Spring 2007 Midwest Trade Meeting

Summary of All Sessions

#Date/TimeLocationTypeTitlePapers
1April 20, 2007
14:15-15:45
Blegen 135 invited 1-A3
2April 20, 2007
14:15-15:45
Blegen 150 invited 1-B3
3April 20, 2007
16:15-17:45
Blegen 135 invited 2-A3
4April 20, 2007
16:15-17:45
Blegen 150 invited 2-B3
5April 21, 2007
9:00-10:30
Blegen 130 invited 3-A3
6April 21, 2007
9:00-10:30
Blegen 135 invited 3-B3
7April 21, 2007
9:00-10:30
Blegen 140 invited 3-C0
8April 21, 2007
11:00-12:30
Blegen 130 invited 4-A3
9April 21, 2007
11:00-12:30
Blegen 135 invited 4-B3
10April 21, 2007
11:00-12:30
Blegen 140 invited 4-C3
11April 21, 2007
14:15-15:45
Blegen 10 invited 52
12April 21, 2007
16:15-17:45
Blegen 10 invited 63
13April 22, 2007
9:00-10:30
Blegen 130 invited 7-A3
14April 22, 2007
9:00-10:30
Blegen 135 invited 7-B3
15April 22, 2007
11:00-12:30
Blegen 130 invited 8-A3
16April 22, 2007
11:00-12:30
Blegen 135 invited 8-B3
 

16 sessions, 44 papers


 

Spring 2007 Midwest Trade Meeting

Complete List of All Sessions


Session 1: 1-A

Session Chair: Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2007
Time: 14:15 - 15:45
Location: Blegen 135
 

Opening the innovation frontier: Technological innovation, the global pursuit of knowledge, and sophisticated competition
By Sheryl Winston Smith, Ph.D. Department of Finance Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota
   Presented by: Sheryl Smith, Carlson School of Mgmt., Univ. of Minn.
 

Thick Market Externality and the Trade-Comovement Puzzle
By Lukasz A. Drozd University of Minnesota Jaromir B. Nosal University of Minnesota
   Presented by: Jaromir Nosal, University of Minnesota
 

International Labor Standards and Southern Competition
By Lex Zhao, RIEB, Kobe University
   Presented by: Laixun (Lex) Zhao, Kobe University

Session 2: 1-B

Session Chair: Richard Chisik, Florida International University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2007
Time: 14:15 - 15:45
Location: Blegen 150
 

Trade and Variety-Skill Complementarity
By Yoshinori Kurokawa University of Minnesota
   Presented by: Yoshinori Kurokawa, University of Minnesota
 

When Are Variety Gains from Trade Important? Domestic Productivity and the Cost of Protectionism
By Adina Ardelean (Purdue University) Volodymyr Lugovskyy (University of Memphis)
   Presented by: Volodymyr Lugovskyy, University of Memphis
 

Offshoring and Unemployment
By Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University) Priya Ranjan (UC - Irvine)
   Presented by: Devashish Mitra, Syracuse University

Session 3: 2-A

Session Chair: Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2007
Time: 16:15 - 17:45
Location: Blegen 135
 

Environmental Labeling and International Trade
By Andrea Podhorsky, York University
   Presented by: Andrea Podhorsky, York University
 

Time Zones as a Source of Comparative Advanatge
By Kikuchi,Toru (Kobe University)
   Presented by: Toru Kikuchi, Kobe University
 

Asymmetric Trade Costs and Bilateral Trade
By Michael Waugh
   Presented by: Michael Waugh, University of Iowa

Session 4: 2-B

Session Chair: Richard Chisik, Florida International University
Session type: invited
Date: April 20, 2007
Time: 16:15 - 17:45
Location: Blegen 150
 

Legislated Protection and the WTO
By T. Renee Bowen, Georgetown University
   Presented by: Renee Bowen, Georgetown University
 

GATT/WTO Promotes Trade Strongly: Sample Selection and Model Specification
By Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University
   Presented by: Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University
 

Do Preferential Trade Agreements Created Under the GATT 1979 Enabling Clause Paragraph 2(c) Generate Economic Integration and Stability.
By Richard Chisik Florida International University
   Presented by: Richard Chisik, Florida International University

Session 5: 3-A

Session Chair: Mikhail Klimenko, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: Blegen 130
 

A Decomposition of US Net Exports Changes 1964-1991
By Agelos Delis, GEP Centre, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK (email: agelos.delis@nottingham.ac.uk)
   Presented by: Agelos Delis, GEP, University of Nottingham
 

