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 Turkeys
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
Ane Burger, Joe
P
Damijan, Črt Kostevc,
and Polanec Sao
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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 Firms 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 Firms 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 Polands 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 |
Does Preferential Trade Benefit Poor
Countries? A General Equilibrium Assessment with Nonhomothetic
Preferences
Albert de Vaal and
Joachim Stibora
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12:30-12:50
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Employment
Effects of Privatisation and Foreign Acquisition of Chinese State-owned
Enterprises
Yundan Gong,
Holger Görg, and Sara Maioli
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A Theoretical Perspective on a Multilateral
Agreement on Investment
Dieter Urban
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Estimating Tariff Equivalents to Services
Trade: A Gravity Model Approach
Keith Walsh
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Characteristics and Performances of French
Manufacturing Exporting Firms
Flora Bellone, Lionel Nesta,
Patrick Musso, and
Michel Quere
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The Scale of
Internal Market and the Growth Effects of Regional Economic
Integration. The Case of
the EU
Tomasz Brodzicki
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12:50-14:10
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Lunch
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14:10-14:40
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SPECIAL
PRESENTATION, HS 28
Chair: Julia Wörz
WTO
World Trade Report 2006
Roberta Piermartini
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14:40-16:00
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D1 FDI
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D2 POL
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D3
EMP
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D4 TAX
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D5 LAB
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D6 PTA
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14:40-15:00
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Acquisitions,
Multinationals, and Wage Dispersion
Fredrik Heyman, Patrik
Gustavsson Tingvall, and Fredrik Sjřholm
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Optimal Education Policies and Comparative
Advantage
Spiros Bougheas, Richard
Kneller, and Ray Riezman
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The
Effect of Antidumping
on Bilateral Trade in the Multilateral Trading System: Evidence from
Panel Data
Peter Egger and Doug
Nelson
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Export Competition
Eckhard Janeba
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Occupational Choice, Specific vs. General
Human Capital Investments under Uncertain Terms of Trade
Toshihiro Ichida
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Free Trade and Factor Proportions in the GCC
Henry
Thompson and Hugo Toledo |
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15:00-15:20
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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, FDI,
and Process Innovation in North-South Trade
Naoto Jinji
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Effective
Protection and Trade Policy in Presence of International Production
Networks
Lucia Tajoli
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Influence of European Integration on
Intensity of Intra-industry Trade of Poland
Artur
Klimek
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How Does the International Distribution of
Firm Ownership Affect the Intensity of Tax Competition?
Ben Ferrett and Ian
Wooton
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On Trade and Poverty-induced Comparative
Advantage
Robbert Maseland and Albert de
Vaal
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Trade Effects of the Europe
Agreements
Helena Marques and
Julia Spies
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15:20-15:40
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Assessing
FDI under Uncertainty
Erdal Yalcin
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Conflicts and Delays in International Trade
Agreements
Jung Hur
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Trade and Productivity: An Industry and
Aggregate Perspective
Harald Badinger and
Fritz Breuss
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Corporate Taxation, New Economic
Geography Factors and Industry Location: An Empirical Investigation for
the European Union
Klimis
Vogiatzoglou
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Imports as Product and
Labor Market Discipline
Hervé Boulhol, Sabien
Dobbelaere,
and Sara Maioli
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Bulgaria: between
Regionalisation and European Integration
Polia Todorova
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15:40-16:00
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To Share or Not To Share: Does Local
Participation Matter for Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment?
Beata Javorcik and
Mariana Spatareanu
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Inefficient Policies, Inefficient
Institutions and Trade
Ruben
Segura-Cayuela
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Diversification
and Concentration Patterns in the World Economy, 1975-1995: The
Heckscher-Ohlin Hypothesis
Catia Batista and
Jacques Potin
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No Taxation without
Infrastructure: A NEG
Model with Endogenous Transport Costs
Stefan Gruber and
Luigi Marattin
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Trade and Employment: Evidence from Morocco
Novella Bottini and Michael
Gasiorek
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Multinationals
and Environmental Spillovers: The Role of Ownership,
Training and Experience
Matthew
A Cole, Robert Elliott, and Eric Stobl |
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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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E1 FDI
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E2 POL
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E3 EMP
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E4 TAX
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E5 LAB
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E6 PTA/MAC
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16:30-16:50
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and
Innovation Activity in Chinese State-owned Enterprises
Sourafel Girma, Yundan
Gong, and Holger Görg
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Environmental
Regulations and Industry Compensation
Barbara
Stoschek
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Human
Capital Threshold Effects in the Internationalisation-productivity
Growth Relationship: Evidence
from Spanish Regions
Guadalupe
Serrano-Domingo, Francisco
Requena-Silvente; and
Enrique Lopez-Bazo
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Competition for Firms in an Oligopolistic
Industry: Do Firms or Countries Have to Pay?
