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March 24 -26, 2006

Programme

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Thursday, March 23
19:00	Reception and registration in the Executive Residence

Friday, March 24
8:30 – 9:00	Registration
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome address
9.15 - 10:00	Invited lecture
	Firm Heterogeneity, Exporting and Foreign Direct Investment
	DAVID GREENAWAY (University of Nottingham) and Richard Kneller Discussant: Horst Raff

10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00	TOSHIHIRO ICHIDA (Weseda University, Tokyo) Occupational Choice and Compensation for Losers from International Trade Discussant: Rod Falvey TATYANA CHESNOKOVA (University of Auckland) and Kala Krishna Skill Acquisition, Credit Constraints, and Trade Discussant: Edwin Lai MASAHIRO ENDOH (Keio University, Tokyo) Cross-Border Political Donations and Pareto-Efficient Tariffs Discussant: Gerald Willmann

12:00 – 13:30	Lunch break

13.30 - 15.00	PETER ROBERTSON (University of New South Wales) and Richard G. Harris Globalization, Commodity Prices and Wage Dynamics: Some results from a Dynamic CGE Model Discussant: James Markusen CHRISTIS TOMBAZOS (Monash University) Specialisation, the Intermediate Nature of Traded Products, and the Myth of Import Driven Wage Inequality in the United States Discussant: Robert Waschik RUSSELL HILLBERRY (University of Melbourne) and Edward J. Balistreri Structural Estimation and the Border Puzzle Discussant: Michael Ryan

15:00 - 15:30	Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30	LAIXUN ZHAO (Kobe University) Labour Standards, Labour Unions and Competition of Developing Countries Discussant: Masahiro Endoh OLIVER LORZ (University of Aachen) and Matthias Wrede Standardization of Intermediate Goods and International Trade Discussant: Toshihiro Ichida

Saturday, March 25
9.00 - 9.45	Invited Lecture
	Interacting Factor Endowments and Trade Costs: A Multi-Country, Multi-good Approach to Trade Theory
	JAMES MARKUSEN (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Anthony J. Venables Discussant: Martin Richardson

9.45 - 10.45	GERALD WILLMANN (University of Kiel) and Pao-Li Chang Lobbying for and Against Multilateral Trade Liberalization when Firms are Heterogeneous Discussant: Jota Ishikawa EDWIN LAI (City University of Hong Kong) Was Global Patent Protection too Weak before TRIPS? Discussant: Laixun Zhao

10.45 - 11.15	Coffee break

11.15 - 12.15	ROD FALVEY (University of Nottingham), David Greenaway and Zihong Yu Extending the Melitz Model to Asymmetric Countries Discussant: Frank Stähler LEOPOLDO YANES (University of Queensland) Trade, Industrial Policy and Initial Conditions: Oligopolistic Interactions in General Equilibrium Discussant: Tatyana Chesnokova

12.15 - 13.45	Lunch break

13.45 - 14.45	MARTIN RICHARDSON (Australian National University) An Empty Proposition Concerning the Formation of Free Trade Areas Discussant: Russell Hillberry ROBERT WASCHIK (La Trobe University) Modelling Kemp-Vanek Admissibility: The Effects of Free Trade Areas on Non-Members Discussant: Andrew Coleman

14.45 - 15.15	Coffee break

15.15 - 16.15	HORST RAFF (University of Kiel),Michael Ryan and Frank Stähler Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry Discussant: Christis Tombazos JOTA ISHIKAWA (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo) and Yoshimasa Komoriya Stay or Leave?: Choice of Plant Location with Cost Heterogeneity Discussant: Kenzo Abe

18.00	Bus departs Executive Residence for Glenfalloch Gardens (Conference dinner at 19.00)

Sunday, March 26
9.30 - 10.30	MICHAEL RYAN (Western Michigan University) and Horst Raff Firm-Specific Characteristics and the Timing of Foreign Direct Investment Projects Discussant: David Greenaway NIVEN WINCHESTER (University of Otago) Another Search for the Smoking Gun: An Empirical Investigation of the Link between Trade and Wages in a Small Open Economy Discussant: Peter Robertson

10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break

11.00 - 12.00	KENZO ABE (University of Osaka) and Laixun Zhao International Labour Standards and Their Harmonization Discussant: Oliver Lorz ANDREW COLEMAN (Reserve Bank of New Zealand) Have we Misunderstood the Law of One Price? A Teinterpretation based on a Trade Model with Transport Capacity Constraints Discussant: Leopoldo Yanes