ETSG 2012 Leuven Fourteenth Annual Conference 13-15 September 2012 KU Leuven

Time

Parallel Session 1 Room MTC1 00.03

Parallel Session 2 Room MTC3 00.15

Parallel Session 3 Room MTC1 00.14

Parallel Session 4 Room MTC1 01.03

Parallel Session 5 Room MTC1 01.15

Parallel Session 6 Room MTC1 02.07

Parallel Session 7 Room MTC1 02.13

Thursday, 13 September 2012

13:00-16:00

REGISTRATION, Room 00.17 MTC1

14:30-14:45

Welcome, Room 00.10 MTC2 FIlip Abraham, KUL

14:45-15:30

PLENARY SESSION 1, Room 00.10 MTC2 Chair: Ian Wooton Marion Jansen, Christian Häberli, José-Antonio Monteiro Regional trade agreements and domestic labour market regulation

15:30-15:40

Conference briefing, Room 00.10 MTC2 Ian Wooton

15:40-16:10

Coffee

16:10-18:40

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16:10-16:30

Tao Zhang, Churen Sun, Guoqiang Tian Export, productivity pattern, and firm size distribution

Felix Tintelnot Global production with export platforms

Maria Cipollina, Luca De Benedictis, Luca Salvatici, Claudio Vicarelli Dummies for policies or policies for dummies? A MonteCarlo-gravity experiment

Gilbert Spiegel, Gabriel Felbermayr A simple theory of trade, finance, and firm dynamics

Robert F. Owen, Bernard Franck Human capital formation, international labor mobility and the optimal design of educational grants

Terence Huw Edwards, Carlo Perroni Capital-skill complementarity, trade liberalization, and the flattening of labour taxes

Carmen Diaz-Mora, Rosario Gandoy, David Corcoles Export survival in global value chains

16:30-16:50

Isao Kamata, Steven Husted, Shuichiro Nishioka Revealed comparative advantage and extensive margin of heterogeneous firms

Sotirios Blanas Intra-firm trade and employment in US manufacturing

Pierre Picard Trade, Geography and the choice of product quality

Hélène Ehrhart, Maëlan Le Goff, Emmanuel Rocher, Raju Jan Singh Does migration foster exports? An African perspective

Emily Jean Blanchard, Gerald Willmann Global shocks, costly adjustment, and political overshooting

Nicholas Joseph Lazarou Endogenous hub formations in international trade

16:50-17:10

Xiaoyu Tian, Xiaoyu Tian The dynamics of importing exporters

Larry D. Qiu Labor training and foreign direct investment

Jasmin Gröschl, Pramila Crivelli The impact of sanitary and phytosanitary measures on market entry and trade flows

Armando José Garcia Pires Home market effects with endogenous costs of production

Michal Szwabe Interconnections between the business cycle, migration flows and trade volumes: the case of Polish migration to the UK after 2004

Hinnerk Gnutzmann, Arevik Mkrtchyan Mutual protectionism

Pao-Li Chang, Tomoki Fujii Country image and international trade

17:10-17:30

Florian Mayneris, Julien Martin Reaping the gains from globalization with high-end products: evidence from French luxury exporters

Ian Wooton, Julia Darby, Ben Ferrett Intra-regional competition for FDI amongst heterogeneous nations

Sinead Kelleher Playing by the rules? The development of an amended index to measure the impact of rules of origin on intra-PTA trade flows

Allan Sørensen Additive versus multiplicative trade costs and the gains from trade

Onur Koska, Selim Cagatay, Murat Genc, Perihan Saygin Immigration, enterprises, and employment in the European Union

Marcin Jerzy Menkes International trade, sovereign default and jurisdictional immunities

Luca De Benedictis, Angela Abbate, Giorgio Fagiolo, Lucia Tajoli International trade networks in space and time

17:30-17:40

Break

17:40-18:00

Frédèric Warzynski, Catherine Fuss The determinants of markups on export market: firm-product-market analysis

Filippo Vergara Caffarelli, Ines Buono Trade elasticity and production fragmentation

Caroline Dotter Compliance costs and trade preferences: the case of EU imports from African LDCs

Andrea Ciani Income inequality and imports’ quality

Mauro Caselli Trade, skill-biased technical change and wages in Mexican manufacturing

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe, Eckhard Janeba Trade and the Pol Econ of redistributive policies

Ali Haluk Erlat, Güzin Erlat Does the smooth adjustment hypothesis hold in the Turkish case?