Andreas Haufler
and
Ian Wooton
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Do Capital Market and Trade Liberalization
Trigger Labor Market Deregulation?
Herve Boulhol
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Measuring the Role of MERCOSUR on the Trade
Patterns of Its Country Members
Pedro Esteban
Moncarz
and Marcel Vaillant
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16:50-17:10
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Attracting
Foreign Investments or Promoting Domestic Multinationals? Evidence from
Productivity Spillovers in Italy
Davide Castellani and Antonello
Zanfei
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International Trade in Emission Permits
Jota Ishikawa,
Kazuharu Kiyono, and Morihiro Yomogida
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Hysteresis in Export Markets
Alfonso A.
Irarrazabal and Luca David Opromolla
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Tax Evasion in Kenya
and Tanzania:
Evidence from Missing Imports
Jörgen Levin and
Lars M Widell
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North-South Trade and Wages with Complete
Specialisation
Arne Melchior
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Customs Unions and Managed Trade
Chrysostomos
Tabakis
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17:10-17:30
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Investment Abroad and Adjustment at Home:
Evidence from UK
Multinational Firms
Helen Simpson
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Trade
and Peace
Building
Pertti Haaparanta
and Kirsti Kuisma
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Innovation, Licensing, and Imitation:
The Effects of Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Industrial
Policy
Koichi
Futagami |
Welfare-
and Revenue-enhancing Tariff and Tax Reform under Imperfect Competition
Kenzo Abe and
Takumi Naito
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Sector Specialisations, Non-homothetic Demand
and Welfare
Lilas Demmou
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Cultural Diversity and Regional Trade
Agreements: the Case of Audiovisual Services
Silvia Formentini
and
P. Lelio Iapadre
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17:30-17:50
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Foreign Outward Direct Investment and
Intermediate Goods Exports: Evidence from
USA
Kemal Türkcan
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Key International Trade Theorems and Large
Shocks
Ronald Jones
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The Border
Effects in Spain:
An Industry-level Analysis
Carlos Llano and Francisco
Requena Silvente
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Trade
and Pension Systems
Florian
Bartholomae
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Agglomeration and Fair Wages
Peter Egger and
Tobias Seidel
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International
Macroeconomic Dynamics, Endogenous Tradeability and Foreign Direct
Investment under
Firm Heterogeneity
Silvio Contessi
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17:50-18:10
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FDI and International Trade Relations: A
Theoretical Approach
Nikolaos
Mylonidis,
Krina Griva, and
Grigoris Zarotiadis
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Trade
Negotiations and Domestic Compensation: First Image Reversed?
Nikolai Ziegler
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The Factor
Content of Bilateral Interregional Trade: Evidence for Spain
Andrés Artal, Carlos Llano,
Juana Castillo, and Francisco Requena Silvente
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Strategic
Tax Competition in Italy
Karen Crabbé
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Immigration and Unemployment of Skilled and
Unskilled Labor
Shigemi Yabuuchi
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Enlarging Integration, Regional Convergence,
and the Exchange Rate Dynamics
Karl Farmer and
Jacopo Zotti
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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 3, Kleiner Festsaal
Chair: Michael Landesmann
Export
Performance and Corporate Ownership
Riccardo Faini
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Saturday,
09 September 2006
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09:00-10:40
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F1 FDI
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F2 POL
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F3
EMP
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F4 GRO
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F5 LAB
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F6 MAC
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09:00-09:20
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Multinationals and Plant Survival in Swedish
Manufacturing
Roger Bandick
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Political Economy of
Trade Policy
Zdeněk Tome and
Monika Jandová
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International Trade under Monopolistic
Competition: Evidence from Polish Bilateral Trade Data
Andrzej Cieślik
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Agglomeration
and Growth: Some Empirical Evidence
Marius Brülhart
and
Federica Sbergami
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The European Union and Its New Eastern and
Southern Neighbors: An Estimation of Migration Potentials
Nicolas Péridy
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Fundamentals and Technical Trading: Behavior
of Exchange Rates in the CEECs
Mikael Bask and
Jarko Fidrmuc
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09:20-09:40
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Attract FDI! - A Universal Golden Rule?
Empirical Evidence for Europe and Asia
Robert Stehrer and
Julia Wörz
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Competitive
Pressure in Transition: A Role for Trade and Competition Policies?
