Spring 2005 Midwest International Economics |
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Summary of All Sessions |
| # | Date/Time | Location | Type | Title | Papers |
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| 1 | 22 April 14:15-16:15 | 4309 Stevenson Center | invited | 1-A | 3 |
| 2 | 22 April 14:15-16:15 | 1206 Stevenson Center | invited | 1-B | 3 |
| 3 | 22 April 16:40-18:00 | 4309 Stevenson Center | invited | 2-A | 2 |
| 4 | 22 April 16:40-18:00 | 1206 Stevenson Center | invited | 2-B | 2 |
| 5 | 23 April 8:30-9:30 | 113 Wilson Hall | invited | 3-A | 2 |
| 6 | 23 April 8:30-9:30 | 126 Wilson Hall | invited | 3-B | 3 |
| 7 | 23 April 8:30-9:30 | 122 Wilson Hall | invited | 3-C | 3 |
| 8 | 23 April 10:00-11:00 | 113 Wilson Hall | invited | 4-A | 3 |
| 9 | 23 April 10:00-11:00 | 126 Wilson Hall | invited | 4-B | 3 |
| 10 | 23 April 10:00-11:00 | 122 Wilson Hall | invited | 4-C | 3 |
| 11 | 23 April 11:30-12:30 | 113 Wilson Hall | invited | 5-A | 3 |
| 12 | 23 April 11:30-12:30 | 126 Wilson Hall | invited | 5-B | 3 |
| 13 | 23 April 11:30-12:30 | 122 Wilson Hall | invited | 5-C | 3 |
| 14 | 23 April 14:15-15:45 | 126 Wilson Hall | invited | 6 | 2 |
| 15 | 23 April 16:15-17:45 | 126 Wilson Hall | invited | 7 | 2 |
| 16 | 24 April 8:30-10:15 | 113 Wilson Hall | invited | 8-A | 3 |
| 17 | 24 April 8:30-10:15 | 122 Wilson Hall | invited | 8-B | 2 |
| 18 | 24 April 10:45-11:55 | 113 Wilson Hall | invited | 9-A | 2 |
| 19 | 24 April 10:45-11:55 | 122 Wilson Hall | invited | 9-B | 2 |
19 sessions, 49 papers |
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Spring 2005 Midwest International Economics |
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Complete List of All Sessions |
Session 1: 1-A |
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| Session Chair: Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 22, 2005 |
| Time: 14:15 - 16:15 |
| Location: 4309 Stevenson Center |
| Asylum seekers in Europe: The warm glow of a hot potato |
| By Giovanni Facchini, Oliver Lorz and Gerald Willmann |
| Presented by: Giovanni Facchini, University of Illinois |
| An Uzawa-Oniki-Uzawa dynamic model of international trade |
| By Been-Lon Chen, Kazuo Nishimura, and Koji Shimomura |
| Presented by: Koji Shimomura, Kobe University |
| The Export Decision in the Presence of Underemployment |
| By Carl Davidson, Steven Matusz, Andrei Shevchenko |
| Presented by: Carl Davidson, Michigan State University |
Session 2: 1-B |
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| Session Chair: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 22, 2005 |
| Time: 14:15 - 16:15 |
| Location: 1206 Stevenson Center |
| Gains from Sequential Trade |
| By Benjamin Eden |
| Presented by: Ben Eden, Vanderbilt university |
| Mergers vs Joint Ventures vs Greenfield Investment: A Comprehensive Treatment of Foreign Direct Investment |
| By Horst Raff, Michael Ryan, Frank Stahler |
| Presented by: Michael Ryan, Western Michigan University |
| Credit, Growth, and Trade Policy |
| By Abhijit Banerjee and Andrew F. Newman |
| Presented by: Andrew Newman, Boston University, Princeton, UCL, CEPR |
Session 3: 2-A |
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| Session Chair: Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 22, 2005 |
| Time: 16:40 - 18:00 |
| Location: 4309 Stevenson Center |
| Fair Wages, Unemployment and Technological Change in a Global Economy |
| By Udo Kreickemeier and Douglas Nelson |
| Presented by: Udo Kreickemeier, University of Nottingham |
| Patent Protection and Global Schumpeterian Growth |
| By Elias Dinopoulos, Ali Gungoraydinoglu, Costas Syropoulos |
| Presented by: Elias Dinopoulos, public |
Session 4: 2-B |
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| Session Chair: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 22, 2005 |
| Time: 16:40 - 18:00 |
| Location: 1206 Stevenson Center |
| International Trade and Tax Competition for a Duopoly |
| By Ben Ferrett, Ian Wooton |
| Presented by: Ben Ferrett, University of Nottingham |
| Price Dispersion: The Role of Borders, Distance and Location |
| By Mario Crucini, Chris Telmer, Marios Zachariadis |
| Presented by: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University |
Session 5: 3-A |
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| Session Chair: Benjamin Zissimos, Vanderbilt Univ. |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 9:30 |
| Location: 113 Wilson Hall |
| Evidence for the Natural Trade Partners Theory from the Euro-Mediterranean Region |
| By Yener Kandogan |
| Presented by: Yener Kandogan, University of Michigan-Flint |
| Zooming Out: The Trade Effect of the Euro in Historical Perspective |
| By Helge Berger, Volker Nitsch |
