2nd Postgraduate Conference

Held at the University of Nottingham on 10th April, 2003

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Session 1: Trade and labour markets in Europe

• Michel Dumont (University of Antwerp)
  Foreign Outsourcing towards newly industrialised countries and its impact on the relative wages and employment of low skilled workers in the European Union
• Chiara Strozzi (University of Modena)
  Trade liberalisation and the sustainability of cross-border union coordination

 

Session 2: Trade and Development Topics (Posters)

• Pamina Koenig Soubeyran (University of Paris)
  The Importance of Geography for Firm-Level Exports
• Souleymane Coulibaly (Universities of Lausanne and Paris)
  South-South Trade: Geography Matters
• Angela Cheptea (University of Paris)
  Border Effects and East-West Integration
• Alexander Hijzen (University of Nottingham)
  The Impact of Trade on UK Wages in General Equilibrium, 1975-1999: A GDP Function Approach

 

Session 3: Microeconomic Evidence on Exports and Productivity

• Zhihong Yu (GEP, University of Nottingham)
  Exporting by Learning? Microeconomic Evidence from British Automotive and Chemical Industry
• Mauro Pisu (GEP, University of Nottingham)
  Exports versus FDI: An Empirical Test

 

Session 4: Trade, Development and Movement of Factors

• Sylvie Montout (University of Paris)
  Does North-South Trade affect Multinational Firms Strategies?
• Valentine Henrard (University of Paris)
  The Determinants of Mobility Towards Self-Employment in Colombia: a Duration Analysis

 

Session 5: Development Topics (Posters)

• Marie Godquin (University of Paris)
  Objective repayment performance and its determinants: How to improve the allocation of loans by MFIs?
• Piercarlo Zanchettin (University of Nottingham)
  Competition and Growth in a Neo-Schumpeterian Model
• Lupin Rahman (London School of Economics)
  Alcohol Prohibition and Addictive Consumption in India
• Yarika Ruangsiri (University of Nottingham)
  Inequality and Welfare Analysis in the Harris-Todaro Model

 

Session 6: Development and Institutions

• Michael Henry (GEP, University of Nottingham)
  Threshold Effects in the Openness-Productivity Growth Relationship: Role of Institutions and Natural Barriers
• Sylvia Pezzini (London School of Economics)
  The Role of Freedom, Growth and Religion in the Taste for Revolution