Curriculum Vitae Adam Szirmai

 

Name:                                           Adam Szirmai (Eddy)

Born:                                             December 30 1946 in Budapest

Marital Status:                                married, two children

Home address                               Egelantierlaan 23,5672 XJ, Nuenen, The Netherlands,

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Present work address                    UNU-MERIT

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                                                     E-mail: szirmai@merit.unu.edu

                                                     Homepage: http://www.merit.unu.edu/

Present Position                             Professorial Fellow UNU-MERIT/

                                                     Professor of Development Economics, Maastricht Graduate School of Studies, Maastricht University/

                                                    

Languages                                :    Dutch, English (fluent), French, German and Hungarian (fair)

 

August 31 2007 - present              Professorial Fellow UNU/MERIT

                                                     Professor of Development Economics, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University

March  - August 2005                   Visiting Fellow, Economic Growth Centre, Yale University

January 1995- Jan 2005                Chairman Department of Technology and Policy, Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology.

July-August 2002                      :    Productivity Consultant, ILO, for Caribbean Labour Market Project, CLMIS.

April-July 2001                         :    Visiting Research Fellow, School of  Management and Economics, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

August-December, 2000           :    Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

June 1998-September 2000      :    Scientific Director, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies

September 1994-August 2007  :    Professor of Technology and Development Studies, Faculty of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology

April 1994 and April 1996        :    Visiting Research Fellow, School of Management, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

June 1993                                 :    Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Economics, Universitas Indonesia.

May 1993                                :    Visiting Researcher, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University

1989 - 1994                             :    Associate professor of Development Economics,     Department of Economics, University of Groningen

1986                                        :    Doctoral Dissertation accepted 'cum laude' in the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Groningen. Title of dissertation: "Inequality Observed, A Study of Attitudes towards Income Inequality"

1983 - 1989                             :    Assistant professor of Development Economics, Department of Economics, University of Groningen

1982 - 1983                             :    Assistant professor of Economic Sociology, Department of Economics, University of Groningen

1981 - 1982                             :    Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and the Social Sciences (NIAS)

1977 (July)                               :    post-doctoral courses in statistics at Essex University, England (Essex Summer School in Social Science Data analysis and Collection)

1975 - 1981                             :    Assistant professor of Economic Sociology, Department of Economics, University of Groningen

1970 - 1974                             :    employed as student assistant at the Sociological Institute, University of Amsterdam

1967 - 1974                             :    studied Sociology, University of Amsterdam (doctoral exam "cum laude")

1965 - 1967                             :    studied Law at the University of Amsterdam (candidates exam)

1964 - 1965                             :    studied Economics, American history and American literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., U.S.A. (Rufus Choate Honours Award)

 

Publications

 

Books

Szirmai, A, The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development. An Introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (711 pp).

Szirmai, A. and P. Lapperre (eds), The Industrial Experience of  Tanzania, Houndmills/ Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001 (411 pp).

Szirmai, A., B. Verspagen and J. Halman (eds), Innovation in Theory and Practice, Eindhoven, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, 1999.

Szirmai, A. Economic and Social Development. Trends, Problems and Policies, London, New York, Prentice Hall, 1997, 483 pp (ISBN 0-13-358003-2)

Szirmai, A., Ontwikkelingslanden - Dynamiek en Stagnatie (Developing Countries - Dynamics and Stagnation), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, Augustus, 1994 (540 pp.).

Szirmai, A., B van Ark and D. Pilat (eds), Explaining Economic Growth. Essays in Honour of Angus Maddison, Elsevier/North Holland, 1993 (500 pp.)

Szirmai, A., Inequality Observed. A Study of Attitudes towards Income Inequality, Aldershot, Avebury Press, 1988 (550 pp.).

 

 

Work in progress and recent papers:

Kesidou, E. & A. Szirmai Local, Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Economic Performance in Developing Countries: A discussion of alternative specifications, UNU-MERIT working paper, 2008-033.

