European Trade Study Group
Third Annual Conference

Advance apologies:  There may be unplanned “adjustments” to the program, if North-American participants have trouble with travel due to the tragic events in DC and New York.  Papers of U.S.-based participants will be kept on the web site, so they can be accessed and downloaded.

 

ETSG 2001 Brussels -- Program Outline

 

last update:

13 September 2001

4:45 PM

Time

Activities

Plenaries

Parallel Sessions in Room 1 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Parallel Sessions in Room 2 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Parallel Sessions in Room 3 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Parallel Sessions in Room  4 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Friday 14 September 2001

8:00-9:30

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

9:30-10:00

Welcome

 

 

 

 

 

10:00-10:45

PLENARY 1

Plenary Session I (1 paper) 45 minutes

 

 

 

 

10:45-11:15

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

11:15-12:45

PLENARY 2

Plenary Session II (3 papers) 30 minutes

 

 

 

 

12:45-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

14:00-15:30

A SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session A.1 Trade and Wages I

Parallel Session A.2 Europe, Enlargement, and the Euro I

Parallel Session A.3 International Political Economy I

Parallel Session A.4 Empirics I

15:30-16:00

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

16:00-17:30

B SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session B.1 Trade and Wages II

Parallel Session B.2 Europe, Enlargement, and the Euro II

Parallel Session B.3 International Political Economy II

Parallel Session B.4 Empirics II

Saturday 15 September 2001

9:15-10:45

C SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session C.1 Trade and Wages III

Parallel Session C.2 MNEs and FDI I

Parallel Session C.3 International Political Economy III

Parallel Session C.4 Empirics III

10:45-11:15

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

11:15-12:45

D SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session D.1 Agriculture

Parallel Session D.2 MNEs and FDI II

Parallel Session D.3 International Political Economy IV

Parallel Session D.4 Empirics IV

12:45-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

14:00-15:30

E SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session E.1 Competition and Market Structure I

Parallel Session E.2 MNEs and FDI III

Parallel Session E.3 International Political Economy V

Parallel Session E.4 Empirics V

15:30-16:00

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

16:00-17:30

F SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session F.1 Competition and Market Structure II

Parallel Session F.2 Regionalism I

Parallel Session F.3 Trade, Transition, and Development

Parallel Session F.4 Economic Geograpny I

Sunday 16 September 2001

9:00-10:30

G SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session G.1 Antidumping and Contingent Protection I

Parallel Session G.2 Regionalism II

Parallel Session G.3 Trade, Services, and Development I

Parallel Session G.4 Trade and the Environment

10:30-11:00

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

11:00-12:00

H SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session H.1 Antidumping and Contingent Protection II

Parallel Session H.2 Regionalism III

Parallel Session H.3 Trade, Services, and Development II

 

12:00-13:00

 

Plenary Session III (2 papers)  30 minutes

 

 

 

 

13:00---->

Coffee and home

 

 

 

 

 

 


ETSG 2001 Brussels – Final Detailed Program

 

Time

Activities

Plenaries

Parallel Sessions in Room 1 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Parallel Sessions in Room 2 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Parallel Sessions in Room 3 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Parallel Sessions in Room  4 NOTE: 20 minutes per paper

Friday 14 September 2001

8:00-9:30

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

9:30-10:00

Welcome

 

 

 

 

 

10:00-10:45

 

Plenary Session I

 

 

 

 

10:00-10:45

 

J PETER NEARY,  Foreign FDI and the Single Market

 

 

 

 

10:45-11:15

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

11:15-11:45

 

Plenary Session II

 

 

 

 

11:15-11:45

 

THIERRY VERDIER (with François Bourguignon), Globalization and the Political Economy of Education and Development 

 

 

 

 

11:45-12:15

 

DOUGLAS NELSON (with Joseph Francois), Globalization and Relative Wages:  Some theory and evidence

 

 

 

 

12:15-12:45

 

ANTHONY J VENABLES,

Industrial clusters: equilibrium, welfare and policy

 

 

 

 

12:45-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

A SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session A.1 Trade and Wages I

Parallel Session A.2 Europe, Enlargement, and the Euro I

Parallel Session A.3 International Political Economy I

Parallel Session A.4 Empirics I

14:00-14:20

 

