ETSG 2013 Birmingham Fifteenth Annual Conference 12-14 September 2013 University of Birmingham

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Parallel Session 1 Room G03

Parallel Session 2 Room G05

Parallel Session 3 Room G06

Parallel Session 4 Room G07

Parallel Session 5 Room 108

Parallel Session 6 Room 110

Parallel Session 7 Room 111

Thursday, 12 September 2013

13:00-16:00

REGISTRATION, Concourse of University House, Birmingham Business School

13:45-14:00

Conference opening, Vaughn Jefferies Lecture Theatre Opening remarks by Rob Elliott Welcome by Cillian Ryan

14:00-14:45

PLENARY SESSION 1, Vaughn Jefferies Lecture Theatre Chair: Ian Wooton Winner of the WTO Prize for Best Paper

14:45-14:50

Conference briefing, Vaughn Jefferies Lecture Theatre Ian Wooton

14:50-15:20

Coffee

15:20-17:00

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A7

15:20-15:40

Laura Marquez-Ramos, Luis Marcelo Florensa, María Luisa Recalde Is the effect of economic integration on trade margins time sensitive? Sectoral evidence from Latin America

Giuseppe De Feo, Oscar Amerighi Competition for FDI and benefits from tax discrimination

Nikolaos Vlassis Tariff reforms in the presence of pollution

Per Botolf Maurseth Regional convergence and divergence in Europe: patterns and regularities

Lars Nilsson Global value chains at tariff line level

Francisco Requena, Asier Minondo-Uribe, Juan De Lucio, Raúl Minguez The dynamics of Mexican firms’ export portfolio: a network analysis

Benedikt Heid Trade liberalization, unemployment, and the informal sector

15:40-16:00

Karin Olofsdotter, Joakim Gullstrand The EMU effect on bystanders

Ben Ferrett, Ian Wooton Fiscal competition for FDI when bidding is costly

Panos Hatzipanayotou, Michael S. Michael Optimum consumption taxes in countries with cross-border pollution

Ioannis Bournakis, Marina Papanastasiou, Chris Pitelis Regional convergence in the UK: the role of MNCs versus domestic firms

Jan Hagemejer, Katarzyna Śledziewska The potential effects of the EU-Japan FTA: the Polish perspective

Yasin Uzun, Selman Tokpunar Disaggregated import demand function for Turkey: sectoral analysis

Fredrik Heyman, Carl Davidson, Steven Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm, Susan Chun Zhu Globalization and organization of the firm

16:00-16:20

Chris Jones, Yama Temouri FDI in tax havens: do corporate tax rates matter

Dermot Leahy, Gerda Dewit, Kate Hynes Strategic government behaviour and FDI with international spillovers from public infrastructure

Kozo Kiyota, Makoto Hasegawa The effect of moving to a territorial tax system on profit repatriations: evidence from Japan

Fan Yang, Eddy Bekkers, Martina Brockmeier, Joseph Francois Food and agricultural price volatility on the world market and its transmission to domestic markets

Aneta Mach, Mahdi Ghodsi, Jan Hagemejer Services trade liberalization in the transport sector

Liyun Zhang, Robert Elliott, Liza Jabbour Firm productivity and importing: evidence from Chinese manufacturing

Sotiris Blanas, Ilke Van Beveren, Hylke Vandenbussche Offshoring and the age-skill composition of labour demand

16:20-16:40

Luca Marcolin, Ilke Van Beveren, Jozef Konings International rent sharing and takeovers

Liliana Foletti, Anirudh Shingal The trade effects of MRL harmonization in the EU

Anna Andersson Private standards and imports: firm-level evidence from Sweden

Rahel Aichele, Gabriel Felbermayr, Inga Heiland Trade and free trade agreement formation revisited: a trade in value added perspective

Feride Gonel, Nihal Tuncer Terregrossa, Tuna Dinc The effect of international standards on Turkish export flows to the EU countries

