European Research Workshop
in International Trade
held jointly with the
3rd EFIGE Scientific Workshop
and Policy Conference

This conference is funded in part by the University of Nottingham "Integrating Global Society" Research Priority Group, the Nottingham School of Economics, the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 225551 (EFIGE), and The British Academy

The following papers will be presented at this workshop and are listed in alphabetical order. Please see the Programme for further details.

Nottingham, 6-8 June 2011

Export growth and factor market competition: Theory and evidence
Giovanni Facchini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, Erasmus, University Rotterdam, and CEPR (with Julian Emani Namini and Ricardo López)

Gravity and extended gravity: Estimating a structural model of export entry
Eduardo Morales, Columbia University (with Gloria Sheu and Andrés Zahler)

Heterogeneous firms or heterogeneous workers? Implications for exporter premia and the gains from trade
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo and CEPR (with Alfonso Irrazabal and Andreas Moxnes)

Heterogeneous information and trade policy
Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, CREI

Institutions and export dynamics
Emanuel Ornelas, London School of Economics and CEPR (with Luis Araujo and Giordano Mion)

Is new economic geography right? Evidence from price data
David E. Weinstein, Columbia University (with Jessie Handbury)

Machines and machinists: The effect of imported machines on the wages of Hungarian machine operators
Miklós Koren, Central European University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and CEPR (with Marton Csillag)

Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Paula Bustos, CREI and CEPR (with Fernando Broner and Vasco Carvalho)

Roads and trade: Evidence from the US
Peter Morrow, University of Toronto (with Gilles Duranton and Matthew A. Turner)

Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms
J. Peter Neary, Oxford University and CEPR (with Monika Mrázová)

Spatial exporter dynamics
Fabrice Defever, University of Nottingham (with Benedickt Heid and Mario Larch)

The resort to protectionism during the Great Recession: What factors mattered?
Simon J. Evenett, University of St. Gallen and CEPR (with Johannes Fritz, Darya Gerasimenko, Martin Wermelinger, and Malwina Nowkowska)

The EFIGE policy report: The impact of crisis on European firms
László Halpern, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and CEPR

The World Economy Lecture: What Does Globalization Mean for the WTO? A View from Economics
Robert Staiger, Stanford University

Temporary trade and heterogeneous firms
Balázs Muraközy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (with Gabor Bekes)

Trade policy and firm boundaries
Paola Conconi, ECARES and CEPR (with Laura Alfaro, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew Newman)

Why foreign ownership may be good for you
Udo Kreickemeier, University of Tübingen (with Hartmut Egger)