 

JOSE VICENTE BLANES-CRISTOBAL,    Dynamics and Nature of Intra-Industry Trade and Labour-Market Adjustment from Trade Liberalization: Evidence for Spain

ANNA PAULA AFRICANO de SILVA (with Paulo Teles),  EU Enlargement  and Trade Adjustments

JUAN RUIZ (with Celia Cabral, Praveen Kujal),  Trade Policy Reversals and Product Differenciation

ANA CUADROS (with Manuel Cantavella; Ismael Fernández; Celestino Suárez), A comparative analysis of elasticities in the European Union external trade

14:20-14:40

 

 

STEVEN TOKARICK,

Quantifying the Impact of Trade on Wages:  The Role of Nontraded Goods

ANA-MARIA BOROMISA,  First Round of Eastern Enlargement of the EU: possible implications for Croatian trade

SAMIA TAVARES, The Political Economy of Tariff Determination in the European Union

PETER EGGER, Transportation Costs in a Multilateral World: Assessing the Poolability of Gravity Data

14:40-15:00

 

 

HOLGER GöRG, (with   Frank Barry and Eric Strobl),  Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Domestic Firms: Productivity Spillovers vs Labour-Market Crowding Out

IGOR EREMENKO,  EU Enlargement to the East and its Impact on Non-accessing Countries, AGE Analysis

GERALD WILLMANN (with Giovanni Facchini),  The political economy of international factor mobility

MARIA PAULA FONTOURA (with Nuno Crespo) Determinants of the Pattern of Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade:What can we Learn from Portuguese Data?

15:00-15:20

 

 

ALEXANDER HIJZEN (with H. Görg, R.C. Hine),  International Fragmentation and Relative Wages in the UK

ARJAN LEJOUR (with    Richard Nahuis, Ruud de Mooij)  EU enlargement: Economic implications for countries and industries

KLAUS DESMET (with Ignacio Ortuno),  Rational Underdevelopment

DANIEL MIRZA, Capturing the Effect of International Trade on Seller Concentration and Competition:  the case of the OECD countries

15:30-16:00

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

 

B SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session B.1 Trade and Wages II

Parallel Session B.2 Europe, Enlargement, and the Euro II

Parallel Session B.3 International Political Economy II

Parallel Session B.4 Empirics II

16:00-16:20

 

 

WILHELM KOHLER,  International Fragmentation of Value-added Chains: How Does it Affect Domestic Factor Prices?

RUI ALVES,  Europe: a real Political Union after the Single Currency ?

FEDERICO TRIONFETTI (with Marius Brülhart),  Public Expenditure and International Specialisation

Pfaffermayr,  Michael   Peter Egger  Distance, Trade, and FDI: A Hausman-Taylor SUR Approach

16:20-16:40

 

 

ASIER MINONDO (with Gloria Rubert), The impact of outsourcing on the relative demand for skills in Spanish manufacturing

JARKO FIDRMUC,  The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria, Intraindustry Trade, and EMU Enlargement

DAVID COLLIE,  State Aid for Investment and R&D in the EU

HEGE MEDIN, What determines firms export decisions? The importance of the size of the foreign market.

16:40-17:00

 

 

ANNA MARIA PINNA (with  Paul Brenton), The Declining Use of Unskilled Labor in Italian Manufacturing: Is Trade to Blame?

OZLEM SAYINTA, Exchange Rate Volatility, Contract Enforcement, and Trade: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation

CAN ERBIL, Trade Taxes Are Better?

VOLKER NITSCH  (with Karsten Junius),  Ethnic Ties, Search Costs and Trade: An Empirical Investigation

17:00-17:20

 

 

GLENN L. RAYP, (with  L. Cuyvers, M. Dumont and K. Stevens),  Wage and Employment effects of International Trade with the Emerging Economies in the EU, 1985-1995.

CILLIAN RYAN (with    Toby Kendall),  Regional economic integration, mergers and foreign direct investment

GREETJE EVAERT (with Hylke Vandenbussche),  Does Protection Harden Budget Constraints?