18:00-18:20

Eddy Bekkers Decomposing welfare into the intensive and extensive margin under heterogeneity

Antoine Vatan Endogenous innovation and spillovers: a new proximity-concentration trade-off

Christian Volpe Martincus, Jerónimo Carballo, Ana Cusolito Routes, exports, and employment in developing countries

Peter Arendorf Bache Dynamic inter- and intra-industry adjustments to trade liberalization

Ron Davies, Rodolphe Desbordes Greenfield FDI and skill upgrading

Els Vanonckelen, Gerald Willmann Influence of lobbying on merger approval in a Cournot competition setting

Anne-Célia Disdier, John Beghin, Stephan Marette Trade restrictiveness index and domestic regulation: circumventing market failure

18:20-18:40

Ayse Ozgur Pehlivan, Quang H. Vuong Nonparametric identification and estimation of productivity distributions and trade costs

Filomena Pietrovito, Alberto Franco Pozzolo, Luca Salvatici Internationalization choices: a multinomial probit analysis

Bertin Martens, Geomina Turlea The drivers and impediments for online cross-border trade in goods in the EU

Sebastian Benz Who gains from offshoring in a dynamic product cycle model?

Benjamin Protte, Eckhard Janeba Economic integration in a risky environment: labor market participation and education decisions

Arslan Tariq Rana The Pol Econ of FDI flows into developing countries: does depth of international trade agreements matter?

Friday, 14 September 2012

09:00-10:40

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09:00-09:20

Karin Olofsdotter, Joakim Gullstrand Exporting markups

Paola Cardamone, Margherita Scoppola The industrial pattern of EU foreign direct investment, trade policies and third country effects

Martijn Adriaan Boermans, Hein Roelfsema Does venturing abroad drive the performance of microenterprises?

Pavel Chakraborty The Great Trade Collapse and Indian firms

Manuel Caldeira Cabral, Paula Veiga Benesch Trade diversification and sophistication and improvent in health outcomes

Gunes Gokmen Economic clash? The role of cultural cleavages in bilateral trade relations

Steven Bond-Smith Trade, integration and knowledge spillovers in a multi-industry growth model with innovation

09:20-09:40

Christian Lorenczik Intellectual property rights as determinants of FDI, technology spillovers and R&D in developing economies

Cristina Jude Horizontal and vertical technology spillovers from FDI in Eastern Europe

James H. Cassing Random SPS, TBT, and other standards: short-run factor specificity and the economics of encouraging uncertainty

Gerda Dewit, Dermot Leahy Strategic investment and the gains from trade

Roberto Bonfatti, Steven Poelhekke Transport costs and the trade diversion effect of natural resource discoveries

Ben Zissimos Revolution and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem

Alen Mulabdic Heterogeneous preferential trade agreements

09:40-10:00

Andrea Lamorgese, Antonio Accetturo, Matteo Bugamelli, Andrea Linarello Innovation and trade: evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Anders Laugesen, Peter Arendorf Bache Complementary activities, heterogeneous firms, and industry structure

Armando Nogueira Silva, Óscar Afonso Non-scale endogenous growth effects of subsidies for exporters

David R Collie, Vo Phuong, Mai Le Product differentiation, the volume of trade and profits under Cournot and Bertrand duopoly

Dario Fauceglia Credit market institutions and firm imports of capital and intermediate goods: evidence from developing countries

Konstantins Benkovskis, Julia Wörz Non-price competitiveness of exports from emerging countries

Lisandra Flach, Vinh Cao The effect of GATT/WTO on export and import price volatility

10:00-10:20

Silja Baller Does product quality matter for gains from trade?

Toshihiro Okubo, Richard E. Baldwin Networked FDI: sales and sourcing patterns of Japanese foreign affiliates

Daniel Horgos, Barbara Dluhosch Trading up the happiness ladder

Malik Curuk Trade, technology diffusion and misallocation: trade partner matters

Magdalena Słok-Wódkowska, Paweł Folfas Export from developing countries to the EU Member States under GSP+ scheme

Young-Han Kim When does coordination for free trade regimes fail?

Benedikt Heid, Mario Larch Gravity and unemployment

10:20-10:40

Cristian Ugarte, Maurizio Bussolo, Leonardo Iacovone Market access through the DR-CAFTA: new opportunities for Central American exporters?

Roger Bandick Offshoring and labor market outcomes

David Cheong, Xiaohong Sonnenschein Trade liberalization and employment in Indonesia: a CGE analysis

Monika Mrazova, J. Peter Neary Not so demanding: preference structure, firm behavior and welfare

Preeya S Mohan, Eric A. Strobl Natural disasters and agricultural exports: the case of hurricane strikes in the Caribbean

Camilo Umana Dajud Political proximity and international trade

Honorata Nyga Lukaszewska Love it or hate it – Is it possible to find equilibrium in natural gas trade? Study on the Polish-Russian natural gas trade

10:40-11:10

Coffee

11:10-12:50

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11:10-11:30

Ingo Geishecker, Philipp J.H. Schroeder, Allan Sørensen Unsolicited exports: some theory and stylized facts

Henning Mühlen Spillovers from FDI: what are the transmission channels?

Laura Rovegno, Andre Sapir, Hylke Vandenbussche Unveiling petitioners in antidumping cases

Justyna Supińska Impact of trade agreements on international trade. An example of East African community

Liesbeth Colen, Andrea Guariso What type of FDI is attracted by bilateral investment treaties?

Alireza Naghavi, Matteo Cervellati, Farid Toubal Liberalization, democratization and technology adoption

Jens Königer, Matthias Busse Trade and economic growth: a re-examination of the empirical evidence

11:30-11:50

Esther Ann Bøler, Andreas Moxnes, Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe Technological change, trade in intermediates and the joint impact on productivity

Artur Klimek Results of cross-border mergers and acquisitions by multinational enterprises from emerging countries

Lars Nilsson, Elwyn Davies Paper preferences? Get real! A comparative analysis of EU and US trade preferences for developing countries

Agelos Delis Technology, factor supplies and the demand side: testing a Heckscher–Ohlin model for the US

Vanessa Strauss-Kahn, Maria Bas Trade liberalization and export prices: the case of China

Julia Püschel Task dependence of US service offshoring patterns

Katharina Steiner, Christian Schitter, Maria Silgoner, Julia Wörz Fishing in the same pool: China’s and CESEE’s competitiveness at the EU-15 market

11:50-12:10

Julien Gourdon, Ana Margarida Fernandes, Olivier Cadot, Aaditya Mattoo Are export support programs effective? Evidence from Tunisia

Steve McCorriston, Nils Herger Disentangling horizontal and vertical FDI from cross-border acquisitions

Charlotte Emlinger, Houssein Guimbard Specific duties: friends or foes for developing exporters?

Banu Demir The globalisation and wages debate revisited: a new explanation for an old mystery

Torfinn Harding, Anthony J. Venables Natural resource exports and non-resource trade performance

Olga Pindyuk, Joseph Francois Recent EU enlargement: the evolution of services trade costs between EU Members

Aleksandra Parteka, Massimo Tamberi Imports diversification in the course of economic development: comparative study versus export diversification patterns

12:10-12:30

Claudio Vicarelli, Carmine Pappalardo Euro introduction and export behaviour of Italian firms

Anne Boring Offshore production and intra-industry trade of US pharmaceuticals

Olga Solleder Trade effects of export taxes

Danielken Molina Competition in air cargo

Pertti Haaparanta, Niina Niemi, Joni Valkila Fair trade and the world market for coffee

Jan Rose Skaksen, Jakob Roland Munch, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller International trade in services - an unexploited possibility for higher productivitiy?

Denise Penello Rial Study of average effects of NTM on trade imports

12:30-12:50

Ina Charlotte Jäkel Product quality and firm export status

Richard Kneller The internationalisation of R&D and the knowledge production function

Marco De Pinto An optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains

Maria Domenica Tito Welfare evaluation in an heterogenous agents model: how representative is the CES representative consumer?

Paillacar Rodrigo, Emmanuelle Auriol, Sara Biancini Intellectual property rights protection in developing countries

Mario Larch, Peter Egger Kevin Staub Trade preferences and bilateral trade in goods and services: a structural approach

Helen Simpson, Marius Brülhart Do governments tax agglomeration rents? Indirect evidence from regional grants in Great Britain

12:50-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:20

CHAIR JACQUEMIN PRIZE 2012, Room 00.14 MTC1 Chair: Joseph Francois Hylke Vandenbussche Presentation of prize for best paper on “Heterogeneous Firms and Trade Policy”

14:20-16:00

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14:20-14:40

Philip Sauré, Andreas Kropf Fixed costs per shipment

Martin Falk The locational attractiveness of the EU as a base for greenfield FDI into producer services