| Presented by: Volker Nitsch, Free University Berlin |
Session 6: 3-B |
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| Session Chair: Susan Zhu, |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 9:30 |
| Location: 126 Wilson Hall |
| Entry and Exit in International Markets: Evidence from Chilean Data |
| By Roberto Alvarez and Ricardo Lopez |
| Presented by: Ricardo Lopez, Indiana University |
| Does It Matter Where You Come From?Vertical Spillovers from FDI and Investor’s Nationality |
| By Beata Javorcik, Kamal Saggi, Mariana Spatareanu |
| Presented by: Mariana Spatareanu, World Bank |
| Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers: Gradualism May Be Better |
| By Klaus Desmet and Juan Rojas |
| Presented by: Klaus Desmet, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
Session 7: 3-C |
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| Session Chair: Peter Egger, public |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 9:30 |
| Location: 122 Wilson Hall |
| Foreign Takeovers and Wages: Theory and Evidence from Hungary |
| By Sandor Csengödi; Rolf Jungnickel; Dieter Urban |
| Presented by: Dieter Urban, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz |
| Fragmentation, Outsourcing, Immigration and the Labor Market |
| By Morihiro Yomogida and Laixun Zhao |
| Presented by: L ZHAO, |
| A Differential Game Theoretic Analysis of International Trade in Renewable Resources |
| By Amit Batabyal and Hamid Beladi |
| Presented by: Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology |
Session 8: 4-A |
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| Session Chair: Benjamin Zissimos, Vanderbilt Univ. |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 10:00 - 11:00 |
| Location: 113 Wilson Hall |
| North American Integration and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment |
| By Ayça Tekin-Koru, Andreas Waldkirch |
| Presented by: Andreas Waldkirch, Oregon State University |
| Foreign Direct Investment and the Degree of Southern Penetration |
| By Chia-Hui Lu |
| Presented by: Chia-Hui Lu, Academia Sinica |
| Technology Diffusion and Productivity:Trade, FDI and Information Flows |
| By Beata S. Javorcik, Aaditya Mattoo, Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang |
| Presented by: Yanling Wang, Carleton University |
Session 9: 4-B |
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| Session Chair: Susan Zhu, |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 10:00 - 11:00 |
| Location: 126 Wilson Hall |
| Intra-industry Trade Expansion and Reallocation Between Sectors and Occupations |
| By Manuel Cabral and Joana Silva |
| Presented by: Joana Silva, University of Nottingham |
| Infrastructure, Multinational Affiliate Production, and the Pattern of Trade |
| By Derek K. Kellenberg |
| Presented by: Derek Kellenberg, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| U.S. Exports and Multinational Production |
| By Huiwen Lai and Susan Chun Zhu |
| Presented by: Susan Zhu, |
Session 10: 4-C |
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| Session Chair: Peter Egger, public |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 10:00 - 11:00 |
| Location: 122 Wilson Hall |
| The Mortality, Fertility and Human Capital Nexus with and without Openness |
| By Berhanu Abegaz, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau |
| Presented by: Arnab Basu, College of William and Mary |
| Unsafe-Food Trade |
| By Elias Dinopoulos, Grigorios Livanis, Carol West |
| Presented by: Grigorios Livanis, University of Florida |
| The Variety Effects of Trade Liberalization |
| By Shenjie Chen and Eugene Beaulieu |
| Presented by: Eugene Beaulieu, University of Calgary |
Session 11: 5-A |
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| Session Chair: Benjamin Zissimos, Vanderbilt Univ. |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
| Location: 113 Wilson Hall |
| The Pattern of International Trade under Quasi-Linear Utility Functions |
| By Kenji Fujiwara and Koji Shimomura |
| Presented by: Kenji Fujiwara, Kobe University |
| Heterogeneous firms and dynamic gains from trade |
| By Julian Emami Namini |
| Presented by: Julian Emami Namini, University of Duisburg-Essen |
| Knowledge-Capital Meets New Economic Geography |
| By Peter Egger, Stefan Gruber, Mario Larch, Michael Pfaffermayr |
| Presented by: Mario Larch, private |
Session 12: 5-B |
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| Session Chair: Susan Zhu, |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
| Location: 126 Wilson Hall |
| Status-Seeking, Catching-Up, and Policy Effects in a Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model |
| By Koji Shimomura, Yunfang Hu |
