European Research Workshop in
International Trade

held jointly with the
2nd EFIGE Scientific Workshop and Policy Conference

16-18 June 2010

 

Papers

 

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)

 

11:00-12:00 Firm Exports and Multinational Activity under Credit Constraints

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
Venue: Banca d'Italia, Via Nazionale 91

 

09:30-10:30 Relocating the Value Chain: Off-Shoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy

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)

 

15:30-16:30 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, Morning Friday, 18 June
Venue: Banca d'Italia, Via Nazionale 91

 

Chair: Salvatore Rossi (Managing Director, Head of Research Unit, Bank of Italy)

 

8:30 Opening Remarks

Mario Draghi, Governor, the Bank of Italy

 

09:00-09:45 Trade and the Global Recession

John Romalis, University of Chicago (with Jonathan Eaton, Sam Kortum and Brent Neiman)

 

10:15-10:30 The EFIGE Project

Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University, Bruegel and CEPR

 

10:30-11:00 The EFIGE Second Policy Report
The Global Operations of European Firms

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, University of Milan and LdA (with 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, Afternoon Friday, 18 June
Venue: Banca d'Italia, Via Nazionale 91

 

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)