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

Registration Taxes for Cars Inducing International Price Discrimination: An Optimal Tariff Approach

Switgard Feuerstein

10:20-10:40

Endogenous Quality in a Monopolistic Competition Model of Trade

Eddy Bekkers

The Factor Content of Interregional Bilateral Trade: New Evidence from Spanish Regions

Francisco Requena-Silvente, Andrés Artal, and Carlos Llano

Home Country Effects of Investing Abroad: Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Anna Maria Falzoni and Mara Grasseni

Competition for Firms in an Oligopolistic Industry: Do Firms or Countries Have to Pay?

Ian Wooton and
Andreas Haufler

Verticial Specialisation in Europe: Evidence from the Import Content of Exports

Rita Cappariello, Emanuele Breda, and Roberta Zizza

Mergers in a Heterogeneous Firm Model

Toby Kendall and Cillian Ryan

10:40-11:10

Coffee, Foyer

11:10-12:50

C1 FIR

C2 EMP

C3 INV

C4 POL

C5 GRO

C6 COM

11:10-11:30

Country Size, Trade, and Productivity: An Analysis of Heterogeneous Firms and Differential Beachhead Costs

Rikard Forslid and
Anders Åkerman

Trade Costs and Global Production Networks: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific Experience

Matthias Helble, Ben Shepherd, and John S. Wilson

FDI and Unit Values of Exports

Torfinn Harding and
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik

Informal Barriers, Agricultural Trade and the Euro zone

Marilyne Huchet-Bourdon
and Angela Cheptea

Determinants of Top Income Shares over the Twentieth Century

Jonas Vlachos, Jesper Roine, and Daniel Waldenström

Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports

Mattias Ganslandt and
Keith E Maskus

11:30-11:50

Export Subsidies, Productivity and Welfare under Firm-Level Heterogeneity

Svetlana Demidova and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

Estimating the Gravity Model When Zero Trade Flows Are Important

Will Martin and Cong Pham

Why L’Oréal saved Nurse but P&G Killed Panda

Toshihiro Ichida
and Chia-Hui Lu

Should We Care About International Tax Competition?

Pantelis Kammas and Apostolis Philippopoulos

Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Effects in Dynamic Growth Models: Implications for International Capital Flows

Joseph F. Francois and
Clinton Shiells

On the Role of Retaliation in Trade Agreements

Wouter Vergote and
Alberto Martin

11:50-12:10

Firm Heterogeneiy, Technology Utilization, and International Fragmentation

Taiji Furusawa
and Chia-Hui Lu

Export Performance in High Tech Goods: The Role of Export Diversification and Trade Policy

Anna Ferragina and
Francesco Pastore

The Impact of Inward FDI and Foreign Ownership on Performance of German Multinational Firms

Anselm Mattes and
Christian Arndt

Implications of Doha Round Negotiations for Agricultural Sector in Poland and Other Selected Countries. A GTAP Simulation

Jan Michalek and
Jan Hagemejer

Knowledge Transfer, Innovation and Growth

Črt Kostevc,
Joze Pavlic Damijan,
and Saso Polanec

The Economic Determinants of Antidumping Decisions in Turkey

David Cheong and
Gokhan Dikmener

12:10-12:30

Productivity Growth and the Speed of Convergence of Domestic Firms

Carlo Altomonte and
Enrico Pennings

Trade, Genetic Distance and Food Consumption

Anne-Celia Disdier and
Jerome Hericourt

Strategic Technology Transfer through FDI in Vertically Related Markets

Jota Ishikawa and Eiji Horiuchi

Trade Liberalization and Its Fiscal Implications in a North-South Trade Model

Albert de Vaal
and Joachim Stibora

Trade, Tariffs and Total Factor Productivity: the case of Spanish firms

Juliette Milgram and

Marion Dovis

Trade Liberalization and Antidumping: Is There a Substitution Effect?