Rosen Marinov
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Economic Implications of the Doha Round
Susanna Kinnman
and
Magnus Lodefalk
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Agglomeration and Growth: The Effects of
Commuting Costs
Antonio Accetturo
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Are Migration Policies That Induce Skilled
(Unskilled) Migration Beneficial (Harmful) for the Host Country?
Michael S. Michael
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Current
Account Composition and Sustainability of External Debt
Gianpaolo
Rossini and
Paolo Zanghieri
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09:40-10:00
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Multinational Corporations and its Effect on
the Incentives to Invest in Product Innovation by Host Country Firms
Jaime F. Campos
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Challenges of Irans Agriculture Sector
in Accession Process
to the WTO
Omid Gilanpour
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The Impact of Technological Spillovers on
the Quality of European International Trade
Jan Van Hove
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Central and Eastern European Trade: Have
Transport Costs Made Gravity Models Obsolete?
Anca
Monika Voicu and
Nicholas Horsewood
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Improving the Competitiveness of Portuguese
Products Using Labour Productivity
Elsa Vaz
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The Dynamics of International Trade with
Variable Marginal Impatience
Yukio Karasawa
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10:00-10:20
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Trade
Liberalization and
FDI in Repair Services under International Oligopoly
Jota Ishikawa,
Hodaka Morita, and
Hiroshi Mukunoki
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The
GATT/WTO as an Incomplete Contract
Henrik Horn,
Giovanni Maggi, and
Robert Staiger
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Random versus
Conscious Selection into Export Markets: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Julian Emami
Namini and Ricardo A. Lopez
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US Domestic Support and
Their Likely Implications on Developing Countries
Poornima Varma
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Outward Investment and Skill Upgrading:
Evidence from the Italian Case
Davide
Castellani, Ilaria Mariotti, and Lucia Piscitello |
Monetary Union Enlargement and
International Trade
Alessandro
Marchesiani
and Pietro Senesi
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10:20-10:40
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Location and Organization of a Monopolist:
Exports Versus Horizontal FDI with Profit Shifting
Oscar Amerighi and
Susana Peralta
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The Political Economy
of Infrastructure Investment and the Border Effect Puzzle
Gabriel Felbermayr
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How Strong is the Love of Variety?
Adina Ardelean
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Globalisation, Gender and Growth
Ray Rees and
Raymond Riezman
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Brain
Drain or Brain Gain? New Empirical Evidence
José Luis Groizard and
Joan Llull
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The Euro Effect on Trade is Not as Large as
Commonly Thought
Maurice Bun and
Franc Klaassen
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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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G1 FDI
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G2
POL
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G3 EMP
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G4
GRO
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G5 LAB
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G6 OUT
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11:10-11:30
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On the Magnet Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
Chia-Hui Lu and
Pao-Li Chang
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Institutional Quality and the Gains from Trade
Axel Borrmann, Matthias
Busse, and Silke Neuhaus
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Non-Tariff Barriers in a Non-Tariff World
Marco Fugazza and
Jean Christophe Maur
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Growth Effects of Foreign Direct
Investment in Latin America
Patricia Prüfer
and
Gabriele Tondl
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Do Regional Asymmetries Matter for
the Trade-Migration Link?
Vicente Blanes, Joan
Martin-Montaner, and Guadalupe Serrano
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Outsourcing and Growth
Alireza Naghavi and Gianmarco
Ottaviano
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11:30-11:50
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Economic integration and FDI between
Asymmetric Countries: A Welfare Analysis
Young-Han Kim
and
S. Kim
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Can Self-Destructive Trade Cooperation Be
Optimal?
Mathias Herzing
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Do Autocratic States Trade Less?
Martin Gassebner
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Market Access, Openness and Growth
John
Romalis |
Irreversibility, Sunk Costs, News and
Evolutionary Economic Methodology: Generalizations from a
Trade Theorem
Robert Owen
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Domestic Investment,
FDI and External Debt: An Empirical Investigation
Manop
Udomkerdmongkol, Holger Görg, and
Oliver Morrissey
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11:50-12:10
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Does Regionalism Increase
Foreign Direct Investment? An Empirical Investigation
Maggie Chen
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Demand Conditions and Integrated Equilibrium in
the Heckscher-Ohlin-Ricardo Model
Kwok Tong Soo
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How Global is the Export Market? How
Market-Specific Entry Costs are Related to Geography
Martin Andersson and
Sara Johansson
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Determinants
of Regional Growth Cycle Convergence in the European Union
Gabriele Tondl
and Iulia Traistaru-Siedschlag
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Free Trade
Agreements and Illegal Immigration
Alan D. Woodland
and Chisato Yoshida
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Ecological
Labelling in North-South Trade
Wilhelm
Althammer and Susanne Dröge |
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12:10-12:30
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Austrian FDI in Central-Eastern Europe and Employment in the Home Market
Martin Falk and
Yvonne Wolfmayr
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Can
Trade Hurt? A Follow-up on Samuelson's Controversial Paper
Jorgen Bitzer, Holger Görg,
and Philipp J.H. Schröder
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Vertical and Horizontal Intra-Industry Trade
in Japan:
Patterns and Their Determinants
Takamune Fujii
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Wage
Bargaining and Multinational Firms in
General
Equilibrium
Carsten Eckel and
Hartmut Egger
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Why Do Some Firms Contract Out Production?
