Venice Summer Institute

Venice Summer Institute

Workshop on
"The Many Dimensions of Competitiveness"

Venice International University,

San Servolo, 20 - 21 July 2007

	Programme
	Friday, 20 July 2007
	Session 1:
09:00 - 09:05	Welcome Address PAUL DE GRAUWE

9:05 - 10:05	Keynote Lecture: TBA XAVIER SALA-I-MARTIN
10:05 - 10:30	Coffee break
	Session 2:
10:30 - 11:30	OECD Views on Competitiveness ROMAIN DUVAL and Jean-Philippe Cotis Discussant: Reinhilde Veugelers
11:30 - 12:30	Concepts and Measurements of Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage: Towards an Integrated Approach ECKHARD SIGGEL Discussant: Harry Bowen
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 3:
14:00 - 15:00	Explaining and Forecasting Euro Area Exports: What Competitiveness Indicator Performs Best? MICHELE CA'ZORZI and Bernd Schnatz Discussant: Christoph Fischer
15:00 - 16:00	An Assessment of the Trends in International Price Competitiveness among EMU Countries CHRISTOPH FISCHER Discussant: Michele Ca'Zorzi
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
	Session 4:
16:30 - 17:30	Benchmarking the Competitiveness of Nations: Benevolence versus Equal Treatment? HARRY BOWEN and Wim Moesen Discussant: Eckhard Siggel

	Saturday, 21 July 2007
	Session 5:
	Session 5:
9:00 - 10:00	Taxes and Competitiveness MICHAEL KNOLL Discussant: Richard Frensch
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
	Session 6:
10:30 - 11:30	Product Variety and Technical Change RICHARD FRENSCH and Vitalija Gaucaite-Wittich Discussant: Leo Sleuwaegen
11:30 - 12:30	Competitiveness: A Comparison between China and Latin-America FELICITAS NOWAK-LEHMANN, Sebastian Vollmer and Immaculada Martínez-Zarzoso Discussant: Laura Márquez-Ramos
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session 7:
14:00 - 15:00	Understanding the Determinants of International Trade in African Countries: An Empirical Analysis for Ghana and South Africa LAURA MÁRQUEZ-RAMOS Discussant: Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
15:00 - 16:00	Which Policies and Matter for Competitiveness of Vietnam's Textiles and Garments Firms? PHAM THI ANH TUYET, Nguyen Thang and John Cockburn Discussant: Helga Kristjánsdóttir

Venice Summer Institute Workshop on "The Many Dimensions of Competitiveness"

Venice International University, San Servolo, 20 - 21 July 2007

Programme

Venice Summer Institute

Workshop on
"The Many Dimensions of Competitiveness"

Venice International University,

San Servolo, 20 - 21 July 2007