ETSG 2016 Helsinki Seventeenth Annual Conference 08-10 September Aalto University ● VATT Institute Please visit https:/whova.com/event/agenda/?event=etsg_201609 for the agenda with links to the papers.
THURSDAY, 08 SEPTEMBER 2016
13:00	16:00	Registration
14:00	14:15	Welcome by Kristiina Mäkelä, Vice Dean of Teaching and Education, Aalto University School of Business
14:15	15:00	Plenary 1: Main Hall, Main Building Presentation by winner of WTO Prize
15:00	15:10	Conference briefing by Ian Wooton
15:10	15:30	Coffee Break, Ground and 1st Floor Lobbies, Main Building
15:30	17:10	Session A1 Room A305, Main Building	Session A2 Room A306, Main Building		Session A3 Room A309, Main Building	Session A4 Room C331, Main Building	Session A5 Room A410, Main Building	Session A6 Room G109, CHD Building	Session A7 Room G111, CHD Building
15:30	15:50	Maurizio Zanardi; Chrysostomos Tabakis Preferential trade agreements and contingent protection	Chiara Franco; David Aristei The impact of credit constraints on foreign direct investment: evidence from firm-level data		Manuel Tong Sequential exporting across products: evidence from Peru	Filip Tarlea; Peter Egger Comparing apples to apples: estimating consistent partial effects of preferential economic integration agreements	Jonas Juul Henriksen Heterogeneous workers, non-employment, and trade	Alexandros Ragoussis Government agoraphobia: home bias in developing country procurement markets	Malte Ehrich; Axel Mangelsdorf On the specific role of private standards on processed food for agricultural trade
15:50	16:10	Alexander-Nikolai Sandkamp A rule of dump? The heterogeneous effect of anti-dumping duties on Chinese Exporters	Roger Bandick Offshoring, firm size and export survival		Glenn Magerman; Karolien De Bruyne; Emmanuel Dhyne; Jan Van Hove Heterogeneous firms and the micro origins of aggregate fluctuations	Laura Lebastard Currency union, peg one-to-one and simple fixed exchange rate: disentangle the effects on trade	David Kurfess Employment effects of trade liberalisation and labour market tightness	Inmaculada Martinez-Zarzoso; Hendrik Kruse Transfers in the gravity equation: the case of foreign aid	Jan Brusselaers; Guido Van Huylenbroeck; Jeroen Buysse The EU’s timber regulation: non-tariff trade barrier or leverage for sustainable timber production?
16:10	16:30	Magdalene Silberberger; Anja Slany; Frederik Stender The aftermath of antidumping: are temporary trade barriers really temporary	Marta Bisztray The effect of foreign-owned large plant closures on nearby firms		Clémence Lenoir; Isabelle Mejean; Julien Martin Seller-buyer matching in international good markets	Wisarut Suwanprasert Optimal trade policy, equilibrium unemployment and labor market inefficiency	Simon Galle; Andres Rodriguez-Clare; Moises Yi Slicing the pie: quantifying the aggregate and distributional effects of trade	Victor Kummritz Do global value chains cause industrial development?	Jan-Pieter Laleman; Jan Van Hove Sanction-busting in international trade: evidence from European Union exports to Russia
16:30	16:50	Min Zhu Firm-level response to anti-dumping duties: evidence from China	Ian Wooton; Jie Ma Subsidy competition for FDI: do old investments help to attract new investments?		Martin Alfaro New trade models and the abscence of pro-competitive effects from import competition	Hannah Schürenberg-Frosch; Zoryana Olekseyuk Ukraine’s unconsidered losses from the annexation of Crimea: what should we account for in the DCFTA forecasts?	A. Camila Cisneros-Acevedo Trade liberalisation effect in two margins of informality: the Peruvian case	Stefan Legge; Irene Fensore; Lukas Schmid Genetic distance as a barrier to international trade	David Hallinan Partnership in a competitive order: understanding the EU-Japan FTA
16:50	17:10	Christophe Charlier; Patrice Bougette What remedies to antidumping when renewable energy at stake? Modeling the EU-China solar panel dispute	Pär Hansson; Kent Eliasson; Markus Lindvert Effects of foreign acquisitions on R&D and high-skill activities		Chahir Zaki; Aya Ahmed Elewa Trade liberalization and export market competition: evidence from Egypt firm-level data	Allan Sørensen; Philipp J.H. Schröder Does (strategic) export promotion make sense?	Anna Maria Falzoni; Giulio Bosio; Mara Grasseni Local labour markets, technology, and Chinese imports’ competition: evidence from Italy during recession	Hendrik Wiard Kruse; Lennart Kaplan; Hendrik Wiard Kruse Recklessly Ricardian? On how aid works, but not as you might hope	Valentina Rollo; Jasmeer Virdee Technical regulations affect exporters’ performance: firm level evidence from developing countries
17:10	17:20	Break (no coffee)