Maurizio Zanardi and
Michael O. Moore

12:30-12:50

Continuity Breeds Success? Exporter Heterogeneity, Performance and Sunk Costs

Anne Marie Gleeson and Frances Ruane

Tariff-tax Reforms and Market Access

Pascalis Raimondos-Møller and Udo Kreikermeier

Foreign aid, Environmental Policies and Welfare under Globalization, Cross-border Pollution and Unemployment

Panos Hatzipanayotou,
Nikos Tsakiris, and
Michael S. Michael

What Explains the Proliferation of Antidumping Laws?

Hylke Vandenbussche
and Maurizio Zanardi

12:50-14:10

Lunch, Foyer

14:10-14:40

SPECIAL PRESENTATION, Auditorium                                                                                     Chair: Joseph Francois

Six Decades of Multilateral Trade Cooperation: Achievements and Challenges

Marion Jansen and Marc Bacchetta

14:40-16:00

D1 FIR

D2 EMP

D3 INV

D4 POL

D5 GRO/LOC

D6 COM/INS

14:40-15:00

Exporting and Innovation Performance: Analysis of the Annual Small Business Survey in the UK

Dolores Anon Higon
and Nigel Driffield

Relative Export Structures and Vertical Specialization: A Simple Cross-Country Index

José Maria, João Amador, and Sónia Cabral

Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, James R. Markusen, and
Bertel Schjerning

Revenue Tariff Reform

J Peter Neary and
James E. Anderson

Beyond Trade Costs: Firms’ Endogenous Access to International Markets

Armando José Garcia Pires

Fair Trade

Frank Stähler and
Martin Richardson

15:00-15:20

Endogenous Export Modes

Benjamin Jung and
Gabriel Felbermayr

Trade and the Colonial Status

Julie Lochard and
José de Sousa

Spillovers from Multinationals to Heterogeneous Domestic Firms: Evidence from Hungary

Gabor Bekes, Joern Kleinert, and Farid Toubal

Intellectual Property Rights, Parallel Import and Cost Reducing Innovation

Andrea Mantovani
and Alireza Naghavi

The Trade and
Welfare Effects of Mergers in Space

Hartmut Egger and
Peter Egger

15:20-15:40

Export and Productivity in Italian Manufacturing Firms

Chiara Tomasi and
Francesco Serti

Lerner Symmetry Rides Again

Miriam Manchin and
Joseph Francois

FDI as a Signal of Quality

Seiichi Katayama
and Kaz Miyagiwa

Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations

Paola Conconi, Giovanni Facchini, and Maurizio Zanardi

Real Estate Markets and the Location of Economic Activity

Karolien De Bruyne

Institutional Quality, Trade and Cross-Country Productivity Differentials

Tomasz Iwanow

15:40-16:00

Surviving Globalisation

David Greenaway,
Joakim Gullstrand, and
Richard Kneller

The WTO Trade Effect

Pao-Li Chang and
Lee Myoung Jae

Production Shocks and FDI: Learning and Correlation Effects

Kaz Miyagiwa and
Anthony Creane

Welfare and Revenue Improving Reforms of Tariffs and Consumption Taxes in the Presence of Pollution

Michael Michael and
Panos Hatzipanayotou

Trade Liberalisation and Agglomeration with Firm Heterogeneity: Forward and Backward Linkages

Toshihiro Okubo

The Impact of Corruption on Foreign Investments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Eleni Kaditi

16:00-16:30

Coffee, Foyer

16:30-18:10

E1 FIR

E2 EMP

E3 INV

E4 POL/SER

E5 LOC/REG

E6 INS

16:30-16:50

Market Integration, Choice of Technology and Welfare

Jørgen Ulff-Møller Nielsen, and Jørgen Drud Hansen

Export Barriers: What Are They and Who Do They Matter to?

