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EUROPEAN TRADE STUDY GROUP Second Annual Conference GLASGOW 15-17 September 2000 Conference Proceedings |
UNIVERSITY |
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Time |
Lecture Theatre 1, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow |
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| Friday 15 September | ||||
Session 1 |
09.00-09.10 | Welcome, Anton Muscatelli | ||
| 09.10-09.55 | First Plenary Session "Economic geography and international inequality," Anthony Venables & S J Redding |
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| 09.55-10.40 | "Competition policy, trade, and FDI," Joseph Francois & Henrik Horn | |||
| 10.40-11.10 | Coffee | |||
Session 2 |
11.10-11.40 | Second Plenary Session "Competition, trade and wages," J Peter Neary |
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| 11.40-12.10 | "Lobbying as a transport industry in international trade," James Cassing & Steven Husted | |||
| 12.10-12.40 | "European antidumping policy and firms' strategic choice of quality," Hylke Vandenbussche & Xavier Wauthy | |||
| 12.40-14.00 | Lunch | |||
Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow |
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Time |
Lecture Theatre 1 | Lecture Theatre 2 | Lecture Room A | |
Session 3 |
14.00-14.25 | Trade
and Competition I "Robust rules for industrial policy in open economies," Dermot Leahy & J P Neary |
Trade and the Environment "The enviroment, trade and industrial restructuring: revisiting the evidence," Matthew Cole, R J R Elliott & A K Azhar |
Economic
Integration I "Is bilateralism good? On the economics of free trade agreements," Jeffrey Bergstrand & Scott Baier |
| 14.25-14.50 | "Endogenous vertical restraints in international trade," Horst Raff & Nicolas Schmitt | "Foreign direct investment and environmental taxes," Roberto De Santis and Frank Stähler | "Factor endowments, country size, and economic integration: the effects on trade and industry," Thomas Mathä | |
| 14.50-15.15 | "Price discrimination and market power in the ceramic tile industry," Francisco Requena Silvente | "GMOs and global trade patterns," Karen Thierfelder, Chantal Nielson & Sherman Robinson | "A theory of free trade areas," Raymond Riezman, Eric Bond & Costas Syropoulos | |
| 15.15-15.40 | "Market Integration and industrial structure: home market effects revisited," Zhihao Yu | |||
| 15.40-16.00 | Coffee | |||
Session 4 |
16.00-16.25 |
Trade
and Competition II
"International mergers vs foreign direct investment," Aurora García-Gallego & Nikolaos Georgantzis |
Topics in Trade "Software development and trade," Larry Qiu |
Economic Integration II "Economic integration between the EU and the CEECs: a sectoral study," Francesca Di Mauro |
| 16.25-16.50 | "Domestic monopolies vs domestic oligopolies in international trade policy," Juan Ruiz & Praveen Kujal | "Taxation, openness and barter," Leena Kerkela & Pertti Haaparanta | "Disintegration and trade," Jarko Fidrmuc & Jan Fidrmuc | |
| 16.50-17.15 | "Strategic alliances, licensing and mergers post WTO: the equivalence of tariffs and quotas revisited," Cillian Ryan | "E-commerce and existing small firms: A West Midlands qualitative pilot study of SME internet use," Lynn Martin | "Social protection competition in the EMU," Glenn Rayp & Wim Meeusen | |
| 17.15-17.40 | "Oligopolistic competition and trade of differentiated products," Farid Toubal | "General equilibrium effects of increasing immigration: the case of Spain," Javier Ferri, Antonio Gómez Gómez-Plana & Joan Martín | ||
| 18.30-20.00 |  Reception, Hunterian Museum,
University of Glasgow |
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| Saturday 16 September | ||||
Session 5 |
09.00-09.25 |
Geography and Trade "Agglomeration and congestion in US counties," Klaus Desmet & Marcel Fafchamps |
Trade and Labour Markets I "Labor market adjustments to globalization: unemployment versus relative wages," Carsten Eckel |
Empirics of Trade I "Trade of quality differentiated goods and import elasticities," Stefano Chiarlone |
| 09.25-09.50 | "Tax competition and economic geography," Rikard Forslid & Fredrik Andersson | "Intra-industry trade and labour-market adjustment: evidence for the UK," Robert Elliott & Marius Brulhart | "Heckscher-Ohlin in logs," Enrique Aldaz-Carroll | |
| 09.50-10.15 | "Cumulative causation, the welfare state, and international specialisation," Catia Montagna & Hassan Molana | "Industrial specialisation, trade, and labour market dynamics in a multisectoral model of technological progress," Robert Stehrer | "Deconstructing intra-industry trade with special reference to EU trade," Joakim Gullstrand | |
| 10.15-10.40 | "International fragmentation of production and competitiveness," Fabio Sdogati, Salvatore Baldone & Lucia Tajoli | "Labor markets and kaleidoscopic comparative advantage," Daniel Traca | ||
