In order to save your precious time, please use our PC only (Windows XP: Power Point 2002, Word, Excel, PDF). Please send in your file to us as soon as possible. For those who are late, please bring your file in a floppy disk, CD, or USB disk.
The last presenter before each break serves as the chair. Please keep strictly within time limits for each presentation. Do NOT start early even if the person scheduled before you does not show up, because people from other sessions may want to listen to your presentation.
Registration and all plenary sessions will be held on the 3rd floor, Presentation Room.
| Time | Activities | Room 404 | Room 405 |
| 9:00-9:25 | Registration | Presentation Room, 3rd floor | |
| 9:25-9:30 | Welcome |
Presentation Room, 3rd floor
Seiichi Katayama | |
| 9:30-10:20 | Plenary 1 |
Presentation Room, 3rd floor
Chair: Seiichi Katayama Jonathan Eaton: An anatomy of international trade: evidence from French firms | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee & Tea | ||
| 10:40-11:10 | A Sessions | Chul Chung & Minjae Song: Preference for cultural goods: the case of Korea film market |
Edwin Lai & Gene Grossman: Parallel imports and price controls |
| 11:10-11:40 | B Sessions | Eichi Tomiura: Foreign versus domestic outsourcing: firm level evidence on the role of technology |
Masao Oda, K. Shimomura & R. Wakasugi: Welfare Enhancing Direct Investment |
| 11:40-12:10 | C Sessions | Pao-Li Chang & Myoung-Jae Lee: Protection for sale under monopolistic competition: An empirical investigation |
Colin Davis: Communication costs, network externalities, and long-run growth |
| 12:10-14:00 | Lunch: Academia Hall, 1st floor | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | D Sessions | Hea-Jung Hyun: Quality of institutions and FDI in developing countries |
Kenji Fujiwara & Nobuhito Suga: Two propositions on the competition policy in a world economy |
| 14:30-15:00 | E Sessions |
Wei-jen Wen, C.Y. Lin & Y. Chang: Exchange rate interventions as a strategic policy: evidence from U.S. automobile markets |
Yan Ma: Quality goods, trade liberalization, and wage inequality |
| 15:00-15:30 |
F Sessions |
Kazutaka Takechi: Synergy effects of domestic and international M&A | Eden Yu: Public inputs, rural-urban migration and welfare |
| 15:30-15:50 |
Coffee & Tea | ||
| 15:50-16:20 |
G Sessions |
Bin Xu: Technology content of China’s exports |
Kullapat Suetrong, A. Guariglia, & A. Mukherjee: Technological asymmetries and strategic plant location by a multinational |
| 16:20-16:50 |
H Sessions |
Keiko Ito & Kyoji Fukao: Does localization determine the profitability of foreign direct investment? |
Naoto Jinji: Intellectual property rights protection, FDI, and process innovation in North-South trade |
| 16:50-17:20 |
I Sessions |
Kuo-I Chang, K. Hayakawa & Hyun-Hoon Lee: How do cultural factors affect agricultural trade? |
Chisato Shibayama & Yasunori Ishii: Dumping by firms that produce core goods and incompatible consumables |
| 17:20-17:50 |
J Sessions |
Toru kikuchi & Chiharu Kobayashi: Network externalities, competition, and trade: East Asian perspectives |
Larry Qiu: Export, FDI and cross-border strategic alliances |
| 18:00 | Reception |
Restaurant Sakura, Chair: Fumio Dei | |
| Time | Activities | Room 404 | Room 405 |
| 9:30-10:20 | Plenary 2 |
Presentation Room, 3rd floor
Chair: Jota Ishikawa Steven Matusz:
Outsourcing Peter to pay Paul~~high-skill expectations and low-skill wages with imperfect labor markets | |
| 10:30-11:00 | A Sessions | Mitsuyo Ando & Fukunari Kimura: Fragmentation in East Asia: further evidence |
Jota Ishikawa: Stay or leave? Choice of plant location with cost heterogeneity |
| 11:00-11:30 | B Sessions | Lelio Iapadre: Structural factors and competitiveness in international trade |
Nobuko Serizawa: Multinational firm and its operational choice: Inward and outward investment |
| 11:30-11:40 | Coffee & Tea | ||
| 11:40-12:10 | C Sessions | Baboo Nowbutsing: Winners and losers in customs unions: an experimental investigation |
Ian Wooton & Andreas Haufler: Competition for firms in an oligopolistic industry: Do firms or countries have to pay? |
| 12:10-12:40 | D Sessions | Kazunobu Hayakawa: Home bias for intermediate and finished goods: evidence from East Asia |
Chia-Hui Lu & Pao-li Chang: On the Magnet Effect of FDI |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00-14:30 | E Sessions | Taiji Furusawa & Edwin Lai: The election of a present-biased government |
Yoshiyasu Ono: Protective trade policies “reduce” employment: a dynamic optimization approach |
| 14:30-15:00 | F Sessions |
Toshihiro Ichida: Occupational choice and compensation for losers from trade |
Robert Waschik: A computable general equilibrium analysis of trade taxes in Australian wool industry |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Coffee & Tea | ||
| 15:20-16:10 | Plenary 3 |
Presentation Room, 3rd floor
Chair: Kazuhiro Igawa | |
| 16:10-----> | Closing speech: Kazuhiro Igawa. Coffee, Tea, Beer & Home | ||