LIONEL ARTIGE January 2008 HOME CONTACT INFORMATION PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of birth : May 13 th, 1971 Citizenship: French OFFICE CONTACT INFORMATION Economics Department HEC - Université de Liège Bd du Rectorat, 7 - Bât. B31 B-4000 Liège Tel: +32 4 366 48 91 lionel.artige@ulg.ac.be Homepage: http://idea.uab.es/~lartige EDUCATION PhD in Economics (2004), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Title of the dissertation: Regions, Political Economics and Economic Performance M. A. in Economics, Université catholique de Louvain, 1999. DEA Epistémologie et histoire de la pensée économique, Université Paris I Panthéon- Sorbonne, 1995. Degree of the Institut d Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1994. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 2006- Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Liège 2004-2006 Assistant Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2004-2005 Assistant Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) RESEARCH FIELDS Macroeconomics, growth, regional economics, institutions. PUBLICATIONS Investigación y Desarrollo más Innovación (book edited jointly with Rosella Nicolini), Consejo Economico y social, Madrid, Barcelona, forthcoming. Labor Productivity in Catalunya : Strategies for Economic Growth (joint with Rosella Nicolini), IEA Publications, Barcelona, 2006, forthcoming. Inversions Estrangeres Directes i Innovació a Catalunya (joint with Rosella Nicolini), in La situació de la innovació a Catalunya, Isabel Busom (Ed.), October 2005.
Wealth Breeds Decline: Reversals of Leadership and Consumption Habits (joint with Carmen Camacho and David de la Croix), Journal of Economic Growth, 2004, volume 9, 423-449. Les investissements directs et les échanges commerciaux entre la Belgique et les pays arabes (chapter co-written with Bichara Khader), (2004), in Belges et Arabes, Presses de l Université de Louvain, 163-222. BOOK REVIEW Johansson, B., C. Karlsson and R. R. Stough (Ed.) (co-written with R. Nicolini), (2003), Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth: Lessons for Regional Policies, Springer, Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 43 (2): 403-6. WORKING PAPERS Evidence on the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Three European Regions (2008) (joint with Rosella Nicolini), UFAE and IAE Working Papers [Submitted to Environment and Planning A]. Memory in Contracts: The Experience of the EBRD (1991-2003) (2008), (joint with Rosella Nicolini), [Submitted to International Economic Review]. Optimal Saving with Additive and Multiplicative Background Risks (2006), IRES Discussion Paper. WORK IN PROGRESS Dictatorship and Development: an Empirical Study, mimeo. Human Capital and Economic Growth: Where Do We Stand? mimeo. A Literature Review on Innovation and Growth, mimeo. PROJECTS Realised or ongoing projects: Innovation in Catalunya, 2008. Project financed by CIDEM, Generalitat de Catalunya. Amount: 20 000. Innovation in Spain, 2006-2007. Project financed by the Consejo Economico y Social (Spain). Amount: 30 000. Interregional flows among French-Spanish regions: Is there any frontier effect?, 2006. Project financed by the Institut d Economia I Empresa Ignasi Villalonga. Amount: 3 000.
Labor productivity in Spanish regions, 2005-2006. Project financed by the Institut d Estudis Autonomics, Catalunya. Amount: 15 000. Foreign Direct Investments in four European regions (Baden-Württemberg, Catalunya, Lombardia and Rhône-Alpes), 2005. Project financed by the CIDEM, Generalitat de Catalunya. Amount: 6 000. TEACHING Université de Liège, since 2006 : International economics (Master, in English), Monnaie, crédit et banque (Undergraduate), Théorie de la croissance (Master), Macroéconomie de l emploi (Master), Macroéconomie avancée (Master). Université Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone, 2004-2005, Microeconomics, Undergraduate (in English). Université Autonome de Barcelone, Macroeconomics (Undergraduate, in English) 2005, Statistics (Undergraduate, in Spanish) 2005-2006. IBEI, Barcelone, 2005, Economie Internationale (Master, in English). Portland State University (Barcelona), International Economics (Undergraduate, in English) 2005. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Editorial assistant, Recherches Economiques de Louvain, 2001-2003. Member of thesis committee: Brindusa Anghel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), 2007. Title : New Insights Into the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment. Directeur de mémoire en 2007 de : David Dubois, Déterminants de la productivité du travail dans les Etats Américains, ULg. Guillaume Struman, Production et exportations de matières premières : politique de développement soutenable, ULg. Rapporteur du mémoire de DEA en Sciences Economiques de Anna Batira, Université catholique de Louvain (Septembre 2003). Promoteur : Professeur Henri Sneessens. VISITING POSITIONS London School of Economics, 2000-2001. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, June 2002. Marie Curie fellowship, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Jan-Sept. 2004.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Consultant for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Office of the Chief Economist, London, 2000-2001. GRANTS AND AWARDS XI Premi Catalunya d Economia 2007. Action de Recherches Concertées of the Ministère de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium, 1999-2003. Marie-Curie fellowship, Jan-Sept. 2004. LANGUAGES French, English, Spanish. SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES Society for Economic Dynamics Meeting à San José (Costa Rica), June 2000. Southeast Economic Theory and International Economics Conference in Miami, November 2001. 5 th Annual EUNIP conference in Vienna, November 2001. Journées des Générations Imbriquées in Aix-en-Provence, March 2002. Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society in Nashville, March 2003. International Conference on Irregular Growth: Beyond Balanced Growth, Paris, June 2003. Journées des Générations Imbriquées in Metz, September 2003. XXVIII Symposium of Economic Analysis, Sevilla 2003. Macroeconomics Seminar, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, April 2004. CEPR conference, Institutions, Policies and Economic Growth, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, 6-7 May 2005. IX Jornadas de Economia Internacional, La Laguna, Las Canarias, June 2005. 14 th World Congress, International Economic Association, Marrakech, August 2005.
ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, March 2006. European Meeting of the Econometric Society (ESEM), Vienna, August 2006.