8th GEP Annual Postgraduate Conference

Held on 26th and 27th March 2009, at the University of Nottingham.

• Conference Briefing
• Conference Programme
• Best Paper Award

Papers Presented:

• Cheng Chen
  Information, Incentives and Multinational Firms
• Andreas Hoefele
  Growth and Offshoring
• Estela Sáenz Rodriguez
  The Relationship between Trade Openness and Public Expenditures. The Spanish Case, 1960-2000
• Thomas Allen
  Lobbying for Tariffs: The Impact on Trade Policy of Voting on Domestic Policy
• Valeria Merlo
  How Low Business Tax Rates Attract Multinational Headquarters: Municipality Level Evidence from Germany
• Daniel Horgos
  International Outsourcing and Wage Rigidity: A Formal Approach and First Empirical Evidence
• Priscila Ferreira
  The Source of Interindustry Wage Differentials
• Lisandra Flach
  Networks and Trade: Evidence from the Jewish Diaspora
• Rodrigo Paillacar
  An Empirical Study of the World Economic Geography of Manufacturing Industries (1980-2003)
• Minjia Chen
  Do Financial Factors Affect Firms’ Employment? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms
• Danny McGowan
  Productivity Performance and Plant Exit: Evidence from Japan
• Christian Gormsen
  Intransparent Prices: A Model of Intra-Industry Trade Due to Incomplete Informartion
• Sandrine Noblet
  Uncertainty and Coordination Cost in Vertically Linked Industries: A Model of New Economic Geography
• Jennifer Abel-Koch
  Trade Liberalization and Self-Control Problems
• Sascha Wolff
  Determinants of East-West Migration in Germany: A Macroeconometric Analysis
• Florin Vadean
  Determinants of Return and Circular Migration
• Philipp an de Meulen
  Why don’t Labor and Capital Flow between Young and Old Countries
• Priit Vahter
  The Effects of Liberalisation on Airline Passenger Traffic: An Event Study of the Enlargement of the Single European Aviation Market
• Chahir Zaki
  Rethinking the Effect of Cutting Red Tape in Egypt: A Dynamic CGE Model
• Meng Lu
  Regional Heterogeneity and China’s International Trade: Sufficient Lumpiness
• Fangya Xu
  The Pollution Content in China's Trade
• Vincent Leyaro
  Threshold and Interaction Effects in the Trade-Poverty Relationship