KARADAL HIMMET (with Orhan Savas),  Appropriateness of  strategial vision evalutions to millenium trends: a researc in 500 large turkish firms

Saturday 15 September 2001

 

C SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session C.1 Trade and Wages III

Parallel Session C.2 MNEs and FDI I

Parallel Session C.3 International Political Economy III

Parallel Session C.4 Empirics III

9:15-9:35

 

 

ROBERT STEHRER (withPeter Egger),  The effects of FDI and outsourcing on labour markets in Central and Eastern European countries

GERDA DEWIT (with  Dermot Leahy, Catia Montagna)  Flexibility and Foreign Direct Investment in Dynamic Oligopoly

DORSATI MADANI (with M. Olarreaga), Politically Optimal Tariffs: An Application to Egypt

NICHOLAS TSOUNIS,  A Multi-factor Test of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory in the Trade between Greece and the E.U.

9:35-9:55

 

 

VANESSA STRAUSS-KAHN,  Globalization, Agglomeration and the Wage Premium

MARIA TERESA ALGUACIL (with Vincente Orts),  Temporal causality between imports and foreign direct investment in spain

CATIA MONTAGNA (with Hassan Molana),  Cumulative Causation, Capital Mobility and the Welfare State

JOAKIM GULLSTRAND, Does the choice of intra-industry trade measure matter?

9:55-10:15

 

 

ERIC STROBL (with Holger Goerg), Skill-enhancing trade and rising wage inequality in developing countries: the case of ghana

JAIME F CAMPOS,   The Impact of the Multinational Corporation Subsidiaries on the Domestic Firms Technological Development

RICHARD NAHUIS (with PJG Tang), Competing with public infrastructure: Ineffective and Unwelcome?

JULIA WOERTZ (with Robert Stehrer),  Technological convergence and trade patterns

10:15-10:35

 

 

LUCIA TAJOLI (with   Salvatore Baldone and Fabio Sdogati), International fragmentation of production and the international division of labor

RICHARD CHISIK (with Ron Davies), Gradualism in tax Treaties with Irreversible FDI

KOEN BERDEN (with C. van Marrewijk),  New Goods and Development

 

10:45-11:15

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

 

D SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session D.1 Agriculture

Parallel Session D.2 MNEs and FDI II

Parallel Session D.3 International Political Economy IV

Parallel Session D.4 Empirics IV

11:15-11:35

 

 

ADAM BLAKE (with G. Sugiyarto and M.T. Sinclair),  The Economy-Wide Effects of the Foot and Mouth Disease

FRANCESCA DI MAURO,    Intra-industry investment: evidence, determinants and links to intra-industry trade

M. OZGUR KAYALICA (with Rafael E. Ramrez),  Political Contributions, Foreign Direct Investment and Mergers

SALVADOR BARRIOS (with Holger Gorg and Eric Strob),  Explaining Firms' Export Behaviour: The Role of Skills, R&D, and Spillovers

11:35-11:55

 

 

SELIM CAGATAY (with   Caroline Saunders),  The Impact on the Turkish Agricultural Sector of the Potential Extension of the CU Agreement to Cover Agricultural Commodities

GIULIA FAGGIO,   Location decisions of multinational enterprises: the experiences of Poland, Bulgaria and Romania

MIKHAIL KLIMNKO, Strategic Interoperability Standards and Trade Policy in Industries with Network Externalities

CEES VAN BEERS, Do Firms' Goals to Innovate Matter for their Export Performance

11:55-12:15

 

 

GULDAGER JORGENSEN (with Jan  Philipp Schröder),  Tariffication under Monopolisitic Competition: conflict between consumer and government interests

JOSE MARIA LOPEZ, (with  Praveen Kujal), Product Differentiation and the Multinational Firm: A general equilibrium model

KIRSTI KUISMA, Trade, war and peace

STEFANO CHIARLONE, Country Specialisation and Trade Overlap: who are the East European Countries competing with?

12:15-12:35

 

 

 

FERNANDO MERINO, Are foreign capitals leaving Spainsh industrial firms?

