Area Conference on Global Economy

	Programme
	Friday, 13 April 2007
09:00 - 09:05	Welcome/Organisation
09:15 - 10:00	Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience Thierry Bracke (European Central Bank)
10:00 - 11:00	Current Account Surpluses and Conflicted Virtue in East Asia: China and Japan under the Dollar Standard Gunther Schnabl (Leipzig University)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	Substitutability and Protectionism: Latin America’s Trade Policy and Imports from China and India Giovanni Facchini (University of Illinois)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch


14:00 - 15:00	Euro Effects on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade Harry Flam (University of Mannheim)
15:00 - 16:00	Anti-dumping,intra-industry trade and quality reversals Jean-Marie Viaene ( Erasmus University)
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:30	Firm Heterogeneity and the Labour Market Effects of Trade Liberalisation Hartmut Egger (University of Zurich)
19:00	Dinner

	Saturday, 14 April 2007
09:00 - 10:00	Is Partial Tax Harmonization Desirable? Ray Riezman (University of Iowa)
10:00 - 11:00	Die Another Day: Duration in German Import Trade Volker Nitsch(Freie Universitaet Berlin)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30	Interdependent Preferential Trade Agreement Memberships: An Empiracal Analysis Peter Egger (Innsbruck, Kellogg, Notre Dame)
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch


13:30 - 14:30	Workers Without Borders: Culture and the Political Limits to Globalization Sharun Mukand ( Tufts University)
14:30 - 15:30	Real Exchange Rates in Small Open OECD and Transition Economies: Comparing Apples with Oranges? Balazs Egert (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)

Area Conference on Global Economy

Programme