Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence

Economics with policy - International seminar series

11/12/2015

Lecture:

Luca David Opromolla /Banco de Portugal/
Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Abstract:
The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm’s actions and decisions. One of these decisions involves the organization of production in terms of the number of layers of management the firm decides to employ. Using detailed employer-employee matched data and firm production quantity and input data for Portuguese firms, we study the endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer, quantity based productivity increases by about 4%, while revenue-based productivity drops by between 3 and 5%. Such a reorganization makes the firm more productive, but also increases the quantity produced to an extent that lowers the price charged by the firm and, as a result, its revenue-based productivity.

Helyszín: Budapest XI., Budaörsi út 45. VIII/807. conference room

Transition in Agriculture - Agricultural Economics in Transition XII.

11/25/2015 - 11/26/2015

International conference organized by the Agricultural Economics and Rural Developmentresearch group of the Institute
Program

Helyszín: CERS IE - HAS Budapest, Budaörsi út 45, room 804

The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC)

11/26/2015 - 11/27/2015

The Role of State in Varieties of Capitalism (SVOC)

Achievements and challenges for Central and Eastern Europe and the emerging markets

 

The SVOC2015 conference is organized by the Institute of World Economics of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Center for EU Enlargement Studies, Central European University.

Helyszín: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary - 1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9

Networks, Complexity, and Economic Development - workshop

11/30/2015 - 12/01/2015

"Networks, Complexity, and Economic Development"

November 30 - December 1 2015, Budapest

The Economics of Networks Research Unit at Centre for Economic and
Regional Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce
the workshop on "Networks, Complexity, and Economic Development".
Networks are one of the central challenges of today?s science and the
analysis of large-scale social networks integrates scholars from a wide
variety of sciences in understanding complex social and economic
phenomena. The workshop aims to establish a platform for
interdisciplinary discussions focusing on economic development.

Program

Invited talks

Cesar A. Hidalgo, MIT

"Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies"

"The shapes of the city: new computational methods to understand urban
perception, gentrification, and economic agglomerations at the
neighborhood scale" (with Edward Glaeser)

Ádám Szeidl, CEU and CEPR

"Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance" (with Jing Cai)

Balázs Vedres, CEU

"Fragility in European economic integration: Lessons from the network of
inter-industries flow data"

Call

We invite PhD students, and early career researchers from economics,
sociology, geography, computational social science, and network science
to present a paper and discuss future research. Interested fellows from
other fields might submit an abstract as well. Papers that address the
following topics are particularly (but not exclusively) welcome:

Economics of social networks; Dynamics of large scale economic networks;
Innovation and spreading; Human mobility and networks; Networks of
international trade; Proximity and economic development; Social networks
and performance

The workshop is open to the public; however, due to place limitations,
registration is required.

The workshop language is English, participation is free of charge. An
abstract of 400-600 words should be sent to László Lőrincz
(lorincz.laszlo@krtk.mta.hu <mailto:lorincz.laszlo@krtk.mta.hu>).
Please, indicate in your submission if you are interested to present
your work in a poster session as well.

Important dates

Abstract submission: October 19, 2015

Notification of acceptance: October 26, 2015

Registration: November 16, 2013

Workshop: November 30 - December 1, 2015

Venues

The event will be held in two buildings of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences. Both locations are in the center of Budapest.

Main building: Széchenyi István tér 9, 1051, Budapest, Hungary

Department of Research Institutes: Nádor utca 7, 1051, Budapest, Hungary

Further information

Please, visit the workshop website for information about the programme,
venue, participants, and organizers.
http://econ.core.hu/networks_complexity_development.html

Professional queries should be addressed to László Lőrincz
(lorincz.laszlo@krtk.mta.hu).

Helyszín: MTA Széchenyi István tér 9, 1051, Budapest, Hungary