ETSG
2006 Vienna
Eighth
Annual Conference
7-9
September 2006
WIIW
and Universität Wien
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Time
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Parallel
Session 1
HS
28
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Parallel
Session 2
HS
30
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Parallel
Session 3
HS
31
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Parallel
Session 4
HS
32
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Parallel
Session 5
HS
7
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Parallel Session 6
HS
23
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Thursday,
07 September 2006
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14:45-15:00
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Welcome
Gerhard Clemenz,
Universität Wien
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15:00-15:45
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PLENARY
SESSION 1, Kleiner Festsaal
Chair: Ian
Wooton
Multilateralising Regionalism
Richard Baldwin
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15:45-16:00
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Conference
briefing Ian Wooton
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16:00-16:30
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Coffee
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16:30-18:10
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A1
FDI
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A2
POL
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A3 EMP
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A4 FRM
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A5
COM
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A6
PTA
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16:30-16:50
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FDI-Trade-Environment Linkages: Changing Flows
between EU (15), Enlarged EU and Non-European Countries
Onur Koska, Hakan
Mihça, and Cagatay Selim
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The End of the MFA: Globalisation Giveth and
Globalisation Taketh Away
Louise Curran
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Structural Change, Success and Crisis in Argentina:
Mistaking Transitory for Permanent Export Response
Alberto M.
Diaz-Cafferata and Jorge Alberto Fornero
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Do Foreign-owned Firms Have a Lower Innovation
Intensity Than Domestic Firms?
Martin Falk and
Rahel Falk
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Dumping and Injury Margins in a Reciprocal
Dumping Model with Horizontal as Well as Vertical Product
Differentiation
Jřrgen Drud
Hansen and Jřrgen Ulff-Mřller Nielsen
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The Customs Union with the European Union
and Its Impact on Turkey’s
Economic Growth
Arzu
Akkoyunlu-Wigley, Sevinc Mihci, and
Hakan Arslan
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16:50-17:10
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International
Services Outsourcing, Wages and Innovation
Holger Görg and
Aoife Hanley
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Parallel Imports and Price Controls
Gene M. Grossman
and Edwin L-C Lai
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Bilateral Predictions in a Multilateral
World? Revisiting the Theory
Daniel Bernhofen
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Endogenous Pre-trade Equilibria and Trade
Liberalisation in Differentiated-goods Oligopoly Models
Cillian Ryan
and
Toby Kendall
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Globalization,
Monopolistic Competition and International Trade
Elzbieta Czarny
and Katarzyna Sledziewska
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The
Effects of Economic Integration on Trade Volumes under International
Oligopoly
Jota Ishikawa,
Hiroshi Mukunoki, and
Yoshimasa Shirai
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17:10-17:30
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Technological
Asymmetries and Strategic Plant Location by a Multinational
Alessandra
Guariglia, Arijit Mukherjee, and Kullapat Suetrong
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Exclusive Rights, Policy Bias and Trade
Distorting State Trading Enterprises
Steve McCorriston and Donald
MacLaren
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Rethinking Productivity Measures in Case of
Exporters
Anže Burger, Jože
P
Damijan, Črt Kostevc,
and Polanec Sašo
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Extending
the Melitz Model to Asymmetric Countries
Rod Falvey, David
Greenaway, and Zihong Yu
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Volatility, Financial Constraints,
and Trade
Maria Garcia-Vega and
Alessandra Guariglia
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Multilateral Trade Liberalisation and the
Potential for Preference Erosion on the EU market
Louise Curran, Lars Nilsson, and Gaspar
Frontini
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17:30-17:50
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Triggering FDI
inflows: Government Policies, and Recommendations for Small Transition
Economies
Michael Koenig and
Sinisa Kusic
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Doha and the
Developing World: Explaining Deadlocks in WTO Negotiations
Euan MacMillan
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Is Distance a Good Proxy for
Transport Costs?: An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Exports to Poland and Turkey
Inmaculada
Martinez-Zarzoso and
Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
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Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour
Market Effects of Trade Liberalisation
Hartmut Egger and
Udo Kreickemeier
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The Determinants of Price Undertakings in
the EU
Estela Montado
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A High-Speed Train Scenario for Central
Europe: Some Long-Term Regional Growth Forecasts
Wolfgang Polasek
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17:50-18:10
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Multinational Firms, Monopolistic Competition
and Foreign Investment Uncertainty
Arunish Chawla
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Steepest Ascent Tariff Reforms
Pascalis
Raimondos-Mřller and Alan Woodland
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A
Dynamic Gravity Framework: An Application to Trade in the EuroMed Region
Juan Ruiz and Josep
Vilarrubia
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FDI Spillovers, Firm Heterogeneity and
Degree of Ownership: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing
Filip Abraham,
Jozef Konings, and Veerle Slootmaekers
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Did U.S.