Andreas Lendle An anatomy of online trade: evidence from eBay exporters

16:40-17:00

Nazire Nergiz Dinçer, Ayça Tekin-Koru Services trade in Turkey: a firm-level analysis

Saara Tamminen, Marcel Van Den Berg Does exporting affect profitability? Evidence from firms of different size categories

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli, Mariola Pytlikova, Davide Sala Ethnic diversity and firm’s export behavior

Ilaria Espa The “rhetoric” of proliferation of mineral export restraints and WTO under-regulation: testing the adequacy of WTO disciplines

Stanislaw Uminski, Tomasz Brodzicki International trade relations of enterprises established in Poland's regions: gravity panel model estimation

Joschka Wanner, Mario Larch An investigation of the effects of carbon tariffs in a two-sector gravity model

17:00-17:20

Break

17:20-19:00

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17:20-17:40

Ian Wooton, Julia Darby, Ben Ferrett FDI, trade costs and regional asymmetries

Enrico Marvasi, Giorgia Giovannetti, Marco Sanfilippo From local to global: the role of supply chains in firms’ productivity

Erkan Gören Economic effects of domestic and neighbouring countries’ cultural diversity

Güzin Bayar, Metehan Ünal, Selman Tokpunar Determinants of Turkish exports to European Union countries: a sectoral panel data analysis

Pamela Bombarda, Elisa Gamberoni Occupational choice, gender discrimination, and trade liberalization

Xiaoyu Tian, Robert Elliott The Argentinean connection: sequential exporting in the EU

Inma Martinez-Zarzoso, Sami Bensassi Northern sea-route: what effects on trade?

17:40-18:00

Kyoko Hirose, Kazuhiro Yamamoto Asymmetric international transport costs and tax competition: the influence of a third country

David Córcoles, Maria C. Cuerva, Angela Triguero Product innovation versus process innovation: the role of learning by exporting in the persistence of innovation

Ying Zhou, Jun Du Best of both worlds: an aggregate productivity growth decomposition of Chinese firms in 1998-2007

Ferda Karagöz Özenç, Yasin Barış Altaylıgil Determinants of international fragmentation of production in Turkey

Shiwei Hu, Charles Van Marrewijk An empirical analysis of the Africa-China trade puzzle: the role of China's trade policies

Veronika Movchan, Volodymyr Shportyuk Distributional effects of the EU-Ukraine DCFTA: a CGE household micro-simulation model

Simon Neumüller Intermediaries, quality screening and export channel switching

18:00-18:20

Florian Johannsen, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso Exchange rate policy and trade: firms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Rodolphe Desbordes, Shang-Jin Wei Foreign direct investment, financial development and the 2007-2010 global financial crisis

Gaaitzen De Vries, Marcel Timmer Productivity and convergence in developing countries: the role of imported inputs

Omer Gokcekus, Yui Suzuki Mixing Washington Consensus with Beijing Consensus and corruption in Africa

Robert Grundke, Christoph Moser Developing countries and the costs of regulation in international trade: the role of product standards

Andrea Lassmann, Peter H. Egger, Katharina Erhardt On the role of productivity and R&R for exporting: semiparametric evidence from French firm-level data

Stefano Antonio Bolatto Trade across sectors and countries in a Ricardian world

18:20-18:40

T. Huw Edwards, Arman Mazhikeyev Post-Soviet trade flows and costs: Central Asia

Alejandro Riaño, Sourafel Girma, Sandra Lancheros Global engagement and returns volatility

Toshihiro Ichida Imitation versus innovation costs: patent policies under common patent length

Maria Persson, Karin Olofsdotter Trade facilitation and foreign direct investment

Tommaso Aquilante, Carlo Altomonte, Gábor Békés,Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Claudia Steinwender Information frictions and the law of one price: when the States and the Kingdom became United

Thomas Allen Analysing the role of interactions in the market for policy: with an application to trade

18:40-19:00

Jianan Li, Daniel M. Bernhofen, Markus Eberhardt, Stephen Morgan Market integration and disintegration in Qing Dynasty China: evidence from time-series and panel time-series methods

Tadashi Ito Did the LDC countries benefit from duty-free quota-free access to the Japanese market?