Alessandro Saia Estimating the Euro’s trade effects: a synthetic control approach

Marco Sanfilippo, Giorgia Giovannetti China’s competition and the export price strategies of developed countries – the case of Italy

Beáta Udvari The effects of the Aid for Trade on the trade between the recipient countries and the old and new EU Member States

Andrea Ariu Crisis-proof services: why trade in services did not suffer from the economic downturn

Peter Neary, Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, D.S. Prasada Rao Who shrunk China? Puzzles in the measurement of real GDP

14:40-15:00

Tobias Seidel, Peter Egger The competitive effects of credit constraints in the global economy

Laura Casi, Laura Resmini Foreign direct investment and growth: the role of regional territorial capital

Daniel Santabárbara, Gabor Pula Is China climbing up the quality ladder?

Elzbieta Czarny, Pawel Folfas, Katarzyna Sledziewska International trade in intermediate and final goods during the crisis

Monica Schuster, Miet Maertens Private food standards and firm-level trade effects: a dynamic analysis of the Peruvian asparagus export sector

Erik Van Der Marel, Sebastien Miroudot The economics and Pol Econ of going beyond the GATS

Giammario Impullitti, Ufuk Akcigit, Sina Ates International technology competition: the comeback of the United States during 1980s

15:00-15:20

Banri Ito, Ayumu Tanaka Open innovations, productivity and export: evidence from Japanese firms

Anna Maria Ferragina, Fernanda Mazzotta The impact of FDI on firms’ survival in Italy: evidence on horizontal and vertical spillovers

Federica Demaria, Sophie Drogue Protecting health or trade a dilemma for baby food

Sergey Kichko, Sergey Kokovin, Evgeny Zhelobodko Two-factor trade model with monopolistic competition

Tomasz Swiecki Trade, intersectoral distortions and structural change

Daniel Mirza, Francesco Magris, Guillaume Gaulier How business services produce their own barrier to trade: theory and firm level evidence

Amandine Dominique Aubry The effect of product diversity on the pattern of consumption

15:20-15:40

Oleksandr Shepotylo, Volodymyr Vakhitov Productivity and wages: the effect of services liberalization

Morten Sæthre, Ragnhild Balsvik The bargaining effect of FDI on wages

Erdal Yalcin, Marcel Henkel Incomplete contingent claims markets, industrial vulnerability and their implication for trade policy

Massimo Sbracia, Virginia Di Nino, Barry J. Eichengreen Real effects of exchange rates: a view from trade theory

Axel Mangelsdorf, Knut Blind The trade impact of ISO 9000 certifications and international cooperation in accreditation

Alessandro Barattieri, Ingo Borchert, Aadydia Mattoo The determinants of cross-border M&As in services: geography, policy, and inter-sectoral linkages

Eleanor Doyle, Gerard Brady, Lisa Noonan Trade sophistication indicators of development paths

15:40-16:00

Jürgen Kähler, Claudia Stirböck Trading structure and diversity of German firms in the light of EU enlargement: how do importers differ from exporters?

Churen Sun, Guoqiang Tian Firms’ organizational modes with productivity heterogeneity, demand uncertainty and production capacity

Benjamin Jung, Gabriel Felbermayr, Mario Larch Revisiting the gains from trade in new trade theory models

Arevik Mkrtchyan Tariff setting and international bargaining

Emmanuelle Lavallée, Julie Lochard Independence and trade: new evidence from French colonial data

Amelie Guillin, Matthew T. Cole The determinants of free trade agreements coverage: do you want services or not?

Philipp J.H. Schröder, Ingo Geishecker, Allan Sørensen Explaining the size differences of exporter productivity premia: theory and evidence

16:00-16:30

Coffee

16:30-18:10

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E2 - MTCA 00.56

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16:30-16:50

Hannes Kammerer (Export) subsidies for heterogeneous firms: endogenizing eligibility and lobbying

Pawel Folfas Does monetary integration affect FDI between EU member states?