Safeguards Resuscitate Harley Davidson in the 1980s?
Taiju Kitano and
Hiroshi Ohashi
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Preferential Trade, Sunk Costs, and the
Path-Dependent Expansion of Exports
Ingo Borchert
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18:10-18:15
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Break
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18:15-19:00
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PLENARY SESSION 2, Kleiner Festsaal
Chair: Maurizio Zanardi
The
Effect of Offshoring on Regional Demand for Labor: Evidence for Sweden
Karolina Ekholm and Katariina Hakkala
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20:00
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Reception, Rathaus
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Friday,
08 September 2006
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09:00-10:40
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B1
FDI
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B2
POL
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B3
EMP
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B4
FRM
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B5
COM
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B6
PTA
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09:00-09:20
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Effects of Adverse Selection on a
Multinational Firm's Decision on Where to Subcontract
António Brandăo
and
Rosa Forte
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Institutional Quality and Comparative
Advantage: An Empirical Assessment
Marcella Nicolini
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EU Market Access for Mediterranean Fruit
and Vegetables: A Gravity Model Assessment
Charlotte Emlinger and Emmanuelle
Chevassus-Lozza
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Fragmentation, Heterogeneity and Trade within Europe
Mark Knell and
Martin Srholec
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Did the Entry of Low Cost Companies Foster
the Growth of Strategic Alliances in the Airline Industry?
Andrea Mantovani
and Ornella Tarola
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Does
the EU Enlargement Cause Trade Diversion from Russian Exports?
Aurora Mordonu
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09:20-09:40
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FDI
and Trade: Complements and Substitutes
José Pedro Pontes
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EU Quota Restrictions on Textiles and
Clothing
Karen Jackson
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Estimating Agglomeration and Dispersion Forces
in a Multi-Region Geography Model as Applied to Spain
Razaque Bhatti
and
Henk Brand
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Factors Driving the Firm’s Decision to
Export: Firm-level Evidence from Poland
Jan Hagemejer
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Firms Behaving Badly: International
Regulation of Anticompetitive Behavior
Joseph Francois
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Disentangling
the Determinants of Rules of Origin: Econometric
Evidence from NAFTA
Alberto
Portugal-Pérez
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09:40-10:00
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Modelling
FDI in WorldScan: Application of the Services Directive
Arjan Lejour, Hugo
Rojas-Romagosa, and Gerard Verweij
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Did US
Safeguard Protection on Steel Affect Market Power of European Steel
Producers?
Hylke
Vandenbussche and Ziga
Zarnic
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Explaining Spatial Variation in Housing
Prices: An Economic Geography Approach
Karolien De
Bruyne and
Jan Van Hove
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Trade,
Industry Structure and Different Sources of Firm Heterogeneity
Jan Guldager
Jorgensen and Philipp J.H.