Wang, Lili, and A. Szirmai, Regional Capital Inputs in Chinese Industry and Manufacturing, 1978-2003, UNU-MERIT, Working Paper, 2008-028, Maastricht, 2008 (44 pp.), also published as Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Working Paper, GD-99, Groningen, 2008.

Wang, L. and A. Szirmai, Regional Productivity Trends in Chinese Manufacturing, Paper for International Conference on Experiences and Challenges in Measuring National Income and Wealth in Transition Economies, IARIW/National Bureau of Statistics, September 19-21, 2007, Beijing, China

Rooks, G., A. Szirmai and A. Sserwanga, The Interplay of Human and Social Capital in Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries. The Case of Uganda, Paper prepared for the UNU-WIDER Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Helsinki, 21-23 August, 2008

Szirmai, A. Manufacturing as an Engine of Growth in Developing Countries, mimeo.

Szirmai, A, Explaining Success and Failure in Development, UNU-MERIT Working Paper, 2008-013, Maastricht 2008 (46 pp.), also published as Inaugural lecture, Maastricht University, Maastricht 2008.

Van Dijk, M., and A. Szirmai, The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance , UNU-MERIT, Working Paper, 2007-10.

 

Articles in books and journals

Wang Ling and A. Szirmai, ‘Technological inputs and productivity growth in High-tech industries’ China Economic Quarterly, Vol.7, No,3, pp913-932.

Wang, Lili. and A.Szirmai, ‘Productivity Growth and Structural Change in Chinese Manufacturing, 1980-2002’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 17 (4), 2008, pp. 841-874.

Kesidou, E. and A.Szirmai, The European Journal of Development Research, Volume 20 (2), June 2008 , pages 281 - 298.

Szirmai, A, Explaining Success and Failure in Development, Inaugural Lecture, University Of Maastricht, February, 2008.

Szirmai, A. and R. Ren, Measuring Labour Productivity in Chinese Manufacturing:  Statistical Problems and Solutions, D. Blades and B. Pant, eds, Chinese National Accounts, Asian Development Bank, 2007, forthcoming,   

Jacob, J. and A. Szirmai, ‘International knowledge spillovers to developing countries: the case of Indonesia’, Review of Development Economics, October, 2007.

Dijk, M. van,  and A. Szirmai, ‘Industrial Policy and Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries: Paper Making Machinery in Indonesia, 1923-2000, World Development, December, 34, No. 12, 2006, pp. 2137–2152.

Dijk, M. van, and A. Szirmai, ‘Technical Efficiency and Embodied Technical Change in the Indonesian Pulp and Paper Industry’, Journal of International Development,  18, 2006, pp. 163-178, .

Jonker, M., H. Romijn and A. Szirmai, 'Technological Effort, Technological Capabilities and Economic Peformance in Manufacturing in Developing Countries', Technovation,  26, 2006, pp. 121-134.

Wang, L and A. Szirmai, ‘Comparative Analysis of Capital Productivity in China’s High-Tech Industries’, China and World Economy, Vol.13, No.2  March - April 2005

Ren, R. and A. Szirmai, ‘Evaluation  of Chinese Growth Rates for Manufacturing GDP’, in Yue Ximing, Zhang Shguang, Xu Xianchun (eds), The Growth Rate of the Chinese Economy, Research and Discussion, Beijing, Citic Publishing House, 2005, pp. 211-226 (in Chinese).

Szirmai, A. and B. Verspagen (eds), “Technology and the Economy”, Special Issue, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 14, 2003, pp. 361-364.

Szirmai, A. and B. Verspagen, “Introduction”, in A. Szirmai and B. Verspagen (eds), “Special Issue on Technology and the Economy”, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 14, 2003, pp. 361-364.

Szirmai, Adam, Bai, Manyin and Ren, Ruoen, Labour Productivity Trends in Chinese Manufacturing, 1980-99’, China Economic Quarterly, 1 (4), July, 2002, pp. 863-881 (in Chinese).

