


WORKSHOP Information
(International Trade and Investment)
April, 2008 - March, 2009
- March 4, 2009
Hitotsubashi COE One-Day Trade Workshop
- February 10, 2009
Yasuhiro Sato (Osaka University)
"Trade and Mergers in the Presence of Firm Heterogeneity" (with Noriaki Matsushima and Kazuhiro Yamamoto)
- January 27, 2009
Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)
"FDI, Technology Spillover, and Vertical Product Differentiation" (with Nguyen Thanh Xuan)
- December 13-14, 2008
Hitotsubashi COE Conference on International Trade and FDI 2008
- November 29-30, 2008
2 day Workshop
- July 30, 2008
Daisuke Oyama (Hitotsubashi University)
"Trade and Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Workers" (with Yasuhiro Sato, Takatoshi Tabuchi, and Jacques-Francois Thisse)
Yoshinori Kurokawa (SUNY-Buffalo)
"Variety-Skill Complementarity Hypothesis: A Simple Resolution of Trade-Wage Inequality Anomaly"
- July 1, 2008
Noriyuki Yanagawa (Tokyo University)
"Enforcement, Financial Imperfection and Outsourcing Decisions"
- June 3, 2008
Megumi Nishimura (University of Colorado)
"International Trade in the Presence of the History, History-dependent Differentiated Goods and the Cost of Relocation"
Yoichi Sugita (Columbia University)
"Matching, Quality-Upgrading, and Trade in Intermediate Goods between Heterogeneous Firms"
April, 2007 - March, 2008
- March 5, 2008
COE/RES One-Day Trade/IO Workshop
Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)
"FDI in Post-Production Services and Product Market Competition" (with Jota Ishikawa and Hiroshi Mukunoki)
Aron Schiff (Hitotsubashi University)
"Intellectual Property Clearinghouses and Investment in R&D" (with Reiko Aoki)
Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University)
"International Antitrust Enforcement and Multi-market Contact"
- February 19, 2008
COE/RES One-Day Trade/IO Workshop
Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)
"Discrete innovation, continuous improvement,and competitive pressure" (with Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato)
Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales)
"Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment" (with Kieron Meagher)
- December 15-16, 2007
Hitotsubashi COE/RES Conference on International Trade and FDI 2007
- November 17, 2007
1 day Workshop
- October 3, 2007
Emily Blanchard (University of Virginia)
"Political Stasis or Protectionist Rut? Policy Mechanisms for Reform Under Democracy"
- June 26, 2007
Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University)
"Imperialist policy versus welfare state policy:
A Theory of Political Competition over Military Policy and Redistribution"
- May 15, 2007
COE/RES One-Day Trade Workshop
Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)
"First-to-file versus first-to-invent: patent harmonization and innovation"
Alan Woodland (University of Sydney)
"Steepest Ascent Tariff Reforms"
April, 2006 - March, 2007
- March 22, 2007
Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University)
"Trade agreements as endogenously incomplete contracts"
- February 28, 2007
COE/RES One-Day Trade Workshop
- January 23, 2007
Yunfang Hu (Kobe University)
"Human Capital Accumulation, Home Production and Equilibrium Dynamics"
- December 13-14, 2006
Hitotsubashi COE/RES Conference on International Trade and FDI 2006
- November 19, 2006
1 day Workshop
- November 14, 2006
Ian Wooton (University of Strathclyde)
"Tax Competition and the International Distribution of Firm Ownership: An Invariance Result"
- November 7, 2006
Naoto Jinji (Okayama University)
"An Economic Theory of the SPS Agreement"
- October 31, 2006
Daisuke Oyama (Hitotsubashi University)
"Potential Methods in a Core-Periphery Model@with Forward-Looking Expectations"
- October 24, 2006
Zhihao Yu (Carlton University)
"The fear of globalization and outsourcing 'America'"
- October 3, 2006
Robert Waschik (La Trobe University)
"Modelling Kemp-Vanek Admissibility: The Effects of Free Trade Areas on Non-Members"
- July 25, 2006
Hitoshi Sato (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"A Model of Product Evolution and International Trade"
- July 11, 2006
Yoshimasa Komoriya (Hitotsubashi University)
"Trade Costs, Wage Rates, Technologies, and Foreign Direct Investment"
- June 20, 2006
Isao Kamata (University of Michigan)
"Revisiting the Revisited: An Alternative Test for Monopolistic Competition Model of International Trade"
- May 30, 2006
Edwin Lai (City University of Hong Kong)
"Parallel Imports and Price Controls"
April, 2005 - March, 2006
- March 9, 2006
Innwon Park (Korea University)
"In Search of Optimized Regional Trade Agreements and Applications to East Asia"
- March 7, 2006
1 day Trade Workshop
- February 10, 2006
1 day Trade Workshop
- January 26, 2006
Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)
"Competitor Collaboration and Product Distinctiveness"
- January 17, 2006
Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies)
"East Asian Regionalism"
- January 14-15, 2006
Hitotsubashi Conference 2006
- January 10, 2006
Toshihiro Okubo (Graduate Institute of International Studies)
"Export Processing Zone as a Catalyst for Foreign Direct Investment"
- December 1, 2005
Eden Yu (City University of Hong Kong)
"Environmental policy, international trade and factor markets"
- November 26, 2005
1 day Workshop
- November 22, 2005
Keith Head (University of British Columbia)
"The puzzling persistence of distance effect on bilateral trade"
- July 30-31, 2005
APTS 2005
- July 28, 2005
Elias Dinopoulos (University of Florida)
"How Cool is C.O.O.L.?"