Schröder
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Openness, Growth, and
Income Convergence in Africa
Mina
Baliamoune-Lutz
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Currency Unions Cannot Defy Gravity
– Mind the Curves
and (Slippery) Slopes
Hajime Katayama and
Mark Melatos
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10:00-10:20
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Exports, FDI and Cross-Border Strategic Alliances
Larry Qiu
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Trade
Policy and Risk Diversification
Barbara Pfeffer
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Sectoral
Agglomeration Effects in European Regions
Marius Brülhart
and
Nicole Mathys
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A Survival Analysis of Manufacturing Firms
in Export Markets
Silvio Esteve
Peréz, Juan A. Máńez Castillejo, María Rochina-Barrachina, and
Juan A. Sanchis Llopis
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Does
Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization? An Empirical
Analysis
Michael O. Moore
and Maurizio Zanardi
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Interdependent Preferential Trade Agreement
Memberships: An Empirical Analysis
Peter Egger and
Mario Larch
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10:20-10:40
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The Impact of MNEs on Domestic Firms in
CEECs: A Micro-econometric Approach
Marcella Nicolini
and
Laura Resmini
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Trade Policy and Sectoral Manufacturing
Specialization
Antoni
Estevadeordal and Christian Volpe Martincus
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Trade in Parts and Components and Central
Eastern European Countries’ Industrial Geography
Gianfranco
De Simone
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Corporate
Governance and Firm’s Performance in International Markets. Some
Preliminary Evidence
Marco Cucculellli
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Losers, Winners and
Prisoner Dilemmas in International Subsidy Wars
Armando José
Garcia Pires
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Spoke
Trade in the EU
Eastern Periphery: An Econometric Assessment
Fabienne Boudier-
Bensebaa and Olivier
Lamotte
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10:40-11:10
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Coffee
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11:10-12:50
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C1 FDI
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C2 POL
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C3 EMP
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C4 FRM
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C5 LAB
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C6 PTA
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11:10-11:30
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Exporters and the Role of International
Knowledge Transfer in Innovation: Evidence from UK Firms
Richard Kneller
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Political Economy
of Poland’s Trade Policy.
Empirical Verification of Grossman-Helpman Model
Jan Hagemejer and
Jan Michalek
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A
Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Free Trade Agreements in Gravity
Equations
Maria Pina
Cipollina and Luca
Salvatici
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Information Costs, Networks and
Intermediation in International Trade
Dimitra
Petropoulou
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Heterogeneous Agents, Human Capital
Formation and International Income Inequality
Haris Munandar and
Jean-Marie Viaene
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Regional Integration Agreements: Impact,
Geography and Efficiency
Fazia Pusterla
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11:30-11:50
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Stay or Leave? Choice of Plant Location
with Cost Heterogeneity
Jota Ishikawa and
Yoshimasa Komoriya
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Concertina
Reforms with International Capital Mobility
Udo Kreickemeier and Pascalis
Raimondos-Mřller
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The European Union Trade Strategy: An
Empirical Evaluation of Preferential Trade Agreements’ Effects on EU
Import Flows
Roberta de Santis
and Claudio Vicarelli
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Producer Services, Manufacturing, and Trade
Joseph
Francois and
Julia Wörz |
Introducing Income Distribution to the
Linder Hypothesis
Helena Bohman and
Désirée Nilsson
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Measuring the Static Effects of European
Customs Union on Turkey's
Foreign Trade
Fatma Nur Karaman
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11:50-12:10
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Endogenous FDI Spillovers: Do You Want to
Keep Your Recipe to Yourself?
Kiyoshi Matsubara
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The
Economics of WTO Enforcement
Sebastian Wilckens
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An Investigation of the Role of Expectations
in Trade: the Case of the Gravity Model
Javad Abedini
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Fragmentation and Trade: A Network
Perspective
Martin Srholec
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Poverty
Implications of Excluding Special
Agricultural Products from Trade Liberalization
Maros Ivanic and Will
Martin
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Trade
Creation, Diversion and Displacement of the EU Enlargement Process
Fredrik
Wilhelmsson
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12:10-12:30
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Knowledge Spillovers and FDI Ownership
Roger Smeets and
Albert de Vaal
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The impacts of WTO Export Subsidy Abolition
on the
Agri-Food Industry in the EU
Leena Kerkela,
Jyrki
Niemi, and Heikki Lehtonen
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To Log or Not to Log, or How
to Estimate a Gravity Model?
Dieter Schumacher
and
Boriss Siliverstovs
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Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence
from Ukrainian Economy
Elena Besedina
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Foreign
Entry Deterrence by the Dominant Local Firm in the Existence of
a Rent-Seeking Bureaucracy
Andrew
Stivers and
Ayça Tekin-Koru |
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