Szirmai, A., M. Timmer and R. van der Kamp, ‘Measuring Embodied Technological Change in Development. The Core Machinery Approach’, Journal of Development Studies, 39, (2), December 2002, pp. 155-177..

Bongenaar, B. and A. Szirmai, ‘The Role of a Research and Development Institute in the Development and Diffusion of Technology’, in: M.P. van Dijk and H. Sandee (eds) Innovation in Small Industry in the Third World, Elgar, 2002, pp. 249-279.

Brink, J. van den, and A. Szirmai, ‘The Tanzanian Scrap Cycle’, Technovation, 22, 2002, pp. 187-197.

Szirmai, A, M.P. Timmer and R. van der Kamp, ‘Growth of the Capital Stock and Technological Change in the Indonesian Textile Industry’, in: J. Th. Lindblad, ed., Asian Growth and Foreign Capital, Case Studies from Eastern Asia, Amsterdam, Netherlands Economic Historical Archive (NEHA)/Aksant Academic Publishers, 2002, pp.153-182.

Szirmai, A. and P.E. Lapperre, ‘Introduction’, in: A. Szirmai and P. Lapperre (eds), The Industrial Experience of  Tanzania, Houndmills/ Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 1-8.

Engelen, D. van, A. Szirmai, P.E. Lapperre, “Public Policy and the Industrial Development of Tanzania, 1961-1995”, in; A. Szirmai and P. Lapperre (eds), op. cit. 2001, pp. 11-49.

Szirmai, A., M. Prins and W. Schulte, “Measuring Manufacturing Performance in Tanzania, in A. Szirmai and P. Lapperre (eds), op. cit. 2001, pp. 73-113.

Bongenaar, B. and A. Szirmai, The Role of a Research and Development Institute in the Development and Diffusion of Technology: The Case of TIRDO, in; Szirmai and Lapperre (eds), op. cit., pp. 171-193.

Timmer, M.P and A. Szirmai, ‘Productivity in Asian Manufacturing: The Structural Bonus Hypothesis Examined’ Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 11, 2000, pp. 370 ff.

Szirmai, A. and R. Ren, ‘Comparative Performance in Chinese Manufacturing, 1980-92’, China Economic Review, 11 (1), 2000, pp. 16-53.

Szirmai, A., ‘Technologie als drijvende kracht in ontwikkeling’ [Technology as a driving force in development], in: J.J.F. Heins en G.D. Thijs (red), Ontwikkelingsvraagstukken 2000+, Themabundel Ontwikkelingsproblematiek Nr. 11, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ISBN 90-73418-07-0, 2000.

Timmer, M. and A. Szirmai, ‘Comparative Productivity Performance in Manufacturing in South and East Asia, 1960-93’, Oxford Development Studies, 27, No. 1., 1999, pp. 57-79.

Halman, J, A. Szirmai and B. Verspagen (1999), ‘Innovation Studies. An Integrated View’, in: A. Szirmai, J. Halman, B. Verspagen (eds), op. cit., pp. 9-27.

Kamp, R. v.d.,  A. Szirmai , and M. Timmer, ‘The Role of Technology in the Indonesian Textile Industry’, in: H. Hill and Thee Kian Wie (eds), Indonesia’s Technological Challenge, Institute of South East Asian Studies/ Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Canberra/Singapore, 1998, pp. 279-302.

Szirmai, A, and Ren, R., ‘Chinese Manufacturing in Comparative Perspective’, in : M. Fouquin and F. Lemoine, eds., The Chinese Economy, London, Economica, 1998, pp. 49-64.

Shepherd, W.F., A. Szirmai and D.S. Prasada Rao, ‘Indonesian Manufacturing Sector Output and Productivity: An Australian Comparative Perspective, 1975-1990'’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies,  September 1998.

Szirmai, A.,‘De tegenstrijdigheden van Arthur Lewis’ [The Contradictions of Arthur Lewis], in: B. van Heerikhuizen (ed.), Buitenstaanders, Opstellen aangeboden aan Piet Nijhoff, Spinhuis, 1997.

