ETSG 2005 Dublin

Seventh Annual Conference

8-10 September 2005

University College Dublin

Time

Parallel Session 1

Theatre Q

Parallel Session 2

Room F102

Parallel Session 3

Room F103

Parallel Session 4

Room F103A

Parallel Session 5

Room F104

Parallel Session 6

Room G214

Thursday, 08 September 2005

14:45-15:00

Welcome Part 1

15:00-15:45

PLENARY SESSION 1, Theatre Q                                                                                                              Chair: Joseph Francois

A Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics

Elhanan Helpman and Gene Grossman

15:45-16:00

Welcome Part 2

16:00-16:30

Coffee

16:30-18:10

A1 FDI

A2 POL

A3 TAX

A4 EMP

A5 COM

A6 ENV

16:30-16:50

Regional Integration and the (Re)Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment Between Asymmetric Hosts

Jeff Heinrich and Denise Konan

TRIPS under No Enforcement of the National Treatment Commitment Rule

Rafael Morais

The Tax Treatment of Foreign Multinationals in a Small Open Economy

Hylke Vandenbussche and Chang Tan

Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs, and Productivity

Mary Amiti and
Jozef Konings

Reciprocal Dumping with Bertrand Competition

Richard Friberg and Mattias Ganslandt

Explaining the Pollution Content of Trade with the Gravity Model

Jean-Marie Grether, Nicole Mathys, and Jaime de Melo

16:50-17:10

Intra-Regional Foreign Direct Investment: The South Asian Perspectives

Jahangir Alam Alam, A.F.M. Aowrangazab, and S.M. Nasrul Quadir

Joining the WTO: It's All About the Exports

Christopher Balding

Optimal Taxation of Energy Trade: The Case of Russia and Ukraine

Clinton Shiells

Can Non-tariff Barriers Reveal the Degree of Acquis Communautaire Implementation? The CEECs Agri Food Exports to EU in the Pre-accession Period

Emmanuelle Chevassus-Lozza, Darja Majokovic, Vanessa Persillet, and Manuela Unguru

Plant Survival and Trade Liberalization: The Effects of Efficiency, Mark-ups, and Demand

Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, Adriana Kugler, and Maurice Kugler

Globalization, Firm-Level Characteristics and Environmental Management:
A Study of Japan

Matthew Cole, Robert Elliott, and Kenichi Shimamoto

17:10-17:30

FDI and OPT: Implications for Italian Trade Flows and Market Shares

Claudio Colacurcio and Anna Maria Ferragina

Are the Anti-globalists Right? Gains from Trade without a Walrasian Autioneer

Hector F. Calvo-Pardo

Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation, Employment and Economic Integration: Econometric Evidence from European Countries

Elisa Riihimäki

Joining the EU: Capital Flows, Migration and Wages

Catia Batista

Sustaining Collusion under Economic Integration

Luca Colombo and Paola Labrecciosa

Globalization and Environment in the Presence of Cross-border Pollution

Panos Hatzipanayotou,
Sajal Lahiri, and Michael S. Michael

17:30-17:50

International Mobility of Production: Implications of the Opening-up of Eastern FDI Locations for German FDI

Christine Borrmann, Rolf Jungnickel, and Dietmar Keller

Economic Integration and the (In)Stability of (à la Carte) Trade Agreements:
What is so Enabling about the GATT 1979 Enabling Clause?

Richard Chisik

Taxes and Regional Transfers in a New Economic Geography Setting

Lars Termansen

Tests of Price Regime Changes and the Strong Law of Comparative Advantage: The Natural Experiment of Japan

Daniel Bernhofen, Laura T. Bernhofen, John C. Brown

Mergers and Strategic Competition in Heterogeneous-Product Markets

James D. Gaisford and Stefan Lutz

International Cooperation in Environmental Policy: A Theoretical Model Involving Competition for Foreign Direct Investment and an Empirical Estimation Using Spatial Econometrics

Helen Naughton

17:50-18:10

The last enlargement of the EU and the effects of Inward Foreign Direct Investment: A Dynamic PanelData Approach

