Asia Pacific Trade Seminars
APTS 2010 Program
June 26-27, 2010
Osaka University
June 26    
9:00-9:30   Registration  (501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Sciences)
9:30-9:40 Welcome remark: 501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science
Kenzo Abe (Osaka University)
9:40-10:30 Plenary session: 501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science
Chair: Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)
 
Raymond Riezman (University of Iowa, GEP, Ces-ifo)
Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University)
Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis, NBER)
 
Trade, Urbanization and Capital Accumulation in a Labor Surplus Economy
10:30-10:50   Coffee Break  
  501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science 509 Graduate School of Law and Graduate School of Economics Building
10:50-11:50 Tadashi Morita (Osaka University Kazutaka Takechi (Hosei University)
Kazuko Kano (University of Technology Sydney)
Takashi Kano (University of Tokyo)
Cost-Reducing R&D Investment, Occupational Choice, and Trade Exaggerated Death of Distance: Revisiting Distance Effects on Regional Price Dispersions
Colin Davis (Kobe University) Kiyoshi Matsubara (Nihon University)
Growth and the Location of Innovation and Industry in a Model of Occupational Choice Product Quality in Different Markets and Cost Structure
11:50-13:10   Lunch Break
13:10-14:10 Rachel Bocquet (University of Savoie)
Patrick Musso (University of Savoie)
Syafira Arhansya (University of Melbourne)
Product Innovation and Export Performance Industrial Agglomeration and Coagglomeration in Indonesia
Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)
Toshihiro Okubo (Kobe University)
Dao-Zhi Zeng (Tohoku University)
Toshiaki Takahashi (University of Tokyo)
Hajime Takatsuka (Kagawa University)
International Rent-shifting under Foreign Entry through R&D and Licensing A Minimalist Model of the Home Market Effect
14:10-14:30   Coffee Break  
14:30-15:30 Gea M. Lee (Singapore Management University Edwin Lai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Davin Chor (Singapore Management University)
Domestic Subsidies as Disguised Protection and Trade Agreements Innovation and Patentability Requirement in a Globalized World
Alan Woodland (University of New South Wales)
Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University)
Halis Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University)
Keiko Ito (Senshu University)
Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)
On the Relationship between Preferential and Multilateral Trade Liberalization: The Case of Customs Unions Why Do Some Firms Persistently Outperform Others? An Investigation of the Interactions between Innovation and Export Strategies
15:30-15:50   Coffee Break  
15:50-16:50 Kozo Kiyota (Yokohama National Universitry)
Ian Wooton (University of Strathclyde, CEPR and CESifo)
Carl Gaigné (INRA)
The 'Flying Geese' Patterns of Industrial Developent The Gains from Preferential Tax Regimes Reconsidered
  Naoto Jinji (Kyoto University)
Shoji Haruna (Okayama University)
Xingyuan Zhang (Okayama University)
  Trade Patterns and International Knowledge Flows: Theory and Evidence from Patent Citation
16:50-17:10   Coffee Break  
17:10-18:10 Hea-Jung Hyun (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
Jung Hur (Sogang University)
Tatyana Chesnokova (University of Adelaide)
Trade Openness and Vertical Specialization: Evidence from Korean Firm-Level Data Lobby Interaction and Trade Policy
Heiwai Tang (Tufts University, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano)
Ana Fernandes (University of Sussex)
Tomohiro Ara (University of New South Wales)
Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales)
The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China On the Relationship between Bargaining and Tariffs
19:00-21:00   Conference Dinner  
June 27
9:00-9:30   Registration  (501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Sciences)
  501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science 509 Graduate School of Law and Graduate School of Economics Building
9:30-10:30 Masahiro Endoh (Keio University) Akiko Suwa Eisenmann (INRA, LEA , Paris School of Economics)
Mélise Jaud (Paris School of Economics)
Olivier Cadot (University of Lausanne, CEPR, CERDI and CEPREMAP)
Return Differentials of Foreign Investment among OECD Countries Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports
Angels Pelegrin (University of Barcelona)
C. Bolancé (University of Barcelona)
Kenzo Abe (Osaka University)
Yasuyuki Sugiyama (Teikyo Heisei University)
Kazuharu Kiyono (Waseda University)
Offshoring and Firm Characteristics: Some Evidence from the Analysis of Spanish Firm Data International Transfer, Environmental Policy, and Welfare
10:30-10:50   Coffee Break  
10:50-11:50 Jung Hur (Sogang University)
Nguyen M. Thuy (National University of Singapore)
Flora Bellone (University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis)
Sarah Guillou (Sciences-Po Paris - OFCE-DRIC, Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques)
Lionel Nesta (Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques)
Antidumping Duties and Technological Level of Exporting Countries: Evidence from Developing Countries To What Extent Innovation Accounts for Firm Export Premia?
Ichiroh Daitoh (Tohoku University) Larry D. Qiu (University of Hong Kong)
Huayang Yu (Tsinghua University)
International Market Rivalry in a Developing Country and the Optimal Export Policy: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Strategic Trade Policy and Urban Unemployment Does the Protection of Foreign Intellectual Property Rights Stimulate Innovation in the U.S.?
11:50-13:10   Lunch Break  
13:10-14:40 Bilgehan Karabay (University of Auckland)
John McLaren (University of Virginia)
Bo Chen (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Hong Ma (Tsinghua University)
Pareto-Improving Firing Costs? Import Variety and Welfare Gain in China
Xuan T. Nguyen (University of New South Wales)
Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales)
Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)
Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)
Noriyuki Yanagawa (University of Tokyo)
Technology Spillover and Export-Platform FDI Globalization under Financial Imperfection
Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)
Yuka Ohno
Davin Chor (Singapore Management University)
Kalina Manova (Stanford University)
International Harmonization of the Patent-Awarding Rules Off the Cliff and Back? Credit Conditions and International Trade during the Global Financial Crisis
14:40-15:00   Coffee Break  
15:00-15:50 Plenary session:  501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science
Chair: Laixun Zhao (Kobe University)
 
Anthony Venables (Oxford University)
Richard Baldwin (Institute of International and Development Studies)
Relocating the Value Chain: Off-shoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy