GEP Postgraduate Conference 2008

Held on 10th - 11th April, 2008 at the University of Nottingham.

• Convenors: Tom Ivlevs and Liza Jabbour
• Conference Programme
• Photos of the event

Papers presented

• Benjamin Jung
  Sorting It Out: Technical Barriers to Trade and Industry Productivity
• Chahir Zaki
  Does Trade Facilitation Matter in Bilateral Trade
• Mario Piacentini
  Migration Enclaves, Schooling Choice and Social Mobility
• Ilse Ruyssen
  The Determinants of Migration into the EU Around the Turn of the Century: A Panel Data Analysis
• Laura Hering
  On the Relation between Market Access, Migration and Wages
• Torfinn Harding
  Developing Economies and International Investors: Do Investment Promotion Agencies Bring the Together?
• Ziliang Deng
  The Productivity Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: A Computable General Equilibrium Model of China
• Neema Mahabir
  China Displacement Effects on Asian Countries Exports: A Closer Look with Disaggregate Data
• Fabien Tondel
  Trade Liberalization and the Geographic Location of Industries
• Juan Carluccio
  Multinationals, Technological Incompatibilities and Spillovers
• Pamela Bombarda
  The Spatial Pattern of FDI: Some Testable Hypotheses
• Thibault Fally
  Financial Constraints, Technology Transfer and Ownership
• Daniel Horgos
  International Outsourcing and the Sector Bias: Empirical Evidence
• Paul Maarek
  FDI and the Labor Shares in Developing Countries
• Ferdinand Mittermaier
  Unionization Raises the Incentives to Attract FDI

Papers presented in the Poster Session

• Sayema Bidisha
  Unemployment and Occupational Attainment of Male Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in UK
• Valeria Stragpede
  E.U Strategy for Competitiveness Challenge: The Aeronautics-Aerospace Case
• Fergal McCann
  Government Policy Towards FDI in  the Presence of Network Effects
• Sandra Hanslin
  The Effect of Trade Openness on Optimal Government Size under Endogenous Firm Entry
• Liliana Castilleja-Vargas
  Net Capital Inflows and Real Exchange Rate Depreciation Effects in Emerging Markets
• Katia Berti
  Regulatory Capture and Economic Integration
• Agyapomaa Gyeke-Dako
  Foreign Owned Firms and Financial Constraints
• Philip Manners
  International Knowledge Spillovers
• Tobias Dahlström
  Globalization and Corruption
• Wenyu Zang
  Export and Economic Growth in South Korea and Japan: A Tale of Two Economies
• Matthew Gobey
  Market Liberalization and Columbian Firm Level Productivity
• Olivier Godart
  What Can We Learn from Differences between UK Parent Multinationals and Foreign Affiliates Located in the UK? The Example of Labour Demand and Skill Intensity