Welfare Impacts of Cross-border M&A and Optimal Policy Measures
By Young-Han Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea H. Ryu, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea S. Hahn, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
   Presented by: Young-Han Kim, Sung Kyun Kwan University
 

Monopolistic Competition, Gravity Model and International Trade Between Continents
By Czarny Elżbieta, Warsaw School of Economics Sledziewska Katarzyna, Warsaw University
   Presented by: Katarzyna Sledziewska, Wasaw University

Session 6: 3-B

Session Chair: Emily Blanchard, University of Virginia
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: Blegen 135
 

Are the Antiglobalists Right? Gains-from-Trade without a Walrasian Auctioneer
By Hector Calvo Pardo University of Southampton
   Presented by: Hector Calvo Pardo, University of Southampton
 

Trade integration, Institutions and export specialisation
By Karen Crabbé, KULeuven Michel Beine, University of Luxembourg Hylke Vandenbussche, UCL and core Louvain-la-neuve
   Presented by: Karen Crabbé, KULeuven
 

THE IMPACT OF TRADE REFORM ON HOUSEHOLD WELFARE IN A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM FRAMEWORK: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
By Beyza Ural, Syracuse University
   Presented by: Beyza Ural, Syracuse University

Session 7: 3-C

Session Chair: Volker Nitsch, ETH Zurich
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: Blegen 140
 

Effects of Technology Improvement in the Ricardian Model
By Jiandong Ju, University of Oklahoma Xuebing Yang, University of Oklahoma
   Presented by: Jiandong Ju, University of Oklahoma
 

Size matters? Counterintuitive findings on export subsidies
By Christian Helmers Wolfson College University of Oxford Email: christian.helmers@economics.ox.ac.uk Natalia Trofimenko Kiel Institute for the World Economy Email: natalia.trofimenko@ifw-kiel.de
   Presented by: Natalia Trofimenko, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
 

TARIFF REDUCES UNPREDICTABILITY:A SOLUTION TO THE TARIFF REDUCTION PARADOX
By Yinggang Zhou (Cornell University)
   Presented by: Yinggang Zhou, Cornell University

Session 8: 4-A

Session Chair: Mikhail Klimenko, Georgia Institute of Technology
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Blegen 130
 

On the Magnet Effect of Foreign Direct Investment
By Chia-Hui Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Pao-Li Chang, Singapore Management University
   Presented by: Chia-Hui Lu, Academia Sinica
 

Indeterminacy in the free-trade world
By Junko Doi, Faculty of Ecomomics, Kansai University Kazumichi Iwasa, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University Koji Shimomura, RIEB, Kobe University
   Presented by: Kazumichi Iwasa, Kobe University
 

DURATION AND TERM STRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
By Sergei Guriev and Mikhail Klimenko
   Presented by: Mikhail Klimenko, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session 9: 4-B

Session Chair: Emily Blanchard, University of Virginia
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Blegen 135
 

The choice of inefficient instrument in a simple retrospective voting model with voter abstention
By Makoto Tanaka Ph.D canditate of Michigan State University
   Presented by: makoto tanaka, Michigan State University
 

Democracy and Trade Liberalization
By Samia Costa Tavares, Rochester Institute of Technology
   Presented by: Samia Tavares, Rochester Institute of Technology
 

Political Stasis or Protectionist Rut? Policy Mechanisms for Trade Reform Under Democracy
By Emily Blanchard University of Virginia Gerald Willmann University of Otago
   Presented by: Emily Blanchard, University of Virginia

Session 10: 4-C

Session Chair: Volker Nitsch, ETH Zurich
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Blegen 140
 

The Supply Chain Structure Matters for Trade
By Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné HEC Montreal and CIRANO Ari Van Assche HEC Montreal and CIRANO
   Presented by: Ari Van Assche, HEC Montréal
 

Equality through Exposure? International Trade and the
By Azim Essaji Wilfrid Laurier University Gregory Sweeney HDRINC
   Presented by: Azim Essaji, Wilfrid Laurier University
 

Die Another Day: Duration in German Import Trade
By Volker Nitsch, Free University Berlin
   Presented by: Volker Nitsch, ETH Zurich

Session 11: 5

Session Chair: Daniel Bernhofen, University of Nottingham
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 14:15 - 15:45
Location: Blegen 10
 

Should WTO Dispute Settlement Be Subsidized?
By Sebastian Wilckens, University of Kiel
   Presented by: Sebastian Wilckens, University of Kiel
 