| Presented by: Yunfang Hu, Kobe University |
| Productivity Improvements and Falling Trade Costs: Boon or Bane? |
| By Svetlana Demidova |
| Presented by: Svetlana Demidova, Penn State University |
| International Price Dispersion and the Direction of Trade |
| By Ozlem Inanc and Marios Zachariadis |
| Presented by: Marios Zachariadis, Louisiana State University |
Session 13: 5-C |
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| Session Chair: Peter Egger, public |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 11:30 - 12:30 |
| Location: 122 Wilson Hall |
| Exchange Rate Effects on Complex FDI: Theory and Evidence |
| By Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, Michael Ryan |
| Presented by: Peter Egger, public |
| The Dynamics of International Trade Patterns: Measurement and Determinants |
| By Paulo Bastos and Manuel Cabral |
| Presented by: Paulo Bastos, University of Nottingham |
| Greenfield Investments versus Cross-border M&As: Does Corruption Make a Difference? |
| By Ayça Tekin-Koru |
| Presented by: Ayca Tekin-Koru, Oregon State University |
Session 14: 6 |
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| Session Chair: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 14:15 - 15:45 |
| Location: 126 Wilson Hall |
| Market Structure in Services and Market Access in Goods |
| By Joseph Francois, Ian Wooton |
| Presented by: Ian Wooton, Univ. of Strathclyde |
| Vertical Distribution, Parallel Trade, and Price Divergence in Integrated Markets |
| By Mattias Ganslandt and Keith E. Maskus |
| Presented by: Keith Maskus, University of Colorado |
Session 15: 7 |
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| Session Chair: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 23, 2005 |
| Time: 16:15 - 17:45 |
| Location: 126 Wilson Hall |
| Reelection Incentives and International Cooperation |
| By Paola Conconi and Nicolas Sahuguet |
| Presented by: Paola Conconi, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES), University of Warwick and CEPR |
| Can a Country Gain by Technology Loss |
| By Ronald W. Jones and Roy Ruffin |
| Presented by: Ronald Jones, University of Rochester |
Session 16: 8-A |
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| Session Chair: Benjamin Zissimos, Vanderbilt Univ. |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 24, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:15 |
| Location: 113 Wilson Hall |
| A Reputation Model of Quality in North-South Trade |
| By Eric Rasmusen |
| Presented by: Eric Rasmusen, |
| Trade and Growth in the Presence of Distortions |
| By James Cassing and Stephen Tokarick |
| Presented by: Stephen Tokarick, International Monetary Fund |
| Why Are Trade Blocks Regional? Part II: A Theory Based on Cross Hauling |
| By Ben Zissimos |
| Presented by: Benjamin Zissimos, Vanderbilt Univ. |
Session 17: 8-B |
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| Session Chair: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 24, 2005 |
| Time: 8:30 - 10:15 |
| Location: 122 Wilson Hall |
| Bilateral war in a multilateral world: carrots and sticks for conflict resolution |
| By Zsolt Becsi and Sajal Lahiri |
| Presented by: Sajal Lahiri, Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| WTO as Moral Support |
| By Taiji Furusawa |
| Presented by: Taiji Furusawa, |
| Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions and the Role of Trade Costs |
| By Holger Gorg, Alexander Hijzen, Miriam Manchin |
| Presented by: Alexander Hijzen, University of Nottingham |
Session 18: 9-A |
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| Session Chair: Benjamin Zissimos, Vanderbilt Univ. |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 24, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 11:55 |
| Location: 113 Wilson Hall |
| Information and learning in strategic trade policy: the potential for ignorance to be bliss |
| By Anthony Creane and Kaz Miyagiwa |
| Presented by: Anthony Creane, Michigan State University |
| Trade Liberalization, Outsourcing, and the Hold Up Problem |
| By Emanuel Ornelas and John Turner |
| Presented by: Emanuel Ornelas, University of Georgia |
Session 19: 9-B |
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| Session Chair: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University |
| Session type: invited |
| Date: April 24, 2005 |
| Time: 10:45 - 11:55 |
| Location: 122 Wilson Hall |
| International Protection of Intellectual Property: An Empirical Investigation |
| By Edwin L.-C. LAI and Isabel K. YAN |
| Presented by: Edwin Lai, |
| Bonus Vetus OLS: A Simple OLS Approach for Addressing the "Border Puzzle" |
| By Scott L. Baier and Jeffrey H. Bergstrand |
| Presented by: Scott Baier, Clemson University |