Richard Kneller and
Mauro Pisu

Multinational Enterprises and Productivity Spillovers: In Search of a Spatial Dimension

Laura Resmini and
Marcella Nicolini

Who Wins a Trade War?

Mark Melatos
Pascalis Raimondos-Møller
, and Matthew Gibson

Agglomeration and Comparative Advantage in Vertically-Related Firms

Jose Pedro Pontes and
Joanas Vaz Pais

Minimum Quality Standards in International Trade and Endogenous Choice of
Product Quality

Ulf Lewrick

16:50-17:10

Vertical Integration, Disintegration and Ability to Export

Gianpaolo Rossini and
Laura Vici

Financial Constraints and the Margins of Trade : Evidence from Cross-Country Firm-Level Data

Jérôme Héricourt and
Nicolas Berman

Direct and indirect effects of outward foreign direct
investments on employment and skill composition in Italian regions

Stefano Elia, Ilaria Mariotti, and Lucia Piscitello

Spatial Tax Competition in the EU15

Karen Crabbé and
Hylke Vandenbussche

Exploring the Relationship Between Local and Global Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence Using Plant-Level Data

Eric Strobl, Andreas Heinen, Luisito Bertinelli, and
Salvador Barrios

Trade Facilitation and the EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements

Maria Persson

17:10-17:30

Quality Improvement, Firm Heterogeneity and Trade

Tetsugen Haruyama
and Lex Zhao

What Happens to Natives When Immigrants Get Jobs?

Jakob Roland Munch,
Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, and Jan Rose Skaksen

Capital Macroeconomic Determinants of Cross-Border Merger & Acquisitions

Gus Garita and
Charles van Marrewijk

Expansion of Trade at the Extensive Margin: Welfare and Trade-Volume Consequences

James Markusen and
Anthony Venables

Institutions and Offshoring Decision

Marcella Nicolini

17:30-17:50

Firm Heterogeneity and Export Participation: A New Asian Tiger Perspective

Supreeya Virakul, Matthew A. Cole, and Robert J.R. Elliott

Does Tariff Liberalization Promote Trade? Latin America in the Long-run (1900-2000)

Silvia Nenci and
Carlo Pietrobelli

Competition for FDI in the Presence of a Public Firm and the Effects of Privatization

Giuseppe De Feo and
Oscar Amerighi

International Trade and Retailing: Diversity versus Accessibility and the Creation of Retail Deserts

Carsten Eckel

Industrial Location: A Harmonization of Two Natures

Pierre M. Picard and Zeng Dao

The Costs of Rules of Origin in Apparel: African Preferential Exports to the US and to the EU

Alberto Portugal-Pérez

17:50-18:10

Firm Heterogeneity, Foreign Market Entry Mode and Ownership Choice: The Case of Japanese Direct Investment

Andrzej Cieślik
and Michael Ryan

The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Trade in the EU: Trade Balance and Trade Spillovers

Franc Klaassen, Roel Beetsma, and Massimo Giuliodori

Foreign Acquisition and Employment Effect in Swedish Manufacturing

Roger Bandick
and Patrik Karpaty

International Trade in Services in Developing Countries: Threats and Opportunities

Andżelika Kuźnar

The Economic Partnership Agreements: Rationale, misperceptions and the non-trade aspects

Lars Nilsson, Louise Curran, and Douglas Brew

18:10-18:15

Break

18:15-19:00

PLENARY SESSION 3, Auditorium                                                                                           Chair: Maurizio Zanardi

Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment

Gianfranco De Simone, Daniele Checchi, and Riccardo Faini


Saturday, 15 September 2007

09:00-10:40

F1 FIR

F2 EMP/LAB

F3 INV

F4 SER

F5 REG

F6 INS

09:00-09:20

On the Industry Dynamics of Offshoring

Alireza Naghavi and Gianmarco Ottaviano

Vertical Intra-Industry Trade and Differences in Endowments: Revisiting the Empirical Evidence

Manuel Cabral, Rod Falvey, and Chris Milner

Shouldn’t Physical Capital Also Matter in a World with Multinational Enterprises?