Ana Cuadros, Mª Teresa Alguacil, and Vicente Orts

Optimal Time Limits on Safeguards in Trade Agreements

Mathias Herzing

Competing for a Duopoly: International Trade and Tax Competition

Ian Wooton and Ben Ferrett

 

Antidumping Regulation and the Byrd Amendment

Rod Falvey and Sarut Wittayarungruangsri

Trade, Pollution Policy, and Environmental Technology

Yasuhiro Takarada

18:10-18:15

Break

18:15-19:00

PLENARY SESSION 2, Theatre Q                                                                                                             Chair: J. Peter Neary

The Technology Transfer Paradox

Ronald Jones and Roy Ruffin

19:00

Reception, Restaurant Building, First Floor

Friday, 09 September 2005

09:00-10:40

B1 FDI

B2 POL

B3 TAX

B4 EMP

B5 COM

B6 ENV

09:00-09:20

Does Foreign Direct Investment Transfer Technology Across Borders? A Re-examination

Jürgen Bitzer and Monika Kerekes

A Re-examination of the Partial Competitive Equilibrium Analysis of Export Subsidies

Karl Dunz

Population Aging, International Capital Flows, and Tax Competition

Ronald Davies and Robert R. Reed III

Cost Sharing in Investment, Backward Linkages and Technology Spillovers

Liza Jabbour

A Chicken Game of Intraindustry Trade

Luca Colombo, Paola Labrecciosa and Luca Lambertini

Can Competition for Aid Reduce Pollution?

Panos Hatzipanayotou, Michael S. Michael, and Nikos Tsakiris

09:20-09:40

A Theory of Modular Production Networks

Ari Van Assche

Export Subsidies and Timing of Decision-Making

Kojun Hamada

Cross-border Political Donations and International Policy Coordination

Masahiro Endoh

Is God Good For Trade?

Matthias Helble

Effects of Intensifying Competition in the Single European Market

Elzbieta Czarny and
Agnieszka Rusinowska

The Effects of Tied Foreign Aid on Pollution Abatement, Pollution and Employment

Albert Schweinberger and
Alan Woodland

09:40-10:00

Partial Ownership and Cross-Border Mergers

Frank Stähler

Policy Implementation under Endogenous Time Inconsistency

Taiji Furusawa and Edwin Lai

Aggregate Scale Economies, Market Integration and Optimal Welfare State Policy

Hassan Molana and Catia Montagna

New Evidence About Vertical Intra-industry Trade and Differences in Endowments

Manuel Cabral, Chris
Milner, and Rod Falvey

Quotas and Endogenous Mergers among Heterogeneous Firms

Rod Falvey and Montri Nathananan

The Gravity Model and Sunk Costs: A Theoretical Analysis

Javad Abedini

10:00-10:20

Firm-Level Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

Horst Raff and
Michael Ryan

International Trade and Transnational Terrorism

Daniel Mirza and Thierry Verdier

Growth, Revenue, and Welfare Effects of Tariff and Tax Reform: Win-Win-Win Strategies

Takumi Naito

Export versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Engagement in International Markets

Jens Matthias Arnold and Katrin Hussinger

Should Merger Policy Be Implemented at the EU Level?

Ben Ferrett

Trade and Environment: A Vintage Capital Approach

Luisito Bertinelli, Eric Strobl, and Benteng Zou

10:20-10:40

The Two Faces of R&D: Do Firms’ Absorptive Capacities Matter?

Andreas Poldahl

Trade Policy Formation under Monopolistic Competition, Economies of Scale and International Capital Flows

Susanna Thede

Parallel Imports and Commodity Taxation

Pascalis Raimondos-Møller and Nicholas Schmitt

Where Do Foreign Firms Locate in Transition Countries? An Empirical Investigation

Fazia Pusterla and Laura Resmini

Price Discrimination in Oligopolies with Best-response Asymmetry

Switgard Feuerstein

 

10:40-11:10

Coffee

11:10-12:50

C1 FDI

C2 POL

C3 GRO

C4 EMP

C5 COM

C6 QUA

11:10-11:30

European Retailers’ Direct Investments in Asia and Return Effects

Marie-Laure Baron

Rescue and Restructure Subsidies in the European Union