Federica Demaria, Maria Cipollina, Filomena Pietrovito Trade policies: a booster dose for innovation!

Cagatay Bircan Foreign direct investment and wages: does the level of ownership matter?

Anne-Celia Disdier, Charlotte Emlinger, Lionel Fontagné Does tariff liberalization enhance trade? Evidence from agriculture in developing countries

Elzbieta Czarny Impact of membership in regional trade agreements on international trade

Michele Bernini, Sarah Guillou, Flora Bellone Firms’ leverage and export quality: evidence from France

19:00

Birmingham Business School traditional British barbeque (come rain or shine). Location: Marquee University House.

Friday, 13 September 2013
09:20-10:40	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7
09:20-09:40	Maite Alguacil, Josep Martí, Vicente Orts Where do foreign affiliates of Spanish MNFs locate in developing and transition economies?	Harald Fadinger, Alejandro Cunat Reallocation effects of undervaluation	Kiyoshi Matsubara Trading company and indirect exports	Toni Glaser, Gerald Willmann, Peter Debaere Protection as insurance: risk aversion, terms of trade uncertainty and optimal trade policy	Pierluigi Montalbano, Emiliano Magrini, Pierluigi Montalbano, Silvia Nenci, Luca Salvatici Agricultural trade distortions during recent international price spikes: what implications for food security?	Volker Nitsch Internal conflict and external trade: evidence from Kenya	Christian Volpe Martincus, Jerónimo Carballo, Alejandro Graziano Customs as doorkeepers: what are their effects on international trade?
09:40-10:00	Paweł Folfas Bivariate causality analysis between FDI inflows and real GDP growth in developed economies	Yuchen Shao, Keith Maskus Quality ladders and endogenous growth with multiple inputs	Hiroshi Mukunoki Market access and technology adoption in the presence of FDI	Richard Kneller, Daniel Bernhofen, Zouheir El-Sahli Containerization and the extensive margin of trade	Pramila Crivelli Regionalism and external protection: preferences received matter	Arevik Mkrtchyan, Hinnerk Gnutzmann Mutual protectionism: evidence from Eurasian Customs Union	Zhihong Yu, Kalina Manova Firms and credit constraints along the global value chain: processing trade in China
10:00-10:20	Torfinn Harding, James Cust Institutions and the distribution of oil	Bo Gao Multi-product firms, export-only products and extensive margin of export	Andreas Hoefele, Ben Ferrett, Ian Wooton Dynamic tax competition	Dennis Pohl, Isadora Kirchmaier, Andreas Lindenblatt The political economy of anti-dumping	Magdalena Slok-Wodkowska, Elzbieta Czarny How national treatment in the EU Economic Agreements influences international trade	Lucia Tajoli, Giulia Felice External imbalances in the Euro area and International fragmentation of production: is there a link?	Andrea Ariu, Holger Breinlich, Giordano Mion Trade liberalization and the interconnections between services and goods trade at firm-level
10:20-10:40		Fabrice Defever, Alejandro Riano China's pure exporter subsidies	Jeronimo Carballo Global sourcing under uncertainty	Emanuel Ornelas, Fabrice Defever Trade liberalization and third-market effects	Marion Dovis, Patricia Augier, Olivier Cadot NTM harmonization, productivity and profits in Morocco	Güzin Emel Akkuş The effects of trade and productivity on employment in the manufacturing industry of Turkey	Anirudh Shingal, Peter Egger Determinants of services trade agreements
10:40-11:10	Coffee
11:10-12:50	D1	D2	D3	D4	D5	D6	D7
