Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade & FDI 2013
December 7-8, 2013

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Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade & FDI 2013 Program


 


 December 7   (Saturday)
9:40-9:45   Opening remarks
Chair : Yukichi Mano (Hitotsubashi University)
9:45-10:35 Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)

The development and future of Factory Asia
10:35-10:50   B r e a k
10:50-11:40 Cheng Chen (Princeton University)

Management Quality, Firm Organization and International Trade
11:40-11:55   B r e a k
11:55-12:45 Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Trade and Industrial Policy Subtleties with International Licensing
12:45-14:00   L u n c h
 Chair : Hiroshi Mukunoki (Gakushuin University)
14:00-14:50 Davin Chor (National University of Singapore)

Cumulative Innovation, Growth, and Welfare-Improving Patent Policy
14:50-15:05   B r e a k
15:05-15:55 Arijit Mukherjee (Loughborough University)

Foreign direct investment, unionised labour markets and welfare
15:55-16:10   B r e a k
16:10-17:00 Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Relationship Specificity, Market Thickness, and International Trade
17:00-17:15   B r e a k
17:15-18:05 Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University)

Endogenous Ranking and Equilibrium Lorenz Curve Across (ex-ante) Identical Countries: A Generalization
18:20-20:20   Reception

 


 December 8  (Sunday)
Chair : Nobuaki Yamashita (La Trobe University, Hitotsubashi University )
9:45-10:35 Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College)

Export Markets and Labor Reallocation in a Poor Country
10:35-10:50   B r e a k
10:50-11:40 Nuno Limao (University of Maryland)

Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and The U.S.
11:40-11:55   B r e a k
11:55-12:45 Yoichi Sugita (Stockholm School of Economics )

Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers
12:45-14:00   L u n c h
Chair : Lex Zhao (Kobe University)
14:00-14:50 Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)

Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy
14:50-15:05   B r e a k
15:05-15:55 Michal Fabinger (University of Tokyo)

Trade and Interdependence in a Spatially Complex World
15:55-16:10   B r e a k
16:10-17:00 Donald R. Davis (Columbia University)

The Comparative Advantage of Cities
17:00-17:05   Closing remarks
18:00-20:00   Dinner (invitation only)



Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade & FDI 2013
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