A Firm-level Data Approach
Carmen Díaz-Mora and Angela
Triguero-Cano
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12:30-12:50
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Multinational Firm and Its Operational
Choice: Inward and Outward Investment
Nobuko Serizawa
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Uncertainty,
Gains from Specialization and the Welfare State
Michele Di Maio
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What Kind of Trade did The Euro Area
Encourage?
Ana Fernandes
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International Trade, Convergence and
Integration
Jianhong Zhang
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Deindustrialization,
Off-shoring and Job Exports to Central and Eastern Europe
Joern
Kleinert and
Farid Toubal |
Outsourcing to CEE Countries And Spanish
Industrial Employment: The Spanish-Turkey Trade Relationship in
1993-2003
Nuria Gómez Sanz, Ángeles Cadarso
Vecina, Luis Antonio López Santiago, and María Ángeles Tobarra Gómez
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12:50-14:00
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Lunch
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14:00-14:20
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LICOS PRIZE 2006, HS 28
Chair:
Ian
Wooton
Award
of the prize
for the best paper on emerging economies
Karolien
De Bruyne
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14:20-16:00
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H1 FDI
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H2 QUA
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H3 EMP
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H4 MISC
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H5 LAB
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H6 OUT
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14:20-14:40
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To
What Extent Are FDI in the Central And East European Countries
Cost-Driven? The Role of Corporate Income Taxes and Labor Costs
Markus Leibrecht,
Aleksandra Riedl, and Christian Bellak
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Factor Price
Equalization (FPE) Implies Product Quality Equalization (PQE)
Satya Das and Seiichi
Katayama
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Unregistered
International Trade: Economic Phenomenon under Different Statistical
Approaches
Eliza
Chilimoniuk,
Elżbieta Czarny, Barbara Kowalczyk, and Andżelika Kuźnar |
Globalization, R&D and Endogenous Choice of
Technology
Fuat Sener and
Laixun Zhao
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Manufacturing Wages in the Enlarged
EU: (How Much) Does Geography Matter?
Helena Marques and
Hugh Metcalf
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Agglomeration, Offshoring and Heterogeneous
Firms
Richard E.
Baldwin and Toshihiro Okubo
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14:40-15:00
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Repatriation or Reinvestment? On the
Sequential Flows of Investment
Wilfried Altzinger
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Heterogeneous Quality and Trade Costs
Matthias Helble and Toshihiro
Okubo
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Is Exporting a Source of Productivity
Spillovers?
Roberto Alvarez
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Trade,
Imitative Ability and Intellectual Property Rights
Rod Falvey, Neil
Foster, and David Greenaway
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Trade
Liberalisation, R&D, and Relative Wages
Sebastian Braun
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Trade
and Technology: Effects on Global Sourcing
Barbara Dluhosch
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15:00-15:20
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External
Economies as a Mechanism of Agglomeration in OECD Manufacturing
Nuria
Domeque Claver and Carmen Fillat
Castejón |
Quality of Imports Relative to Exports
and the Transmission of Sustained Growth through the Terms of Trade
Carmen D.
Álvarez-Albelo and Mónica Pigem-Vigo
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The Role of Distance in Gravity Regressions:
Is There Really a Missing Globalization Puzzle?
Laura
Márquez-Ramos, Inmaculada
Martínez
-Zarzoso, and Celestino Suárez-Burguet
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The Productivity Effects of Services
Liberalization: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Jens
Arnold, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik,
and Aaditya Mattoo |
Imports, Exports, and Total Factor Productivity
in Korea
Sangho Kim
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International Outsourcing and Labour with
Sector-Specific Human Capital
Kurt Kratena
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15:20-15:40
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Is
China
affecting Latin Americas inward FDI?