11:10-11:30	Cristina Jude, Gregory Levieuge Growth effect of FDI in developing economies: the role of institutional quality	Meredith Allison Crowley, Miaojie Yu Market-specific cost shocks and firm export behavior	Mariya Mihaylova Mileva, Wolfgang Lechthaler Two-country dynamic model of trade with heterogeneous firms and comparative advantage	Patrick Tomberger, Octavio Frenandez-Amador, Joseph Francois Trade, carbon flows, and the evolution of carbon intensity	David R. DeRemer Agreements and disputes over non-tariff measures	Marina Murat Education ties and investments abroad: empirical evidence from the US and UK	Yingting Yi The WTO trade effect and political uncertainty: evidence from Chinese exports
11:30-11:50	Octavio Escobar, Rafael Cezar FDI and institutional distance	Mark Melatos, Elie Appelbaum Camouflaged trade agreements	Davide Suverato Export and the labor market: a dynamic model with on-the-job search	Tobias Brändle What drives offshoring potential in Germany? Evidence from linked-employer-employee data	Suparna Karmakar Political economy of Indian trade negotiations: economic significance of FTAs	Olga Pindyuk, Neil Foster-McGregor Do migrants foster services trade?	Carmen Diaz-Mora, David Corcoles, Rosario Gandoy Product sophistication: a tie that binds partners in international production sharing
11:50-12:10	Artur Klimek Institutions and outward foreign direct investment	Tibor Besedes, Voker Nitsch Trade integration and the fragility of trade relationships	Bruno Merlevede, Bernhard Michel Offshoring and firm-level employment: evidence for Belgian manufacturing firms	Joseph F. Francois, Hugo Rojas-Romagosa, Ana-Maria Vasilache-Freudenthaler Melting ice caps and the economic impact of the Northern Sea shipping lanes	Marie-Agnès Jouanjean Is fresh fruits and vegetables market access for sale in the US? The ins and outs of US FF&V market access regulation	Steffen Sirries, Mario Larch International trade and migration: a quantitative framework	Esther Ann Bøler, Beata Javorcik, Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe Globalization and gender wage gap
12:10-12:30	John P. Weche Gelübcke Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: comparative evidence on post-acquisition target performance	Frank Stähler, Martin Richardson International trade in the presence of green consumers	Roger Bandick Offshoring, productivity and export performance	Honorata Nyga Lukaszewska “Don't put all eggs into one basket” strategy in international trade in energy: security of energy supply in international trade	Christian Soegaard An oligopolistic theory of regional trade agreements	Loriane Py, Lionel Fontagné The determinants of foreign direct investment by Chinese enterprises in the European Union	Kiyoyasu Tanaka Firm heterogeneity and FDI in distribution services
12:30-12:50	Na Yang Reverse technology spillover effect and investment strategies of Chinese OFDI: the role of ownership structure	Evmorfia Makantasi, Konstantine Gatsios Harmony and disagreement in customs unions: the role of demand	Pär Hansson, Kent Eliasson Are workers more vulnerable in tradable industries?	Nikos Tsakiris, Panos Hatzipanayotou, Michael S. Michael. Which emissions control policies under regional capital mobility and public abatement?	Alberto Osnago, Nadia Rocha, Michele Ruta Deep agreements and the internationalization of production	Peter Eppinger, Marcel Smolka Global sourcing under credit constraints	Ayça Tekin-Koru, Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Andreas Waldkirch Multinational Firms and Plant Divestiture
12:50-13:50	Lunch
13:50-15:30	E1	E2	E3	E4	E5	E6	E7
