Activities

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Global Dynamics, Social Science Research Cluster

Activity Highlights

Leading Cluster in the Division

Global Dynamics was one of the most popular research clusters in the Social Science Division with 48 members in the academic year 2022-2023.

Conferences

Global Dynamics has supported three different conferences in AY22-23; "The End of Globalization?" Nov 21-23 2022, "Eurasian Peace Science Conference" Jan 18-19 2023; and an IMF info session for students and faculty.

Research Project Funding

Global Dynamics has funded eight different research projects for Faculty and Postdocs across Economics, Social Research and Public Policy, and Political Science programs in the Social Science Division.

Other Activity

NYUAD-Yonsei Workshop

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and Yonsei University organized a workshop that brought together scholars from International Relations and Comparative Politics, whose research speaks to important political economy questions these days with covered topics spanning from democratic backsliding and rise of China to foreign aid and human rights.

"The End of Globalization?" Conference

Co-sponsored by the Development Research Cluster

This event took place on November 21-23, 2022 and brought in sixteen scholars from around the world, to serve as speakers and discussants. The research presented ranged from theoretical to empirical, analyzing important international trade, urban, and policy topics.

Faculty Mention

Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at NYUAD, Anju Mary Paul, received an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Best Book by an International Scholar award from the Global and Transnational Sociology section of the American Sociological Association, for her new book "Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia" (Cambridge University Press).

Event Highlights AY23-24

Alexander Ludwig

Goethe University Frankfurt

"Heterogeneity in Expectations and House Price Dynamics"

March 28, 2024

JinYeong Bak and Eunbeen

Sungkyunkwan University

"At the King’s Command: A Historical Study of Extraordinary Natural Occurrences and Executive Orders"

March 21, 2024

Enze Han

University of Hong Kong

"The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia"

February 8, 2024

Past Events

Global Dynamics has jointly hosted a weekly seminar series with the Social Science History group involving both internal and external speakers. See details on these events and their speakers below.

May 9, 2024	Yooseon Hwang, NYUAD "Does Micromobility Substitute or Complement Public Transit? Evidence from Bike Share"
May 2, 2024	Yusuf Magiya and Giuliana Pardelli, NYUAD "Out-Group Tax Compliance and Tax Morale: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Turkey"
April 25, 2024	Veda Narasimhan, NYUAD "Political Institutions, Public Goods, and Migration"
April 4, 2024	Gabriel Derrick-Koehler, NYUAD "Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records"
March 28, 2024	Alexander Ludwig, Goethe University Frankfurt "Heterogeneity in Expectations and House Price Dynamics"
March 21, 2024	JinYeong Bak and Eunbeen, Sungkyunkwan University "At the King’s Command: A Historical Study of Extraordinary Natural Occurrences and Executive Orders"
March 7, 2024	Robert Allen, NYUAD "The Origins of ‘Social Complexity’ in the Ancient Near East"
February 29, 2024	Pauline Corblet, NYUAD "Education Expansion, Sorting, and the Decreasing Wage Premium"
February 22, 2024	Christian Aleman Pericon, NYUAD "Kramer vs. Kramer: On the Importance of Children and Divorce Filings for Understanding Divorce Rates in the U.S."
February 15, 2024	Mustafa Yavas and Anju Paul, NYUAD "A City of the Global North and South: The Appeal of Dubai for Non-Western Expatriates"
February 8, 2024	Enze Han, University of Hong Kong "The Ripple Effect: China’s Complex Presence in Southeast Asia"
December 7, 2023	Lucas Leemann, University of Zürich "Direct Democracy and Political Conflict — Institutional Evolution in the 19th Century"
November 23, 2023	Dario Fonseca, NYUAD "The (unintended?) effects of US military training during the Cold War in Latin America"
November 16, 2023	Barthélémy Bonadio, NYUAD "Trade with whom you know: firm-to-firm trade linkages and social network"
November 9, 2023	Zaynab El Bernousi, NYUAD "The Expansion of Halal Certification and the Role of China: Leaders, Followers, and Halal Diplomacy"
November 2, 2023	Robert Allen, NYUAD "Eating with Neanderthals"
October 12, 2023	Jeremy Bowles, UCL "Candidate Selection in a Single-Party State"
October 5, 2023	Yusuf Magiya, NYUAD "Bargaining over Fiscal Centralization in the Shadow of War"
September 28, 2023	Jean Imbs, NYUAD "Global Shocks?"
September 21, 2023	Sanjeev Goyal, NYUAD "Social Structure, state capacity and economic activity"
September 14, 2023	Akos Valentinyi, University of Manchster "Structural Change and Obesity"

May 11, 2023	Noam Reich, NYUAD "Conservation for Sale: International Bargaining Over Payment for Ecosystem Services"
May 4, 2023	Giovanni Federico, NYUAD "Italian performance in early modern period, 1300 to 1800: a regional estimate" (joint with Alessandro Nuvolari, Leonardo Ridolfi and Michelangelo Vasta)
April 27, 2023	Jacob Hariri, University of Copenhagen “The Dark Side of the Reformation: State-Building in the Age of Religious Competition”
April 13, 2023	Seungah Sarah Lee, NYUAD "Making an entrepreneurial citizenry? Appropriating the global with the local to institutionalize entrepreneurship for national development in the Arab Gulf"
April 6, 2023	Yusuf Magiya, NYUAD "The Paradox of Imperial Taxation: How Diversity Constrains Development and Dominant Groups Shoulder the Tax Burdens"
March 30, 2023	Sara Musaifer, NYUAD "Searching for Za’faranah: The (im)possibilities of black girlhood in (post)colonial Bahrain"
March 23, 2023	Ola Olsson, Gothenburg “Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel”
March 9, 2023	Heitor Pellegrina, NYUAD "Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective"
February 16, 2023	Anne Sophie Knudsen, University of Copenhagen "Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change in the Age of Mass Migration"
February 9, 2023	Mustafa Yavas, NYUAD "White-Collar Blues: The Making of the Transnational Turkish Middle Class and Its Discontents"
February 2, 2023	Dario Alberto Romero Fonseca, NYUAD "An Empire Lost: Spanish Industry and The Effect of Colonial Markets on Peripheral Innovation"
January 26, 2023	Sujeong Shim, NYUAD “The political consequences of the Fed’s currency swap arrangements”
December 8, 2022	Robert Allen, NYUAD "Marx and Malthusspoke Arabic: the economic and political structure of 'traditional' Arabia from the sand up"

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