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee | |||
Session 6 |
11.00-11.25 |
Trade Policy I "Prohibiting state aid in an integrated market: Cournot and Bertrand oligopolies with differentiated products," David Collie |
Trade and Labour Markets II "Sectoral employment effects of trade and productivity in Europe," Ellen Brock & Filip Abraham |
Empirics of Trade II "Does country-targeted anti-dumping policy by the EU create trade diversion?," Andrea Lasagni |
| 11.25-11.50 | "The role of commitment & the choice of trade policy instruments," Praveen Kujal & Celia Costa Cabral | "Effects of FDI on wage inequalities in Poland. Theory and evidence," Agnieszka Skuratowicz | "European exports & outward foreign direct investment: a dynamic panel data approach," Peter Egger | |
| 11.50-12.15 | "Redistribution in the wake of trade liberalisation - help or hindrance?" Gerald Willmann | "International trade and search," Pertti Haaparanta | "Japanese penetration of European markets: does quality matter?" R Anderton, P Brenton, N Horsewood, E Penkova & P Sinclair | |
| 12.15-12.40 | ||||
| 12.40-14.00 | Lunch | |||
Session 7 |
14.00-14.25 |
Trade Policy II "Parallel imports of pharmaceutical products in the European Union," Mattias Ganslandt & Keith Maskus |
Transition and Development "Re-examining the export-led growth hypothesis in Latin America: Foreign direct investment, trade & output linkages in developing countries," Ana Maria Cuadros Ramos, Ma Teresa Alguacil & Vicente Orts |
Empirics of Trade III "Does trade liberalisation induce job reallocation and productivity growth? Evidence on countries of Central and Eastern Europe," Giulia Faggio |
| 14.25-14.50 | "Political economy of strategic trade policy: menu-auctions with imperfect competition," Chelsea C Lin & K C Fung | "Trade policy of transition economies," Jean-Marie Viaene & Jose Luis Moraga | "The impact of exchange rate volatility on Euro Area imports," Frauke Skudelny & Robert Anderton | |
| 14.50-15.15 | "A model of bargaining on trade policy reform," Saime Suna Kayam | "EU trade policy towards ACP countries - from preferences towards reciprocity," Susanna Wolf | "Trade liberalization policy options for Sri Lanka: A general equilibrium analysis," Ajitha Tennakoon | |
| 15.15-15.40 | "Intra-European external trade of Spanish regions. Application of a gravity equation," Celestino Suarez-Burguet, Leando Garcia & Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzosa | |||
| 15.40-16.00 | Coffee | |||
Session 8 |
16.00-16.25 |
Trade Policy III "Recurrent trade agreements and the role of external enforcement," Mikhail Klimenko, Garey Ramey & Joel Watson |
Trade and Growth "Economic co-fluctuations between UK regions and continental Europe," Salvador Barrios, Marius Brühlhart, Robert JR Elliott, & Marianne Sensier |
Trade and Public Finance "Exporting versus direct investment under local sourcing," Kamal Saggi and Amy Glass |
| 16.25-16.50 | "Vertical differentiation, trade and endogenous common standards," Luca Lambertini & Gianpaolo Rossini | "Increasing returns, input-output linkages and technological leapfrogging," Fredrik Gallo | "Welfare implications of trade reforms with an active government budget constraint," Can Erbil | |
| 16.50-17.15 | "The relationship between firm-specific assets and internationalisation in Spanish manufacturers," Fernando Merino & Vicente Salas | "Openness, growth and R&D spillovers: uncovering the missing link?," Arjan Lejour & Richard Nahuis | "Must government revenues collapse after trade reform? evidence from ten developing nations," Dorsati Madani & Simon Evenett | |
| 17.15-17.40 | ||||
| Sunday 17 September | ||
Session 9 |
09.00-09.25 |
MNEs and FDI I
"Competition for multinational activity in Europe: The role played by wages and market size," Henrik Braconier & Karolina Ekholm |
| 09.25-09.50 | "Multinational firms: easy come, easy go?" Jan I. Haaland & Ian Wooton | |
| 09.50-10.15 | "Crowding out and distributional effects of FDI policies," Amy Glass & Kamal Saggi | |
| 10.15-10.40 | "Multinational enterprises and new trade theory: evidence for the convergence hypothesis," Eric Strobl, Holger Görg & Salvador Barrios | |
| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee | |
Session 10 |
11.00-11.25 |
MNEs and FDI II "The politics of trade liberalization in the presence of FDI incentives," Andrea Maechler |
| 11.25-11.50 | "The impact of FDI inflows on developing countries growth: trade policy matters," Andrea Marino | |
| 11.50-12.15 | "Trade, multinational sales, and FDI in a three-factor model," Michael Pfaffermayr & Peter Egger | |
| 12.15-12.40 | "Non-linearity in openness and growth links: theory and evidence," Richard Baldwin & F Sbergami | |
| 12.40-14.00 | Lunch | |
Names in red indicate the individuals who were participants in the conference (see almost all of them in the official photograph)
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