ETSG 2007 Athens

Ninth Annual Conference

13-15 September 2007

Athens University of Economics and Business

Time

Parallel Session 1

Room A22

Parallel Session 2

Room A23

Parallel Session 3

Room A32

Parallel Session 4

Room A42

Parallel Session 5

Room A43

Parallel Session 6

Room A44

Thursday, 13 September 2007

  13:00-16:00

REGISTRATION, Foyer, Antoniadou Building

14:45-15:00

Welcome Gregory Prastakos, Athens University of Economics and Business

15:00-15:45

PLENARY SESSION 1, Auditorium                                                                                           Chair: Ian Wooton

Does Gravity Apply to Intangibles? Trade and FDI in Services

Julia Wörz, Joseph Francois, and Bernard Hoekman

15:45-16:00

Conference briefing Ian Wooton

16:00-16:30

Coffee, Foyer

16:30-18:10

A1 FIR

A2 EMP

A3 INV

A4 POL

A5 GRO

A6 OFF

16:30-16:50

The Effect of Intra-industry Trade on Firm Productivity: A Natural Experiment in Scandinavia

Anders Akerman

Determinants of Agricultural Trade: Old Story, News Facts

Angela Cheptea

The Link between Exports and Inward Foreign Direct Investment: the Case of Romania

Nicolae Marinescu

Interconnectivity of Intellectual Property Rights and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Ceyhun Elci

Convergence between Greece and Germany, What is the Role for Trade and R&D

Ioannis Bournakis

Labor Market Effects of International
Outsourcing: How Measurement Matters

Daniel Horgos

16:50-17:10

Firms Heterogeneity and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Analysis

Ines Buono

The impact of NTMs on a Country’s Welfare: Analysis with the CGE model for Ukraine

Veronika Movchan

Is Mobility of Labour a Channel for Spillovers from Multinationals to Local Domestic Firms?

Ragnhild Balsvik

Is an Export Subsidy a Robust Trade Policy Recommendation Towards a Unionized Duopoly?

Jie Ma

Are Foreign-Owned Firms More Likely to Innovate Than Domestic-Owned Firms? Firm-Level Evidence for 11 EU-Countries

Martin Falk

Trade Between Symmetric Countries, Heterogeneous Firms and the Skill Wage Premium

Gonzague
Vannoorenberghe

17:10-17:30

Patterns and Determinants of the Variety and Quality of Intra-European Trade

Jan Van Hove

The FDI Chain: from Host to Parent -- A Partial Equilibrium Approach

Alexandros Ragoussis

Developing Country Coalitions and Deadlocks in Trade Negotiations

Euan MacMillan

Exports’ Quality Adjusted Productivity and Economic Growth

Asier Minondo

Does Outsourcing Abroad Intermediates and Jobs Affect the Domestic Labour Market? The Case Of Italy

Lucia Tajoli and Anna Falzoni

17:30-17:50

Fixed Costs and the Emergence of New Export Goods

Ingo Borchert

Trade or Foreign Direct Investment? Evidence from CEE Countries

Artur Klimek

Multilateral Lobbying and International Organizations

Julien Vauday

Product Market Reform and Innovation in the EU

Helen Simpson,
Rachel Griffith, and
Rupert Harrison

‘Make-or-Buy’ in International Oligopoly and the Role of Competitive Pressure

Catia Montagna and
Dermot Leahy

17:50-18:10

The impact of International
Tax-Competition for FDI on Environmental Policy

Barbara Stoschek

Evidence of Power Considerations in WTO Dispute Settlement

Sebastian Wilckens

International Competitiveness, Job Creation and Job Destruction: An Establishment Level Study of German Job Flows

Dieter Urban, Christoph Moser, and Beatrice Weder

18:10-18:15

Break

18:15-19:00

PLENARY SESSION 2, Auditorium                                                                                           Chair: Konstantine Gatsios

Predicting the Factor Content of Foreign Trade: Theory and Evidence

Daniel Bernhofen

19:00

Reception, Foyer

Friday, 14 September 2007

09:00-10:40

B1 FIR

B2 EMP

B3 INV

B4 POL

B5 GRO

B6 OFF/COM

09:00-09:20

Competing on Foreign Markets: Firm-Level Responses to Changes in Competition Intensity on Export Markets

Holger Breinlich and Alessandra Tucci

A Decomposition of US Net Exports Changes 1964-1991

Angelos Delis

FDI and Foreign Portfolio Investment: Complements or Substitutes?

Barbara Pfeffer

What Has Changed After the World Trade Organization Membership of China: Opportunities and Challenges

Betul Yuce Dural

The Effects of Trade, Specialisation and Financial Integration for Business Cycle Synchronisation

Tao Xing and Andrew Abbott

Determinants of R&D Outsourcing at Foreign Locations: Evidence from Spanish Companies

Maria Garcia-Vega
and Elena Huergo

09:20-09:40

Die Another Day: Duration in German Import Trade

Volker Nitsch

Regional Trade on the Portugal-Spain Border

Ricardo Ferreira

The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico Since NAFTA

Andreas Waldkirch

Tax Competition with Agglomeration and Unemployment

Tobias Seidel and Peter Egger

Specialize Rightly or Decline

Alessia Lo Turco and Massimo Tamberi

Labour Demand Effects of International Outsourcing in Mexico

María Ángeles Tobarra Gómez, María Angeles Cadarso Vecina, María del Rosario Cervantes, Nuria Gómez Sanz, and Luis Antonio López Santiago

09:40-10:00

Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity: The Case of India

Petia Topalova

Financial Crises and International Trade: The Long Way to Recovery

Nicolas Berman

Tariff Reforms with Rigid Wages

Udo Kreickemeier and
Rod Falvey

The Impact of Increased Openness and Structural Reforms on Productivity. The Case of the Czech Republic

Lisbeth la Cour and
Delia Ionascu

Offshoring: We Know How, Let Us Now Decide Where

Luis Antonio López Santiago, María Angeles Cadarso Vecina, Nuria Gómez Sanz, and María Ángeles Tobarra Gómez

10:00-10:20

Do Sunk Costs Differ from One Market to Another? Evidence from Spain

José Vicente Blanes-Cristóbal and Juliette Milgram-Baleix

Export Diversification as a Shock Absorber

Marion Jansen, Alberto Almurgo Pacheco,
Marc Bacchetta, and
Roberta Piermartini

Sectoral Analysis of the Location Choice of Multinational Enterprises

Selin Sayek and Banu Demir

The Relative Importance of EU, US and Japan Agricultural Policies in World Trade Negotiations

Fabienne Femenia and Alexandre Gohin

Quality Upgrading, Technological Catching Up and Trade

Marcella Mulino and
Eleonora Cavallaro