13:50-14:10	Anna Maria Falzoni, Kinzica Laura Soldano Migration and inequality: evidence from Eastern European countries	Olga Timoshenko Product switching in a model of learning	Tanja Engelbert, Martina Brockmeier, Joseph Francois The role of agriculture in the EU-US Free Trade Agreement: empirical evidence based on a joint econometric-CGE modeling approach	Shon Ferguson, Rikard Forslid Do embassies promote exports?	Giovanni Anania Agricultural export restrictions and the WTO: what are the options?	Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall, Fredrik Heyman The dynamics of offshoring and institutions	Jan Hogrefe, Jens Wrona Trade, tasks, and training: the effect of offshoring on individual skill upgrading
14:10-14:30	Benjamin Elsner, Costanza Biavaschi Is migrant self-selection really important?	Antonio Navas, Francesco Serti, Chiara Tomasi Intermediate inputs and the export gravity equation	Matthijs De Zwaan, Bruno Merlevede Regional policy and firm productivity	Mark Sanctuary, Shon Ferguson How does the price of electricity affect imports? A study of Swedish manufacturing firms	Ron Davies, Matthew T. Cole Foreign bidders going once, going twice…: government procurement auctions with tariffs	Natalie Chen, Luciana Juvenal Quality and exchange rate pass-through: firm-level evidence for Argentinean wine	Laura Hering, Sandra Poncet Environmental policy and exports: evidence from Chinese cities
14:30-14:50	Michal Andrzej Szwabe, Bozena Leven Reasons for Polish migration to the United States and the United Kingdom after 1990: implications for the immigration policy	Silja Baller Product quality and market size	Ferda Halicioglu, Kasim Eren Testing twin deficits and saving-investment nexus in Turkey	Anders Laugesen, Peter A. Bache Monotone comparative statics under monopolistic competition	Christian Viegelahn, Hylke Vandenbussche Trade protection and input switching: firm-level evidence from Indian importers	Jerome Hericourt, Clément Nedoncelle Macroeconomic volatility and trade: empirical evidence from French firm-level data	Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann, Inma Martínez-Zarzoso, Stephan Klasen, Florian Johannsen Does German development aid promote German exports and German employment?
14:50-15:10	Sergey Kichko, Evgeny Zhelobodko Core-periphery model: does perfect competition matter?	Jonathan Timmis Internet adoption and the use of intermediaries in international trade	Qi Zhang The Balassa-Samuelson relationship: a micro-analysis	Fabienne Rasel Offshoring and ICT: evidence for German manufacturing and service firms	Roman Stöllinger, Roman Stöllinger, Mario Holzner State aid and export competitiveness in the European Union	Banu Demir, Tomasz Kamil Michalski, Evren Ors Changes in capital requirements for commercial letters of credit and international trade: evidence from Basel II implementation	Margherita Scoppola, Valentina Raimondi, Alessandro Olper Margins of trade and preferences: the impact of EU trade preferences on intensive and extensive product margins
15:10-15:30	Holger Görg, Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Sandra Lancheros Treatment effects evaluation with externalities: estimating the direct and indirect causal effects of FDI	Marius Brülhart, Arnaud Joye Intra-industry trade expansion and worker flows	Julia Wörz, Konstantins Benkovskis What drives the market share changes? Price versus non-price factors	Tomohiro Ara Institutions as a source of comparative advantage	Pierre-Louis Vézina, Lorenzo Rotunno Inbond diversion	Natalya Volchkova, Natalia Kapelko Export costs of visa restrictions: evidence from Russia	Johannes Boehm Contract enforcement costs, productivity, and industry structure across countries
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-17:40	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	F7
