European Research Workshop in International Trade (ERWIT) held jointly with the 2nd EFIGE Scientific Workshop and Policy Conference Rome, 16-18 June 2010 Programme
ERWIT Day One, Wednesday, 16 June Venue: EIEF, Via Sallustiana 62 09:15-09:30 Welcoming remarks 09:30-10:30 Antidumping Hurts Exporters: Firm-level Evidence from France Hylke Vandenbussche, Université Catholique de Louvain and CEPR (with Jozef Konings) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:00 The Comparative Advantage of Multinational Firms in a Comparatively Weak Financial Environment: Evidence from Firm-Product-Destination Level Data on Exports Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and CEPR (with Kalina Manova and Zhiwei Zhang) 12:00-13:00 The Global Network of Multinational Firms Maggie Chen, George Washington University (with Laura Alfaro) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Skill-biased Heterogeneous Firms and Trade Ariell Reshef, University of Virginia (with James Harrigan) 15:00-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-16:30 Innovation, Diffusion and Trade: Theory and Measurement Ana Maria Santacreu, INSEAD 16:30-17:30 Managers Mobility, Trade Status and Wages Giordano Mion, London School of Economics and CEPR (with Luca David Opromolla)
ERWIT Day Two, Thursday, 17 June 09:30-10:30 Relocating the Value Chain Tony Venables, University of Oxford and CEPR (with Richard Baldwin) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-12:00 Multi-Product Firms at Home and Away J. Peter Neary, University of Oxford and CEPR (with Carsten Eckel, Leonardo Iacovone and Beata Javorcik) 12:00-13:00 Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade Pablo Fajgelbaum, Princeton University (with Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman) 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:00 The Extensive Margin of Exporting Goods: A Firm-level Analysis Marc-Andreas Mündler, University of California, San Diego (with Costas Arkolakis) 15:00-15:30 Coffee break 15:30-16:30 WTO Accession and Firm-level Productivity in Chinese Manufacturing Johannes van Biesebroeck, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and CEPR (with Loren Brandt and Yifan Zhang) 16:30-17:30 Export Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Peru Caroline Freund, The World Bank (with Martha Denisse Pierola)
EFIGE Policy Conference, Friday, 18 June Morning Session Chair: Salvatore Rossi (Managing Director, Head of Research Unit, Bank of Italy) 8:30 Opening Remarks Mario Draghi, Governor, the Bank of Italy 9:00-9:45 Trade and the Global Recession John Romalis, University of Chicago (with Jonathan Eaton, Sam Kortum and Brent Neiman) 9:45-10:15 Coffee break 10:15-10:30 The EFIGE Project Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University, Bruegel and CEPR 10:30-11:00 The EFIGE Policy Report The Global Operations of European Firms Giorgio Barba Navaretti, University of Milan and LdA (with Carlo Altomonte, Matteo Bugamelli, Daniel Horgos, Daniela Maggioni, Fabiano Schivardi) 11:00-13:00 Policy Roundtable Introduction: Fabrizio Saccomanni (Director General, Bank of Italy) Panellists: Alessandro Profumo (CEO, UniCredit Group) Giuseppe Recchi (CEO, General Electric - South Europe) Giorgio Squinzi (CEO, Mapei) Tony Venables (University of Oxford and CEPR) Concluding remarks: Michel Barnier (EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services) 13:00-14:30 Lunch
EFIGE Scientific Workshop, Friday, 18 June Afternoon Session 14:30-15:15 Ricardian Selection Andrea Finicelli, Bank of Italy (with Patrizio Pagano and Massimo Sbracia) 15:15-16:00 Why Do within Firm-Product Export Prices Differ across Markets? László Halpern, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and CEPR (with Holger Görg and Balázs Muraközy) 16:00-16:45 Local Export Spillovers in France Florian Mayneris, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain (with Pamina Koenig and Sandra Poncet) 16:45-17:15 Coffee break 17:15-18:00 International Trade with Heterogeneous Firms and Asymmetric Product Varieties Carlo Altomonte, Bocconi University and Bruegel (with Italo Colantone and Enrico Pennings) 18:00-18:45 The Age of the Dragon: Chinese Competition and the Pricing Behavior of Italian Firms Enrico Sette, Bank of Italy (with Matteo Bugamelli and Silvia Fabiani)