Papers by session

Thursday September 3, 10:30-12:30 --- Comparative advantage, Room S4. Chair: Will Johnson

Schetter, Ulrich (Yale University; ETH Zurich, Center of Economic Research): Comparative advantages with product complexity and product quality

Vézina, Pierre-Louis (King's College London; University of Birmingham): Heckscher-Ohlin: Evidence from virtual trade in value added (co-authored with: Rotunno, Lorenzo; Ito, Tadashi)

Arcalean, Calin (ESADE Business School): Structural change patterns and development in open economies

Johnson, Will (Boston University): Economic growth among a network of industries

Thursday September 3, 10:30-12:30 --- Economic policies, Room S7. Chair: Tapio Palokangas

Lechthaler, Wolfgang (Kiel Institute for the World Economy): Ben Bernanke in Doha: The effect of monetary policy on optimal tariffs

Fugazza, Marco (UNCTAD): Trade in unemployment (co-authored with: Carrère, Céline; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric)

Hu, Yunfang (Kobe University): Progressive taxation and equilibrium indeterminacy with endogenous growth (co-authored with: Mino, Kazuo)

Palokangas, Tapio (University of Helsinki): Globalization, union influence and self-interested labor market regulators

Thursday September 3, 10:30-12:30 --- Human capital, Room S8. Chair: Volker Grossman

Ben Yahmed, Sarra (Cergy-Pontoise University): Gender, occupations and international trade (co-authored with: Bombarda, Pamela)

Blanchard, Emily (Tuck School of Business): Globalization and human capital investment: Export composition drives educational attainment (co-authored with: Olney, William W.)

Rotunno, Lorenzo (University of Oxford; Blavatnik School of Government): Wages and endowments in a globalised world (co-authored with: Wood, Adrian)

Grossmann, Volker (University of Fribourg; CESifo; Institute for the Study of Labor; University College London): Does expansion of higher education lead to trickle-down growth? (co-authored with: Böhm, Sebastian; Steger, Thomas M.)

Thursday September 3, 10:30-12:30 --- Firms and trade, Room S9. Chair: Asli Leblebicioglu

Shembavnekar, Nihar (University of Sussex): Tariff liberalisation, labour market flexibility and employment: Evidence from India

Mulangu, Francis (African Center for Economic Transformation): Do firms self-select to export or learn-by-exporting? Evidence from Ghanaian manufacturing firms

Riaño, Alejandro (University of Nottingham; GEP; CESifo; CFCM): Twin peaks (co-authored with: Defever, Fabrice)

Leblebicioglu, Asli (University of Texas at Dallas): Trade liberalization and investment in imported and domestic capital goods: Evidence from India (co-authored with: Kandilov, Ivan T.; Manghnani, Ruchita)

Thursday September 3, 10:30-12:30 --- Trade and welfare, Room A2. Chair: Antonella Nocco

Ourens, Guzmán (Université Catholique de Louvain; FNRS): The long-term impact of trade with firm heterogeneity

Murata, Yasusada (Nihon University): New trade models, elusive welfare gains (co-authored with: Behrens, Kristian; Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu)

Archanskaia, Elizaveta (KU Leuven): Why aren't welfare gains from trade increasing?

Nocco, Antonella (University of Salento): Geography, technology, and optimal trade policy with heterogeneous firms (co-authored with: Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Salto, Matteo)

Thursday September 3, 10:30-12:30 --- Macro dynamics, Room S2. Chair: Rodolfo Cermeño

Sameer Khatiwada (The Graduate Institute, Geneva): Firm dynamics and business cycle: Better understanding the effects of recessions (co-authored with: Gomis, Roger M.)

Mitsek, Sergey (Liberal Arts University in Yekaterinburg): Econometric model of macroeconomic dynamics in Russian Federation

Zuazu-Bermejo, Izaskun (University of the Basque Country): Political institutions, technology and growth: A dynamic panel approach

Cermeño, Rodolfo (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas): Mexico's trade flows in the NAFTA era: Evidence on the Marshall-Lerner condition from a VEC-GARCH approach (co-authored with: Rivera Ponce, Huver)

Thursday September 3, Parallel sessions II

Thursday September 3, 14:30-16:30 --- Theory, Room S4. Chair: Jacopo Zotti

Borisov, Kirill (European University in St. Petersburg; St. Petersburg Institute for Economics and Mathematics): Ramsey equilibrium with liberal borrowing (co-authored with: Becker, Robert A.; Dubey, Ram Sewak)

Matveenko, Vladimir (National Research University): Technological choice generating normalized CES production functions (co-authored with: Matveenko, Andrei)

Zotti, Jacopo (University of Trieste): International trade models with endogenous terms of trade, world equilibrium allocations, and trade patterns (co-authored with: Jensen, Bjarne S.)

