Workshop on Growth and Distribution
Workshop on Growth and Distribution
23 September 2016, Friday
Ibrahim Bodur Auditorium
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
10:00 - 10:30 - Opening Ceremony
10:30 - 12:00 - Growth and Distribution in Turkey
-
Alper Duman, Izmir University of Economics
“Household Debt in Turkey: The Critical Threshold for the Next Crisis”
- Korkut Boratav, Ankara University
“Political Impact of Distributional Changes in Turkey, 2003-2014”
12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch Break
13:00 - 15:00 - Empirical Findings on the Link Between Growth and Distribution
- Özgür Orhangazi, Kadir Has University (with J.W. Mason, John Jay Collage)
“The Profit-Investment Puzzle: Sume Observations and Questions”
- Cem Oyvat, University of Greenwich (with Ceyhun Elgin, Boğaziçi University; Oğuz Öztunalı, Boğaziçi University)
“Wage-Led vs. Profit-Led Growth: A Comprehensive Empirical Analysis”
- Özlem Onaran, University of Greenwich (with Thomas Obst, University of Greenwich)
“Wage-Led Growth in EU15 Member States: The Effects of Income Distribution on Growth, Investment, Trade Balance and Inflation”
15:00 - 15:30 - Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30 - A Discussion on Heterodox Growth Models
- Olivier Allain, Universite Paris Descartes; Sorbonne Paris Cite; Et Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne
“Wages as Income but also as a Cost of Production: An Amended Neo-Kaleckian Short-Run Model”
- Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston University
“Wage-Led versus Profit-Led Demand: What Have We Learned? A Kalecki-Minsk View”
- Peter Skott, University of Massachusetts, Amherst