Nottingham Centre for Research on
Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)

Internal Research Workshops

This is a monthly meeting of GEP Fellows and PhD students and is an opportunity for staff and postgraduate research students to talk informally about research in the early stages of development, with an opportunity for comment and discussion.

The meetings are usually held on a Monday at 1pm, with lunch available from 12.30pm.

Upcoming 2016/17 workshops

There are currently no upcoming workshops.

  

Previous 2016/17 workshops

Maria Garcia-Vega

Date
10 October 2016 (12:30-14:00)
Location:
C26 Portland West Concourse Lounge
Description
Trust and Technology Transfers

Facundo Albornoz

Date
07 November 2016 (12:30-14:00)
Location:
A42 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
The Impact of the Generalised System of Preferences on Firm Export Performance

Joel Stibale (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)

Date
28 November 2016 (12:30-14:00)
Location:
A44 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Acquisitions, Markups, Efficiency and Product Quality: Evidence from India

Giammario Impullitti

Date
06 March 2017 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A09 Highfield House
Description
Technology Dynamics, Innovation Policy and the Gains from Globalization

Mohamed Diaby

Date
03 April 2017 (13:00-14:00)
Location:
A09 Highfield House
Description
Multi-dimensional sectoral heterogeneity and monetary non-neutrality

  

Workshop programme 2015/16

Roberto Bonfatti

Date
23 November 2015
Description
A new explanation of the inverted-U relationship between competition and innovation.

Marta Aloi

Date
07 December 2015
Description
R&D led growth and economic geography

Chara Vavoura

Date
25 January 2016
Location:
A44, SCGB
Description
Liberalising Trade in the Shadow of Superstar Firms

Maria Garcia-Vega

Date
07 March 2016
Location:
Sir Clive Granger Building A44
Description
Multinationals and the globalization of R&D

 

2014/15

Workshop programme 2014/15
DateSpeakerTitle
22 June 2015 at 2pm, (no lunch) Michele Imbruno FDI, Intermediate inputs and Firm performance: Theory and Evidence from Italy
11 May 2015
(A44)
Markus Eberhardt Assessing market (dis)integration in pre-modern China (with Daniel Bernhofen, Jianan Li and Stephen Morgan)
2 March 2015 Tatsiramos Konstantinos Family, Community and Long-Term Earnings Inequality
2 February 2015 Soumyatanu Mukherjee Special Economic Zones and Agriculture – An Alternative Theorisation
1 December 2014 Giovanni Facchini Mind What Your Voters Read: Media Exposure and International Economic Policy Making (with Tommaso Frattini and Cora Signorotto)
10 November 2014 (C43,SCGB) Wanyu Chung Imported Inputs and Invoicing Currency Choice: Theory and Evidence from UK Transaction Data
27 October 2014 Rui Zhang Exposure to the New Wave of Offshoring, Unemployment and Welfare
6 October 2014 Markus Eberhardt GRAViTY (with Rodolphe Desbordes, Strathclyde University)
 

2013/14

Workshop programme 2013/14
DateSpeakerTitle
3 June 2014 Huasheng Song Comparative Advantage and Multi-product Firms

13 May 2014      
C43, SCGB

Alejandro Riano Global Engagement and Returns Volatility (Joint with Sourafel Girma and Sandra Lancheros)
1 April 2014

 

Sabrina Eisenbarth 

Is Chinese Trade Policy Motivated by Environmental Concerns?

4 March 2014 Ray Riezman The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
4 February 2014 Zhihong Yu Offshoring Prices, Relation-Specificity and Exchange Rate Fluctuations
3 December 2013 Tim Destefano  The Impact of ICT on Firm Performance in the UK
5 November 2013 

 

Richard Kneller Demands shocks and Productivity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
1 October 2013  Roberto Bonfatti  From Mine to Coast: Transport Infrastructure and the Direction of Trade in Developing Countries
 

2012/13

Workshop programme 2012/13
DateSpeakerTitle
14 May 2013
C43, SCGB
Richard Upward Off the Waterfront: The Long-run Impact of Technological Change on Dock Workers
12 March 2013
B7, Staff Club
Alejandro Riano  Understanding the Twin Peaks: The Role of Export Share Requirements
12 February 2013
C43, SCGB
Joel Stiebale How Mergers Affect Innovation - Theory and Evidence
29 January 2013
C43, SCGB
Roberto Bonfatti An Economic Theory of Resource Dependence and War
11 December 2012 
B7 Staff Club
Maria Garcia-Vega The internationalization of the R&D and the knowledge production function
 