Christophe Charlier, Sarah Guillou Export restrictions as a pro-environmental trade policy? An analysis of China–raw materials dispute

Laura Birg Parallel trade and launch delay

Caroline Paunov Imports, innovation and employment after crisis: evidence from a developing country

Hartmut Egger, Michael Koch The impact of trade on the organization of labor within firms

Swati Dhingra, John Morrow The impact of integration on productivity and welfare distortions under monopolistic competition

16:50-17:10

Marcella Nicolini, Carlo Altomonte, Dario Pellegrino The impact of Chinese imports on Italian firms’ price-cost margins: An empirical assessment

Armando Rungi, Carlo Altomonte Business groups as hierarchies of firms: institutional determinants and performance

Gianluca Orefice, Lionel Fontagné, Nadia Rocha, Roberta Pirmartini Product standards and margins of trade: firm level evidence

Ronald Jones On blending competitive trade models

Cem Tintin Does foreign direct investment spur economic growth and development? A comparative study

Angels Pelegrin, J. Garcia-Quevedo Foreign sourcing: vertical integration and Heterogeneity

Dany Jaimovich, Dick Kamuganga Trade at the extensive margin and civil wars in Africa

17:10-17:30

Andrea Pellandra, Dayna Zaclicever Imported inputs, technological spillovers and productivity: is there learning-by-importing? Firm-level evidence from Uruguay

Alexander Tarasov, Dalia Marin, Henrike Michaelis Trade in tasks and the organization of the firm

Martin Wermelinger, Dario Fauceglia, Anirudh Shingal Natural hedging of exchange rate risk: the role of imported input prices

Panos Hatzipanayotou, Michael S. Michael Pollution and reforms of domestic and trade taxes towards uniformity

Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D., Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Adriana Cardozo, Dierk Herzer, Stephan Klasen Does foreign aid promote recipient’s exports?

Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, Arjan Lejour, Paul Veenendaal Identifying hubs and spokes in global supply chains with redirected trade in value added

Daniela Strube A model of technology transfer and convergence with endogenous firm location

17:30-17:50

Liyun Zhang, Robert J Elliott, Nick Horsewood Heterogeneity and exporting: an empirical analysis for China

Stéphane Turolla, Karine Latouche, Carl Gaigné Vertical ownership and trade: firm-level evidence from France

Toni Glaser, Gerald Willmann Protecion as insurance: risk aversion, embargos and optimal trade policy

Tomasz Michalski, Brian Hill Ambiguity versus risk in international capital flows and international transactions

Noelia Camara, Dolores Gadea, Marcela Sabate The impact of vertical specialization on openness ratios: a barrier for empirical tasks

Carmen Fillat Castejón, Joseph F. Francois Hosts and guests: multinational activity in services

Matthew T. Cole, Carsten Eckel Tariffs passing through retailers

17:50-18:10

Steffen Sirries, Mario Larch, Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Dieter Urban Heterogeneous firms, globalization and the distance puzzle

Chiara Amini Property rights and FDI in resource rich countries

Liliana Foletti Sanitary and phytosanitary measures: health protection or protectionism?

Debasmita Basak, Arijit Mukherjee The effects of labour union on export market penetration

Anirudh Shingal Estimating market access in non-GPA countries: a suggested methodology

Verena Nowak, Christian Schwarz, Jens Suedekum On the organizational structure of multinational firms – which sourcing mode for which input?

Anna Maria Mayda, Rodney D. Ludema, Prachi Mishra Protection for free? The Political economy of U.S. tariff suspensions

18:10-18:15

Break

18:15-19:00

PLENARY SESSION 2, Room 00.10 MTC2 Chair: Joseph Francois Martin Richardson, Simon Wilkie Faddists, enthusiasts and Canadian divas: the supply response to local content requirements in broadcasting

20:00

Reception: de Universiteitshallen (Naamsestraat 22)

Saturday, 15 September 2012

09:00-10:40

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F2 - MTC3 00.15

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09:00-09:20

Aranzazu Crespo Trade, innovation and productivity

Kate Hynes Investing in public infrastructure and FDI

Pamela Bombarda, Elisa Gamberoni Trade and gender discrimination in entrepreneurship

Tobias Brändle, Andreas Koch Outsourcing potential, constraints to international trade, and wages

Philipp Moritz Richter, Udo Kreickemeier Trade and the environment: the role of Heterogeneity

Salvador Gil-Pareja, Rafael Llorca-Vivero, José A. Martínez-Serrano, Francisco Requena-Silvente Regional export promotion offices and trade margins

09:20-09:40

Lu Zhang, Jaap W. B. Bos Reallocation as a driver of the trade-specialization nexus: evidence from the EU

Jan Hogrefe, Irene Bertschek, Fabienne Rasel Internationalization and the ICT revolution: a firm-level perspective

Florian Johannsen The CFA Franc and the EMU: evidence on exogenous trade effects from a natural experiment