Exchange Rate Volatility and First-Time Entry by Multinational Firms
By Katheryn N. Russ University of California, Davis and NBER
   Presented by: Katheryn Russ, University of California, Davis
 

Predicting the factor content of foreign trade: theory and evidence
By Daniel M. Bernhofen University of Nottingham
   Presented by: Daniel Bernhofen, University of Nottingham

Session 12: 6

Session Chair: Daniel Bernhofen, University of Nottingham
Session type: invited
Date: April 21, 2007
Time: 16:15 - 17:45
Location: Blegen 10
 

Are Shocks to the Terms of Trade Shocks to Productivity?
By Timothy J. Kehoe University of Minnesota Kim J. Ruhl University of Texas at Austin
   Presented by: Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota
 

Interacting factor endowments and trade costs: a multi-country, multi-good approach to trade theory
By James R. Markusen University of Colorado, Boulder University College Dublin Anthony J. Venables London School of Economics
   Presented by: James Markusen, University of Colorado
 

Key International Trade Theorems and Large Shocks
By Ronald W. Jones
   Presented by: Ronald Jones, University of Rochester

Session 13: 7-A

Session Chair: Judith Dean, USITC
Session type: invited
Date: April 22, 2007
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: Blegen 130
 

Imports and Productivity
By Laszlo Halpern, IEHAS Miklos Koren, FRB New York Adam Szeidl, UC Berkeley
   Presented by: Miklos Koren, Fed Reserve Bank of New York
 

International Joint Venture under Asymmetric Information: Technology vis-a-vis Information Advantage
By Chifeng DAI, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Sajal LAHIRI, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
   Presented by: Sajal Lahiri, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
 

FDI, Exports & Aggregate Productivity
By Joel Rodrigue, Queen's University
   Presented by: Joel Rodrigue, Queen's University

Session 14: 7-B

Session Chair: Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham
Session type: invited
Date: April 22, 2007
Time: 9:00 - 10:30
Location: Blegen 135
 

Size, Geography, and Multinational Production
By Natalia Ramondo U. Texas-Austin
   Presented by: Natalia Ramondo, University of Texas at Austin
 

Does where you go matter? The impact of outward foreign direct investment on multinationals' employment at home
By Peter Debaere, University of Virginia, CEPR Hongshik Lee, KIEP(Korea Institute for International Ecnoomic policy) Joonhyung Lee, University of Texas
   Presented by: Joon Lee, UT at Austin
 

A Spatial Model of National and International Price Dispersion: Theoretical and Empirical Findings
By Michael A. Anderson, Washington and Lee University Kurt C. Schaefer, Calvin College Stephen L. S. Smith, Gordon College
   Presented by: Stephen Smith, Gordon College

Session 15: 8-A

Session Chair: Judith Dean, USITC
Session type: invited
Date: April 22, 2007
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Blegen 130
 

Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America's trade policy and imports from China and India
By Giovanni Facchini (affiliations: degli Studi di Milano, University of Illinois, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano and CEPR) Marcelo Olarreaga (affiliations: Office of the Chief Economist for Latin America, Banco Mundial, CEPR, London UK) Peri Silva (affiliation: University of North Dakota) Gerald Willmann (affiliation: Christian-Albrechts-Unversitat zu Kiel)
   Presented by: Peri Silva Jr., University of North Dakota
 

The Effect of China on Mexico-U.S. Trade: Undoing NAFTA?
By Susana Iranzo, University of Sydney Alyson C. Ma, University of San Diego
   Presented by: Alyson Ma, University of San Diego
 

Trade Fragmentation and the Pollution-Intensity of Chinese Exports
By Judith M.Dean, U.S. International Trade Commission Mary E. Lovely, Syracuse University
   Presented by: Judith Dean, USITC

Session 16: 8-B

Session Chair: Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham
Session type: invited
Date: April 22, 2007
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: Blegen 135
 

Technology Diffusion through Trade with Heterogeneous Firms
By Bulent Unel Assitant Professor of Economics
   Presented by: Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University
 

Export Subsidies, Productivity and Welfare under Firm-Level Heterogeneity
By Svetlana Demidova, University of Georgia Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
   Presented by: Svetlana Demidova, The University of Georgia
 

The Role of Experience in Export Market Entry: Evidence for UK firms
By Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham Mauro Pisu, National Bank of Belgium
   Presented by: Richard Kneller, University of Nottingham

This program was last updated on 2007-04-18 14:45:39 EDT