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Area Conference
on Global Economy
CESifo Conference Centre, Munich
11-12 February 2011
Programme
Friday, 11 February 2011
08:45 - 09:00
Welcome & Introduction
JOHN WHALLEY (University of Western Ontario) and PETER EGGER (ETH, Zurich)
Session 1
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote Address
Income Distribution, Product Quality and International Trade
Pablo Fajgelbaum, GENE M.GROSSMAN (Princeton University) and Elhanan Helpman
10:00 - 10:40
Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms
Monika Mràzovà and J. PETER NEARY (University of Oxford)
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40
Market Entry Costs, Underemployment and International Trade
Spiros Bougheas and RAYMOND RIEZMAN (University of Iowa)
11:40 - 12:20
Managerial Versus Production Wages: Offshoring, Country Size and Endowments
WILHELM KOHLER (University of Tübingen) and Sebastian Benz
12:20 - 13:00
Guest-worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
LEONID V.AZARNERT (Bar Ilan University)
13:00 - 14.15
Lunch
Session 2a
Parallel Session
14:15 - 14:45
Foreign Market Entry Under Incomplete Conracts
TOBIAS SEIDEL (ETH Zurich)
15:15 - 15:45
What Determines BITs?
JEFFREY BERGSTRAND (University of Notre Dame) and Peter Egger
15:15 - 15:45
Structural Estimation of Gravity Models with Market Entry Dynamics
PETER EGGER (ETH Zurich), Andrea Leiter and Michael Pfaffermayr
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee Break
Session 2b
Parallel Session
14:15 - 14:45
A Race Beyond the Bottom: The Nature of Bidding for a Firm
Taiji Furusawa, Kazumi Hori and IAN WOOTON (University of Strathclyde)
14:45 - 15:15
Do Natural Resources Attract FDI? Evidence from Non-stationary Sector Level Data
STEVEN POELHEKKE (De Nederlandsche Bank) and Frederick van der Ploeg
16:45 - 17:15
Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies: Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments
Michael Keen and CHRISTOS KOTSOGIANNIS (University of Exeter Business School)
15:45 - 16:15
Coffee Break
Session 3a
Parallel Session
16:15 - 16:45
The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration
GIOVANNI FACCHINI (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Cecilia Testa
15:15 - 15:45
Input Charakteristics and the Mode of Offshoring: Evidence for French Firms
Liza Jabbour and RICHARD KNELLER (University of Nottingham)
17:15 - 17:45
Back on the Rails: Competition and Productivity in State-owned Industry
Sanghamitra Das, KALA KRISHNA (Pennsylvania State University), Sergey Lychagin and Rohini Somanathan
Session 3b
Parallel Session
16:15 -16:45
Would Global Patent Protection be Too Weak Without International Coordination
EDWIN LAI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Isabel Yan
16:45 - 17:15
Trade Liberalization and Credit Constraints: Why "opening up" May Fail to Promote Technology Adoption
Katrin Peters and MONIKA SCHNITZER (University of Munich)
17:15 - 17:45
Innovation, Trade and Finance
Peter Egger and CHRISTIAN KEUSCHNIGG (University of St. Gallen)
19:00
Conference Dinner
Saturday, 12 February 2011
Session 4
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote Address
The Macro and Micro of International Trade: Theory at Different Levels of Aggregation
COSTAS ARKOLAKIS (Yale University)
Session 5
Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
10:00 - 10:30
The Elasticity of Trade: Estimates and Evidence
INA SIMONOVSKA (University of California, Davis) and Michael E. Waugh
10:30 - 11:00
An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains
Arnaud Costinot, JONATHAN VOGEL (Columbia University) and Su Wang
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00
Towards a Theory of Trade Finance
TIM SCHMIDT-EISENLOHR (SAID Business School, University of Oxford)
12:00 - 12:30
Diplomacy and the International Trade in Natural Resources
ROBERTO BONFATTI (University of Oxford)
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
Session 6
13:30 - 14:00
Foreign Exchange Windfalls, Imports and Exports
TORFINN HARDING (University of Oxford) and Anthony J. Venables
14:00 - 14:30
Which Sectors of a Modern Economy are Most Central
ERIC O' N. FISHER (California Polytechnic State University), Florian Böchl, Fabian J.Theis and Fernando Vega-Redondo
14:30 - 15:00
Trade and Imperfect Competition in General Equilibrium
Onur Koska and FRANK STÄHLER (University of Würzburg)
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee Break
Session 7
14:45 - 15:15
Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions and Trade Patterns
Christian Holzner and MARIO LARCH (University of Bayreuth)
15:45 - 16:15
Wage Premia in Unionised General Equilibrium
UDO KREICKEMEIER (University of Tübingen) and Frode Meland
16:15 - 16:45
International Trade and Income Distribution: The Effect of Corporate Governance Regimes
HARTMUT EGGER (University of Bayreuth), Peter Egger and Douglas Nelson
END OF THE CONFERENCE
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