Roman Stöllinger, Robert Stehrer Trade in jobs: a counterfactual exercise

David R. DeRemer Fundamental trade agreement problems under monopolistic competition

Feride Doğaner Gonel, Nihal Tuncer Terragrossa, Oguzhan Akgun Environmental goods and trade performances (empirical analysis for OECD countries)

Jota Ishikawa, Toshihiro Okubo International licensing and rent-shifting

09:40-10:00

Vincent Vicard, Antoine Berthou, Jean-Charles Bricongne The growth and volatility of French exporters

Sebastian Krautheim, Thierry Verdier Globalization, trust goods and international civil society

Estrella Gómez, Cecilio Tamarit, Mariam Camarero Long-run evidence on EMU trade using gravity equations

Damiaan Persyn, Wouter Torfs A gravity equation for commuting flows

Inga Heiland, Gabriel Felbermayr, Erdal Yalcin Mitigating liquidity constraints: public export credit guarantees in Germany

Andrea M Leiter, Elisabeth Christen, Michael Pfaffermayr Effects of trade barriers on bilateral trade of potable water

Keiko Ito, Tomohiko Inui, Daisuke Miyakawa, Keishi Shoji Exporter dynamics and information spillovers through the main bank

10:00-10:20

Ayumu Tanaka Firm productivity and exporting in the wholesale sector: evidence from Japan

Jaewon Jung, Philipp Harms, Oliver Lorz Offshoring and agglomeration in a model with sequential production chains

Valeria Groppo, Roberta Piermartini Measuring trade policy uncertainty

Ignat Stepanok Creative destruction and unemployment in an open economy model

Lee Michael Pearson, Emma Aisbett Environmental and health protections, or new protectionism? determinants of SPS notifications by WTO members

Rahel Aichele An assessment of trade and leakage effects of climate policy initiatives

Magdalene Silberberger, Matthias Busse Foreign direct investment, trade openness and governance

10:20-10:40

Emanuele Forlani Firms' productivity and imported input

Elena Besedina Exporters versus domestically operating firms: corporate governance perspective

Katerina Gradeva Tariff evasion and the entrance into the European Union: evidence from the East European enlargement

Gabriel Felbermayr, Giammario Impulliti, Julien Prat Heterogeneity, directed search, and wage dispersion in the global economy

Yingting Yi, Johannes Van Biesebroeck The extensive margin of differentiated goods and trade liberalization: evidence from China

Svetlana Batrakova Does industry concentration matter for pollution haven effects?

Horst Raff, Michael Ryan, Frank Stähler Financial frictions and foreign direct investment: the role of bank health and collateral value

10:40-11:10

Coffee

11:10-12:50

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11:10-11:30

Per Botolf Maurseth, Hege Medin Market specific fixed and sunk export costs - learning and spillovers

Naoto Jinji, Xingyuan Zhang, Shoji Haruna Does Tobin’s q matter for firm choice of globalization mode?

Merima Balavac Determinants of export diversification at the export margins: reference to transition economies

Philipp Henze Structural change and income inequalitiy: evidence from German micro data

Mark Melatos, Elie Appelbaum How does uncertainty affect the choice of trade agreements?

Paola Conconi, Adeline Mertens, Maurizio Zanardi The greening effect of elections

Masashige Hamano, Pierre M. Picard Extensive and intensive margins and the choice of exchange rate regimes

11:30-11:50

Valentina Rollo Determinants of Tanzanian export prices

Anna Ray Manufacturing services and the new losers of globalization

Sergey Nigai, On measuring the welfare gains from trade under consumer heterogeneity

Ragnhild Balsvik, Stefanie A. Haller Acquisitions, labour turnover and wages

Jan Jakub Michalek, Andrzej Cieslik, Jerzy Mycielski Consequences of the euro adoption by Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries for their trade flows

Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso, Anca M. Voicu, Martina Vidovic On the effects of trade liberalization on the environment: are the CEECs pollution havens?