Jeffrey Bergstrand
and Peter Egger

Assessing the Turkey-EU Customs Union: Shallow and Deep Integration

Karen Jackson

An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between Corruption and FDI: With Sample Selection Error Correction

Ying Zhou

09:20-09:40

Dynamics of Export Market Entry and Exit: Evidence from Micro-Level Data

Satu Nurmi and
Pekka Ilmakunnas

Export Strength: A Comparison between China and Latin America

Sebastian Vollmer, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso

The Contribution of Foreign Entrants to Employment and Productivity Growth

Stefanie Haller and
Ragnhild Balsvik

Trade in Services: Cross-Border Trade versus Commercial Presence; Evidence of Complementarity

Carolina Lennon

Convergence Towards Regional Integration Between the EU and India: Trade Implications for the UK and India

Sangeeta Khorana

Barriers to Entry, Trade Costs, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries

Ben Shepherd and Allen Dennis

09:40-10:00

International Trade with Horizontal and Vertical Product Differentiation and Heterogeneous Firms

Julian Emami Namini and Ricardo A. Lopez

International Trade Models and Real World Features

Ronald Jones and Sugata Marjit

Foreign Ownership and Economic Performance in Italy: Not All Is Cherry-Picking!

Fabrizio Onida and
Rosario Crinò

Service Offshoring and the Demand for Less-Skilled Labor: Evidence from Germany

Deborah Schoeller

Vertical and Horizontal Trade Between the EU 15 and the 2004 Enlargement Countries

Ines Mezo

Corruption and Taris as Barriers to Imports

Pushan Dutt and Daniel
Traca

10:00-10:20

Market Size and Survival of Foreign-owned Firms

Zhihong Yu, Rod Falvey, and David Greenaway

Endowments, Specialization and Policy

Yuliya Shakurova,
Olivier Cadot, Alessandro Nicita, and Claudio Sfreddo

Spatial Interdependencies of FDI Locations

Pavlos Petroulas and
Stephen G. Hall

Reforming NAFTA Rules of Origin

Bolormaa Tumurchudur

Trade, Institutions, and Economies in Transition

Chrysostomos Tabakis and Gal Hochman

10:20-10:40

Uncertainty and Entry into Export Markets

Ruben Segura-Cayuela and
Josep M. Villarubia

Offshoring and Technological Structure: Winners and Losers, or Only Winners?

Jaewon Jung

The Effect of New Environment on Foreign Direct Investment in an Oligopolistic Heckscher-Ohlin Model

Sajal Lahiri and Yoshiyasu Ono

Trade Intermediaries and the Tariff Pass-Through

P. Lelio Iapadre
and Giuseppe Pace

Euro Effects on Eurozone Sectoral Trade: Winners and Losers

Claudio Vicarelli,
Sergio de Nardis, and
Roberta De Santis

Is Export Promotion Effective in Developing Countries? Firm Level Evidence

Christian Volpe Martincus and Jerónimo Carballo

10:40-11:10

Coffee, Foyer

11:10-12:50

G1 FIR/MIG

G2 LAB

G3 INV/GRA

G4 SER

G5 REG

G6 INS

11:10-11:30

The impact of R&D and FDI on Firm Growth in Emerging-Developing Countries: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industries

Adamos Adamou and
Subash Sasidharan

Employment and Export Specialization Patterns versus GDP Per Capita Performance: A Unifying Approach

Aleksandra Parteka

FDI versus Exports. Substitutes or Complements? A Three Nations Model and Empirical Evidence

Harald Oberhofer
and Michael Pfaffermayr

Remittances: A New Estimation Procedure for CIS Flows and Its Economic Implications

Robert Shelburne
and Jose Palacin

International Spillovers of Domestic Reforms: The Joint Application of the Lisbon Strategy in the EU

