard Leblois, and go straight ahead until you see a red brick building (the
PEGE).
Accommodation
Both hotels are in located in the centre of Strasbourg between the railway station and the
PEGE.
Hotel aux trois roses
7, rue de Zurich
67000 Strasbourg
Hotel de l’Ill (all PhD students from Konstanz)
8, Rue des Bateliers
67000 Strasbourg
Restaurants
La Bourse
1 Place de Lattre de Tassigny
67000 Strasbourg
http://www.restaurant-de-la-bourse.fr/
Maison Kammerzell
16 Place Cathédrale
67000 Strasbourg
http://www.maison-kammerzell.com/
Ami Schutz
1 Ponts Couverts
67000 Strasbourg
http://www.ami-schutz.com/