Toshihiro Ichida Strategic patent and trade secret policy to prevent unintended technological outflow in global economy

11:50-12:10

Jens Wrona, Hartmut Egger, Udo Kreickemeier Offshoring domestic jobs

Philipp Harms, Pierre-Guillaume Méon Good and bad FDI: the growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries

Pierluigi Montalbano, Emiliano Magrini, Silvia Nenci The EU preferential trade policy towards the Southern Mediterranean Countries: an impact evaluation

Damoun Ashournia, Jakob Roland Munch, Daniel Nguyen The impact of Chinese import penetration on Danish firms and workers

Jennifer Pédussel Wu New kid on the block: the China, Japan, and South Korea FTA

Lisa Anouliès The border tax adjustment: an effective compliance mechanism

Pierre-Louis Vezina, Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarreaga, Simon Schropp There goes gravity: how eBay reduces trade costs

12:10-12:30

Zuzanna Studnicka, Filip Abraham, Jan Van Hove Evidence and determinants of the duration of European exports: a comparative study and impact of the crisis

Luca Marcolin Global firms and wage premia

Christian Gormsen, Mariola Pytlikova Diasporas and Foreign Direct Investments

Ioannis Bournakis Exports, technology and endowments: the puzzle of specialisation revisited

Chrysostomos Tabakis, Costas Hadjiyiannis, Maria S. Heracleous Regionalism and conflict: peace creation and peace diversion

Christian Bogmans Can globalization outweigh free-riding?

Andreas Hoefele, Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Zhihong Yu Payment choice and international trade: theory and evidence from cross-country firm level data

12:30-12:50

Marcel van den Berg Imports, productivity and Heterogeneity: do origin markets and factor intensity matter?

Yoke Fong Kong, Richard Kneller Measuring the impact of China's exports growth on its Asian neighbours

Evmorfia Makantasi, Konstantine Gatsios Product Differentiation and the MFN clause

Stefano Filomeni, Alessia Lo Turco European and Latin American emerging markets and Chinese competition: an empirical analysis of the manufacturing labour demand

Juyoung Cheong, Do Won Kwak, Kam Ki Tang Can preferential trade agreements curtail trade creation and prevent trade diversion?

Kenzo Abe, Keisuke Hattori, Yoshitaka Kawagoshi Environmental regulations on international transportation

John Feddersen Pollution havens in space: it’s not easy bein’ green, but it helps if your neighbours are

12:50-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:20

WTO World Trade Report, Room 00.14 MTC1 Chair: Maurizio Zanardi Michele Ruta

14:20-16:00

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14:20-14:40

Lukas Mohler, Ulf Lewrick, Rolf Weder Do firms or industries matter for productivity growth? An analysis of Swiss manufacturing

Pascalis Raimondos-Møller, David Dreyer Lassen, Søren Bo Nielsen Cross subsidization in MNEs and taxes

Ruth Hoekstra Trade facilitation and exports: Evidence from African firms

Stijn Vanormelingen, Carmine Ornaghi, Ilke Van Beveren The impact of service and goods offshoring on employment: firm level evidence

Karen Jackson, Wenyu Zang Estimating tourism: can the role of regional integration really be ignored?

Catarina Marvão The anti-dumping instrument: time for reform? Empirical evidence for the EU

Pınar Narin Emirhan, Is Turkey’s increasing exports overvalued?

14:40-15:00

Udo Kreickemeier, Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger Trade, wages, and profits

Mahmut Tekce, Sevil Acar, Bilge Eris The effect of foreign direct investment on domestic investment: evidence from MENA countries

Maria Persson, Fredrik Wilhelmsson EU trade preferences and export diversification

Joel Hellier North-South globalization and inequality

Pramila Crivelli Regionalism and falling external protection in high and low tariff members

Jørgen Ulff-Møller Nielsen, Jørgen Drud Hansen, Philipp Meinen Elasticity of substitution and anti-dumping decisions

Miriam Manchin, Eddy Bekkers, Joseph Francois Prices of traded intermediates and importer characteristics

15:00-15:20

Michele Imbruno, Fabrice Defever , Richard Kneller Trade liberalization, firm productivity and the role of trade intermediaries: evidence from China

Silvia Adriana Peluffo Foreign direct investment, productivity and wages: an analysis for Uruguay

Annette Dorothee Schminke, Jo Van Biesebroeck Smoothing out the bumpy road to export success: evaluating export promotion activities

Hans-Jörg Schmerer, Andreas Hauptmann, Daniel Etzel Wage moderation and the German export miracle: an international comparison

Veronika Movchan, Volodymyr Shportyuk EU-Ukraine DCFTA: model for EaP regional trade cooperation

Tibor Besedes, Thomas J. Prusa Antidumping and the death of trade

Patryk Toporowski Intra-industry trade: does the transport infrastructure matters in the Central Europe?