- July 25, 2005
Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies)
"Footloose capital model with heterogeneous firms" (with Toshihoro Okubo)
- July 5, 2005
Koichi Hamada (Yale University)
"Information Asymmetry and the Problem of Transfers in Trade Negotiations and International Agencies"
- June 28, 2005
Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)
"Preemptive outsourcing and national welfare"
- June 14, 2005
Yukiko Ito (Brown University)
"Shareholding Decisions of Multinational Firms for Foreign Affiliates"
- May 31, 2005
Makoto Kakinaka (Cornell Univ.)
"Sequential Policy Reform: Learning versus Flexibility for Open Economies"
- May 25, 2005
James Harrigan (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Airplanes and Comparative Advantage"
- May 17, 2005
Yongmin Chen (Univ. of Colorado)
"Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation in Developing Countries"
- May 13, 2005
Yongmin Chen (Univ. of Colorado)
"Buyer Investment, Product Variety, and Intrafirm Trade"
April, 2004 - March, 2005
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February 28, 2005
1 day Trade Workshop
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January 25, 2005
Edwin Lai (City University of Hong Kong)
"International Protection of Intellectual Property: An Empirical Investigation"
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December 7, 2004
Ngo Van Long (McGill University)
"THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NORMS ON THE PATTERN OF TRADE"
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November 2, 2004
Kazuhiko Yokota (ICSEAD)
"Comparative Advantage and Vertical Production Networks"
- October 1-3, 2004
"Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI 2004"
- September 21, 2004
Professor Frederic Robert-Nicoud (University of Genevaj
"The Impact of Trade on Intraindustry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity: A Comment"
- July 30 - August 1, 2004
3-day Workshop Days
- July 13, 2004
Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)
"Saving Dolphins"
- July 6, 2004
Yasuhiro OtsukiiThe World Bankj
"The Costs of Complying with Foreign Product Standards for Firms in Developing Countries: An Econometric Study," (with Keith Maskus and John Wilson)
- June 23, 2004
James Harrigan (International Research Department, Federal Reserve
Bank of New York)
"Timeliness,Trade, and Agglomeration"
- June 16, 2004
Andrew B. Bernard (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth)
"Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms"
- June 1, 2004
Hajime Katayama (University of Sydney)
"On the Inter-Temporal Relationship between Criminal Activities"
- May 18, 2004
Thomas Prusa (Rutgers University)
"On the duration of trade" (written with Tibor Besedes)
April, 2003 - March, 2004
- January 13, 2004
Ichiroh Daitoh (Tohoku University)
"Environmental Protection, Trade and Growth in the Dual Economy: Piecemeal Policy Reforms in a Small Open Economy"
- December 9, 2003
James R. Markusen (University of Colorado)
"Developing Domestic Entrepreneurship and Growth through Imported Expertise"
- December 5, 2003
Ann Carlos (University of Colorado)
"Purchasing Strategies: Royal African Company Trade"
- October 14, 2003
Lee G. Branstetter (Columbia University)
"Do stranger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer?"
- October 7, 2003
Toshihiro Ichida (Columbia University)
"Occupational Choice and Compensation for Losers from International Trade"
- August 1-2, 2003
2-day Workshop
- July 29, 2003
Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)
"Antidumping Protection and Innovation"
- July 8, 2003
Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)
"Free Entry and Social Efficiency under Vertical Oligopoly"
- June 2, 2003
Keith E. Maskus (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"The Price Impact of Parallel Trade in Pharmaceutical Products: Evidencefromthe European Union"
- May 20, 2003
Fukunari Kimura (Keio University)
"Fragmentation and Agglomeration Matter: Japanese Multinationals in Latin
America and East Asia"
- May 6, 2003
Morihiro Yomogida (Hitotsubashi University)
"Producer Services, Trade, and Wages"
- April 1, 2003
Anthony J. Venables (London School of Economics)
"Industrial Clusters: Equilibrium, Welfare and Policy"
April, 2002 - March, 2003
- February 22, 2003
Horst Raff (University of Kiel)
"Exclusive Dealing as a Barrier and as a Catalyst to International Trade"
- January 28, 2003
Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies)
"Asymmetric Lobbying: Why losers lobby harder"
- January 14, 2003
Kazuharu Kiyono (Waseda University)
"Effective and nominal rates of protection with factor substitution"
- November 12, 2002
Yasukazu Ichino (Konan University)
"Lobbying for Administered Protection"
- October 22, 2002
Hong Hwang (National Taiwan University)
"Production Function and Optimal Trade Policy in Vertically Related Markets"
- October 8, 2002
Taiji Furusawa (Yokohama National University)
"Free Trade Networks"
- July 23, 2002
Larry Qiu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
"Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Environmental Technology Transfer"
- July 16, 2002
Ian Wooton (University of Glasgow)
"Regional Tax Coordination for Foreign Direct Investment"
- June 11, 2002
Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)
"Anti-dumping Protectionism"
- May 21, 2002
Elton Fairfield (Hitotsubashi University)
"Explaining the Decrease in the Canada-US Border Effect"
- April 16, 2002
Naoto Jinji (Hitotsubashi University)
"Is Mandatory Labelling of Biotechnology Products Protectionist?"