Friday, 25 January 2008
Welcome & Introduction JOHN WHALLEY
Session I
Does the IMF Help or Hurt? The Effect of IMF Programs on the Likelihood and Outcome of Currency Crises AXEL DREHER and Stefanie Walter
Fast Track Authority and International Trade Negotiations GIOVANNI FACCHINI, Paola Conconi and M. Zanardi
Coffee break
An Economic Theory of GATT: Comment PASCALIS RAIMONDOS-MØLLER and Alan D. Woodland
Borders and Distance in Knowledge Flows: Dying over Time or Dying with Age? Evidence from Patent Citations YAO LI
Lunch
14:10 - 14:55
Rigid Labour Markets and Intra-Industry Trade: The Evidence TOBIAS SEIDEL, Peter Egger and David Greenaway
14:55 - 15:15
15:15 -16:00
Fairness, Trade and Inequality HARTMUT EGGER
16:00 - 16:15
Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence HIROYUKI KASAHARA
16:55-17:35
Endogeneous Borders? The Effect of New Borders on Trade in Central Europe 1885-1933 NIKOLAUS WOLF
19:00
Dinner at the Seehaus Restaurant Keynote Dinner Speech: The Technology Transfer Paradox RONALD W. JONES
Keynote Presentation:
Firm Heterogeneity, Demand Shocks and Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Bangladesh KALA KRISHNA
09:45 - 10:30
Regulating National Firms in a Common Market SARA BIANCINI
The Joint Impact of Remnimbi Revaluation on Trade Flows and the Trade Surplus JOHN WHALLEY and Li Wang
12:20- 13:20
13:20- 14:05
Preference-Based Outsourcing: A Steady-State Analysis RAYMOND RIEZMAN and Ping Wang
Gravity Redux: Structural Estimation of Gravity Equations with Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs PETER EGGER, Jeff Bergstrand and Mario Larch
Market Structure And Vertical Linkage Effects From Foreign Direct Investment SERGEY KADOCHNIKOV and Igor M. Drapkin
Foreign Takeovers and Wage Dispersion in Hungary DIETER URBAN and Sandor Csengödi
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