LUCA LAMBERTINI (with Giacomo Calzolari),  Tariffs vs Quotas in a Model of Trade with Capital Accumulation

PAUL BRENTON (with Marc Vancauteren),  Economic Integration in Europe, Technical Barriers to Trade and Home Bias

12:45-14:00

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

E SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session E.1 Competition and Market Structure I

Parallel Session E.2 MNEs and FDI III

Parallel Session E.3 International Political Economy V

Parallel Session E.4 Empirics V

14:00-14:20

 

 

NICHOLAS HORSEWOOD (with    Peter Sinclair),  Comparisons of pricing to market of UK firms

JEAN-LOUIS MUCCHIELLI (with   Soubaya Isabelle),  Autonomy of Foreign Affiliates of French Multinational Firms : Assessment through Intra-Firm Trade

SUBHAYU BANDYOPADHYAY, Illegal immigration and preferential trade liberalization

FRANCISCO REQUENA-SILVENTE,  The decision to enter/exit foreign markets:  Evidence of UK SMEs

14:20-14:40

 

 

NINA PAVCNIK (with  Douglas Irwin),  Airbus versus Boeing Revisited: International Competition in the Aircraft Market

MARCELO OLARREAGA (with Aaditya Mattoo and Kamal Saggi),  Mode of foreign entry, technology transfer and FDI policy

ROBERTO DE SANTIS,  Why exporting countries agree to voluntary export restraints: the oligopolistic power of the foreign supplier

MOHAMED HABIB ZITOUNA, Multinational Firms and Host Country Industry

14:40-15:00

 

 

GIANPAOLO ROSSINI, Trade in a duopoly with investment in Transport and Communication

MICHAEL RYAN (with    Andrzej Cieslik),  Determinants of Japanese Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

LIONEL FONTAGNE (with Daniel Mirza), International trade and rent sharing in developed and developing countries

VLADYSLAV SAVCHENKO,  Mutual Non-payments in Ukraine

15:00-15:20

 

 

FRANK STäHLER (with Thorsten Bayindir-Upmann),  Market Entry Regulation and International Competition

ISABELLE SOUBAYA (with Mohammed Habib Zitouna), French Multinational Firms, Vertical versus Horizontal Direct Investement : Assessment through Intra-firm Trade

JEAN-MARIE VIAENE (with Jose Luis Moraga),  Procompetitive Trade Policies

DANIEL TRACA, Openness and Wage Volatility: an empirical assessment

15:30-16:00

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

 

F SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session F.1 Competition and Market Structure II

Parallel Session F.2 Regionalism I

Parallel Session F.3 Trade, Transition, and Development

Parallel Session F.4 Economic Geography I

16:00-16:20

 

 

MARTIN THEURINGER, Minimum Price Rules as Rent-Seeking Devices

UDOI KREICKEMEIER, The Le Chatelier Principle in the Theory of International Trade

ANDREA MARINO,  FDI,Development and the Distribution of International Capital Flows

FREDERIK GALLO, Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration

16:20-16:40

 

 

ZHIHAO YU (with Yongmin Chen and Jota Ishikawa),  Trade Liberalization and Strategtic Outsourcing

DIMOVA RALITZA, Preferential trade areas and global trade: Friends or foes?

MARINA BAKANOVA (with Lucio Vinhas de Souza),  Trade and Growth under Limited Liberalization: The Case of Belarus

THIERRY MAYER (with Keith Head),  Illusory Border Effects: How internal geography affects external trade volumes

16:40-17:00

 

 

HELENA JOHANSSON, Import competition, technology dispersion and productivity

ANNE-CELIA DISDIER (with Jean-Louis Mucchielli), Integration and Border Effects:  An Application to the Intra-Regional Integration Balkans-European Union

SANJIB POHIT (with  Nisha Taneja),  India's Informal Trade with Bangladesh: A Qualitative Assessment

PIERRE PICARD (with Eric Toulemonde), Firms' Agglomeration and Unions

17:00-17:20

 

 

FELI MARTINEZ (with    Rod Falvey and Geoff Reed) Trade, Innovation and Patent Policy

CARSTEN ECKEL,    Market Integration and Market Concentration

ANDREW KYEYUNE (with Min.G. Ssendawu la), Economical analysis in Uganda/Sub-saharan Africa