17:20	18:40	Session B1 Room A305, Main Building	Session B2 Room A306, Main Building		Session B3 Room A309, Main Building	Session B4 Room C331, Main Building	Session B5 Room A410, Main Building	Session B6 Room G109, CHD Building	Session B7 Room G111, CHD Building
17:20	17:40	Chara Vavoura Liberalising trade in the shadow of superstar firms	Horst Raff; Michael Ryan; Frank Stähler Financial frictions and foreign direct investment: evidence from Japanese microdata		Sergey Nigai A tale of two tails: productivity distribution and the gains from trade	Hinnerk Gnutzmann Dealing with export cartels	Julian Emami Namini; Richard Chisik Labor market discrimination and international trade	Beata Udvari Export performance of the Iberian EU-countries: how does Aid for Trade influence export performance of Spain and Portugal?	Julian Hinz; Matthieu Crozet Collateral damage: the impact of the 2014 Russian diplomatic sanctions on sanctioning countries’ exports
17:40	18:00	Viola Lamani; Antoine Bouët; Charlotte Emlinger International trade, quality sorting and trade costs: the case of cognac	Aaron Benjamin Flaaen Transfer pricing by U.S. multinational firms: evidence from the 2004 Homeland Investment Act		Zhan Qu; Udo Kreickemeier International trade with sequential production	Christian Volpe Martincus; Jerónimo Carballo; Alejandro Graziano; Georg Schaur Endogenous border times	Erwin Winkler; Katrin Huber Trade-adjustment and the labor market: the household matters!	Emmanuelle Lavallée; Lochard Julie French neo-colonialism? French-African trade after independence	Mario Larch; James E. Anderson; Yoto V. Yotov Trade liberalization, growth, and FDI: a structural estimation framework
18:00	18:20	Hartmut Egger; Josef Falkinger International trade and financial integration under technological specialization and uncertainty			Alessia Lo Turco; Daniela Maggioni For God's sake: the impact of religious proximity on firms’ exports	Maria Cipollina; Luca Salvatici; David Laborde Debucquet The effects of US preferences	Elias Einio The loss of production work: identification of demand shifts based on local soviet trade shocks	Julianna Pontet; Beata Udvari Effects of trade on democracy in developing countries	Evgenii Monastyrenko; Julian Hinz Bearing the cost of politics: consumer prices in Russia
18:20	18:40	Alessandro Borin; Virginia Di Nino; Michele Mancini; Massimo Sbracia The cyclicality of the income elasticity of trade	Armando Rungi; Armando Rungi; Gregory Morrison; Fabio Pammolli The boundary of the multinational enterprise: ownership networks and the evolution of corporate control		Ruben Dewitte; Glenn Rayp Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms: the case of Portugal		Xianjia Ye; Marcel P. Timmer Disentangling the effects of off-shoring and biased technical change: new evidence from factor cost shares in global value chain	Cherry Law Unintended trade consequences on food consumption
FRIDAY, 09 SEPTEMBER 2016
9:00	10:40	Session C1 Room A305, Main Building	Session C2 Room A306, Main Building		Session C3 Room A309, Main Building	Session C4 Room C331, Main Building	Session C5 Room A410, Main Building	Session C6 Room G109, CHD Building	Session C7 Room G111, CHD Building
9:00	9:20	Robert F Owen International entry-exit dynamics, trade policy and welfare: a conceptual framework	Susanna Thede; Nils Åke Gustafson Bending the rules, breaking the rules: how lobbying and corruption affect the investment market selection of swedish firms		Andrea Linarello Trade liberalization and domestic suppliers: evidence from Chile	Fatima Olanike Kareem Protecting health or protecting imports? Evidence from EU sanitary and phytosanitary measures	Selva Bahar Baziki Globalization, Chinese imports and skill premia in a small open economy	Davide Del Prete; Emiliano Magrini; Pierluigi Montalbano; Silvia Nenci Global agro-food value chains: new evidence from SSA	Sebastian Benz The trade effect of services trade restrictions
9:20	9:40	Badis Tabarki Firm heterogeneity and the mystery of diverging trade: a demand-based explanation	Loredana Fattorini; Loredana Fattorini; Armando Rungi; Zhen Zhu The organization of global supply networks		Antonella Nocco; Antonio Navas Trade liberalization, selection and technology adoption with vertical linkages	Cosimo Beverelli; Rohit Ticku Trade facilitation and tariff evasion	Florian Knauth; Linda Borrs The effect of trade on wage components	Eva Van Leemput A passage to India: quantifying internal and external barriers to trade	Ingo Borchert; James E. Anderson; Aaditya Mattoo; Yoto V. Yotov Shedding some light on dark matter: trade costs in services