16:00-16:20	Karolien Lenaerts, Bruno Merlevede Firm heterogeneity and spillovers from FDI	Michele Imbruno Firm efficiency and input market integration: trade versus FDI	Verena Nowak Organizational decisions in multi-stage production processes	Loe Franssen The effect of offshoring on inequality in developing countries	Roberto Bonfatti, Kevin O'Rourke Import dependence and war	Letizia Montinari, Stefano Schiavo, Massimo Riccaboni Innovation and the size of exporting firms	Kwok Tong Soo Intra-industry trade: a Krugman-Ricardo model and data
16:20-16:40	Wenjie Chen, Dazhong Cheng State ownership and outward foreign direct investment: the case of Chinese SOEs' overseas expansion	Lisandra Flach, Eckhard Janeba Income inequality and export prices across countries	Cecília Hornok, László Halpern, Miklós Koren, Adam Szeidl Technology transfer through capital imports: firm-level evidence	Sanjay Jain, Sumon Majumdar, Sharun Mukand Workers without borders? Culture and the political economy of temporary versus permanent immigration	Yan Ma, Eric W. Bond Learning by doing and fragmentation	Merima Balavac Output volatility and trade openness revisited: the role of export diversification and institutions	Jean-Marc Siroen Core labour standards, bilateral relations and international trade
16:40-17:00	Peter Neary, Monika Mrázová Demand curvature, comparative statics, and welfare	Tamara De La Mata Does trade creation by social and business networks hold in services?	Eugenia Shevtsova International trade and productivity: does destination matter?	Martin Gassebner, Peter Egger International terrorism as a trade impediment?	Robert Frank Owen, Partha Gangopadhyay Irreversibility, news and the dynamics of international technological competition	Sinead Kelleher, Kate Hynes An investigation into the impact of public infrastructure on export decisions: a firm level analysis	Marcel Smolka Does immigration attract foreign capital? Evidence from Spain
17:00-17:20	Kate Hynes Competing for foreign direct investment: taxes and investments in public infrastructure	Allan Sørensen, Ingo Geishecker, Philipp J. H. Schröder Unsolicited exports: some theory and stylized facts	Toshiyuki Matsuura, Kazunobu Hayakawa Heterogeneous impact of trade liberalization on vertical FDI: evidence from Japanese firm-level data	Glenn Magerman, Karolien De Bruyne, Jan Van Hove Multilateral gravity: a network approach	Marina-Eliza Spaliara, Holger Görg Financial pressure and exit from the export market	Gabriel Smagghue, Paul Piveteau Competition on export markets and quality upgrading: evidence from French firms	Kazutaka Takechi, Kazuko Kano, Takechi Kano The price of distance: producer heterogeneity, pricing to market, and geographic barriers
17:20-17:40	Céline Azemar, Rodolphe Desbordes, Ian Wooton Testing tax competition	Yushi Yoshida, Kyoko Hirose Intra-national regional heterogeneity in international trade: simultaneous estimation of exports and production of home regions	Victoria Purice, Bruno Merlevede Does it take time to travel distance? Geography, entry timing and knowledge spillovers	Patryk Emanuel Toporowski The steps of Visegrad countries towards better integration within the EU: a case of intra-industry trade	Fariha Kamal, Asha Sundaram Buyer-seller relationships in international trade: do your neighbors matter?	Andres Zahler, Leonardo Iacovone, Aaditya Mattoo Trade and innovation in services: evidence from a developing economy	Agelos Delis Factor content of trade and intermediate inputs
17:40-18:00	Break
18:00	Bus leaves University House for ICC, Birmingham city centre
18:30-21:00	PLENARY SESSION 2, ICC Chair: Robert Elliott Roundtable on FDI site selection with Drinks Reception

