EUROPEAN TRADE STUDY GROUP

eTSG2004 Programme

Nottingham, 9-11 September 2004

Time

Parallel Session 1

Room B1

Parallel Session 2

Room A2

Parallel Session 3

Room A3

Parallel Session 4

Room A4

Parallel Session 5

Room B63

Thursday, 9 September 2004

14:45-15:05

Welcome

15:05-15:50

PLENARY SESSION 1                                                                                  Room B63                                           Chair: Ian Wooton

Political Pressure Deflection

James E. Anderson and Maurizio Zanardi

15:50-16:20

Coffee

16:20-18:00

A1 A-D

A2 REI

A3 FDI

A4 LAB

A5 DOT

16:20-16:40

Anti-Dumping Duties and the Byrd Amendment

David Collie and Hylke Vandenbussche

Effects of Customs Union with European Union on the Market Structure and Pricing Behaviour of Turkish Manufacturing Industry

Arzu Akkoyunlu-Wigley and Sevinc Mihci

A Structural Model of the Export veresus Production Abroad Decision of German Firms

Jörn Kleinert and Farid Toubal

The Impact of Immigration on UK Wages: A GNP Function Approach

Alexander Hijzen and Peter Wright

On the Measurement of Vertical and Horizontal Intra Industry Trade: A Geometric Exposition

A. K. M. Azhar and Robert J. R. Elliott

16:40-17:00

AD Policy: Promoting or Deterring Trade in Mexico?

Alfonso Mendieta

Preferential Trading Arrangements as Strategic Positioning

Daniel Seidmann

Inter-State Competition for Mobile Firms

Ben Ferrett and Ian Wooton

Immigration, Human-Capital Investment and the Skill Premium

Christian Lumpe and Benjamin Weigert

A general equilibrium model of Vertical Intra-Industry Trade and Inter-Industry Trade with complete specialization of countries

Alberto Balboni

17:00-17:20

Antidumping Protection and Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms

Jozef Konings and Hylke Vandenbussche

Trade Integration Within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: How Far from EU-CEECs Trade Integration?

Anna Ferragina and G. Giovannetti

Surviving Globalisation: Firm-level Evidence from Sweden 1980-1997

David Greenaway, Joakim Gullstrand, and Richard Kneller

Trends and Patterns of Outsourcing in Spanish Industry

Carmen Diaz-Mora

17:20-17:40

Antidumping Procedures and Macroeconomic Factors: A Comparison

between the United States and the European Union

Patrick Monnet Gbakou, Mustapha Sadni-Jallab, and René Sandretto

Ownership Restrictions, Tax Competition and Transfer Pricing Policy

Khaled Diaw

International Trade, Outsourcing and Flexible Manufacturing

Carsten Eckel

Globalization, Increasing Returns and Trade in Intermediate Inputs

Anu Kovarikova Arro

17:40-18:00

Does Antidumping Duty Really Matter in the EU?

Rod Falvey, David Greenaway, and Sarut Wittayarungruangsri

Union Bargaining Power, Labour Standards and FDI

Dermot Leahy and Catia Montagna

How Does China Compete with Japan in US Market? Triangular Trade Approach

Hiro Ito and Yushi Yoshida

18:00-18:15

Break

18:15-19:00

PLENARY SESSION 2                                                                                 Room B63                                            Chair: Jan Haaland

The Economics of Special and Differential Trade Regimes

Paola Conconi and Carlo Perroni

 

 

 Friday, 10 September 2004

09:10-10:50

B1 Com

B2 REI

B3 FDI

B4 LAB

B5 DOT

09:10-09:30

Impact of the Single Market on Welfare of Member Countries

Elzbieta Czarny and A. Rusinowska

Endogenous Trade Bloc Formation in an Asymmetric World

Mark Melatos and Alan Woodland

Bureaucratic Corruption, MNEs and FDI

Andreas Johnson

Openness to Trade and Employment Dynamics in Finnish Manufacturing

Satu Nurmi

International Trade in New and Used Durables

Sofronis Clerides and Costas Hadjiyiannis

09:30-09:50

Dumping in Developing and Transition Economies

Jean-Marie Viaene

The terms of trade effect of regional integration: empirical investigation of implications of the Europe Agreement for Poland