9:40	10:00	Julia Gruebler; Mahdi Ghodsi; Robert Stehrer Assessing the impact of non-tariff measures on imports	Zuzanna Studnicka; Ronald B. Davies; Iulia Siedschlag The impact of taxes on the extensive and intensive margins of FDI		Nicholas Li; Chang-Tai Hsieh; Ralph Ossa; Mu-Jeung Yang Accounting for the new gains from trade liberalization	Andreas Kohler Rents of multinationals: a case study of big tobacco in Switzerland	Oliver Krebs Of giants and dwarfs: new quantitative trade, disaggregate shocks and the labor market	Kristian Estevez Income inequality, FDI, and the incidence of child labor	Björn Thor Arnarson; Joakim Gullstrand Linking local services and global shocks
10:00	10:20	Luca Macedoni Multiproduct firms across rich and poor countries: theory and evidence	Birgit Meyer Product mix and foreign ownership: evidence from India's investment liberalization		Florian Unger; Lisandra Flach Quality and gravity in international trade	Salamat Ali; Chris; Milner; Richard; Kneller Market-specific trade costs and firm dynamics: impact of integrated cargo containers control program on Pakistan’s exports	Giray Gözgör Structure of employment and the external imbalances: theory and evidence	Emmauel Milet; Marco Fugazza The dark side of moonlighting	Martin Schmitz; Christiane Hellmanzik Gravity and international services trade: the impact of virtual proximity
10:20	10:40	Pierre M. Picard; Alessandro Tampieri Income effects and vertical differentiation in international trade	Andrea Lassmann; Benedikt Rydzek How much is too much? Evaluating factors of transfer pricing			Mahdi Ghodsi; Robert Stehrer Non-tariff measures trickling through global value chains	Karin Olofsdotter; Zouheir El-Sahli; Joakim Gullstrand The direct and indirect effects of offshoring on local employment	Janne Niemi Armington elasticities and persistent trade habits: a model and historical dynamic CGE analysis	Martina Magli The effects of services offshoring on local labour market
10:40	11:10	Coffee Break, Ground and 1st Floor Lobbies, Main Building
11:10	12:50	Session D1 Room A305, Main Building	Session D2 Room A306, Main Building		Session D3 Room A309, Main Building	Session D4 Room C331, Main Building	Session D5 Room A410, Main Building	Session D6 Room G109, CHD Building	Session D7 Room G111, CHD Building
11:10	11:30	Christian Soegaard; Robin Naylor The effects of entry in oligopolistic trade with bargained input prices	Onur A. Koska Foreign direct investment for sale: unknown "quality of the match" and welfare		Udo Kreickemeier; Hartmut Egger; Jens Wrona Offshoring, firm selection, and job polarisation in general equilibrium	Han Eol Ryu Vertically related markets, public utility ownership and in-kind trade and industrial policy	Robert Elliott; Michael Henry; Yi Liu Trade liberalization and the profits and wages in china’s processing firms	Ricardo Bustillo; Ikerne Del Valle; Kepa Astorkitza Does the augmented gravity model fit anchovy foreign trade data?	Isabelle Rabaud Divergences of institutions and bilateral trade in services: a sectoral approach
11:30	11:50	Laura Birg Piracy, IPR enforcement, and exports	Anna Giunta; Mariarosaria Agostino; Domenico Scalera; Francesco Trivieri Imports, productivity and global value chains: a European firm-level analysis		Pavel Molchanov; Igor Bykadorov; Sergey Kokovin Non-CES preferences and gains from trade	Matthew T. Cole; Ronald B. Davies; Todd Kaplan Protection in government procurement auctions	Marco De Pinto; Jochen Michaelis Trade unions in an open economy: the case of firm-specific bargaining power	Elina Pii Berghäll; Saara Tamminen Has Cleantech fulfilled its promise of growth? evidence from Finnish Cleantech exports	Elisabeth Christen; Michael Pfaffermayr; Yvonne Wolfmayr The home country employment impacts of internationalisation activities of services firms: evidence for Austria
11:50	12:10	Stephen Philip Tokarick Should countries worry about immiserizing growth?	Daniela Maggioni; Alessia Lo Turco; Beata Smarzynska Javorcik New and improved: FDI and the building blocks of complexity		Katharina Erhardt New new trade theory: any news for the home market effect?	Eyal Ronen The enhancing impact of non-tariff measures on trade: the case of virgin olive oil	Povilas Lastauskas; Julius Stakenas Labour market institutions in open economy	Esther Amouzou; Fabienne Boudier European trade in hazardous waste: has EU waste policy succeeded or failed?	Matteo Fiorini; Bernard Hoekman; Clément Malgouyres Services policy reform and downstream manufacturing employment in transition economies
12:10	12:30	Seyhan Aygul Choice of invoicing currency in international trade: evidence from Turkish firms	Peter Sebastian Eppinger; Hong Ma Optimal ownership, aggregate productivity, and FDI regulation in China		Yu Ri Kim; Daichi Shimamoto; Petr Matous; Yasuyuki Todo Can export promotion seminars work for SMEs? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Vietnam	Christian Ritzel; Andreas Kohler The causal effect of trade liberalization: a case study of Swiss agro-food Imports	Pamela Bombarda; Sarra Ben Yahmed Gender, informal employment and trade liberalization in Mexico	Ingrid Dallmann The impact of weather shocks on trade diversification	Saara Tamminen; Andrea Ariu; Katariina Nilsson-Hakkala; J. Bradford Jensen Services offshoring and labor markets: micro-evidence from Finland
