GEP Postgraduate Conference 2006

Held on 21 and 22 April, 2006 at the University of Nottingham.

• Conference programme.

Presentations

 

Session 1: Globalisation and Technological Transfer in India and China

• Sabita Tripathy, University of Dundee
  Are Foreign Firms Allocatively Inefficient? A Study of Selected Manufacturing Industries in India
• Veerle Slootmaekers, Catholic University of Leuven
  FDI Spillovers, Firm Heterogeneity and Degree of Ownership: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing

 

Session 2: Labour Market Adjustments to Globalisation

• Joana Silva, GEP, University of Nottingham
  Trade and Labour Market Adjustment: Education and Experience
• Novella Bottini, University of Sussex
  Trade liberalization and labour market: Evidence from Morocco
• Paulo Bastos, GEP, University of Nottingham
  Unionised Labour Markets and Economic Integration in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
• Yama Temouri, Aston University, Birmingham
  Analysis of firm-level productivity differences among foreign and host firms: Evidence from Germany
• Kullapat Suetrong, University of Nottingham
  Technological Asymmetries and Strategic Plant Location by a Multinational

 

Session 3: The Gains from Inward Foreign Direct Investment

• Marco Hernandez, Jesus College, University of Oxford
  Foreign direct investment and poverty in Latin America
• Sam Hill, Australian National University
  Growth effects of foreign direct investment: What role for liberalisation and absorptive capacity?

 

Session 4: Trade And Developing Countries

• Poornima Varma, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  Rethinking the role of domestic support in distorting trade
• Charles Ackah, University of Nottingham
  Is Trade Policy Openness Good for Growth?

 

Session 5: Institutions and Contracts as Determinants of Globalisation Outcomes

• Marcella Nicolini, University of Milan
  Institutional Quality and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Assessment
• Gregory Corcos, Paris School of Economics
  Globalisation, Vertical Linkages and Relational Contracts
• Damiaan Persyn, LICOS, Catholic University of Leuven
  Trade and Race-to-the Bottom Wage Competition

 

Session 6: Topics in International Trade

• Ziga Zarnic, Catholic University of Leuven
  Did US safeguard protection on steel affect market power of European steel producers?
• Anne Marie Gleeson, Trinity College, Dublin
  The microstructure of indigenous Irish manufacturing exports, 1985-2003
• Nuno Carlos Leitão, Lusíada University of Lisbon and Polytechnic Institute of Santarém
  Country-Specific Determinants of Horizontal and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade in Portugal
• Benjamin Jung, University of Tübingen
  A search and matching model of international trade
• Anuj Mathew, University of Nottingham
  Environmental regulation: A boon or bane for foreign direct investment?

 

Session 7: What Drives a Firm’s Decision to Export or Invest Abroad?

• Brindusa Anghel, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  Foreign Direct Investment in the Transition Countries: A Dynamic Analysis at Firm and Sector Level
• Luca David Opromolla, New York University
  Hysteresis in Export Markets

 

Session 8: What does attract FDI?

• Ricardo Pinheiro Alves (University of Bath)
  A behavioural approach to tax competition for FDI
• Jing Zhang, University of Birmingham
  Environmental regulations and foreign direct investment: Provincial level evidence from China
• Simona Rasciute, Loughborough University
  An empirical investigation of the determinants of foreign direct investment in the Central and Eastern European countries using multi-level data
• Dirk Ehnts, University of Oldenburg, Germany
  Industry relocation, linkages and Spillovers across the Baltic Sea: Extending the footloose capital model

 

Session 9: Financial Interdependencies in a Globalised World

• Ashwin Moheeput, University of Warwick
  Financial Contagion in a Dynamic Bayesian Context: The Role of Public and Private Signals
• Xufei Zhang, GEP, University of Nottingham
  Exchange Rates and Exports: Evidences from Manufacturing Firms in the UK