15:20-15:40

Aminata Sissoko R&D subsidies and firm-level exports: evidence from France

Michael Johannes Irlacher, Carsten Eckel Multi-product offshoring

Alejandro Riaño, Fabrice Defever Pure exporter subsidies: the non-reform of China’s trade policy

Saime S Kayam Wage-setting in a dual labour market with currency union: the case of Northern Cyprus

Lorenzo Rotunno Political stability and trade agreements

Maurizio Zanardi, Andreea C. Nita The first review of EU antidumping reviews

Povilas Lastauskas Structural dynamic trade gravity in a global VAR

15:40-16:00

Frank Stähler, Ngo Van Long International competition with nonlinear pricing

Cagatay Bircan Optimal degree of foreign ownership under uncertainty

Julie Lochard, Emmanuelle Lavallée Independence and trade: the specific effects of French colonialism

Nihal Yildirim Mizrak The challenging path from the 2001-financial crisis to sustainable growth, and its labour market impact in Turkey

Andreas Lendle, Alexander Keck New evidence on preference utilization

Meredith Crowley, Chad P. Bown Import protection, business cycles and exchange rates: evidence from the Great Recession

Franziska Biermann Analysis of bilateral container transport flows

16:00-16:30

Coffee

16:30-18:10

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16:30-16:50

Federico Trionfetti, Matthieu Crozet Firm-level comparative advantage

Holger Breinlich Cross-border price effects of mergers and acquisitions: a quantitative framework for competition policy

Fuat Erdal, Oner Guncavdi, Saime Kayam Is there room for manoeuvre? Impact of exchange rate on Turkish exports

Irene N. Selwaness, Chahir R. Zaki Assessing the Impact of trade reforms on informality in Egypt

Manuel J Garcia-Santana Foreign ownership, financial frictions, and the size distribution of plants

Christian Viegelahn Antidumping policy and importers: evidence from India

Volker Nitsch Cutting the credit line: evidence from Germany

16:50-17:10

Angela Cheptea, Charlotte Emlinger, Karine Latouche The overseas expansion of a country’s retailers and export performance

Dimitra Petropoulou, Xavier Cirera, Dirk Willenbockel Export processing and international outsourcing: evidence on the determinants of outward processing exports to the EU

Andżelika Kuźnar Intangibles in economies and international trade

Elizabeth Jane Casabianca The impact of trade liberalization on the gender wage gap: the case of Peru 2004-2010

Calin Vlad Demian Welfare gains from EU enlargement: a trade perspective

Timothée John Picarello, Timothée Picarello, Dan Ciuriak, Derk Bienen Untangling the tangled web: trade remedies, insurance policies and “grey area” measures

Iulia Monica Oehler-Sincai Trends of the trade flows in goods between the EU and the BRIC countries

17:10-17:30

Arjan Lejour, Roger Smeets Decomposing firm-product-market relations: an analysis of Dutch exports

Bohdan Kukharskyy, Michael Pflüger Global sourcing, quality of institutions, and the make-or-buy decision

Amanda Jakobsson, Paul S. Segerstrom In support of the TRIPs Agreement

Eric Toulemonde, Jacques Thisse Trade under monopsonistic competition

Anna Maria Pinna, Luca De Benedictis Measures of physical geography and the gravity equation

Christian Soegaard An oligopolistic theory of regional trade agreement

Ewa Minska-Struzik, Justyna Majewska In search of the relationship between international tourism and manufacturing trade: evidence from Poland

17:30-17:50

Philipp Meinen Productivity and exporting dynamics in the face of trade liberalization

Julien Martin, Farid Toubal, Joern Kleinert The few leading the many: foreign affiliates and business cycle co-movement

Michael Henry Trade liberalisation, infrastructure provision and innovation: firm level evidence from India

Sarra Ben Yahmed Gender wage gaps across skills and trade openness

Albert De Vaal, Cornelis W. Haasnoot Heterogeneous firms and cluster productivity: a neglected externality through survival of the weakest

Roberta De Santis Trade, FDI, growth and biodiversity: an empirical analysis for the main OECD countries

Jonathan Timmis Internet adoption and international trade

17:50-17:55

Break

17:55-18:40

PLENARY SESSION 3, Room 00.10 MTC2 Chair: Maurizio Zanardi Winner of the WTO Prize for Best Paper

Notes: Name of paper presenter appears first.

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

All sessions take place in Maria Theresia College (MTC), Sint-Michielsstraat 6, 3000 Leuven.

Times of presentations are subject to change up until the conference itself. Check the time of your presentation on arrival at the conference.

THIS VERSION: September 13, 2012.