12:30	12:50	Bushra Riaz; Kristian Estevez; Elisenda Paluzie Convergence or divergence from comparative advantage: a comparison of China and the European Union	Sara Biancini; Pamela Bombarda Intellectual property rights, multinational firms and international technology transfers		Katariina Nilsson Hakkala; Yao Pan Firm-level responses to Chinese competition on export markets	Jonas Frank The empirical consequences of trade sanctions for directly and indirectly affected countries	Christian Viegelahn; Marta Duda-Nyczak Do imports create decent jobs in Africa? Evidence from firm-level data	Panos Hatzipanayotou; Ioanna Pantelaiou; Panagiotis Konstantinou; Anastasios Xepapadeas Intra (inter) regional effects of environmental policies as NTMs in an economic union: some simulation results	Peter Egger; Joseph Francois; Sergey Nigay Measuring the welfare gains from services trade
12:50	14:00	Lunch, Ground and 1st Floor Lobbies, Main Building
14:00	14:15	ROWE Young Economists Prize, Nokia Hall, 2nd Floor, Main Building
14:15	14:20	Break (no coffee)
14:20	16:00	Session E1 Room A305, Main Building	Session E2 Room A306, Main Building		Session E3 Room A309, Main Building	Session E4 Room C331, Main Building	Session E5 Room A410, Main Building	Session E6 Room G109, CHD Building	Session E7 Room G111, CHD Building
14:20	14:40	Raymond Riezman; Eric Bond; Ping Wang Urbanization and economic development: a tale of two barriers	Sen Ma The effects of cultural similarity on foreign direct investment and productivity of domestic firms: evidence from China		Peter Neary; Monika Mrázová Structural deviations from Gibrat's law	Gerald Willmann; Giovanni Facchini; Peri Silva The political economy of preferential trade arrangements: an empirical investigation	Aleksandra Parteka; Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz Global value chains, trade and wages: international evidence from linked worker-sector data	Dominique Bruhn; Axel Berger; Clara Brandi; Jean-Frédéric Morin Going green: contagion patterns of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements	Gregory Corcos; Andrea Ariu; Holger Breinlich; Giordano Mion The interconnections between services and goods trade at the firm-level
14:40	15:00	Vladimir Tyazhelnikov Pareto and lognormal distributions: separating the intensive and extensive margins of trade	Artur Klimek Foreign direct investment in the business services sector		Maite Alguacil; Josep Martí; Vicente Orts Internationalization strategy of Heterogeneous European Firms in a Multicountry Framework	Anja Slany The role of trade policies in strengthening regional value chains in Africa	Clément Nedoncelle Trade liberalization and within-firm wage inequality: micro evidence and aggregate implications	Igor Bagayev; Julie Lochard EU air pollution regulation: a breath of fresh air for Eastern European polluting industries?	Hiroshi Mukunoki; Jota Ishikawa; Hodaka Morita Parallel imports and repair services
15:00	15:20		Marta Bengoa; Blanca Sanchez-Robles; Yochanan Shachmurove FDI patterns and regional integration agreements in Latin America: A gravity model analysis		Marcel Van Den Berg; Selwyn Moons The complementarity of official aid and economic diplomacy: empirical evidence on the extensive margin from the Netherlands	Jean-Marc Siroen; Jaime Rafael Ahcar Deep integration. the heterogeneity of free trade agreements and their impact on bilateral trade	Xufei Zhang International competitiveness, firm productivity and labour market adjustment in China	Jan S. Voãÿwinkel; Laura Birg Environmental standards, product differentiation, and trade	Andrea Ariu; Florian Mayneris; Mathieu Parenti Providing services to boost goods exports? theory and evidence
15:20	15:40	Guzman Ourens Uneven diversification and divergence	Panagiotis Theodore Konstantinou Structural reforms and FDI flows: do they work and under what conditions?		Nazli Toraganli; Cihan Yalcin Exports in manufacturing, exchange rates, and external exposure: firm level evidence from Turkey	Lars Nilsson; Christoph Albert To use, or not to use (trade preferences) that is the question: estimating the fixed cost thresholds	Joél Hellier Earnings distribution and globalization: equality, inequality, polarization	Hajare El Hadri; Daniel Mirza; Isabelle Rabaud Natural disaster and exports of agricultural products in developing countries	Feodora Teti; Gabriel Felbermayr; Erdal Yalcin Free trade agreements, customs unions in disguise?
