Past Conferences

	Area Conference on Global Economy CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany 19-20 February 2010 Programme

	Friday, 19 February 2010
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome & Introduction JOHN WHALLEY (University of Western Ontario and CESifo) and PETER EGGER (KOF, Zürich)
	Session I Chair: John Whalley
09:00 - 10:00	Preparing to Export MARC MUENDLER (UC San Diego) and Danielken Molina (UC San Diego)
10:00 - 11:00	Tear Down This Wall: On the Persistence of Borders in Trade VOLKER NITSCH (Technical University of Darmstadt) and Nikolaus Wolf (University of Warwick)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30	Keynote Address Spreading the Benefits: International Spillovers From Natural Resources' ANTHONY VENABLES (Oxford University)
12:30 - 13:45	Lunch
	Session II
13:45 - 14:45	International Trade and Monopolistic Competition Without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity DENNIS NOVY (University of Warwick)
14:45 - 15:45	Keynote Address Trade Agreements and Credibility Gains MARCELO OLARREAGA (University of Geneva), Jean-Louis Arcand (Graduate Institute Geneva) and Laura Zoratto (Graduate Institute Geneva)
15:45 - 16:00	Coffee Break
	Session III
16:00 - 17:00	Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidate Firm Heterogenity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments IVAN CHERKASHIN (The Pennsylvania State University), Svetlana Demidova (McMaster University), Hiau Looi Kee (World Bank) and Kala Krishna (The Pennsylvania State University)
17:00 - 18:00	Policymaker's Horizon and Economic Reforms GIOVANNI FACCHINI (Erasmus University, Rotterdam), Paola Conconi (Free University of Brussels) and Maurizio Zanardi (Free University of Brussels)
19:30	Conference Dinner
	Saturday, 20 February 2010 Parallel Session on China
	Session IV a
09:00 - 10:00	Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidate Measuring China's Economy: The Use of PPP Data from the World Bank ICP 2005 Program NINGHUA ZHONG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and George J. Gilboy (MIT)
10:00 - 11:00	Time Varying Exchange Rate Basket in China: Fake Floating JARKO FIDRMUC (OeNB)
11:00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	The Potential Global and Developing Country Impacts of Alternative Emission Cuts and Accompanying Mechanisms for the Post Copenhagen Process JOHN WHALLEY (University of Western Ontario) and Huifang Tian (University of Western Ontario)
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
	Parallel Session IV b
09:00 - 10:00	The Trade Effects of Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements PETER EGGER (ETH Zurich), Mario Larch (CESifo), Kevin E. Staub (University of Zurich) and Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich)
10:00 - 11:00	Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidate Globalization, Gender and Development: Effect of Trade on Child Outcomes BEYZA URAL MARCHAND (University of Alberta), Ray Rees (University of Munich) and Ray Riezman (University of Iowa)
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30	Why Foreign Ownership May Be Good for You UDO KREICKEMEIER (University of Tuebingen) and Hartmut Egger (University of Bayreuth)
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
	Parallel Session Va
13:30 - 14:30	Knockin' on Wal-Mart's Door: Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy HORST RAFF (University of Kiel) and Nicolas Schmitt (Simon Fraser University)
14:30 - 15:30	Does Public Governance Always Matter? How Experience of Poor Institutional Quality Influences FDI to the South IAN WOOTON (University of Strathclyde), Julia Darby (University of Strathclyde) and Rodolphe Desbordes (University of Strathclyde)
	Parallel Session Vb
13:30 - 14:30	International Welfare and Employment Linkages Arising from Minimum Wages HARTMUT EGGER (University of Bayreuth), Peter Egger (ETH Zurich) and James R. Markusen (University of Colorado)
14:30 - 15:30	Trade, Urbanization and Capital Accumulation in a Labor Surplus Economy RAYMOND RIEZMAN (University of Iowa), Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University) and Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis)

Area Conference on Global Economy

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany 19-20 February 2010

Programme

Friday, 19 February 2010

Session I Chair: John Whalley

Session II

Session III

Saturday, 20 February 2010 Parallel Session on China

Session IV a

Parallel Session IV b

Parallel Session Va

Parallel Session Vb

Area Conference
on Global Economy

CESifo Conference Centre, Munich, Germany
19-20 February 2010

Session I
Chair: John Whalley

Saturday, 20 February 2010
Parallel Session on China