Postgraduate Conference 2007

Held on 26th - 27th March, 2007 at the University of Nottingham.

• Convenors: Zhihong Yu, Paulo Bastos
• Conference programme

 

Objectives

The objective of the Conference is to bring together a number of PhD students to discuss their own research ideas with established researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere. The Conference is open to graduate students engaged in the preparation of a doctoral dissertation or approaching this stage. Speakers will be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts. There will also be a poster session.

 

Keynote Speaker

Professor Daniel Bernhofen, Leverhulme Professor of International Economics, GEP, University of Nottingham

 

Presentations

Session 2: Economics of MNE

• Brindusa Anghel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  A Knowledge-Capital Approach of Foreign Direct Investment in Transitional Countries
• Roger Bandick, Örebro University & Södertörn University College
  Multinationals and Plant Survival in Swedish Manufacturing

 

Session 3: Heterogeneous Firms and Globalisation

• Ines Buono, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  Heterogeneous Firms and Comparative Advantage
• Isao Kamata, University of Michigan
  Explaining Export Varieties: The Unexplored Role of Comparative Advantage
• Mirabelle Muûls, London School of Economics
  Two-way Traders

 

Session 4: Poster Session

• Ann Natsvlishvili, Central European University
  The Impact of Globalisation on Human Rights in Underdeveloped World
• Bahar Sağlam, Bilkent University
  High-technology Foreign Firms and Labour Market Implications: An Analysis Using Heterogeneous Matching Models
• Evghenia Sleptsova, University of Birmingham
  Gravity Analysis of the Determinants of Ukrainian Exports: The Role of Regional Trade Agreements
• Marina-Eliza Spaliara, University of Nottingham
  UK Evidence on the Effects of Firm-Specific Characteristics on the Capital-Labour Ratio Under Capital Market Imperfections
• Shanshan Wu, University of Birmingham
  Industrial Characteristics, Environmental Regulations and Air Pollution: An Analysis of the Chinese Manufacturing Sector
• Sirikaman Udompol, University of Exeter
  Tax Sparing: Revealing the Mysteries
• Supreeya Virakul, University of Birmingham
  Firm Heterogeneity and Export Participation: A New Asian Tiger Perspective

 

Session 5: Trade Costs and Economic Geography

• Ingo Borchert, University of St Gallen
  Preferential Trade, Sunk Costs and the Path-Dependent Expansion of Exports
• Jang Ping Thia, London School of Economics
  Why Capital Does Not Migrate to the South: A New Economic Geography Perpective

 

Session 6: Trade and Information

• Benjamin Jung, University of Tübingen
  Gravity and Information: Heterogeneous Firms, Export Networks and the Distance Puzzle

 

Session 7: Globalisation and Labour Markets

• Fabio Aricó, University of Warwick
  Structural Unemployment in a Matching Model with Endogenous Skill-Acquisition and Technological Diffusion
• Rodrigo Paillacar, University of Paris 1
  Market Potential and Worker Heterogeneity as Determinants of Brazilian Wages
• Yundan Gong, University of Nottingham
  ‘Putting People First’? FDI and employment adjustment of state-owned enterprises in urban China, University of Nottingham

 

Session 8: Topics on Foreign Direct Investment

• Kullapat Suetrong, University of Nottingham
• Privatisation, Strategic FDI and Welfare
• Barbara Pfeffer, University of Siegen
  FDI and International Portfolio Investment – Complements or Substitutes?
• Jing Zhang, University of Birmingham
  FDI Location in China: The Role of Corruption, Government Efficiency and Environmental Regulation

 

Session 9: International Trade Theory and Methods

• Helena Bohman, Jönköping University and Désirée Nilsson, Jönköping University
  Introducing Income distribution to the Linder Hypothesis
• Ioannis Bournakis, University of Kent
  Trade, Productivity and Factor Endowments: an Estimation of the Neoclassical Model for Greece
• Roberto Bonfatti, London School of Economics
  Why Decolonization?