Conference on Trade Costs

Held on 19th and 20th June, 2009 at the University of Nottingham.

Convenors:

• Professor Daniel Bernhofen (GEP, University of Nottingham),
• Professor Peter Egger (University of Munich) and
• Professor Rod Falvey (GEP, University of Nottingham)

To include The World Economy Annual Lecture 2009 by Professor Peter Neary, University of Oxford, on 18th June 2009.

• Conference Programme

For more details, contact sue.berry@nottingham.ac.uk

Presentations

• Dave Donaldson
  Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
• Dennis Novy
  Trade Booms, Trade Busts and Trade Costs
• Jeff Bergstrand
  Gravity Redux: Structural Estimation of Gravity Equations, Elasticities of Substitution and Economic Welfare under Asymmetric Bilateral Trade Costs
• Chris Milner
  Trade Costs, Comparative Advantage and the Pattern of Trade: Multi-country and Multi-product Panel Evidence
• Peter Neary
  Revenue Tariff Reform
• Sugata Marjit
  General Trading Costs in Pure Theory of International Trade
• Peter Egger
  The Trade Effects of Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements
• Arijit Mukherjee
  Trade cost reduction and foreign direct investment