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Hitotsubashi COE Conference on International Trade and FDI 2010
December 11-12, 2010
Conference Room, 7F, Mercury Tower
Hitotsubashi University
 December 11 (Saturday)
9:30-9:45   Opening remark
                             Chair : Toshihiro Ichida (Waseda University)
9:45-10:40 Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)

"Foreign direct investment and the welfare effect of cost harmonization" (with Anthony Creane)
    B r e a k
10:55-11:50 Arnaud Costinot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Vertical Specialization and the Interdependence of Nations" (with Jonathan Vogel, and Su Wang)
    B r e a k
12:05-13:00 Hiroshi Mukunoki (Gakushuin University)

"Trade liberalization and repair services for imports under international oligopoly" (with Jota Ishikawa, and Hodaka Morita)
13:00-14:15   L u n c h
                             Chair : Morihiro Yomogida (Sophia University)
14:15-15:10 Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

"Dynamic Free Trade Networks: Some Numerical Results" (with Hiroshi Daisaka)
    B r e a k
15:25-16:20 Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales)

"IPR Protection and Absorptive Capacity in North-South trade" (with Jota Ishikawa)
    B r e a k
16:35-17:30 Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University)

"Endogenous Productivity Differences and Patterns of International Capital Flows"
18:00-20:00   Reception

 

  December 12 (Sunday)
                             Chair : Kazutaka Takechi (Hosei University)
9:30-10:25 Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton University))

"Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment" ( with Elhanan Helpman)
"Trade and Labor Market Outcomes" (with Elhanan Helpman, and Stephen Redding)
    B r e a k
10:40-11:35 Paola Conconi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

"Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries" (with Laura Alfaro, Harald Fadinger, and Andy Newman)
    B r e a k
11:50-12:45 Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)

"Unilateral tariff liberalisation"
12:45-14:00   L u n c h
                              Chair : Laixun Zhao (Kobe University)
14:00-14:55 Ralph Ossa (University of Chicago)

"A Global View of Productivity Growth in China" (with Chang-Tai Hsieh)
    B r e a k
15:10-16:05 Ngo Van Long (McGill University)

"On the optimal speed of technology transfer: How to provide countervailing incentives against break-up" (with Antoine Soubeyran, and Raphael Soubeyran)
    B r e a k
16:20-17:15 Gene Grossman (Princeton University)

"Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade"(with Pablo Fajgelbaum, and Elhanan Helpman)
17:15-17:30   Closing remark