Alicia Garcia
Herrero
and Daniel Santabárbara
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Standards as Strategic Policy Instruments
Monika Tothova
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Evolving Trade Patterns in the CIS: The
Role of Manufacturing
Oksana Pidufala
and Robert Shelburne
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A
Search and Matching Model of International Trade
Gabriel
Felbermayr and Benjamin Jung
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Wage vs. Industry
Subsidies: Coping with Technology Related Unemployment in a Globalized
Economy
Barbara Dluhosch
and
Daniel Horgos
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Foreign versus Domestic Outsourcing:
Firm-level Evidence on the Role of Technology
Eiichi Tomiura
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15:40-16:00
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Re-allocation of Structural Funds and EU15
Exports and FDI to the New EU Members
Yvonne Wolfmayr
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Competitive Gains from Trade and the
Product Mix: Evidence from Italian Firms
Carlo Altomonte and Alessandro
Barattieri
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Environmental Regulation: An Incentive for FDI
Anuj Joshua Mathew,
Arijit Mukherjee, and
Bouwe Dijkstra
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Income Distribution, Development and
Trade: An Empirical Review Using a New Inequality Dataset
Joseph Francois
and
Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
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Outsourcing
in Oligopoly and International Technology Transfers
Eberhard Feess,
Michael Hoeck, and Oliver Lorz
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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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I1 FDI/CUL
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I2 DEV
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I3 SER
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I4 ENV
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I5 LAB
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I6 OUT
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16:30-16:50
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Effects of Foreign Presence in a Transition
Economy: Regional and Industry-wide Investments and Firm-level Exports
in Ukrainian Manufacturing
Stefan Lutz,
Sang-Min Park, and Oleksandr Talavera
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Overall
Specialization and Development: Countries Diversify!
Luca De Benedictis, Marco
Gallegati, and Massimo Tamberi
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Trade in Services and Trade in Goods:
Differences and Complementarities
Carolina Lennon
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The Impact of Trade on the Environment
Helen Naughton
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Trade Openness, Technological
Shocks and Spillovers in the Labour Market: A GVAR Analysis of the US
Manufacturing Sector
Paul Hiebert and Isabel
Vansteenkiste
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Outsourcing
of Intermediate Manufacturing Products in Asian Economies
Yushi Yoshida
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16:50-17:10
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Firm-specific Characteristics and the Timing
of Foreign Direct Investment Projects
Horst
Raff and Michael Ryan |
Development Accounting in a Heckscher-Ohlin
World
Harald Fadinger
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Services Policies in Transition
Economies: On the EU and WTO as Commitment Mechanisms
Felix
Eschenbach and Bernard
Hoekman
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Trade
liberalization in Environmentally Preferable Products:
An Example with Imports of Conventional vs. Organic Products
Estelle Gozlan and
Priscila Ramos
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Price
and Wage Setting in an Integrating Europe:
Firm-level Evidence
Filip Abraham,
Jozef
Konings, and Stijn
Vanormelingen
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R&D
Outsourcing: Decision and Implications on Technological Performance
Liza Jabbour and
Maria Pluvia Zuniga
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|
17:10-17:30
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Bilateral Trade of Cultural Goods
Anne-Celia
Disdier,
Thierry Mayer, and
Silvio Tai
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The Development Relevance of Trade
Preferences in the Multilateral Trading System
Sangeeta Khorana
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The Role of Services in Polish International
Trade
Andzelika Kuznar
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Public Pollution
Abatement, Regional Capital Mobility and Tax Competition
Costas
Hadjiyannis,
Panos Hatzipanayotou,
and Michael S. Michael
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Trade Openness, Real Exchange Rates and
Job Reallocation: Evidence from Belgium
Italo Colantone
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Outsourcing after the Customs Union between
EU and Turkey
Özge Aynagöz
Çakmak
and Şiir Yilmaz
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|
17:30-17:50
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Cultural
Proximity and Trade
Gabriel Felbermayr
and Farid Toubal
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Competition for Aid and Aid Fungibility
Costas
Hadjiyiannis, Panos
Hatzipanayotou, and Michael S. Michael
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The Impact of Mode 4 Liberalization on
Bilateral Trade Flows
Marion Jansen and
Roberta Piermartini
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Decomposing
the World-wide Pollution Content of Exports, 1986-1998
Jean-Marie Grether, Nicole Mathys,
and Jaime de Melo
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Service Offshoring and the Composition of
White-Collar Employment: Evidence from the US
Rosario Crinň
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17:50-18:15
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Break
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18:15-19:00
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PLENARY SESSION 4, Kleiner Festsaal
Chair: Joseph Francois
Estimating
Regional Trade Agreement
Badi H. Baltagi, Peter Egger,
and Michael Pfaffermayr
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20:00
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Heurigen, 10er Marie,
Ottakring
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