Hugo Rojas-Romagosa and Arjan Lejour

The Growth Effects of Openness to Trade and the Role of Institutions: New Evidence from African Countries

Mina Baliamoune-Lutz and Léonce Ndikumana

11:30-11:50

Migration and Trade with External Economies of Scale

David Collie

Trade, Technology Transfers and Wage Inequalities: Theory and Evidence

Maria Bas

Market Shares and Multinationals’ Investment: A Microeconomic Foundation for FDI Stocks Gravity Equations

Gaetano Alfredo Minerva

Liberalizing Trade on Services Is Restricting Services FDI

Carmen Fillat and Julia Wörz

Free Trade Areas and Intra-Regional Trade: The Case of ASEAN

Maurice Bun, Franc Klaassen, and Randolph Tan

Trust-Based Trade

Emanuel Ornelas and
Luis Araujo

11:50-12:10

Are Trade and Migration Complements? The Evidence from the EU Eastern Enlargement of Trade-creating Migration

Monika Mrazova

Profit Sharing, Economic Integration and Employment: Econometric Evidence from Finland

Elisa Riihimäki

Gravity and Information: Heterogeneous Firms, Exporter Networks and the “Distance Puzzle”

Sebastian Krautheim

Technology diffusion through trade

José Luis Groizard

Enlarging the EMU to the East: What Effects on Trade?

Julia Spies and Helena Marques

Exporting to Risky Markets

Vincent Rebeyrol,
Matthieu Crozet, and
Pamina Koenig

12:10-12:30

Immigration and Trade: What is the Difference
between Exportations and Importations

Silvio Hong Tiing Tai

Trade Liberalisation and Human Capital Adjustment

Rod Falvey, David Greenaway and Joana Silva

Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data

Dennis Novy

The Determinants of GATS Commitment Coverage

Rainer Lanz and Peter Egger

Three-year Results of Poland’s Accession to the European Union: An Analysis of Changes of Selected Indices

Eliza Chilimoniuk

Decentralization and International Trade

Margarita Kalamova and Sebastian G. Kessing

12:30-12:50

Migration Networks and Brain Gain

Laixun Zhao and Chia-Hui Lu

Road and Railway Transport Infrastructure Effects on Bilateral Trade

Peter Egger and Mario Larch

Turkey's Competitiveness in the EU Market: A Comparison of Different Trade Measures

Dilek Seymen, Nevzat Simsek, and Utku Utkulu

The proximity-concentration trade-off in a dynamic framework

Erdal Yalcin


12:50-14:00

Lunch, Foyer

14:00-14:20

LICOS PRIZE 2007, Auditorium                                                                                              Chair: Maurizio Zanardi

Award of the prize for the best paper on emerging economies

Hylke Vandenbussche

14:20-16:00

H1 MIG

H2 LAB

H3 GRA

H4 CHN

H5 REG

H6 ENV

14:20-14:40

How the Diaspora Has Promoted the Integration of the World Economy

Lisandra Flach and
Gabriel Felbermayr

The Effect of Foreign Takeovers on Female Labor Market Discrimination

Helena Svaleryd,
Fredrik Heyman, and
Jonas Vlachos

Is the “Globalization Puzzle” So Puzzling? Evidence from the Disaggregated Gravity Model

Boriss Siliverstovs and
Dieter Schumacher

Industrial Structural Transformation For Chinese Manufactured Exports: 1980-2003

Abhijit Sharma

The Political Economy of Regional Integration Projects at Borders where Rich and Poor Meet

Kristof Dascher and
Alexander Haupt

Illegal Extractions of Renewable Resources and Trade

Naoto Jinji

14:40-15:00

The Impact of the Immigration on the Productive Structure of the Spanish Regions

Joan Martín-Montaner, Guadalupe Serrano, and Francisco Requena-Silvente

Melitz Meets Pissarides: Firm Heterogeneity, Search Unemployment and Trade Liberalization

