Economics without Borders

Laszlo Matyas is an economist and econometrician who has authored and co-authored several high impact publications in the field of panel data. Currently he is a University Professor at the Central European University, Budapest. He worked as Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Victoria, was the founding Director of the Institute for Economic Analysis, Budapest, and also served as Provost and Pro-Rector of Central European University. This is the ninth book he has edited or co-authored over the last two decades. Richard Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Economics at University College London. Since 1986 he has also been Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). He has held visiting professor positions at the University of British Columbia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Universität St Gallen, Switzerland, the Norwegian School of Economics, and Universität Mannheim, Germany. He was knighted in the 2014 Queen's New Year's Honours for services to economics and social science. His research covers the empirical analysis of consumer, savings and labour supply behaviour. He has developed new microeconometric tools for the analysis of individual decisions. Estelle Cantillon is FNRS senior research associate at the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Université Libre de Bruxelles, and research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research, London. Her research lies at the boundary between market design and industrial organization and typically combines theory and data. She is an Associate Editor at the Rand Journal of Economics and sits on the Economics Council of OXERA, the advisory board of WZB Berlin, and the Executive Committee of Rethinking Belgium. She co-founded the European-wide research network 'Matching in Practice', whose goal is to foster developments at the interface between theory, empirics, experiments and policy on admission procedures in education. Barbara Chizzolini is an Assistant Professor of Econometrics at Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan. She has been teaching and doing applied research in industrial organization, micro foundations, financial time series and econometrics since 1985. She has an undergraduate degree in economics and social sciences from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, and an MA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her main contributions focus on the analysis of banks' and manufacturing firms' behaviour using latent variable models and discrete data, on regional growth econometric modelling, and on nonlinear time series models. She is a member of the Italian Econometrics Society (SIDE). Marc Ivaldi is Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Research Fellow at the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, Toulouse, and the Center for Economic Policy Research, London, and Coordinator of the COEURE (COoperation on EUropean Research in Economics) project. He has served as a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission and as Scientific Director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Specializing in applied industrial organization, he has mainly studied network and transport service industries. He is an expert on empirical methods for competition and regulation policy. Wolfgang Leininger is Professor of Economic Theory in the Department of Economics at Universität Dortmund. He obtained his education as a mathematician from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and received a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. His research is in the fields of economics, pure and applied game theory, and public and social choice. He is a recipient of the Heisenberg Fellowship of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Heisenberg Medal of the Humboldt Foundation, and the Duncan Black Prize of the Public Choice Society. Ramon Marimon is Professor of Economics and Pierre Werner Chair at the European University Institute, Florence, on leave from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is the Chairman of the Barcelona GSE, and was Secretary of State for Science and Technology in Spain (2000–2), co-founder of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1990–1), and President of the Society for Economic Dynamics (2013–15) and of the Spanish Economic Association (2004). He has been advisor of the European Commission on research and development policy, and is the Scientific Coordinator of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research project 'A Dynamic Economic and Monetary Union' (ADEMU), aimed at reassessing the fiscal and monetary framework of the Eurozone. Frode Steen has been a professor since 2004 at the Norwegian School of Economics, where he is currently serving as Head of the Department of Economics. Since 2005 he has been a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London. He is working in the field of empirical industrial organization, and has undertaken studies of several industries and markets, including telecoms/media, cement, shipping, airlines, gasoline, grocery, and salmon. For the last ten years he has focused particularly on the airlines and telecoms/media industries. A primary interest in his work is related to market power, cartels and their functioning. He has also extensive experience as an external competition expert in sector specific regulation and competition cases.

Introduction Richard Blundell, Estelle Cantillon, Barbara Chizzolini, Marc Ivaldi, Wolfgang Leininger, Ramon Marimon, Laszlo Matyas and Frode Steen; 1. Innovation and growth: the Schumpeterian perspective Philippe Aghion and Ufuk Akcigit; 2. European Union dual labour markets: consequences and potential reforms Juan J. Dolado; 3. Population, migration, ageing and health: a survey Christian Dustmann, Giovanni Facchini and Cora Signorotto; 4. Education systems: assignment, admissions, accountability, autonomy Simon Burgess; 5. Competition and regulation in markets for goods and services: a survey with emphasis on digital markets Nikolaos Vettas; 6. Winners and losers of globalisation: sixteen challenges for measurement and theory Cecília Hornok and Miklós Koren; 7. Economic approaches to energy, environment and sustainability Paul Ekins, Paul Drummond and Jim Watson; 8. Regional disparities and efficient transport policies Stef Proost and Jacques-François Thisse; 9. Skilled cities and efficient urban transport Stef Proost and Jacques-François Thisse; 10. Fiscal and monetary policies after the crises Charles Brendon and Giancarlo Corsetti; 11. Financial regulation in Europe: foundations and challenges Thorsten Beck, Elena Carletti and Itay Goldstein; 12. Inequality and welfare: is Europe special? Alain Trannoy; 13. Developments in data for economic research Roberto Barcellan, Peter Bøegh Nielsen, Caterina Calsamiglia, Colin Camerer, Estelle Cantillon, Bruno Crépon, Bram De Rock, Liran Einav, László Halpern, Arie Kapteyn, Asim I. Khwaja, Georg Kirchsteiger, Vigdis Kvalheim, Julia Lane, Markus Mobius, Luke Sibieta, Joseph Tracy, Frederic Udina, Gugliemo Weber and Lisa Wright; 14. Big data in economics: evolution or revolution? Christine De Mol, Eric Gautier, Domenico Giannone, Sendhil Mullainathan, Lucrezia Reichlin, Herman van Dijk and Jeffrey Wooldridge.