15:40	16:00	Wadim Djatschenko Introducing the credit spread to duration as a measure of financial constraints	Romain Justinien Razafindravaosolonirina Assessing the link between structural economic vulnerability and FDI		Alejandro Riaño; Sourafel Girma Exports and volatility spillovers	Jan Stuckatz; Oleksandr Shepotylo Policy uncertainty, trade, and FDI: evidence from Ukrainian firms	Gianluca Santoni; Luca De Benedictis; Massimiliano Bratti Ethnic firms, diasporas and international trade	Vera Danilina Voluntary environmental labelling, welfare, and international trade	Hildegunn Kyvik Nordas Regulatory cooperation and trade in services
16:00	16:30	Coffee Break, Ground and 1st Floor Lobbies, Main Building
16:30	17:50	Session F1 Room A305, Main Building	Session F2 Room A306, Main Building		Session F3 Room A309, Main Building	Session F4 Room C331, Main Building	Session F5 Room A410, Main Building	Session F6 Room G109, CHD Building	Session F7 Room G111, CHD Building
16:30	16:50	Sophie Therese Schneider Does the membership in a regional trade agreement increase the quality of institutions through knowledge spillovers?	Niklas Herzig Export vs. FDI: sandwich sorting with quadratic preferences		Liyun Zhang; Robert R.J. Elliott The quality and complexity of imported inputs and firm export performance: an analysis for Chinese manufacturing firms	Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor; Malte Ehrich; Bernhard Brümmer EU-African regional trade agreements as a development tool to reduce EU border rejections	Erik Figueiredo; Luiz Renato Lima; Gianluca Orefice Tariff-jumping migration: the trade-migration nexus revisited	Ceren Erdoğan Does aid for trade reduce trade costs? Panel data evidence from inverse gravity	Houssein Guimbard; Jean-Christophe Bureau; Sébastien Jean What has been left to multilateralism to negotiate on?
16:50	17:10	Banri Ito Patent law harmonization and international trade	Yohannes Ewunetie Ayele Productivity gains from FDI: selection and market reallocation		Eugenia Shevtsova; Nikolaos Papageorgiadis; Frank Mcdonald IPR enforcement and firm internationalization strategies	Andzelika Kuznar How important are geographical indications in trade relations between the European Union and the United States?	Irene Fensore Migration and FDI	Bruno Merlevede; Philipp Marek Regional policy and firm performance	Mark Melatos; Elie Appelbaum Camouflaged trade agreements
17:10	17:30	Amelie Guillin; José De Sousa; Carl Gaigné; Julie Lochard Trade and trust	Ben Ferrett; Huw Edwards The search for trading partners and the cross-border merger decision		Burcu Fazlioglu; Basak Dalgic; Michael Gasiorek Does it matter where you export and does real productivity really rise with exporting?	Douglas L. Campbell; Lester Lusher Trade shocks, taxes, and inequality	Joan Martín-Montaner; Ana Cuadros; Jordi Paniagua Skilled migration and FDI: countries’ characteristics of firms’ activity	Astrid Krenz The impact of trade, taxes and R&D for the location decision of German enterprises	Laurent Didier Heterogeneous effects of regional trade agreements on trade: relevant for sub-Saharan Africa?
17:30	17:50	Miriam Frey; Stela Ivanova Steps of contract enforcement: the lawyer’s guide for the applied economist	Marcel Tirpak; Christian Buelens Reading the footprints: how foreign investors shape participation in global value chains		Toshiyuki Matsuura; Kozo; Kiyota; Lionel; Nesta Understanding the cross-country productivity gap of exporters	Nihar Suhas Shembavnekar; Dimitra Petropoulou Trade reform and the white collar wage premium: evidence from India	Tamara Bogatzki; Steffen Sirries An estimate of the determinants of migration costs using Mexican-US microdata	Francesco Biancalani; Armando Rungi An empirical investigation on manufacturing location choice in Italy	Magdalena Slok-Wodkowska From most-favoured to least favoured nations: how RTAs influenced the WTO MFN-based trade?
