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WORKSHOP Information
(International Trade and Investment)

April, 2013 - March, 2014

• April 23, 2013
  Gang Li (Hitotsubashi University)
  "Curvature of the Production Possibility Frontier under Endogenous Endowment and Input-Generated Externality"
  
• April 9, 2013
  Peter Neary (University of Oxford)
  "Not so Demanding: Preference Structure, Firm Behavior, and Welfare"
  

April, 2012 - March, 2013

• March 14, 2013
  Hitotaubashi One day Ttade Workshop
  
• March 9, 2013
  WITS
  
• February 14, 2013
  One day Workshop on International Trade and Industrial Organization
  
• January 29, 2013
  One day Workshop on International Trade and Industrial Organization
  
• January 15, 2013
  Tran Lam Anh Duong (Hitotsubashi University)
  "An Analysis of Changes in Wealth Distribution, Credit Transition and Development upon the Entrance of Foreign Direct Investment Firms"
  
• December 8-9, 2012
  Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI 2012
  
• October 30, 2012
  Nicola Coniglio (University of Bari)
  "Climate variability and international migration: what are the links?"
  
• October 2, 2012
  Avinash Dixit (Princeton University)
  "Reciprocal Insurance Among Kenyan Pastoralists"
  
• August 8, 2012
  SWET
  
• July 17, 2012
  Cheng Chen (Princeton University)
  "Heterogeneous Firms with Agency Problem-Theory and Evidence"
  
• June 27, 2012
  Peter Schott (Yale School of Management)
  "Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters"
  
• June 26, 2012
  Kaz Miyagiwa (Florida International University)
  "Who's afraid of FTAs?: Free trade areas and world welfare"
  
• June 5, 2012
  Hirokazu Ishise (Bank of Japan)
  "Trade in Polarized America: the Border Effect between Red States and Blue States"(with Miwa Matsuo)
  
• May 22, 2012
  E. Young Song (Sogang University)
  "Trade and the Speed of Convergence in a Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model"
  
• May 15, 2012
  Tran Lam Anh Duong (Hitotsubashi University)
  "Optimal Infant Industry Protection in Transition to the World Trade Organization Membership - A Numerical Analysis for the Vietnamese Motorcycle Industry -"
  

April, 2011 - March, 2012

• March 18, 2012
  Hitotsubashi GCOE Workshop on International Trade and FDI
  
• March 14, 2012
  Andrew B. Bernard (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth)
  "Carry-Along Trade"
  
• March 2, 2012
  Winter International Trade Seminar
  
• January 29, 2012
  One-day Workshop
  
• January 10, 2012
  Shuhei Nishitateno (ANU)
  "Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Exports: New Evidence from Product-Level Data"
  
• December 10-11, 2011
  Hitotsubashi-UNSW Conference on International Trade & FDI 2011
  
• August 6, 2011
  SWET
  
• July 21, 2011
  Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
  "Gravity Chains: Estimating the gravity model when trade in parts is important"
  
• July 12, 2011
  Yoichi Sugita (Stockholm School of Economics)
  "Matching, Quality, and Comparative Advantage: A Unified Theory of Heterogeneous Firm Trade"
  
• June 7, 2011
  Naoto Jinji (Kyoto University)
  "Does the Structure of Multinational Enterprises' Activity Affect Technology Spillovers?"
  

April, 2010 - March, 2011

• March 30, 2011
  Yumiko Taba (Waseda University)
  "A Bargaining Model of Free Trade Agreements in Special Interest Politics"(with Hideki Konishi)
  
• February 8, 2011
  Megumi Nishimura (University of Colorado)
  "Love of Quantity and Quality -A Non-Unit Demand Model of Trade on Vertically Differentiated Goods-"
  
• December 11-12, 2010
  Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI 2010
  
• November 13-14, 2010
  Hitotsubashi GCOE Trade Workshop for Young Researchers 2010
  
• October 25, 2010
  Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales)
  "FDI and Technology Spillover under Vertical Product Differentiation"
  
• July 31 - August 1, 2010
  Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and Industrial Orbanization
  
• July 6, 2010 Xuan T. Nguyen (University of New South Wales)
  "Technology Spillover and Export-Platform FDI"
  
• June 22, 2010
  Ian Wooton (University of Strathclyde)
  "The Gains from Preferential Tax Regimes Reconsidered"
  
• May 25, 2010
  Daniel Bernhofen (University of Nottingham), John Brown (Clark University)
  "A Ricardian factor content characterization of the gains from trade: evidence from Japan's opening up" (with Masayuki Tanimoto)
  
• May 11, 2010
  Olena Ivus (University of Prince Edward Island)
  "Stronger patent protection: Quantity, price, and variety response of exports"
  

April, 2009 - March, 2010

• March 16, 2010
  Yoichi Sugita (Columbia University)
  "Matching, Quality, and Comparative Advantage: A Unified Theory of Heterogeneous Firm Trade"
  
• February 23, 2010
  Chia-Hui Lu (City University of Hong Kong)
  "The Organization of Production and Trade"
  
• December 12-13, 2009
  Hitotsubashi Conference on International Trade and FDI 2009
• November 14-15, 2009
  Hitotsubashi COE Trade Workshop for Young Researchers
• May 19, 2009
  Donald MacLaren (University of Melbourne)
  "Partial and General Equilibrium Measures of Trade Restrictiveness"
  

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

• February 28, 2005
  1 day Trade Workshop
• January 25, 2005
  Edwin Lai (City University of Hong Kong)
  "International Protection of Intellectual Property: An Empirical Investigation"
• December 7, 2004
  Ngo Van Long (McGill University)
  "THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NORMS ON THE PATTERN OF TRADE"
• 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 Geneva）
  "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 Otsuki（The World Bank） "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?"

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