Szirmai, A.,and Ren, Ruoen, 'The Estimation of China's GDP in ICOP framework' in: Ren Ruoen, China's Economic Performance in International Perspective, OECD Development Centre, Paris, 1997.

Szirmai, A.,and Ren, Ruoen, 'Assessing Growth Rates in China', in:  Ren Ruoen, China's Economic Performance in International Perspective’, OECD Development Centre, Paris, 1997 .

Szirmai, A., Ontwikkelingslanden in de industriële wedloop (Developing Countries in the Industrial Race), Inaugural lecture, Eindhoven University of Technology, January, 1997 (31 pp.).

Szirmai, A., with D.S. Prasada Rao, B. Shepherd and G. de Jong, Manufacturing Sector Output and Productivity in Indonesia: An Australian Comparative Perspective, 1975-90, COPPAA Series No 2, Centre for the Study of Australian Asian Relations, Griffiths University, 1995.

Szirmai, A., ‘Real Output and Labour Productivity in Indonesian Manufacturing, 1975-1990’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 30(3), August, 1994, pp. 49-90.

Szirmai, A.,‘Introduction’, in: A. Szirmai, B. van Ark and D. Pilat (eds.), op. cit., 1993, pp. 1-35.

Szirmai, A., ‘Comparative Productivity in Manufacturing. A Case Study for Indonesia’, in: A. Szirmai, B. van Ark and D. Pilat (eds.), op. cit., 1993, pp. 217-239.

Szirmai, A., ‘Explaining Variation in Attitudes towards Income Inequality’, in: R. Vermunt and A. Steensma eds., Social Justice in Human Relations, Vol. 2., Leiden, 1991, New York, Plenum press, 1991, pp. 229-268.

Szirmai, A. and D. Pilat, ‘Comparisons of Purchasing Power, Real Output and Labour Productivity in Manufacturing in Japan, South Korea and the USA, 1975-85’, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 36, Number 1, March 1990, pp. 1-31 (rewarded the John Kendrick prize for the best article in the Review in 1990).

Szirmai, A., Social Stratification and Social Coordination, Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 1986, vol. 12, nr. 4, February 1986, pp. 710-752.

Szirmai, A., ‘How do we Really Feel about Income Equalization’, The Netherlands Journal of Sociology, vol. 20, no. 2, October 1984, pp. 115-133.

Szirmai, A.,Wat vinden wij werkelijk van de inkomensnivellering? [How do we Really Feel about Income Equalization], De Gids, jrg. 146, nr. 2/3, 1983, pp. 143/156.

Szirmai, A., Review article Naar een vergadermodel voor menselijk geluk, in: Sociologische Gids, 1983, 4, pp. 318-331.

Szirmai, A., Nivelleringsethos [The ethos of equalisation], in: J.J. Godschalk en P.L.J. Hermkens, red., Sociologie en inkomensbeleid, NSAV, Rotterdam, 1982, pp. 119-161.

Szirmai, A., Review article Machtsnivellering of machtspolarisatie [Decline of power differentials or power polarisation], Sociologische Gids, Vol. XXIX, 1982, no. 1, pp. 59-75.

Szirmai, A., Nivelleringsethos. Een weerwoord [The ethos of equalisation. A reply]: Sociologisch Tijdschrift, jaargang 9, nr. 3, december 1982, pp. 510-519.

Szirmai, A., Nivelleringsethos. Opvattingen over inkomensongelijkheid [The ethos of equalisation], Sociologisch Tijdschrift, jaargang 9, nr. 2, oktober 1982, pp. 175-211.

Szirmai, A., Matigingsbereidheid en het dilemma der gevangenen [attitudes towards wage moderation and the prisoners’ dilemma], Economisch Statistische Berichten, 23-9-1981, pp. 912-919.

Szirmai, A., Theorie als intellektueel simulatiemodel [Theory as an intellectual simulation model], Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, sept. 1978, pp. 346-368.