17:50	18:00	Break (no coffee)
18:00	18:45	Plenary 2: Main Hall, Main Building Meredith Crowley; Huasheng Song; Ning Meng Tariff Scares: trade policy information and the extensive margin of Chinese exporting firms
19:30	22:00	Reception, Restaurant Kaivohuone, Iso Puistotie 1, 00140 Helsinki
SATURDAY, 10 SEPTEMBER 2016
9:00	10:40	Session G1 Room A305, Main Building	Session G2 Room A306, Main Building		Session G3 Room A309, Main Building	Session G4 Room C331, Main Building	Session G5 Room A304, Main Building	Session G6 Room A401, Main Building	Session G7 Room A407, Main Building
9:00	9:20	Julie Lochard; Emmanuelle Lavallée Diplomacy for sale? The impact of bilateral visits on international trade	Stephan Kyburz; Huong Quynh Nguyen Does proximity to foreign direct investment stimulate productivity growth of domestic firms? Firm-level evidence from Vietnam		Dayna Zaclicever; Carlos Casacuberta The effect of trade protection on productivity in Uruguay	Muhlis Can; Giray Gozgor Effects of product diversification on export quality upgrading: an empirical study	Léa Marchal; Claire Naiditch How do migration policies impact migration flows? Multilateral resistance to migration in a standard RUM model	Daniel Kadinkov; Francesco Di Comite Localized monopolistic competition and endogenous positioning in an unbounded characteristics space	Stela Rubínová New regionalism and the production networks trade
9:20	9:40	Tristan Kohl; Shushanik Hakobyan; James Lake Tariff phaseouts in US bilateral free trade agreements	Binyam Afewerk Demena FDI, spillovers and firm-level heterogeneity: identifying the transmission channels		Xiaoyu Tian Sequential trade: learning and firm dynamics	Kawtar Dkhissi Trade liberalization in Morocco: quality evolution of exports	Thomas Steinwachs; Jasmin Gröschl Escaping the weather: do natural disasters cause international migration?	Yuan Zi WTO accession and the great labor reallocation	Salvador Gil-Pareja; Rafael Llorca-Vivero; José A. Martínez-Serrano Reciprocal versus nonreciprocal preferential trade agreements: which are the best to promote exports from the developing world?
9:40	10:00	Julien Brault French oil protectionism and the international political economy of rent seeking	Charlotte Emlinger; Sandra Poncet With a little help from my friends: multinational retailers and china's consumer market penetration		Stefano Iandolo; Anna Maria Ferragina Do firms learn from trade? internationalization? The impact of internationalization choices on innovation	Oleksandr Shepotylo; Karen Jackson The complexities of globalisation: what are the costs and benefits of the TTIP for the UK?	Kemal Türkcan On the role of vertical differentiation in enhancing survival of export flows: evidence from a developing country	Marta Santamaria International trade with endogenous infrastructure investments: a solution to the distance puzzle	Pedro Gabriel Degiovanni; María Luisa Recalde; Luis Marcelo Florensa The quality of Latin American integration and its effects on the hazard of commercial relationships
10:00	10:20	Amrita Saha Protection for sale with lobbying effectiveness	Tina Golob; Katja Zajc-Kejžar The role of skilled migrant workers in the process of knowledge transfer from MNEs to their affiliates		Sanne Hiller; Horst Raff; Zhan Qu International trade and inventory investment	Ferda Halicioglu; Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee; Seyed Hesam Ghodsi Asymmetric effects of exchange rate changes on British bilateral trade balances	Lucia Tajoli; Isabella Cingolani; Lelio Iapadre International production networks and the world trade structure	Marius Brülhart; Olivier Cadot; Alexander Himbert Can regional trade integration reduce spatial concentration?	Jennifer Pédussel Wu; Mohammadamin Javaheri; Clark Banach Investment as an Indicator of regionalism: an analysis of FDI clusters and RTAs
10:20	10:40	Bartosz Michalski Polish trade in high-tech goods. Looking for an evidence of middle income trap	Ana Lucia Abeliansky; Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso The relationship between the Chinese "Going out" strategy and international trade		Filomena Pietrovito; Alberto Franco Pozzolo Credit rationing and firm exports: evidence from developing countries	Liang Bai; Sebastian Stumpner Estimating the gains from globalization: evidence from US-China trade	Volker Nitsch Religion and trade: evidence from apostolic journeys	Luca De Benedictis; Anna Maria Pinna Islands as “bad geography”: insularity, connectedness, history and trade costs	Elżbieta Czarny; Katarzyna Śledziewska Nuclear reactors, turbines, engines or turbochargers: what drives exports from Poland?