IMMACULADA MARTíNEZ-ZAROSO (with Celestino Suárez-Burguet and Leandro García-Menéndez),  Allocating Trade over Partner Countries: The Role of Transportation Costs

Sunday 16 September 2001

 

G SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session G.1 Antidumping and Contingent Protection I

Parallel Session G.2 Regionalism II

Parallel Session G.3 Trade, Services, and Development I

Parallel Session G.4  Trade and the Environment

9:00-9:20

 

 

MARTIN THEURINGER (with Pia Weiß)  Do Anti-Dumping Rules Facilitate the Abuse of Market Dominance

HOLGER FLOERKEMEIER, Functional Regions and the Measurement of Economic Integration

HORST RAFF (with Marc von der Ruhr),  Foreign direct investment in producer services: theory and empirical  evidence

RAFAEL ESPINOZA RAMIREZ (with M. Ozgur Kayalica),  Environmental policies and mergers

9:20-9:40

 

 

FRANCOIS BENAROYA, Making sense of the precautionary principle

PAULO GIORDANO (with Masakazu Watanuki), Economic effects of a Mercosur-European Communities Free Trade Agreement: A Computable General Equilibrium Model analysis

FELIX ESCHENBACH (with Joseph Francois), Financial Sector Liberalization with Market Power

THOMAS KUHN (with James Cassing), The Political Economy of Strategic Environmental Policy When Waste Products Are Tradeable

9:40-10:00

 

 

MONTADO ESTELA, Estela,  Montado    The political Economy of Antidumping in Europe

JONG EUN LEE,   Potential Effects of Korean FTA

DENISE KONAN (with Keith Maskus),  Services Liberalization in Tunisia

CAROLINE SAUNDERS (with Anita Wreford, Selim Cagatay),  Agricultural Production-Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Modeling the Linkages by using a Partial Equilibrium Trade Model

10:00-10:20

 

 

Zanardi, Maurizio

Antidumping Law as a Collusive Device

SYLVIE MONTOUT (with Soledad Zignago and Jean-Louis Mucchielli), Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade of NAFTA and Mercosur:The Case of the Automobile Industry

 

 

10:30-10:45

Coffee

 

 

 

 

 

 

H SESSIONS

 

Parallel Session H.1 Antidumping and Contingent Protection II

Parallel Session H.2 Regionalism III

Parallel Session H.3 Trade, Services, and Development II

 

10:45-11:05

 

 

VINCENT AUSSILLOUX, Proposition for a new antidumping process in the WTO legislation

PASCALIS RAIMONDOS-MOLLER (with Alan Woodland ), Some elementary propositions in customs union theory

S.M.N. ISLAM (with N. Billington & K.B. Oh), Trade, Finance, and Global Economic Growth

 

11:05-11:25

 

 

PHILIPPE KOHLER (with Michael O. Moore), The role of contingent protection in WTO trade liberalizing agreements

KAROLIEN DE BRUYNE (with Filip Abraham)

Challenges for Succesful Wage Setting in Europe

JONATHAN GILLHAM (with Jonathan Mark and Adam Blake),  A Multi-Regional CGE Model of Tourism in Spain

 

11:25-11:45

 

 

GUNNAR NIELS,   Antidumping policy in an emerging economy; the case of Mexico

AHMED TOUIL, orientation de l'economie algerienne par rapport aux echanges ecoeuro-mediterranneens

GUNTUR SUGIYARTO (with M. Thea Sinclair, Adam Blake),  Revenue neutral and welfare improving trade liberalisation: linking attracting more foreign tourists with trade liberalisation efforts.

 

 

11:45-12:05

 

 

 CHAD BOWN (with Bruce Blonigen),  Antidumping and Retaliation Threats

 

 

 

12:15-13:15

 

Plenary Session III

 

 

 

 

12:15-12:45

 

HYLKE VANDENBUSSCHE (together with  R. Veugelers and R. Belderbos)   Undertakings and Antidumping Jumping FDI in the EU

 

 

 

 

12:45-13:15

 

IAN WOOTON (with Joseph Francois) Domestic market structure and international market access

 

 

 

 

13:15----->

Coffee and home