Szirmai, A., ‘Impressions of a Symposium’, in T. Huppes, ed., Economics and Sociology. Towards an Integration, Leiden, Stenfert Kroese, 1977.

Szirmai, A., Integratie tussen ekonomie en sociologie [integration between economics and sociology]: Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, derde jrg. nr. 1, mei 1976, pp.89-99.

Szirmai, A., with J. Donkers, Pleidooi voor reikwijdte in de Sociologie, De Revisor, 3 juli 1975, pp. 45-52 (Review article).

Szirmai, A.,with J. Donkers, Wertheim en het geloof in de vooruitgang [Wertheim’s Belief in Human Progress], De Gids, 1972, nr. 4, pp. 338-346 (Review article).

 

 

Working Papers/Reports/Book Reviews/ Conference Papers

 

Kesidou, E, and A. Szirmai, Local Knowledge Spillovers, Innovation and Economic Performance in Developing Countries Empirical Evidence from the Uruguay Software Cluster, Paper for UNU-MERIT conference on: “Micro Evidence on Innovation in Developing Economies” Maastricht (Netherlands), May 31 & June 1, 2007.

Van Dijk, M., and A. Szirmai, The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance , UNU-MERIT, Working Paper, 2007-10.

Szirmai, A. Explaining Success and Failure in Development. The Developing World during the Post War Period and Outlook to 2030, paper for the Conference World Economic Performance, Past, Present and Future, Groningen, October, 2006.

Dijk, M. van, and A. Szirmai, The Micro-Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing: An International Comparison of Plant-Level Performance, Paper prepared for the Globelics Conference Innovation Systems for Competitiveness and Shared Prosperity in Developing Countries October 4-7. 2006, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Jacob, J. and S. Szirmai, International Knowledge Spillovers to Developing Countries. The Case of Indonesia, Paper for the 2006 Intermediate Input-Output Meeting, Sendai, July, 26-28, 2006

Wang, Lili, and A. Szirmai, Productivity Growth and Structural Change in Chinese Manufacturing, 1980-2002, Paper for the 11^th Conference of the International Schumpeter Society, Sophia Antipolis, 21-24 June, 2006.

Jacob, J. and A. Szirmai, International Trade and Knowledge Spillovers: The Case of Indonesian Manufacturing, ECIS working paper, 2006-1, Eindhoven, 2006.

Szirmai, A, R. Ren and M. Bai, Chinese Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-2002, Yale Economic Growth Center, Discussion Paper No. 920, July, 2005.

Dijk, M. van and A. Szirmai, Exploring The Micro Dynamics of Catch Up in Indonesian Paper Manufacturing. An International Comparison of  Plant Level Performance using Census Data, paper presented at the Conference: The Measurement and Analysis of Innovation and Productivity Growth, Groningen, 10-11 November, 2005.

Szirmai, A., Book review of Th. J. Misa, Ph. Brey and A. Feenberg (eds), Modernity and Technology, The MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 2003, in Development and Change, May, 2005, p. 608-610.

Szirmai, A, R. Ren and M. Bai, China in the Structure of World Manufacturing, Paper prepared for the conference Transition, Growth and Globalisation. An International Conference on the Chinese Economy, Perth, 7/8 july 2005.

Dijk, M. van, and A. Szirmai, Industrial Policy and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Paper Making Machinery in Indonesia, ECIS Working Paper 5,15, Eindhoven 2005

Dijk M.v. and A. Szirmai, Catch Up at the Micro-Level: Evidence from an Industry Case Study Using Manufacturing Census Data, Paper prepared for Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, DEGIT – X, Mexico City, June 3-4, 2005

Jacob, J. and A. Szirmai, International Knowledge Spillovers to Developing Countries: the Case of Indonesia, Paper for the IARIW Conference, Cork, August 2004.

Jacob, J. and A. Szirmai, Stages of Industrialisation, Export and Technology Diffusion. The Case of Indonesian Manufacturing, paper for the Schumpter conference Milan, June, 2004.

Dijk, M. van, and A. Szirmai, Industrial Policy and Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries: Paper Making Machinery in Indonesia, 1923-2000, paper for the Schumpeter conference Milan, June 2004

Wang, L, and A. Szirmai, Technological Inputs and Productivity Growth in China’s High-Tech Industries, ECIS Working Paper, Eindhoven, December 2003.

Dijk, M. and A. Szirmai, Long-Run Productivity Trends at the Plant Level. Evidence from the Indonesian Pulp and Paper Industry, 1975-97, Paper presented at the 2^nd Hellenic Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Management (HEWPEM), Department of Economics, University of Patras, Grence, May 30- June 1, 2003.

Szirmai, A., Review of  Deepak Lal, The Poverty of ‘Development Economics’, Second Revised and Expanded U.S. edition, Cambridge, Massachusetts/London, England, The MIT Press, 2000 (xx + 175 pp.), The Record , December 2002, pp.490-2.

Szirmai, A., Methodological Guidelines for Computing KILM Labour Productivity Indicators for the Manufacturing Sector and the Total Economy. Paper prepared for the Caribbean Labour Market Information System Project (CLMIS), Eindhoven University of Technology  28 July 2002 (32 pp. )

Francis K. Yamfwa, Adam Szirmai and Chibwe Lwamba: Zambian Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, ECIS working paper, 02-21, December 2002 (also published as Groningen Growth and Development Centre Working Paper, GD 53).

Szirmai, A., M. Prins and W. Schulte, Tanzanian Manufacturing in Comparative Perspective, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Working Paper GD 59, Groningen, November 2002.

Ruoen, R., A. Szirmai and M. Bai, How Productive is Chinese Manufacturing? 27th General Conference IARIW, Stockholm, August 2002.

Szirmai, A. Methodological Guidelines for Computing KILM Labour Productivity Indicators for the Manufacturing Sector and the Total Economy, Paper prepared for the Caribbean Labour Market Information System Project (CLMIS), Eindhoven University of Technology, mimeo, 28 July 2002 (32 pp.).

Szirmai, Adam, Francis Yamfwa and Chibwe Lwamba, Zambian Manufacturing in Comparative Perspective, Working Paper GD 59, Groningen, January 2002.

Bai, M. Ruoen, R and A. Szirmai, A New Benchmark Comparison between China and the USA according to the ICOP approach, School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, June 2002 (mimeo).

Szirmai, A., M. Bai and Ren R., Labour Productivity Trends in Chinese Manufacturing, 1980-99, ECIS Working Paper, 2001.10, October 2001.

Szirmai, A, M.P. Timmer and R. van der Kamp, “Measuring  Embodied Technological Change in Indonesian Textiles:  The Core Machinery Approach”, Working Paper No 2001/09, working papers in Trade and Development, Division of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, September, 2001

Szirmai, A., Bai, Manyin and Ren, Ruoen, Labour Productivity Trends in Chinese Manufacturing, 1980-1999, paper for the the International Conference on the Chinese Economy ‘Achieving Growth with Equity’, 4-6 July 2001, Beijing.

Timmer, M.P. and A. Szirmai, Productivity in Asian Manufacturing: The Unimportance of Structural Change, Paper presented at the conference on Economic Growth, Trade and Technology, Eindhoven, October 3-4, 1999.

Bongenaar, B and A. Szirmai, The Role of a Research and Development Institute in the Development and Diffusion of Technology, ECIS Working Paper, 09-1999.

Szirmai, A., M. Prins and W. Schulte, Tanzanian Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, paper presented at the Regional International Input-Output Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 12-18 September 1999.

Szirmai, A, M. P. Timmer and R. van der Kamp, Growth of the Capital Stock and Technological Change in the Indonesian Textile Industry, Paper prepared for the International Conference on Asian Growth and Foreign Capital, Leiden, October 15-16, 1999.

Prins, I.M. and A. Szirmai, A Reconstruction of GDP and Employment in Tanzanian Manufacturing, 1961-1995, Report to the Tanzanian Bureau of Statistics, Eindhoven, January, 1998 (147 pp.)

Review of S. Wangwe, Exporting Africa, Technology, Trade and Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Development and Change, 29 (3), July 1998, pp. 594-95.

Review of M. Pangestu and Yuri Sato, Waves of Change in Indonesia’s Manufacturing Industry, in: Asian Pacific Economic Literature, Vol. 12, No. 1, May, 1998, pp. 73-75.

Szirmai, A., Book review of K. Hannan (ed.), China Modernisation and the Goal of Prosperity, Cambridge University Press, 1995, in: De Economist, Vol. 145, no.2  July 1997, pp. 266-67.

Szirmai, A. and Ren, R., ‘Chinese Manufacturing in Comparative Perspective’, Paper presented at the CEPII international seminar on The Chinese Economy, Highlights and Opportunities, Paris, October, 1997.

Timmer M.P and A. Szirmai, ‘Australian Manufacturing Performance in International Perspective, paper presented at CSAAR seminar Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century, Griffiths University, Brisbane, November 1997.

Timmer M. and A.Szirmai , Growth and Divergence in Manufacturing Performance in South and East Asia, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Research Memorandum GD-37, Groningen, June 1997 (49. pp.).

Szirmai, A.,'Koplopers en achterblijvers' [Leaders and Followers], in: Europa Periodiek, jrg. 13 nummer 1, juni 1996 (themanummer over technologie en technologiebeleid), pp. 39-40

Timmer M. and A.Szirmai , Growth and Divergence in Manufacturing Performance in South and East Asia, Paper presented at the Twenty Fourth General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Lillehammer, Norway, August 18-24, 1996 (45. pp).

Ren Ruoen and A. Szirmai , International Competitiveness of Chinese Manufacturing Industries, Paper presented at the Twenty Fourth General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, Lillehammer, Norway, August 18-24, 1996

Szirmai, A., and Ren Ruoen, ‘China's Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-1992’, Research Memorandum 581 (GD-20) Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Groningen, 1995 (65 pp.)

Szirmai, A., Bookreview, of F. Boekema, red., Sociale Economie, Markten, Instituties Beleid, Wolters Noordhoff 1993, in: Openbare Uitgaven, 27e jaargang, nr. 1, 1995, pp.49-51.

Szirmai, A., Book review of B. Burgmeier, Social Economics. An Interdisciplinary Perspective, in: De Economist, Vol. 143, No. 2, May 1995, pp. 271-273.

Ren Ruoen and A. Szirmai, ‘Chinese Manufacturing Performance’, in: Proceedings of 10th South East Asia Regional Conference of the Academy of International Business, on Asia-Pacific Business in the Year 2000, Beijing, 1994.

Szirmai, A. and Ren Ruoen, ‘China's Manufacturing Performance in Comparative Perspective, 1980-1990’, Paper Presented at the 23d Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, New Brunswick, Canada, 22-28 August, 1994.

Szirmai, A., Comparative Performance in Indonesian Manufacturing, 1975-90, Groningen Growth and Development Centre, Research Memorandum No. 538 GD-3, Groningen, August 1993.

Szirmai, A., Bookreview of P. van Wijk, Inkomensverdelingsbeleid in Nederland, Mens en Maatschappij, 1993, Vol. 3, pp. 330-332.

Szirmai, A., Ontwikkelingsvraagstukken. Een Inleiding, Dl. I., 2e herziene druk, Groningen, Werkgroep Ontwikkelingsvraagstukken, 1992 (205 pp.).

Szirmai, A., ‘Reflections on Research on Attitudes towards Inequality’, invited paper presented at the International Colloquium on Social Justice Research, Geneva, May, 1992 (25 pp.)

Szirmai, A., ‘Comparative Productivity in Manufacturing. A Case Study for Indonesia’, Paper presented at the conference Explaining Economic Growth, Groningen 1992.

Szirmai, A.,Ontwikkelingsvraagstukken. Een Inleiding, Dl. I., Groningen, Werkgroep Ontwikkelingsvraagstukken, 1991 (146 pp.).

Szirmai, A., and D. Pilat, The International Comparison of Real Output and Labour Productivity in Manufacturing: A Study for Japan, South Korea and the USA for 1975, Research Memorandum nr. 354, Institute of Economic Research, Groningen, 1990 (140 pp. plus statistical appendices).

Szirmai, A., Book review of E.L. Jones, Growth Recurring; Economic Change in World History, New York, Oxford Un. Press, 1988, in: Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXVIII, June 1990, pp. 693/4.

Szirmai, A.,Bookreview of H.J. van de Braak, Economische Sociologie, Van Gorcum, 1988, in: De Economist, Vol. 138, nr. 2, 1990, pp. 230/231.

Szirmai, A., Book review of B. Magyar, Dunaapa'ti 1944-1958, Dokumentumszociografia, I, II & III, Muvelosde'skutato' inte'szet e's Szovetkezeti kutato' inte'zet, 1986, in: Review of Socialist Law, 1989, No. 1, pp. 126-128.

Szirmai, A., Review article of C.T. Morris and I. Adelman, Comparative Patterns of Economic Development, 1850-1914, Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1988, in: Journal of Economic History, Sept. 1989, pp. 797-800.

Szirmai, A.,Rooms-Rode samenwerking. A review article of F.J. ter Heide, Ordening en verdeling. Besluitvorming over sociaal-economisch beleid ion Nederland 1949-1958, in: Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, jrg. 15, nr. 1, mei 1988, pp. 145-150.

Szirmai, A.,Een wetenschappelijke fundering van het politieke debat - het Sociaal en Cultureel Rapport 1986, in: Socialisme en Democratie, 1987, 5, pp. 163-167.

Szirmai, A.,Bookreview of A. Kbben en J. Godschalk, Een tweedeling van de samenleving, in: Sociologisch Tijdschrift, 14e jrg., nr. 2, October 1987, pp. 312-316.

Szirmai, A.,with R.R. Corsel, Produktiviteit van economisch onderzoek aan universitaire instellingen 1980 - 1983, Onderzoeksmemorandum 191, Instituut voor Economisch Onderzoek, Groningen, 1986 (54 pp.).

Szirmai, A., Inequality Observed. A Study of Attitudes towards Income Inequality, Groningen, Dissertation, 1986 (534 pp.).

Szirmai, A., ‘Income Inequality and Social Conflict’, Paper presented at the International Conference for Social Justice Research, Leiden, 1986 (60 pp.)

Szirmai, A., Income Satisfaction, Utility and Fairness. A study of the Determinants of Income Satisfaction, Research Memorandum nr. 152, Institute of Economic Research, University of Groningen, 1984 (44 pp.).

Szirmai, A.,Bookreview of T. de Bruin en A. Peper red., Arbeidsverhoudingen in Nederland, 1981, in: Sociologische Gids, vol. XXX, 1983, pp. 470-472.

Szirmai, A.,Matigingsbereidheid en Nivelleringsgeneigdheid. Een onderzoek naar houdingen t.a.v. inkomensongelijkheid en inkomenspolitiek, Onderzoeksmemorandum nr. 119, Instituut voor Economisch Onderzoek, Groningen, 1982 (150 pp.).

Szirmai, A.,Bookreview of H. Top, De maatschappelijke kant van het ondernemen, 1978, in: Sociologische Gids, Vol. XXVII, 1980, nr. 4, pp. 341/2.

Szirmai, A.,Ontwikkeling in het Onderzoek naar Inkomenswaardering, in: VERAF. Congresbundel Post Academisch Onderwijs, Economische Faculteit, Groningen, 1978.

Szirmai, A.,, E.H. Bax and Ch. de Neubourg, Inventarisatierapport Sociologische Ekonomie [Review Report on Sociological Economics], Groningen, december 1977 (208) pp.

Szirmai, A.,Book review of Galbraith, Markten, Machten, Mensen, in: De Economist, 125, nr. 2, 1977, pp. 277-282.