INFER Workshop on Modelling Economic Resilience to External Shocks June 1, 2015, Business and Economics Department, University of the Azores Jointly organized by INFER – International Network for Economic Research CEEAplA – Centre of Applied Economic Studies of the Atlantic Monday, June 1st 09h00 | 09h30 Registration 09h30 | 10h00 Opening Session (Organizing Committee, INFER Representative) 10h00 | 11h00 Keynote-speaker: Prof. Alfredo Marvão Pereira, (The College of William and Mary) “A New Carbon Tax in Portugal: From Necessity to Virtuosity” 11h00 | 11h15 Coffee-break 11h15 | 13h00 Session I Chair: Elias Soukiazis Global Engagement and Returns Volatility, Alejandro Riaño (Discussant: Mário Fortuna) The impact of sovereign default on Migration, Fabian Horn (Discussant: Elias Soukiazis) The Nature of Entrepreneurship and its Determinants: Opportunity or Necessity?, Elias Soukiazis (Discussant: Fabian Horn) 13h00 | 14h30 Lunch 14h30 | 16h00 Session II Chair: Mário Fortuna Assessment of Equalization Effects of Government Transfers to Portuguese Municipalities using Panel Data Methodologies, Francisco Silva (Discussant: Alejandro Riaño) Welfare Impacts of Road Construction Using a Public -Private Partnership: A CGE Analysis of a Project, Mário Fortuna (Discussant: Francisco Silva) 16h00 | 16h30 Coffee-break 16h30 | 17h30 Keynote-speaker: Prof. Júlia Seixas (Nova University of Lisbon) "Are hybrid models well equipped to assess resilience to external shocks? The case of energy and climate.” 17h30 | 18h30 Round Table “Frontiers of Modelling Economic Resilience to External Shocks”