Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation

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Inaugurated in 1997, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Csgr is the largest academic centre in Europe dealing with this subject area.

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Monday 19 May, 1.00 - 2.00pm, room S1.50 (first floor, social studies building)

CSGR Seminar

Professor Kris Olds, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison

'Chicago to Singapore, Bologna to Washington DC: institutions, practices, and the globalization of higher education'

CSGR Senior research fellow Nikolaus Wolf has been granted the CESifo Global Economy award 2008 for his paper "Endogenous borders? The effects of new borders on trade in Central Europe, 1885-1933" (joint with MS Schulze and HC Heinemeyer).
The papers from the workshop on "The Challenge of Climate Change" - hosted by CSGR - are now available online.

Hot off the Press from the CSGR Working Paper Series

Gianluca Grimalda and Elena Meschi; Accounting For Inequality in Transition Economies: An Empirical Assessment of Gloabisation, Institutional Reforms, and Regionalisation. (WP 243/08)
Priscillia E. Hunt; Heterogeneity in the Wage Impacts of Immigrants. (WP 242/08)
Dwijen Rangnekar; Geneva rhetoric, national reality: Implementing TRIPS obligations in Kenya. (WP 241/08)
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