Hans-Joerg Schmerer, Gabriel Felbermayr, and Julien Prat

Gravity with FDI: A Solution to the Rose-Puzzle on GATT/WTO and International Trade

Pehr-Johan Norbäck,
 Dieter Urban, and
Stefan Westerberg

FDI, Privatization and Job Creation in China

Sune Karlsson, Nannan Lundin, Fredrik Sjöholm, and Ping He

The EU’s Attitude Towards Eastern Enlargement in Space

Mario Larch, Peter Egger, Janette Walde, and Michael Pfaffermayr

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Associated with Greece’s Trading Structure:
Methodology and
Pilot Results for 1990 and 2005

Eleni Papathanasopoulou

15:00-15:20

Does it Matter Where Immigrants Work? Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Sectoral Pattern of Output and Trade

Jennifer Pedussel Wu and Harry P. Bowen

Trade and Wage Distributions

Pertti Haaparanta
and Hanna Pesola

How Countries Gravitate?

Katarzyna Sledziewska, Elżbieta Czarny, and
Jerzy Menkes

How are Wages Set in Beijing?

Jose de Sousa and
Sandra Poncet

Quantitative Impacts of East Asia Free Trade Areas on Thailand Poverty and Income Distribution: A Computable General Equilibrium Modelling

Anyarath Kitwiwattanachai, Doug Nelson, and
Geoffrey Reed

15:20-15:40

The Effects of Immigration on the Wage Structure of Cypriot Workers

Costas Hadjiyiannis,
Michael S. Michael, Louis Christofides, Sofronis Clerides, and Marios Stephanides

Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities

Fredrik Sjöholm,
Katariina Hakkala, and
Fredrik Heyman

National Borders Matter—Their Drawing Too

Vincent Vicard and Emmanuelle Lavallée

Market Access and Individual wages: Evidence from China

Laura Hering and
Sandra Poncet

Endogenous Sunk Costs, Expectations and Economic Integration

Robert Owen

The influence of Free-Trade on the Environmental Effects of Transport: Scale-, Technique- and Technology-Effects

Stefan Vannoni

15:40-16:00

Ménage à Trois in a Globalized World: Bargaining Between Firms, Low-Skilled Workers and High-Skilled Workers

Glenn Rayp, Michel Dumont, and Peter Willemé

The Log of Gravity Revisited

Inmaculada Martinez Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann Danzinger, and Sebastian Vollmer

David versus Goliath: The Impact of Chinese Competition on Developing Countries

Robert Alvarez and
 Sebastián Claro

 

16:00-16:30

Coffee, Foyer

16:30-18:10

I1 MIG

I2 LAB

I3 GRA

I4 CHN

I5 REG

I6 ENV

16:30-16:50

Does Coordination of Immigration Policies Among Destination Countries Increase Immigration?

Claus Aastrup Jensen,
Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, and Jan Rose Skaksen

Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Michael Henry,
Nigel Driffield, Sourafel Girma, and Karl Taylor

FDI and Capital Account Liberalisation

Matthias Busse, Jens Königer, and Peter Nunnenkamp

The Effect of China on Mexico - US trade: undoing the North-American Free Trade Agreement?

Susana Iranzo and Alyson Ma

Impact of Intra-European Trade Agreements, 1990-2005: Policy Implications for the Western Balkans and Ukraine

Johannes Herderschee and Zhaogang Qiao

Consumer Preferences and Trade in Energy Resources

Florian Bartholomae and Martin Reidelhuber

16:50-17:10

On the Relation Between Market Access, Migration And Wages: An Empirical Analysis of the Brazilian Labor Adjustment After Trade Reforms

Rodrigo Paillacar
and Laura Hering

Individual Level Employment Effects of Foreign Acquisitions

Hanna Pesola

The Determinants of Bilateral Financial Links for a Small Open Economy

Juan Ruiz and
Jose Maria Serena

Economic Performance Under NAFTA: A Firm-Level Analysis of the Trade-Productivity Linkages

