European Research Workshop in International Trade
(ERWIT)
held jointly with the
2nd EFIGE Scientific Workshop and Policy Conference
Rome, 16-18 June 2010
Programme
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)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 The Comparative Advantage of Multinational Firms in a Comparatively Weak Financial
Environment: Evidence from Firm-Product-Destination Level Data on Exports
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and CEPR
(with Kalina Manova and Zhiwei Zhang)
12:00-13:00 The Global Network of Multinational Firms
Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School
(with Maggie Chen)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Skill-biased Heterogeneous Firms and Trade
James Harrigan, University of Virginia
(with Ariell Reshef)
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
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)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity in Chinese Industry
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, Friday, 18 June – Morning Session
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
9:00-10:00 Trade and the Global Recession
John Romalis, University of Chicago
(with Jonathan Eaton, Sam Kortum and Brent Neiman)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-10:45 The EFIGE Project
Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University, Bruegel and CEPR
10:45-11:15 The EFIGE Policy Report
The Global Operations of European Firms
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, University of Milan and LdA
(with Carlo Altomonte, Matteo Bugamelli, Daniel Horgos, Daniela Maggioni, Fabiano Schivardi)
11:15-13:00 Policy Roundtable
Chair: Fabrizio Saccomanni (Director General, Bank of Italy)
Panelists:
Michel Barnier (EU Commissioner for Internal Market and Services)
Alessandro Profumo (CEO, UniCredit Group)
Giuseppe Recchi (CEO; General Electric - South Europe)
Giorgio Squinzi (CEO, Mapei)
Tony Venables (University of Oxford and CEPR)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
EFIGE Scientific Workshop, Friday, 18 June – Afternoon Session
Venue: Banca d’Italia, Via Nazionale 91
14:30-15:15 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, Banca d’Italia)
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 Ricardian Selection
Massimo Sbracia, Bank of Italy
(with Andrea Finicelli and Patrizio Pagano)