10:40	11:10	Coffee Break, Ground and 1st Floor Lobbies, Main Building
11:10	12:50	Session H1 Room A305, Main Building	Session H2 Room A306, Main Building		Session H3 Room A309, Main Building	Session H4 Room C331, Main Building	Session H5 Room A304, Main Building	Session H6 Room A401, Main Building	Session H7 Room A407, Main Building
11:10	11:30	Annette Schminke Does one price fit all? An analysis of price divergence in dual-channel markets	Ayumu Tanaka Why do exporters and multinational firms pay higher wages? Evidence from Japanese linked employer-employee data		Philipp J.H. Schröder; Ingo Geishecker; Allan Sørensen One-off export events: some theory and insights from monthly transactions data	Kyung-In Hwang Tariffs, intermediaries and consumer prices	Carmen Diaz-Mora; David Córcoles; Rosario Gandoy Complex internationalization strategies and firm export dynamics: crisis and recovery	Liuchun Deng Evolving comparative advantage and idea flows	Albert De Vaal Exploring hubness in regional trade agreements
11:30	11:50	Tapio Palokangas Globalization, footloose capital and the political economy of labor market regulation	Bohdan Kukharskyy; Peter Eppinger Institutions and foreign direct investment: firm-level analysis		Boris Georgiev Multi-product firms, markup adjustments and import competition	Sophie Soete; Jan Van Hove Anticipation effects of trade agreements	Christina Poetzsch Tracing technology transfer in vertical trading chains: R&D spillovers through trade in value-added	Colin Davis; Ken-ichi Hashimoto Innovation and manufacturing offshoring with fully endogenous productivity growth	Veronika Movchan; Volodymyr Shportyuk First results of DCFTAs with the EU: cases of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
11:50	12:10	Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor Economic sanctions and international trade: how does threatened sanctions compare with imposed sanctions	David Carson Jinkins; Jonathan Eaton; Jim Tybout; Daniel Xu Two-sided search in international markets		Enrico Marvasi; Giorgia Giovannetti Positioning and internalization in global value chains: the case of Tuscan firms	Angela Cheptea; Carl Gaigné Russian import ban and changes in global export patterns	Zhen Zhu; Carlo Piccardi; Massimo Riccaboni; Lucia Tajoli Random walks on the world input-output network	Michael Olabisi Demand volatility and export entry	Tuan Anh Luong; Qing Liu; Ruosi Lu; Yi Lu Is free trade good or bad for innovation?
12:10	12:30	Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan; Martin Gassebner Politicized trade: what drives withdrawal of trade preferences?	Mathieu Parenti; Julien Martin; Isabelle Mejean Revealed input specificity: insights from firm-to-firm export data		Michael Henry; Pavel Chakraborty Heterogeneous effects of product market competition on prices of Indian manufacturing firms	Marie-Luise Rau; Igor Bagayev; Ron Davies; Panos Hatzipanayotou; Panos Konstantinou Trade openness and governmental size: exploring revenue-creating tariffs and costly non-tariff measures	Karen Jackson; G. Magkonis Identifying European clusters: revisiting the core-periphery debate	Aranzazu Crespo; Abian Garcia Rodriguez Has the external competitiveness of Southern Europe improved due to the internal devaluation?	Shilpa Samplonius; Tristan Kohl; Steven Brakman; Harry Garretsten Do the predictors of trade dispute incidences reflect the institutional transformation from the GATT to the WTO?
12:30	12:50		Carlo Altomonte; Luis Garicano; Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano; Armando Rungi Business groups as knowledge-based hierarchies		Cristina Daniela Herghelegiu; Anne-Célia Disdier; Carl Gaigné Firm exports and quality standards: evidence from French food industry	Svetlana Fedoseeva; Rodrigo Zeidan A dead-end tunnel or the light at the end of it: the role of BRICs in European exports	Arman Mazhikeyev; Ronald Davies The glass border: gender and exporting in developing countries	Julia Wörz; Florian Huber Trend or cycle: who to blame for the weakness in global trade?	David R. DeRemer The principle of reciprocity in the 21st century
12:50	14:00	Lunch, Ground and 1st Floor Lobbies, Main Building
13:30	14:00	Presentation of the Global Economic Dynamics project by Bertelsmann Stiftung, Nokia Hall, 2nd Floor, Main Building
14:00	15:40	Session I1 Room A305, Main Building	Session I2 Room A306, Main Building		Session I3 Room A309, Main Building	Session I4 Room C331, Main Building	Session I5 Room A304, Main Building	Session I6 Room A401, Main Building	Session I7 Room A407, Main Building
14:00	14:20	Joseph Francois; Douglas Nelson The occupational content of US trade	Giorgia Giovannetti; Enrico Marvasi; Davide Del Prete North African countries and firms in international production networks		Martina Lawless; Zuzanna Studnicka Old firms and new products: does experience increase survival?	Ron Davies; Arman Mazhikeyev The impact of special economic zones on exporting behavior	Tomasz Michalski; Evren Ors The Rybczynski effect in U.S. manufacturing 1977-1997: a test	Marcus Biermann Trade and the size distribution of firms: historical evidence from the German empire	Raphaël Chiappini; Yves Jégourel Futures market volatility, exchange rate uncertainty and cereals exports: empirical evidence from France