Thursday September 3, 14:30-16:30 --- FDI and Offshoring, Room S7. Chair: Gábor Békés

Blanas, Sotirios (Université Catholique de Louvain; FNRS): Knowledge transfer and intra-firm trade (co-authored with: Seric, Adnan)

Ray, Anna (Paris School of Economics; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne): Expanding multinationals - Industry relatedness and conglomerate M&A

Koch, Michael (University of Bayreuth): Offshoring and firm overlap (co-authored with: Capuano, Stella; Egger, Hartmut; Schmerer Hans-Jörg)

Békés, Gábor (Center for Economic and Regional Studies-HAS; CEU; CEPR): The ladder of foreign sales: Internationalization modes of European firms (co-authored with: Muraközy, Balázs)

Thursday September 3, 14:30-16:30 --- Trade and labor, Room S8. Chair: Nicolas Depetris

Dávalos, Jorge (Universidad del Pacífico): Trade openness effects through price channels on firms' informal employment: The case of Peru

Ulyssea, Gabriel (Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV-SP): Trade opening, enforcement and informality: Evidence from Brazil (co-authored with: Ponczek, Vladimir)

Grujovic, Anja (Université de Genève): Trade and frictional unemployment in the global economy (co-authored with: Carrère, Céline; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric)

Depetris-Chauvin, Nicolas (Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève; ACET): Wage and employment gains from exports: Evidence from developing countries (co-authored with: Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G.)

Thursday September 3, 14:30-16:30 --- Innovation, Room S9. Chair: David Mayer-Foulkes

Calani, Mauricio (University of Pennsylvania): Diversity, volatility and innovation

Iacopetta, Maurizio (OFCE Sciences-Po; Skema Business School): Financial markets, industry dynamics, and growth (co-authored with: Minetti, Raoul)

Mayer-Foulkes, David (CIDE): Economic Growth and Inequality in the Mass Market Economy (co-authored with: Hafner, Kurt)

Thursday September 3, 14:30-16:30 --- Trade and growth, Room A2. Chair: Mario Larch

Gerritse, Michiel (University of Groningen): Does trade cause long-run development? Theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel

Mahabir, Aruneema (Nottingham Trent University): Growth by destination: The role of trade in Africa's recent growth episode (co-authored with: Mullings, Robert)

Berthou, Antoine (Banque de France; CEPII): Productivity, misallocation and trade (co-authored with: Manova, Kalina; Sandoz, Charlotte)

Larch, Mario (University of Bayreuth): Growth and trade with frictions: A structural estimation framework (co-authored with: Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto V.)

Friday September 4, Parallel sessions III

Friday September 4, 10:30-12:30 --- Markups, Room S4. Chair: Sarah Guillou

Guilloux-Nefussi, Sophie (Georgetown University; Banque de France): Gobalization, market structure and the flattening of the Phillips curve

Kichko, Sergey (Higher School of Economics): Intersectoral markup divergence and welfare (co-authored with: Behrens, Kristian; Ushchev, Philip)

Lamorgese, Andrea R (Bank of Italy): Free Trade Agreements and firm-product markups in Chilean manufacturing (co-authored with: Linarello, Andrea; Warzynski, Frederic)

Guillou, Sarah (OFCE Sciences-Po; GREDEG CNRS; SKEMA Business School): Markup heterogeneity, export status and the establishment of the Euro (co-authored with: Nesta, Lionel)

Friday September 4, 10:30-12:30 --- Geography and trade, Room S7. Chair: Simeon Alder

Krebs, Oliver (University of Würzburg): How deep is your love? A quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership (co-authored with: Pflüger, Michael)

Chein, Flávia (Federal University of Juiz de Fora): Transport infrastructure, urbanization and shipping costs: An analysis of the effects of an exogenous transport cost reduction on regional development (co-authored with: de Xavier Pinto, Cristine Campos)

Seiffert, Sebastian (University of Hohenheim): The role of economic geography in African subnational development

Alder, Simeon (University of Notre Dame): Competitive pressure and the decline of the Rust Belt: A macroeconomic analysis (co-authored with: Lagakos, David; Ohanian, Lee)

Friday September 4, 10:30-12:30 --- Competitiveness, Room S8. Chair: Giulia Felice

Chiappini, Raphaël (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis; GREDEG CNRS): Foreign labor cost reforms and domestic export. Evidence from French exports relative to German labor cost (co-authored with: Guillou, Sarah)

Sokolova, Maria (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies): Exchange rates and economic growth: Re-evaluation of undervaluation

Comunale, Mariarosaria (Bank of Lithuania): Current account and REER misalignments in Central Eastern EU countries: an update using the Macroeconomic Balance approach

Felice, Giulia (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano): External imbalances in the European Union and international fragmentation of production: Is there a link? (co-authored with: Cingolani, Isabella; Tajoli, Lucia)

Friday September 4, 10:30-12:30 --- Firms and trade, Room S9. Chair: Chiara Franco

Tian, Yuan (Boston University): Heterogeneity effects of development funding on microenterprises

Gao, Bo (Newcastle University): Why do some firms solely export? Theory and implications (co-authored with: Tvede, Mich)

