28 February 2007 - Chancellors Conference Centre
The provisional programme is as follows:
Wednesday 28 February
- 10:30am Arrival, registration and refreshments
- 11:00am - 12:30pm What explains inter-regional differences in productivity in the UK?
- David Coates, Northwest Regional Economic Forecasting Panel
- Co-authors: Richard Lewney, Cambridge Econometrics and Simon Pringle, SQW
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm Some alternative geo-economics of the EU's regions
- Bernard Fingleton, University of Cambridge
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm A Statistical Framework for the Analysis of Productivity at the National, Regional, and Industry Level
- Nick Oulton, London School of Economics
- 4:30pm Close of conference
Abstracts from submitted papers are available here.
For more information about the themes of the conference please contact Mike Artis at michael.artis@manchester.ac.uk.
To reserve a place at the conference or enquire about accommodation, bookings etc., please contact Aubrey Scully at aubrey.scully@manchester.ac.uk or 0161 275 8080.
For more information about Chancellors Conference Centre, including travel directions, please visit the Chancellors website.