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)

Welcome remark: 501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science
9:30-9:40 Kenzo Abe (Osaka University)
Plenary session: 501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science
Chair: Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)
Raymond Riezman (University of Iowa, GEP, Ces-ifo)
9:40-10:30 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
Tadashi Morita (Osaka University䯵

509 Graduate School of Law and Graduate School of Economics Building
Kazutaka Takechi (Hosei University)
Kazuko Kano (University of Technology Sydney)
Takashi Kano (University of Tokyo)

Cost-Reducing R&D Investment, Occupational Choice, and Trade
10:50-11:50
Colin Davis (Kobe University)
Growth and the Location of Innovation and Industry in a Model ofOccupational Choice

Exaggerated Death of Distance: Revisiting Distance Effects on Regional Price
Dispersions
Kiyoshi Matsubara (Nihon University)
Product Quality in Different Markets and Cost Structure

11:50-13:10 Lunch Break
Rachel Bocquet (University of Savoie)

Syafira Arhansya (University of Melbourne)

Patrick Musso (University of Savoie)

Product Innovation and Export Performance
13:10-14:10 Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Industrial Agglomeration and Coagglomeration in Indonesia
Dao-Zhi Zeng (Tohoku University)

Toshihiro Okubo (Kobe 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 BreakGea M. Lee (Singapore Management University䯵Edwin Lai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Domestic Subsidies as Disguised Protection and Trade Agreements

Innovation and Patentability Requirement in a Globalized World

Davin Chor (Singapore Management University)

Alan Woodland (University of New South Wales)
14:30-15:30 Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University)

Keiko Ito (Senshu University)
Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)

Halis Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University)

On the Relationship between Preferential and Multilateral Trade
Liberalization: The Case of Customs Unions

Why Do Some Firms Persistently Outperform Others? An Investigation of theInteractions between Innovation and Export Strategies

15:30-15:50 Coffee BreakKozo 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)

15:50-16:50

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 BreakHea-Jung Hyun (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)

Tatyana Chesnokova (University of Adelaide)

Jung Hur (Sogang University)

17:10-18:10

Trade Openness and Vertical Specialization: Evidence from Korean FirmLevel Data

Lobby Interaction and Trade Policy

Heiwai Tang (Tufts University, Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano)

Tomohiro Ara (University of New South Wales)

Ana Fernandes (University of Sussex)

Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales)

The Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory andEvidence 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
Masahiro Endoh (Keio University)

509 Graduate School of Law and Graduate School of Economics Building
Akiko Suwa Eisenmann (INRA, LEA , Paris School of Economics)
Mélise Jaud (Paris School of Economics)
Olivier Cadot (University of Lausanne, CEPR, CERDI and CEPREMAP)

9:30-10:30

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)Kenzo Abe (Osaka University)

C. Bolancé (University of Barcelona)

Yasuyuki Sugiyama (Teikyo Heisei University)
Kazuharu Kiyono (Waseda University)

Offshoring and Firm Characteristics: Some Evidence from the Analysis ofSpanish Firm Data

International Transfer, Environmental Policy, and Welfare

10:30-10:50 Coffee BreakJung Hur (Sogang University)

Flora Bellone (University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis)

Nguyen M. Thuy (National University of Singapore)

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:

To What Extent Innovation Accounts for Firm Export Premia?

10:50-11:50 Evidence from Developing Countries
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 Does the Protection of Foreign Intellectual Property Rights Stimulate Innovation in thePolicy: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Strategic Trade Policy and Urban U.S.?
Unemployment
11:50-13:10 Lunch Break
Bilgehan Karabay (University of Auckland)

13:10-14:40

Bo Chen (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

John McLaren (University of Virginia)

Hong Ma (Tsinghua University)

Pareto-Improving Firing Costs?

Import Variety and Welfare Gain in China

Xuan T. Nguyen (University of New South Wales)

Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales)
Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)

Noriyuki Yanagawa (University of Tokyo)

Technology Spillover and Export-Platform FDI

Globalization under Financial Imperfection

Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)

Davin Chor (Singapore Management University)

Yuka Ohno

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 BreakPlenary session: 501 Common Hall for Humanities and Social Science
Chair: Laixun Zhao (Kobe University)
15:00-15:50 Anthony Venables (Oxford University)
Richard Baldwin (Institute of International and Development Studies)

Relocating the Value Chain: Off-shoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy