EUROPEAN TRADE STUDY GROUP

ETSG2003 Programme

Madrid, 11-13 September 2003

Time

Parallel Session 1

Room 11.39

Parallel Session 2

Room 11.44/45

Parallel Session 3

Room 11.18

Parallel Session 4

Room 11.17

Parallel Session 5

Room 11.08/09

Thursday, 11 September 2003

15:00-15:25

Welcome

15:25-16:10

PLENARY SESSION 1

An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms

Jonathan Eaton, Samuel Kortum, and Francis Kramarz

16:10-16:40

Coffee

16:40-18:00

A1 Competition and Market Structure

A2 Regionalism

A3 FDI and Multinationals

A4 Empirics of Trade

A5 Trade Policy

16:40-17:00

Should Risk Averse Countries be Trade Averse?

Michel Blanchard and Frédéric Peltrault

A Gravity Study of the Sectoral Trade Impact of Labour Migration in an Enlarged EU

Helena Marques and Hugh Metcalf

Domestic Labour Markets and Foreign Direct Investment

Jan I Haaland and Ian Wooton

A Panel Data Analysis of Bangladesh’s Trade: The Gravity Model Approach

Mohammad Rahman

The Effects of Quota on Intra-Industry Trade

Stefan Lutz

17:00-17:20

Cartel Stability and Economic Integration

Philipp J. H. Schröder

Policy When Firm Location Matters: A Macroeconomic Model with Imperfect Competition and International Outsourcing

Hartmut Egger and Josef Falkinger

The Intangible Globalisation: Explaining the Patterns of International Trade and FDI in Services

Leo A. Grunfeld and Andreas Moxnes

FPE in Finland

Kangasharju Aki, Leena Kerkelä, and Pekkala Sari

Strategic Trade Policy on Oligopolistic Markets

Eliza Chilimoniuk

17:20-17:40

Cross-border Mergers as Instruments of Comparative Advantage

Peter Neary

Economic Integration, Similarity and Convergence in the EU and CEECS Trade Structures

Luca De Benedictis and Lucia Tajoli

FDI, Exports and GDP Growth of Turkey: Causality Analysis

Asli Alici and Meltem Ucal

Trade Intermediation in International Trade

Harald Trabold

Pareto Optimal Delegation in Customs Unions

Mark Melatos and Alan Woodland

17:40-18:00

Economic Reforms and Productivity of Domestic Firms and Industries

Franziska Ohnosrge and Nadia Soboleva

Multilateral and Regional Trade Agreements: An Analysis for Bangladesh under Economies of Scale

Markus Lips, Andrzej Tabeau, and Frank van Tongere

 

Fragmentation Of Production And Trade Patterns: An Empirical Assessment

Gianfranco De Simone

 

18:00-18:15

Break

18:15-19:00

PLENARY SESSION 2

Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers Through Backward Linkages

Beata Smarzynska

 

Friday, 12 September 2003

09:30-10:50

B1 Competition and Market Structure

B2 Regionalism

B3 FDI and Multinationals

B4 Empirics of Trade

B5 Trade Policy

09:30-09:50

Economic Integration and Rules of Origin under International Oligopoly

Jota Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Mizoguchi, and Hiroshi Mukunoki

Trade Potential in the Enlarged European Union: A Gravity Model Approach

Bogdan Gorokhovskij

Competing to Invest in the Foreign Market

Makoto Okamura and Laixun Zhao

Trade Liberalization Strategies: What Could South Eastern Europe Learn from CEFTA and BFTA?

Antonis Adam, Dora Kosma, and Jimmy McHugh

On the Welfare Effects of Trade and Investment

Peter Egger, Mario Larch, and Michael Pfaffermayr

09:50-10:10

Testing Market Power of “Made in Italy” Exporters in Transition Economies

Marco Cucculelli

The Possible Trade Effects of The Third Enlargement: The Case of Turkish Exports to EU

Cagacan Deger

Market Access and the Location of German FDI

Farid Toubal

Exports as a Promoter or an Indicator on Successful Swedish Manufacturing Firms in the 1990s

Pär Hansson and Nan Nan Lundin

Trade Agreements versus Currency Unions: What Causes What to Economies?

José Lopes and José Tavares

10:10-10:30

Why (No) Global Competition Policy is a Tough Choice

Abigail Tay and Gerald Willmann

The Rise and Fall of Regional Inequalities with Technological Differences and Knowledge Spillovers

Antonella Nocco

Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Development in Host Countries: Theory and Evidence

S. Barrios, Luisito Bertinelli, Holger Görg, and Eric Strobl

Foreign Outsourcing, Labour Demand and the Choice of Functional Form

Michel Dumont

‘Mix-and-Match’ and International Standardization Policy

Juan Ruiz

10:30-10:50

 

Feasible Multilateralism and the Effects of Regionalism

Emanuel Ornelas

Technology, MNEs Activity and Italian Skill-Upgrading

Mara Grasseni

Impact of Trade Reforms on the Trade Balance, Balance of Payments and Economic Growth: The Case of Mexico

Penelope Pacheco-Lopez

Strategic Tariff Protection, Market Conduct, and Government Commitment Levels in Developing Economies. A Symmetric versus Asymmetric Information Analysis

Delia Ionascu and Kresimir Zigic

10:50-11:20

Coffee

11:20-13:00

C1 Competition and Market Structure

C2 Regionalism

C3 FDI and Multinationals

C4 Empirics of Trade

C5 Trade Policy

11:20-11:40

A Differential Game with Investment in Transport and Communication R&D

Luca Colombo, Luca Lambertini, and Andrea Mantovani

EU Enlargement: Implications of the Single Market Access for Current and New Member States

Maryla Maliszewska

Democracy and FDI

Matthias Busse

Spanish-UK Relative Exports to OECD Countries: Prices, Taste Bias and Quality

Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso

Threats and Concessions in Tariff Settings

Taiji Furusawa

11:40-12:00

Trade in the Triad: How Easy is the Access to Large Markets

Lionel Fontagné, Thierry Mayer, and Soledad Zignago

Sectoral Border Effects: Analysing Implicit EU Trade Integration

Andrea Molinari

FDI and Wage Spillovers in Irish Manufacturing Industry

Ali Ugur and Frances Ruane

Trade Reforms and the Survival of the Passenger
Motor Vehicle (PMV) Industry in Australia

Kankesu Jayanthakumaran and Elias Sanidas

Comparative Advantage and the Pursuit of Strategic Trade Policy

David Collie and David de Meza

12:00-12:20

Oligopolistic Competition, Redistributive Preferences and Gains from Trade

Hervé Boulhol

Turkish Delight: Assessing the Economic Benefits of Turkeys Accession to the EU

Arjan Lejour and Ruud de Mooij

The Role of FDI in EU Accession Process in Western Balkan

Sinisa Kusic and Vladimir Zakharov

Exaggerated Reports of the Death of Distance: Lessons from a Meta-Analysis

Anne-Célia Disdier and Keith Head

A Prisoner's Dilemma Tariff Setting Game with an Escape Clause

Mathias Herzing

12:20-12:40

Intra-industry Trade: What Do We Really Know About It?

Elzbieta Czarny

Cooperative and Uncooperative R&D Policy in an Economic Union

Jan Haaland and Hans Jarle Kind

The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany

Giovanni Peri and Dieter Urban

Border Effects and Effective Transport Cost

Luís Lopes

Minimum Quality Standards on Exports

José María López and Praveen Kujal

12:40-13:00

   

Exports versus FDI: An Empirical Test

Sourafel Girma, Richard Kneller, and Mauro Pisu

Bottled Water: A Case of Pointless Trade?

Mattias Ganslandt and Richard Friberg

Trade Liberalisation versus Institutional Change

Angela Cheptea

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:10

D1 Competition and Market Structure

D2 Regionalism

D3 FDI and Multinationals

D4 Empirics of Trade

D5 Trade Policy

14:30-14:50

Electrified Trade

Pertti Haaparanta

 

Evaluating the Success of a CGE Model of the U.S.-Canada and North American Free Trade Agreements

Alan Fox

Does Ownership Matter?

Patrik Karpaty and Lars Lundberg