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THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN TRADE STUDY GROUP
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, 14-16 September 2001
PROGRAM
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Friday 14 September 2001 | ||||||
Time | Activities | Plenaries in Room H 2215 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1301 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1302 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1308 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1309 |
8:00-9:30 | Registration |
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9:30-10:00 | Welcome | Welcome session |
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10:00-10:45 |
| Plenary Session I |
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10:00-10:45 |
| J PETER NEARY Foreign FDI and the Single Market |
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10:45-11:15 | Coffee |
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11:15-11:45 |
| Plenary Session II |
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11:15-11:45 |
| THIERRY VERDIER (with François Bourguignon), Globalization and the Political Economy of Education and Development |
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11:45-12:15 |
| DOUGLAS NELSON (with Joseph Francois), Globalization and Relative Wages: Some theory and evidence |
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12:15-12:45 |
| ANTHONY J VENABLES, Industrial clusters: equilibrium, welfare and policy |
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12:45-14:00 | Lunch |
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| A SESSIONS |
| Parallel Session A.1 Trade and Wages I | Parallel Session A.2 Europe, Enlargement, and the Euro I | Parallel Session A.3 International Political Economy I | Parallel Session A.4 Empirics I |
14:00-14:20 |
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| JOSE VICENTE BLANES-CRISTOBAL, Dynamics and Nature of Intra-Industry Trade and Labour-Market Adjustment from Trade Liberalization: Evidence for Spain | ANNA PAULA AFRICANO de SILVA (with Paulo Teles), EU Enlargement and Trade Adjustments | JUAN RUIZ (with Celia Cabral, Praveen Kujal), Trade Policy Reversals and Product Differentiation | ANA CUADROS (with Manuel Cantavella; Ismael Fernández; Celestino Suárez), A comparative analysis of elasticities in the European Union external trade |
14:20-14:40 |
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| STEVEN TOKARICK, Quantifying the Impact of Trade on Wages: The Role of Nontraded Goods | ANA-MARIA BOROMISA, First Round of Eastern Enlargement of the EU: possible implications for Croatian trade | SAMIA TAVARES, The Political Economy of Tariff Determination in the European Union | PETER EGGER, Transportation Costs in a Multilateral World: Assessing the Poolability of Gravity Data |
14:40-15:00 |
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| HOLGER GöRG, (with Frank Barry and Eric Strobl), Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Domestic Firms: Productivity Spillovers vs Labour-Market Crowding Out | IGOR EREMENKO, EU Enlargement to the East and its Impact on Non-accessing Countries, AGE Analysis | GERALD WILLMANN (with Giovanni Facchini), The political economy of international factor mobility | MARIA PAULA FONTOURA (with Nuno Crespo), Determinants of the Pattern of Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade:What can we Learn from Portuguese Data? |
15:00-15:20 |
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| ALEXANDER HIJZEN (with H. Görg, R.C. Hine), International Fragmentation and Relative Wages in the UK | ARJAN LEJOUR (with Richard Nahuis, Ruud de Mooij) EU enlargement: Economic implications for countries and industries | KLAUS DESMET (with Ignacio Ortuno), Rational Underdevelopment | DANIEL MIRZA, Capturing the Effect of International Trade on Seller Concentration and Competition: the case of the OECD countries |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee |
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| B SESSIONS |
| Parallel Session B.1 Trade and Wages II | Parallel Session B.2 Europe, Enlargement, and the Euro II | Parallel Session B.3 International Political Economy II | Parallel Session B.4 Empirics II |
16:00-16:20 |
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| WILHELM KOHLER, International Fragmentation of Value-added Chains: How Does it Affect Domestic Factor Prices? | RUI ALVES, Europe: a real Political Union after the Single Currency ? | FEDERICO TRIONFETTI (with Marius Brülhart), Public Expenditure and International Specialisation | Pfaffermayr, Michael Peter Egger Distance, Trade, and FDI: A Hausman-Taylor SUR Approach |
16:20-16:40 |
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| ASIER MINONDO (with Gloria Rubert), The impact of outsourcing on the relative demand for skills in Spanish manufacturing | JARKO FIDRMUC, The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria, Intraindustry Trade, and EMU Enlargement | DAVID COLLIE, State Aid for Investment and R&D in the EU | HEGE MEDIN, What determines firms export decisions? The importance of the size of the foreign market. |
16:40-17:00 |