2011/12

Workshop programme 2011/12
DateSpeakerTitle
12 June 2012
C43 SCGB
Laura Rovegno Endogenous trade restrictions and exporters’ pricing behaviour

27 March 2012

Jonathan Timmis The Internet and Trade: A Gravity Approach
21 February 2012 Zheng Wang Border Effects Within China
8 November 2011 Markus Eberhardt Is the dragon learning to fly? An analysis of the Chinese patent explosion
18 October 2011 Jennifer Abel-Koch Using Intermediaries in International Trade: Evidence from Firm-level Data
4 October 2011 Tobias Ketterer The impact of Preferences on Multilateral Tariff Cuts: Evidence for Canada
 

2010/11

Workshop programme 2010/11
DateSpeakerTitle
5 October 2010 (C43 Sir Clive Granger Building) Zheng Wang Quota restrictions and quality adjustments in the export market: Evidence from Chinese Textile Exports to the U.S.
2 November 2010 (C43 Sir Clive Granger Building) Daniel Bernhofen and Zouheir El-Sahli International trade and the container
7 December 2010 (C43 Sir Clive Granger Building) Maria Garcia-Vega The role of international and domestic R&D outsourcing for firms' innovativeness
1 February 2011  Gabriela Grotkowska  Impact of international trade on employment in Central European countries after 2004 EU enlargement
1 March 2011 Christian Soegaard Self-enforceability of trade agreements in the presence of trade costs
3 May 2011 Andreas Hoefele Strategic Trade Policy and Product Differentiation
 

2009/10

Workshop programme 2009/10
DateSpeakerTitle
6 October 2009 Fabrice Defever Distorted Global Sourcing
3 November 2009 Zhihong Yu Contract Enforcement and International Trade: Theory and Evidence
1 December 2009 Spiros Bougheas Matching and Trade
12 January 2010 Robert Riegler and Abelardo Salazar Neaves Fragmentation of UK Firms
2 February 2010 Andreas Hoefele Growth and Offshoring
2 March 2010 Stephan Russek Firm mortality, productivity and international trade
13 April 2010 Alejandro Riaño The Decision to Export and the Volatility of Sales
4 May 2010 No workshop  
27 May 2010 Noelia Cámara Muela Vertical Specialization and Nonstationarities in International Trade Series
1 June 2010 Richard Kneller International Second Sourcing
 

2008/09

Workshop programme 2008/09
DateSpeakerTitle
7 October 2008 Toshi Atsumi Globalisation and Economic Policy: Regional Policies in a Globalising World
4 November 2008 Richard Kneller Export Barriers. What are they and who do they matter to?
2 December 2008 Shujie Yao The Impact of the Credit Crunch and Housing Market Crisis in the US on China
3 February 2009 Liza Jabbour The Linkage potential of International Activities and the Scope of Technology Spillovers: Evidence from China
3 March 2009 Richard Upward The Nationality of Workers and the Behaviour of Firms
5 May 2009 Chris Parsons and Zheng Wang The Evolution of Global Immigrant Links - (Chris Parsons) and; Trade Liberalisation and the Patterns of Creative Destruction: Chinese Data and Empirical Specifications - (Zheng Wang)
 

2007/08

Workshop programme 2007/08
DateSpeakerTitle
2 October 2007 Zhihong Yu International Trade and Heterogeneous Firms: some recent developments
13 November 2007 Spiros Bougheas Technology Gap, FDI and Market Structure
4 December 2007 Alessandra Guariglia (joint with Xiaoxuan Liu and Lina Song) 'Is the growth of Chinese firms constrained by finance?'
8 January 2008 Yundan Gong 'Indigenous Innovation, FDI and Drives of Technology Upgrading in Developing Countries: Evidence from China'
5 February 2008 Liza Jabbour 'Outsourcing, Offshoring and Firms'
4 March 2008 Arijit Mukherjee 'Unionization Structure and the Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment'
13 May 2008 Agelos Delis 'Technology, Factor Supplies and the Demand Side: Testing some assumptions of the H-O Model for the US'
3 June 2008 Tom Ivlevs 'Why do ethnic minorities emigrate from the 'new' Europe? Evidence from two emigration intentions surveys'
 

 

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University of Nottingham
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