Programme

Registration and welcome remarks by organizers

Keynote speech by Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia Business School & CEPR): “On the Divergence between CPI and PPI: The Role of Global Value Chains”

Italo Colantone (Bocconi University): “Trade and Growth in The Age of Global Value Chains” (with Carlo Altomonte and Laura Bonacorsi)

Coffee break

Pascalis Raimondos (QUT Business School & CEPR): “Redefining ‘Foreign’: an application to FDI Spillovers” (with Lisbeth la Cour and Sara L. McGaughey)

Lunch

Frank Pisch (London School of Economics): “Technological Determinants of the Make-Or-Buy Decision” (with Giuseppe Berlingieri and Claudia Steinwender) 

Valerie Smeets (Aarhus University): “Offshoring and Reorganization” (with Andy Bernard, Teresa Fort, and Frederic Warzynski)

Coffee break

Panel discussion
“Practitioners Perspectives”​ on Responding to the changing nature of global value chains now

Moderator:
Daria Taglioni, World Bank Group

Panelists:
Viviana Araneda Urbina, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile
Jonathan Asherson, Rolls Royce
Filippo di Mauro, National University of Singapore, Business School, Department of Strategy and Policy, Singapore

Dinner - Invitation only

Keynote speech by Davin Chor (National University of Singapore): “Does Bank FDI Facilitate Firm FDI? Evidence from China’s Outbound Multinational Activity”
Slides

Paloma Lopez-Garcia (European Central Bank): “The post-crisis TFP growth slowdown in CEE countries: Exploring the role of Global Value Chains” (with Francesco Chiacchio, Elisa Gamberoni, and Katerina Gradeva)

Coffee Break

Vanessa Gunnella (European Central Bank): “Sectoral Interlinkages in Global Value Chains: Spillovers and Network Effects” (with Erik Frohm)

Closing remarks and Lunch