Third GEP Postgraduate Conference

Held on 31st March, 2004 at the University of Nottingham

• Convenors: Sara Maioli and Daniel Mirza 
• Conference Programme 

 

Session 1: FDI, Exports and Productivity

• Jens Matthias Arnold (University Bocconi, Milan)
  Export Behaviour and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A Firm-Level Analysis
• Pedro Moncarz (University of Nottingham)
  Unilaterial Trade Liberalisation and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity within a Country

 

Session 2: Trade and MNEs activity (Posters)

• Fabrice Defever (Team-CNRS University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne)
  Functional Fragmentation of the Production Process: A Study of Multinational Firms Location in the Enlarged European Union
• Mara Grasseni (University of Milan)
  Technology, MNEs Activity and Italian Skill Upgrading
• Farid Toubal (University of Kiel)
  The Geography of German Multinational Activities
• Adriana Peluffo (University of Antwerp)
  Researching the Trade-Productivity Link: Evidence from Uruguay

 

Session 3: International Economic Openness and Market Integration

• Mara Violato (University of Dundee)
  On Testing the Causal Relationship between Trade-Openness and Government Size: Evidence from 23 OECD Countries
• Delphine Irac (Columbia University, New York)
  Distance and Foreign Direct Investment Evidence from OECD Countries

 

Session 4: Globalisation and Labour Market

• Sabien Dobbelaere (LICOS Centre for Transition Economics, Leuven and SHERPPA, Ghent University, Belgium)
  Has International Trade Affected Workers’ Bargaining Power?
• Yuji Tamura (University of Warwick)
  Referendum-led Immigration Policy in the Welfare State – A Theoretical Investigation

Session 5: Topics in Trade Liberalisation and Economic Growth (Posters)

• Puja Vasudeva-Dutta (University of Sussex)
  Trade Liberalisation and the Industry Wage Structure in India
• Sergio Scicchitano (University La Sapienza, Rome)
  Complementarity between Heterogeneous Human Capital and R&D: can Job-Training Avoid Low Development Traps?
• Amarendra Sahoo (CenTER, University of Tilburg)
  Impact of Productivity-Efficiency Gain under Competitive Pressure on Indian Households: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach
• Martine Rutten (University of Nottingham)
  A Static CGE Model for the UK with Health Care Provision

 

Session 6: Trade Flows, Poverty and the Environment

• Jerneja Jug (University of Nottingham)
  Environmental Regulations and Trade in Europe: The Role of Differentiation
• Yoko Niimi (University of Sussex)
  An Analysis of Household Behaviour to Price Shocks in Vietnam: Can Unit Values Substitute Prices?