Leonardo Iacovone and
 Rafael E. De Hoyos

Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Management: In Search of Environmental Spillovers

Robert Elliott, Matthew Cole, Marco Ercolani, and
Facudo Albornoz

17:10-17:30

Attitudes Towards Immigration: Does Economic Self-Interest Matter

Sanne Schroll, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Roland Munch, and Jan Rose Skaksen

Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Occupations, Tasks and Skills

Karolina Ekholm,
Sascha O. Becker, and
Marc-Andreas Muendler

Market Access and the Evolution of Within-Plant Productivity in Chile

Ivan Ledezma and Maria Bas

FDI, Market Structure and R&D Investments in China

Nannan Lundin,
Fredrik Sjöholm, Ping He, and Jingchang Qian

Regional Integration Choice for Ukraine: Between the EU and Russia

Volodymyr Shportyuk and Veronika Movchan

Strategic Environmental Policy and Strategic Use of R&D in Green Technologies under Endogenous Regulation

Fabio Antoniou and
Panos Hatzipanayotou

17:30-17:50

International Migration, Human Capital Formation, Sunk Costs, and National Labour Markets

Bernard Franck and Robert F. Owen

The Role of Life Cycle Changes on Changes in Skill Intensity

Grigoris Zarotiadis,
T. Lynn Riggs, and
Ioannis Theodosiou

Is the World’s Economic Center of Gravity Already in Asia?

Jean-Marie Grether and
Nicole A. Mathys

Differential Impact of Trade with China on Italian Regions

Alessia Amighini

Regional Trade Agreements of Asia: China Perspectives

Irina Gabriela Radulescu and Radulescu Dragos Lucian

Pollution Abatement Equipments, Environmental Policies, and International Trade

Kenzo Abe and Yasuyuki Sugiyama

17:50-18:10

Sunk costs, Scale Economies and Outsourcing Performance of manufacturing firms

Angela Triguero-Cano and Carmen Díaz-Mora

Labour Market Adjustment in the Spanish Regions: A First Examination of the Immigration Shock, 1995-2002

Guadalupe Serrano-Domingo, Vicente Blanes-Cristobal, and Francisco Requena-Silvente

Diffusion of ISO 9000 Standards and International Trade

Michal Grajek

 

18:10-18:15

Break

18:15-19:00

PLENARY SESSION 4, Auditorium                                                                                           Chair: Panos Hatzipanayotou

The Effect of Foreign Price Uncertainty on Australian Production and Trade

Alan Woodland and Elie Appelbaum

19:30

Reception, Roof Garden, Park Hotel

Notes:   Name of paper presenter is in boldface.

                Presentations in yellow have been moved because of a last minute change.

                In parallel sessions, the last presenter will take the chair.

                All sessions take place in the Antoniadou Building.

Category

Description

CHN

CHINA: China and the global economy

COM

COMPETITION: Trade, competition, and antidumping

EMP

EMPIRICS: General empirics of trade and the global economy

ENV

ENVIRONMENT: Trade and the environment

FIR

FIRMS: Organization and population of firms

GRA

GRAVITY: Gravity models of trade and FDI flows

GRO

GROWTH: Growth, innovation, and the global economy

INS

INSTITUTIONS: Institutions, rules, and trade

INV

INVESTMENT: FDI and MNEs

LAB

LABOR: Globalization and labour markets

LOC

LOCATION: Agglomeration and the location of activity

MIG

MIGRATION: Labour flows and the global economy

OFF

OFFSHORING: Offshoring and outsourcing

POL

POLICY: Trade and investment policy formation and impact

REG

REGIONALISM: Theory and empirics of regional integration

SER

SERVICES: Services trade and FDI

Version: Tuesday, 11 September 2007.