2026 Economics Workshop in Ios, Greece

2 June, 9am

James Cassing

University of Pittsburgh

Foreign Capital Inflows, Immiserization, and Rent Seeking

with William Riebar, Butler University

Ayre Hillman

Bar-Ilan University

The Return of Protectionism: Diplomacy and the Political Economy of Nontariff Measures

with Jim Cassing and Klaus Grundler

Alexi Thompson

South Carolina State University

The Monopsony Power of Chinese Ports

William Rieber

Butler University

Exploiting Monopoly to Achieve a Production Goal and a Policy that Protects Agricultural Income During Industrialization

3 June, 9am

Henry Thompson

Auburn University

Economic Growth with Competitive Capital Production and Trade

Nazif Durmaz

Kean University

Estimating the Inverse of the Heckscher-Ohlin Model including Total Energy Input

with Henry Thompson, Auburn University

Nar Gurung

Tuskegee University

Economics of Precision Livestock Farming

with Olga Bolden-Tiller, Tuskegee University

Emails below. Send papers by 25 May to the group. Bring a usb or email ppt. There will be a new markerboard.

The Workshop will be next door to the Archaeological Museum. There is no fee for the Workshop. Each presenter will have an hour seminar style time slot allowing 5 minutes for a discussant and 5 minutes for the floor. The next presenter discusses each paper, and the first presenter the last paper.

Book tickets and lodging early. From the Airport in Athens take the Metro or a taxi to Piraeus or the nearby port Rafina. Fast ferries take 4 hours to Ios and larger slow ferries with outside seating twice as long. Another option is fly to Santorini with a short ferry ride to Ios. There are numerous nice places to stay including the clean and convenient Athena Rooms.

For breakfast Bakehouse close to the meeting room has coffee and pastries and Seven Eleven a nice view of the village. Local restaurants include The Nest with its own produce, The Mills at the top of the village, and Safran at the start of the steps to the port. Good food at the port can be found at Octopus Tree for fish, Peri Anemon for grill, and Akrogiali for traditional dishes.

The local beaches start with Mylopotas only a short bus ride or 30 minute walk from the village. The port beach Yialos is handy. One bus goes daily to Manganari beach. Rental cars are available to visit Homer's tomb, the Odesseas Elytis amphitheater, the Diaseli traditional goat museum, and other beaches.

Sunsets are something at Alma and Ios Club not to mention Pathos. For a nightcap try Garden of Ios. Two tavernas in the village have live rebetika starting at 9.

Emails

jcassing@pitt.edu, rassekh@hartford.edu, athomp46@scsu.edu, henry.thompson@auburn.edu, bcvick@iup.edu, martin.zagler@gmail.com, hgakay@bogazici.edu.tr, walkerd@cofc.edu, georgeagios@hmu.gr, gbertsatos@kepe.gr, ngurung@tuskegee.edu, ysissoko@iup.edu, oboldentiller@tuskegee.edu, gbertsatos@kepe.gr, hgakay@bogazici.edu.tr, jgilbert@usu.edu, tosang@mail.smu.edu, tower@duke.edu, bndedeep@scsu.edu, Arye.Hillman@biu.ac.il, wrieber@butler.edu, yuh0003@auburn.edu