Saturday, 14 September 2013

09:20-10:40

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09:20-09:40

Inga Heiland, Erdal Yalcin Export market risk and the role public credit insurance

Jan Guldager Jorgensen, Philipp J. H. Schröder Unilateral standards vs mutual recognition: some pitfalls for the harmonization of product standards under imperfect competition

Amélie Guillin Fragmentation and export performances: the case of French firms

Zuzanna Studnicka, Filip Abraham, Jan Van Hove The duration of exports: evidence from Belgian firms

Liviu Stirbat, Richard Record, Konesawang Nghardsaysone The experience of survival: determinants of export survival in Lao PDR

Mélise Jaud, Florian Le Bris, Anne-Célia Disdier Linking firms’ intermediate input imports and export performances

09:40-10:00

Clément Nedoncelle Regional integration, trade costs and current accounts

Helene Ehrhart, Antoine Berthou Colonial trade spillovers

Lucia Pérez-Villar, A. Seric Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of institutional distance

Raymond Riezman, Shin-Kun Peng, Ping Wang Intermediate goods trade, technology choice and productivity

Adina Ardelean, Volodymyr Lugovskyy Trade liberalization and quality upgrading: evidence from the US consumer expenditure data

Andrea Éltető, Patryk Toporowski Effects of the international crisis: development of four Central European countries’ trade with Asia

10:00-10:20

Jan Van Hove, Makram El-Shagi Capital controls and international trade

Greg Wright, Holger Breinlich, Anson Soderbery From selling goods to selling expertise: investigating a new channel of firm response to import competition

Stijn Vanormelingen, Carmine Ornaghi, Ilke Van Beveren Offshoring and labor demand: evidence from Belgian firm level data

Benedikt Rydzek Trade effects of income inequality within and between countries

Antoine Vatan, Vincent Boitier Why do homogeneous firms export differently? A density externality approach of trade

Ayumu Tanaka Geographic concentration of foreign visitors in Japan

Andrea Ciani, Francesca Bartoli Export, quality and credit constraints: a firm level study

10:20-10:40

James R. Markusen Per-capita income as a determinant of international trade and environmental policies

Philipp J. H. Schröder, Sanne Hiller, Allan Sørensen Export market exit and firm survival: theory and first evidence

Zouheir El-Sahli, Richard Upward The long-run labour market effects of technological change: what happened to the labour markets when ports containerised?

Thomas Sampson Dynamic selection and the new gains from trade with heterogeneous firms

Albert De Vaal, Eefje De Gelder, Paul Driessen Competition in fairness and the consequences of mainstreaming Fairtrade

Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Olivier Cadot, Mélise Jaud, Madina Kukenova Export pattern in developing countries: hits and diversification

Dario Fauceglia Financing constraints and foreign technology upgrading: firm-level evidence from low- and middle income countries

10:40-11:10

Coffee

11:10-12:50

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11:10-11:30

Yu Ri Kim The effect of Aid for Trade on export diversification of the recipient countries

Ourania Karakosta The effects of tax competition on environmental product quality and welfare in vertically differentiated market

Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Matteo Salto Monopolistic competition and optimum product selection: why and how heterogeneity matters

Marion Jansen, Matteo Fiorini, Viktor Kummritz, Weisi Xie Trade and the extent of structural change

Matthew T. Cole, Benjamin Zissimos Trade agreements with heterogeneous firms

Janez Kren, Jan Van Hove Dynamics in European trade patterns after the crisis

Başak Dalgıç, Burcu Fazlıoğlu, Michael Gasiorek Firm heterogeneity and international trade: evidence from Turkey

11:30-11:50

Laura Birg Cross-border shopping, and tax competition

Fabio Antoniou, Efthymia Kyriakopoulou Tradable permits and ecological dumping in the presence of multiple pollutants

Gábor Békés, Balazs Muraközy, Vincent Vicard, Lionel Fontagné How frequently firms export: the role of uncertainty

Hany Abdel-Latif Financial shocks transmission to unemployment in developing countries: a GVAR analysis

Carsten Eckel, Raymond Riezman CATs and DOGs

Péter Harasztosi Machine import spillovers

Aycil Yucer Brazilian states’ domestic-foreign export capacities and market orientations in the 1990s

11:50-12:10

Martin Olivera, Ángela Triguero Cano The influence of learning by exporting and knowledge accumulation in productivity dynamics: evidence in a panel of Spanish firms

Andres Artal-Tur, Francisco Requena-Silvente, Vicente Pallardo-Lopez Examining the impact of visa restrictions on international tourist flows using panel data

Igor Bykadorov, Sergey Kokovin, Evgeny Zhelobodko Investments in R&D under monopolistic competition: large-market advantage in trade

Michael Irlacher, Carsten Eckel Multi-product firms, endogenous sunk costs and gains from trade through intra-firm adjustments

Banri Ito, Zhaoyuan Xu, Naomitsu Yashiro Does agglomeration promote the internationalization of Chinese firms?