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| ANNA MARIA PINNA (with Paul Brenton), The Declining Use of Unskilled Labor in Italian Manufacturing: Is Trade to Blame? | OZLEM SAYINTA, Exchange Rate Volatility, Contract Enforcement, and Trade: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation | CAN ERBIL, Trade Taxes Are Better? | VOLKER NITSCH (with Karsten Junius), Ethnic Ties, Search Costs and Trade: An Empirical Investigation |
17:00-17:20 |
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| GLENN L. RAYP, (with L. Cuyvers, M. Dumont and K. Stevens), Wage and Employment effects of International Trade with the Emerging Economies in the EU, 1985-1995. |
| GREETJE EVAERT (with Hylke Vandenbussche), Does Protection Harden Budget Constraints? | KARADAL HIMMET (with Orhan Savas), Appropriateness of strategial vision evalutions to millenium trends: a research in 500 large Turkish firms |
Saturday 15 September 2001 | ||||||
Time | Activities | Plenaries in Room H 2215 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1301 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1302 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1308 | Parallel Sessions in Room H 1309 |
| C SESSIONS |
| Parallel Session C.1 Trade and Wages III | Parallel Session C.2 MNEs and FDI I | Parallel Session C.3 International Political Economy III | Parallel Session C.4 Empirics III |
9:15-9:35 |
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| ROBERT STEHRER (withPeter Egger), The effects of FDI and outsourcing on labour markets in Central and Eastern European countries | GERDA DEWIT (with Dermot Leahy, Catia Montagna) Flexibility and Foreign Direct Investment in Dynamic Oligopoly | DORSATI MADANI (with M. Olarreaga), Politically Optimal Tariffs: An Application to Egypt | NICHOLAS TSOUNIS, A Multi-factor Test of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory in the Trade between Greece and the E.U. |
9:35-9:55 |
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| VANESSA STRAUSS-KAHN, Globalization, Agglomeration and the Wage Premium | MARIA TERESA ALGUACIL (with Vincente Orts), Temporal causality between imports and foreign direct investment in spain | CATIA MONTAGNA (with Hassan Molana), Cumulative Causation, Capital Mobility and the Welfare State | JOAKIM GULLSTRAND, Does the choice of intra-industry trade measure matter? |
9:55-10:15 |
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| ERIC STROBL (with Holger Goerg), Skill-enhancing trade and rising wage inequality in developing countries: the case of ghana | JAIME F CAMPOS, The Impact of the Multinational Corporation Subsidiaries on the Domestic Firms Technological Development | RICHARD NAHUIS (with PJG Tang), Competing with public infrastructure: Ineffective and Unwelcome? | JULIA WOERTZ (with Robert Stehrer), Technological convergence and trade patterns |
10:15-10:35 |
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| LUCIA TAJOLI (with Salvatore Baldone and Fabio Sdogati), International fragmentation of production and the international division of labor | RICHARD CHISIK (with Ron Davies), Gradualism in tax Treaties with Irreversible FDI | KOEN BERDEN (with C. van Marrewijk), New Goods and Development |
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10:45-11:15 | Coffee |
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| D SESSIONS |
| Parallel Session D.1 Agriculture | Parallel Session D.2 MNEs and FDI II | Parallel Session D.3 International Political Economy IV | Parallel Session D.4 Empirics IV |
11:15-11:35 |
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| ADAM BLAKE (with G. Sugiyarto and M.T. Sinclair), The Economy-Wide Effects of the Foot and Mouth Disease | FRANCESCA DI MAURO, Intra-industry investment: evidence, determinants and links to intra-industry trade | M. OZGUR KAYALICA (with Rafael E. Ramirez), Political Contributions, Foreign Direct Investment and Mergers | SALVADOR BARRIOS (with Holger Gorg and Eric Strob), Explaining Firms' Export Behaviour: The Role of Skills, R&D, and Spillovers |
11:35-11:55 |
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| SELIM CAGATAY (with Caroline Saunders), The Impact on the Turkish Agricultural Sector of the Potential Extension of the CU Agreement to Cover Agricultural Commodities | GIULIA FAGGIO, Location decisions of multinational enterprises: the experiences of Poland, Bulgaria and Romania | MIKHAIL KLIMNKO, Strategic Interoperability Standards and Trade Policy in Industries with Network Externalities | CEES VAN BEERS, Do Firms' Goals to Innovate Matter for their Export Performance |
11:55-12:15 |
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| GULDAGER JORGENSEN (with Jan Philipp Schröder), Tariffication under Monopolisitic Competition: conflict between consumer and government interests | JOSE MARIA LOPEZ, (with Praveen Kujal), Product Differentiation and the Multinational Firm: A general equilibrium model | KIRSTI KUISMA, Trade, war and peace | STEFANO CHIARLONE, Country Specialisation and Trade Overlap: who are the East European Countries competing with? |
12:15-12:35 |
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| FERNANDO MERINO, Are foreign capitals leaving Spanish industrial firms? | LUCA LAMBERTINI (with Giacomo Calzolari), Tariffs vs Quotas in a Model of Trade with Capital Accumulation | PAUL BRENTON (with Marc Vancauteren), Economic Integration in Europe, Technical Barriers to Trade and Home Bias |
12:45-14:00 | Lunch |
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