14:20	14:40	Belén González Díaz; Carmen Díaz-Mora; Rosario Gandoy Engagement and upgrading in GVCs: strengthening the stability of exports	Michael Koch; Marcel Smolka Foreign ownership and skill-biased technological change		Eva Hagsten; Martin Falk An exploration of growth and exports in Swedish micro firms providing computer services	Tibor Besedes; Tristan Kohl; James Lake Phase out tariffs, phase in trade?	Rutger Maarten Teulings; Franc J G M Klaassen Untangling fixed effects and constant regressors	Pawel Folfas Value-added trade, gross trade and international spatial dependencies: case of developed economies	Lise Patureau; Guillaume Daudin; Jérome Héricourt Beyond the iceberg hypothesis: opening the black box of transport costs
14:40	15:00	Laura Dell'Agostino; Silvia Nenci Trade specialization indicators and value added data: the specialization pattern of Italy and its main trade partners	Michael Irlacher; Michael Koch Short versus long run effects of offshoring when sectors are heterogeneous		Tomasz Brodzicki; Dorota Ciolek Innovation, innovation strategy and internationalization of Polish firms: logit analysis	Luis Arocho; Carmen Fillat Regionalism on small economies: Can TPP create trade in a small economy like Puerto Rico?	Janez Kren; Huw Edwards; Jan Van Hove Trade costs and intra-industry trade: is there a paradox?	Jaanika Meriküll; Tibor Lalinsky Firm-level evidence on euro trade effect in new euro area member states	Pierre Cotterlaz; Emanuele Mazzini Are there “dark trade costs” within the US? Evidence from Hurricane Sandy
15:00	15:20	Veronika Končiková; Robert Barca; Jakub Buček The sophistication of Chinese exports and its impact on EU15: the case of the high-tech goods	Jan Hagemejer Productivity spillovers in the GVC: The case of Poland and the new EU member states		Jan Jakub Michalek; Andrzej Cieslik What forms of innovations are important for export performance: evidence from Central and East European countries	Antonia Reinecke; Hans-Jörg Schmerer Redistribution, trade and corruption: an empirical assessment	Hoang Sang Nguyen; Fabien Rondeau European Union enlargement in 2004, Euro adoption and trade spillovers: a near-Var approach	Angelos Theodorakopoulos Market imperfections, trade and firm performance	Mariana Spatareanu; Vlad Manole; Ali Kabiri Exports and bank distress: evidence from the UK
15:20	15:40	Patrick Alexander Comparative advantage and multi-stage production			Martin Falk Exports, R&D activities, and labour productivity of SMEs	Thi Nguyet Anh Nguyen; Thi Hong Hanh Pham; Thomas Vallée Similarity in trade structure: evidence from ASEAN + 3	Grigorios Zarotiadis; Eftychia Gkogkou Spatial determination of comparative advantage: the case of South Europe	Inga Heiland Global risk sharing through trade in goods and assets: theory and evidence	Roman Stöllinger Tradability of Output and the Current Account: An empirical investigation for Europe
15:40	16:10	Coffee Break, Ground and 1st Floor Lobbies, Main Building
16:10	17:10	Session J1 Room A305, Main Building	Session J2 Room A306, Main Building		Session J3 Room A309, Main Building	Session J4 Room A304, Main Building
16:10	16:30	Alireza Naghavi; Shin-Kun Peng; Yingyi Tsai Relationship-specific investments and intellectual property rights enforcement with heterogeneous suppliers	Akhvlediani Tinatin; Katarzyna Åšledziewska Effects of the use of internet and ICT-S on export performances of the EU		Naoto Jinji; Tetsuya Tsurumi Environmental spillovers from foreign direct investment: firm-level evidence from Vietnamese manufacturing	Svetlana Ledyaeva Export promotion and global value chains
16:30	16:50	Yushi Yoshida Revisiting finance-trade linkage in Japan during the Great Trade Collapse	Trudy-Ann Stone; Shahid Quoreshi The effect of trade shocks on firm performance in Sweden: evidence from the 2008-2009 financial crisis		Christopher Kurz; Mine Senses; Andrei Zlate All shook up: international trade and firm-level volatility	Haruka Yane Backward linkage and the skill structure of labor demand
16:50	17:10	Mauro Caselli; Arpita Chatterjee; Scott French Prices, markups and quality: the effect of Chinese competition on Mexican exporters	Olga Kuzmina; Natalya Volchkova Capital structure and exporting: evidence from import tariff changes		Justine Falciola; Marion Jansen; Valentina Rollo Exploring firm competitiveness: a factor analysis approach	Jarosław M. Nazarczuk; Stanisław Umiński The impact of special economic zones on export behaviour: evidence from Polish firm-level data
17:10	17:15	Break (no coffee)
17:15	18:00	Plenary 3: Main Hall, Main Building Italo Colantone; Rosario Crinò; Laura Ogliari The hidden cost of globalization: import competition and mental distress
Notes: Name of paper presenter appears first. In parallel sessions, the last presenter will take the chair. Please visit https:/whova.com/event/agenda/?event=etsg_201609 for the agenda with links to the papers. 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: 07 September 2016.