Past Conferences

CESifo Conference

	Area Conference on Global Economy CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 27-28 February 2009 Programme

	Friday, 27 February 2009
9:00 - 9:05	Welcome & Introduction JOHN WHALLEY
	Session 1
09:05 - 09:50	Viewing Tax Policy Through Party-Colored Glasses: What German Politicians Believe Friedrich Heinemann (ZEW Mannheim) and ECKHARD JANEBA (University of Mannheim)
09:50 - 10:35	Optimal Education Policies and Comparative Advantage Spiros Bougheas (University of Nottingham), Richard Kneller (University of Nottingham) and RAYMOND RIEZMAN (University of Iowa)
10:35 - 10:55	Coffee break
10:55 - 11:40	International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach DENNIS NOVY (University of Warwick) and Natalie Chen (University of Warwick)
11:40 - 12:25	International Trade in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium PETER NEARY (University of Oxford)
12:25 - 13:25	Lunch
	Session 2
13:25 - 14:10	Trade Liberalisation with State-Owned Enterprises: The Case of Vietnam HENRIK FOSSE (Copenhagen Business School) and Rascalis Raimondos-Møller (Copenhagen Business School)
14:10 - 14:55	The Trade Effects of Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements PETER EGGER (Ifo Institute), Mario Larch (Ifo Institute), Kevin E. Staub (University of Zurich) and Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich)
14:55 - 15:15	Coffee break
15:15 -16:00	The Trade and Welfare Effects of Mergers in Space HARTMUT EGGER (University of Bayreuth) and Peter Egger (University of Munich)
16:00 - 16:45	Market Penetration Costs and Trade Dynamics COSTAS ARKOLAKIS (Yale University)
19:00	Conference Dinner at the Eisbach Restaurant
	Saturday, 28 February 2009
	Session 3
09:00 - 09:45	Transition and Compensation in Efficient Trade Agreements ERIC W. BOND (Vanderbilt University)
09:45 - 10:30	The Extensive Margin of Exporting Goods: A Firm-level Analysis MARC-ANDREAS MUENDLER (UC San Diego and Princeton University) and Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:35	International Trade and Retailing CARSTEN ECKEL(University of Bamberg)
11:35 - 12:20	International Trade with Heterogeneous Retailers HORST RAFF (Christian-Albrecht-Universität Kiel) and Nicolas Schmidt (Simon Fraser University)
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch
13:20 - 14:05	How Does Modern Globalization Affect Convergence Between Nations? PAVEL VOROBYEV (Ural State University)
14:05 - 14:50	Sequential Exporting Facundo Albornoz (University of Birmigham). Héctor F. Calvo Pardo (University of Southampton), GREGORY CORCOS (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) and Emanuel Ornelas (London School of Economics)
14:50 - 15:10	Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:55	The Customs Union Issue: Why Do We Observe so Few of Them? GIOVANNI FACCHINI (University of Essex), Peril Silvaz (University of North Dakota) and Gerald Willmann (K. U. Leuven)
15:55 - 16:40	Dynamic Correlation Analysis of Business Cycles of the Emerging Asian Giants: The Awakening Jarko Fidrmuc (University of Munich), IIKKA KORHONEN (Bank of Finland) and Ivana Bátorová (Comelius University)
16:50	Announcement of the distinguished CESifo Affilate END OF THE CONFERENCE

Area Conference on Global Economy

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich 27-28 February 2009

Programme

Friday, 27 February 2009

Session 1

Session 2

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Session 3

Area Conference
on Global Economy

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
27-28 February 2009