Pavel Chakraborty Judicial quality and regional firm performance: the case of Indian states

Calin-Vlad Demian Trade, the skill premium and global inequality

12:10-12:30

Michael Osterwald-Lenum Transitory profits during offshoring

Abhirup Sarkar, Debasmita Basu FDI in retail: a theoretical analysis

Cheng-Hau Peng, Hong Hwang, Sugata Marjit Trade liberalization, technology transfer and endogenous R&D

Pertti Haaparanta Welfare impacts of bilaterally balanced trade

Ranita Seecharan An assessment of CARICOM’s extra-regional intra-industry trade (IIT): a panel data approach

Jan Jakub Michalek, Armando Rungi, Jan Hagemejer, Jan J. Michalek Transportation services in Poland and other EU countries after market liberalization: a firm-level analysis

Paulo Santos Monteiro, Luciana Juvenal Export market diversification and productivity improvements: theory and evidence from Argentinean firms

12:30-12:50

Tony Venables, James Markusen Connecting cities: task specialization, sectoral specialization and the gains from trade

Nune Hovhannisyan Technology sourcing through international business travel

Roberta Piermartini, Stela Rubínová International production networks and the geography of knowledge spillovers

Vincent Vicard Export: risky business

Julie Regolo Export discoveries and regionalization of trade

Sophie Soete, Jan Van Hove The trade effects of Europe’s economic integration agreements

David Collie Gains from variety? Product differentiation and the possibility of losses from trade under oligopoly with free entry

12:50-13:50

Lunch

13:50-14:20

WTO World Trade Report, Room TBC Chair: Joseph Francois Marion Jansen

14:25-16:05

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14:25-14:45

Michael Koch Trade and the firm-internal assignment of skills to tasks

Michael S. Michael, Slobodan Djajic Controlling illegal immigration: on the scope for cooperation with a transit country

Eddy Bekkers Estimating trade elasticities and asymmetric trade costs under firm heterogeneity

Kristy Buzard Self-enforcing trade agreements, dispute settlement and separation of powers

14:45-15:05

Gregor Hesse The impact of a firm's share of exports on revenue, wages, and measure of workers hired: theory and evidence

Neil Foster-McGregor The impact of migration on foreign direct investment inflows and outflows

Ron Jones On the value of small-scale GE models

Yontem Sonmez, Scott Mcdonald Economic effects of Croatia’s EU accession

Xufei Zhang, Ben Li, Zhihong Yu Offshoring prices, relationship specificity, and exchange rate

15:05-15:25

Alexander Sidorov Trade and endogenous size limits of polycentric cities

Andżelika Kuźnar, Paweł Folfas International trade in intellectual property-intensive goods

Zheng Wang, Markus Eberhardt, Zhihong Yu Intra-national protectionism in China: evidence from the public disclosure of “illegal” drug advertising

Enrico Vanino, Liza Jabbour The role of innovation on trade margins: evidence from French firms

Shepotylo Oleksandr, Volodymyr Vakhitov Productivity increase after trade and services liberalization: selection or within firm effect?

15:25-15:45

Cristina Isabel Ibarra-Armenta Determinants of private investment and the effect of competition between Mexican cities

John Morrow, Wenya Cheng, Kitjawat Tacharoen Productivity as if space mattered: an application to factor markets across China

Noelia Camara Common trends in trade: the impact of vertical specialization

Mathilde Lebrand, Matteo Fiorini, Alberto Osnago A trade theory with institutions and heterogeneous firms

Samuel Standaert, Glenn Rayp Measuring actual economic integration

15:45-16:15

Coffee

16:15-17:00

PLENARY SESSION 3, Room G12 University House Chair: Maurizio Zanardi Catia Montagna Negative shocks, job creation and selection

Notes: Name of paper presenter appears first.

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

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This version: 11 September 2013.