MÜNCHEN-TÜBINGEN
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

21 - 22 OCTOBER 2011
Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Munich

Programme

Friday, 21 October 2011

09:00 - 10:00

Keynote Lecture
Understanding Markups in the Open Economy under Bertrand Competition
KATHERYN RUSS

Multinational Firms

10:00 - 10:30

On the Differences Between FDI in Services and in Manufacturing
MARTINA ENGEMANN and Henrike Lindemann

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

International Sourcing, Product Complexity and Intellectual Property Rights
JULIA SPIES, Alireza Naghavi and Farid Toubal

11:30 - 12:30

The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
ANNA GUMPERT, James R. Hines Jr and Monika Schnitzer

12:30 - 13:00

Offshoring, Innovation and Imitation
SEBASTIAN BENZ

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

Firm Heterogeneity

14:00 – 14:30

Are "pick-the-winner" Strategies Efficient when Firms Differ in Productivity?
DOMINIKA LANGENMAYR

14:30 – 15:00

The Role of Market Size in the Melitz Model
BENJAMIN JUNG

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

Gravity

15:30 – 16:00

A Gravity Equation for Bank Loans
ESTEBAN PRIETO

16:00 – 16:30

Readressing the Trade Effect of the Euro: Allowing for Currency Misalignment
WILHELM KOHLER

16:30 – 17:00

The Long-Run Trade Costs of the American Secession
Gabriel Felbermayr and JASMIN GRÖSCHL

19:00

Conference Dinner

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Financial Frictions

09:00 - 09:30

Financial Constraints and the Missing Technology Adoption
KATRIN PETERS

09:30 - 10:00

Financial Constraints and the Role of Patents
TATJANA NABOKIN

10:00 - 10:30

Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Stability: What Role for Heterogeneous Banks?
FRANZISKA-MARIA BREMUS

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

International Migration

11:00 - 11:30

Migration, Trade and Unemployment
BENEDIKT HEID and Mario Larch

11:30 - 12:00

Who Stays, Who Leaves? A Behavioral Explanation for Student Return Migration
JENS WRONA

12:00 - 12:30

Heterogeneous Workers, Trade and Migration
INGA HEILAND

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

MÜNCHEN-TÜBINGEN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

21 - 22 OCTOBER 2011 Ifo Institute for Economic Research Munich

Programme

Friday, 21 October 2011

Multinational Firms

Firm Heterogeneity

Gravity

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Financial Frictions

International Migration

MÜNCHEN-TÜBINGEN
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS WORKSHOP

21 - 22 OCTOBER 2011
Ifo Institute for Economic Research
Munich