Jan Michalek and Katarzyna Sledziewska

Is FDI Indeed Tariff-Jumping? Firm Level Evidence

Ayça Tekin-Koru

An Evaluation of the Impact of FDI on Skill Premia in CEECs Regions

Chiara Bonassi and Claudia Guagliano

Intra-Industry Trade with Multinational Firms:
Theory, Measurement,
and Determinants

Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger,
and
David Greenaway

09:50-10:10

Tariffs, Licensing and Market Structure

Arijit Mukherjee and Enrico Pennings

Free Trade Area and Exchange rate regime in LDC: the case of Tunisia and the EU

Juliette Milgram

Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Liberties: A New Perspective

Antonis Adam and Fragkiskos Filippaios

Foreign Takeovers and Wages in Hungary

Sandor Csengödi, Rolf Jungnickel, and Dieter Urban

Size and Factor-Endowment Effects on Comparative Advantage in a Gravity Model

Dieter Schumacher and Boriss Siliverstovs

10:10-10:30

Export-driven Productivity Growth in Swedish Manufacturing Sectors

Sara Johansson

Trade and Financial Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization

Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Juan Ruiz

Footloose Multinational and the Impact of Cost Efficiency in the Domestic Industry

Arijit Mukherjee and Uday Sinha

The Factor Content of Trade and Relative Wages in US: A Dual Approach

Agelos Delis

EU Exports Specialization Patterns in Selected Accession Countries

Dora Borbély

10:30-10:50

Why Parallel Imports May Raise Producers' Profits

Horst Raff and Nicolas Schmitt

 

Pollution Haven or Hythe? New Evidence from Mexico

Munisamy Gopinath and Andreas Waldkirch

Openness, Similarity in Trade Structures and Income Convergence

Luca De Benedictis and Lucia Tajoli

10:50-11:20

Coffee

11:20-13:00

C1 Com

C2 REI

C3 FDI

C4 LAB

C5 DOT

11:20-11:40

Exchange Rate Movements and Export Prices: An Empirical Analysis

Isabelle Mejean

Economic Voting and European Integration

Leo A. Grunfeld and Ulf I. Sverdrup

FDI, International Outsourcing and Linkages

Carlo Altomonte and Chiara Bonassi

Outsourcing and Trade in a Spatial World

Hartmut Egger and Peter Egger

Lumpy World and Race to the Bottom

Fabien Candau

11:40-12:00

Trade Liberalisation, Competition and Income Distribution

Peter Neary and Joseph Tharakan

An Analysis about New European Geographical Economy with 25 Members

Philippe Grainville

Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Dirk Bezemer and Dirk Willem te Velde

Economic Integration and the Elasticities of Labour Demand: Econometric Evidence from Finland

Elisa Riihimäki

Sectoral Specialisation, Trade Intensity and Business Cycles Synchronisation in an Enlarged EMU

Iulia Traistaru

12:00-12:20

Trade, Competitiveness and Revealed Comparative Advantage: Evidence for Turkey towards the EU

Dilek Seymen and Utku Utkulu

The Impact of the Euro-Med Free Trade Agreement on Unemployment in Tunisia: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis

Mohamed Ali Marouani

Multinational Investment, Intra-Industry Trade and Contracts in Transition Economies: A Case Study for Food-Industries

Eleni Kaditi

Does Trade Openess Affect Core Labor Standards?

Florence Arestoff and Clotilde Granger

The Gravity Equation in International Trade in Services

Fukunari Kimura and Hyun-Hoon Lee

12:20-12:40

Do Foreign Players Change the Nature of the Game among Local Entrepreneurs?

Mika Maliranta and Satu Nurmi