Trachsel, Virginie (Université de Genève): Trade promotion: What works? (co-authored with: Sperlich, Stephan; Olarreaga, Marcelo)

Franco, Chiara (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart): Outward foreign direct investments patterns of Italian firms in the EU-ETS (co-authored with: Borghesi, Simone; Marin, Giovanni)

Friday September 4, 10:30-12:30 --- Trade and Development, Room A2. Chair: Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso

Cheng, Wenya (The University of Manchester): Regional variation in trade liberalization outcomes: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry

Flores, Manuel (Université de Genève; Universidad de la República): Trade patterns as a source of militarized conflict

Konte, Maty (United Nations University-MERIT): Do remittances not promote growth? A bias-adjusted three-step mixture-of-regressions

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada (University of Goettingen): Is aid for trade effective? A panel-quantile regression approach (co-authored with: Nowak-Lehman, Felicitas; Rehwald, Kai)

Friday September 4, 10:30-12:30 --- Political economy, Room S2. Chair: Gerald Willmann

Crivelli, Pramila (Université de Genève): Regionalism and external protection: Market access matters

Saha, Amrita (University of Sussex): Lobbying for trade policy: Theory and evidence from India

Kümmritz, Victor (The Graduate Institute, Geneva): Global value chains: Benefiting the domestic economy.

Willmann, Gerald (Kansas State University): The political economy of preferential trade arrangements: An empirical investigation (co-authored with: Facchini, Giovanni; da Silva, Peri)

Friday September 4, Parallel sessions IV

Friday September 4, 13:45-15:45 --- Finance, trade and growth, Room S4. Chair: Tomasz Michalski

Bronzini, Raffaello (Bank of Italy): Bank internationalization and firm exports: Evidence from matched firm-bank data (co-authored with: D'Ignazio, Alessio)

Demir, Banu (Bilkent University): Grin and bear it: Producer-financed exports from an emerging market (co-authored with: Javorcik, Beata)

Michalski, Tomasz (HEC Paris): Financial integration and growth: Banks' previous industry exposure matters (co-authored with: Dincbas, Neslihan; Ors, Evren)

Friday September 4, 13:45-15:45 --- Trade and services, Room S7. Chair: Florian Mayneris

Poilly, Céline (Université de Lausanne): International competitiveness: Product deregulation and internal devaluation (co-authored with: Patureau, Lise)

Boffa, Mauro (Université de Genève): The exchange rate pass-through, the internet and the cost of waiting

Milet, Emmanuel (Université de Genève): Services imports and job polarization (co-authored with: Toubal, Farid)

Mayneris, Florian (Université Catholique de Louvain): Firm-level servitization: Theory and evidence (co-authored with: Ariu, Andrea; Parenti, Mathieu)

Friday September 4, 13:45-15:45 --- Trade and labor, Room S8. Chair: Peri Silva

Treibich, Tania (OFCE, Sciences Po; Maastricht University and Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies): Export behavior and labor characteristics (co-authored with: Guillou, Sarah; Bernini, Michele)

Winkler, Erwin (University of Wuerzburg): Exporters and wage inequality during the great recession - Evidence from Germany (co-authored with: Dauth, Wolfgang; Schmerer, Hans-Joerg)

Xu, Jianwei (Beijing Normal University): Firm-specific exchange rate shocks and employment adjustment: Theory and evidence (co-authored with: Dai, Mi)

Silva, Peri (Kansas State University): Value added exports and U.S. local labor markets: Does China really matter? (co-authored with: Shen, Leilei)

Friday September 4, 13:45-15:45 --- Exporters dynamics, Room A2. Chair: Stefanie Haller

Disdier, Anne-Célia (Paris School of Economics; INRA): Export decision under risk (co-authored with: de Sousa, José; Gaigné, Carl)

Tang, Heiwai (Johns Hopkins University; CESIfo): Learning to export from neighbors (co-authored with: Fernandes, Ana P.)

Rebeyrol, Vincent (Banque de France): Demand learning and firm dynamics: Evidence from exporters (co-authored with: Berman, Nicolas; Vicard, Vincent)

Haller, Stefanie (University College Dublin): How exporters grow (co-authored with: Fitzgerald, Doireann; Yedid-Levi, Yaniv)

Friday September 4, 13:45-15:45 --- Trade and development, Room S9. Chair: Natalie Chen

Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina (University of North Florida; African Center for Economic Transformation): Does the destination of exports matter? Trade with OECD countries and export sophistication in developing countries

Perez-Sebastian, Fidel (Universidad de Alicante; University of Hull): Quality upgrading and the stages of diversification (co-authored with: Papageorgiou, Chris; Spatafora, Nicola)

Di Ubaldo, Mattia (University of Sussex): Catalysts and inhibitors of the trade collapse

Chen, Natalie (University of Warwick; CAGE; CESifo; CEPR): Quality and the great trade collapse (co-authored with: Juvenal, Luciana)