9.30 Welcome Speech Peter Egger, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich (Room: ML - E 12)

9.40 SESSION 1- Trade and Labour market 1 (Room: ML - E 12)

• Brahim BOUALAM, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva, “Getting a First Job: Quality of the Labor Matching in French Citie“
• Malik ÇÜRÜK, Tilburg University, Department of Economics, “Occupational Fragmentation and Sectoral Employment Adjustments”
• Damir STIJEPIC, Department of Money and Macroeconomics, Goethe University Frankfurt, “Globalization, Worker Mobility and Wage Inequality”

10.55 Coffee break (Turbinenhalle next to room ML - E 12)

11.15 SESSION 2 - Geography and Trade (Room: ML - E 12)

• Junaid AHMED, Development Economics Research Group Göttingen, “Understanding Bilateral Remittances to Pakistan? A Gravity Model Approach”
• Manuel GARCÍA-SANTANA, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES), “Misallocation, Internal Trade, and the Role of Transportation Infrastructure”
• Thaís NÚÑEZ ROCHA, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, “International Waste Trade: The impact of European Regulation on World Trade”

12.30 LUNCH (Cafeteria Polyterrasse, ETH Main-Building, Floor D, Rämistrasse 101)

13.45 SESSION 3 – Trade and Labour market 2 (Senior Session) (Room: ML - E 12)

• José de Sousa, Université Paris Sud : « Labour Market Integration and Racial Discrimination » co-written with Pierre Deschamps
• Frederic Robert Nicoud, Université de Genève : “Trade in Unemployment”, co-written with C. Carrère, M. Fugazza, M. Olarreaga -
• Florian Mayneris, Université de Louvain “ The cleansing effect of minimum wage: Firm- level and aggregate effects of the 2004 reform of minimum wage rules in China” with S. Poncet and Z. Tao -
• Joachim Jarreau, Université Aix-Marseille “The Impact of Resident Status Regulations on Immigrants Labour Supply: evidence for France”

16.00 SESSION 4 - Institutions and Development (Room: ML - E 12)

• Karen DAVTYAN, University of Barcelona, “Interrelation among Economic Growth, Income Inequality, and Fiscal Performance: Evidence from Anglo-Saxon Countries”
• Julian HINZ, Paris School of Economics and Universit e Paris 1 Panth eon-Sorbonne,“The Ties that Bind: Geopolitical Motivations for PTAs”
• Yuan ZI, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, “Trade Costs, Global Value Chains and Economic Development”

17.15 SESSION 5 Open Macro and Exchange Rates Quality (Room: ML - E 12)

• Anna GIBERT, European University Institute, “Fiscal Austerity and the Informativeness of Credit Rating”
• Clément NEDONCELLE, EQUIPPE-Universités de Lille, “Real Exchange-Rate Volatility, Third-Market Effect and Trade: Empirical Evidence from French Firm-Level Data”
• Branislav SAXA, Czech National Bank, “Hedging Behaviour of Czech Exporting Firms”

18.30- End of Day 1

19h30 Cocktail and Prize Winning Award sponsored by CEPREMAP at Dozentenfoyer, ETH Main Building, Floor J, Rämistrasse 101

FRIDAY 04/06/2014 08.30

SESSION 6 –Senior Session (Room: ML - E 12) -

• Peter Egger, University of Zurich, “Title to be announced” -
• Daniel Mirza, University of Tours, LEO-Orleans and CEPII “One Source of Explanation of the Lack of Trade in Professional Services: evidence from firm level data”
• Senior 3 [To be announced] - Senior 4 [To be annouced]

10.10 Coffee break (Turbinenhalle next to room ML - E 12)

10.30 SESSION 7 - Quality, R&D and Trade (Room: ML - E 12)

• Andrea CIANI, Università L. Bocconi, “Export Quality Upgrading and Credit Constraints”
• Anna RAY, Paris School of Economics - Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, “Demand for Luxury Goods in a World of Income Disparities”
• Christian RUTZER, University of Basel, “From the Loser to the Winner How Trade Liberalization can lead to Leapfrogging between Countries”

11.45 SESSION 8- Knowledge, Externality and Trade (Room: ML - E 12)

• Antoine VATAN, CREST-LMA, “Why Do Homogeneous Firms Export Differently? A Density Externality Approach of Trade”
• Anna GUMPERT, University of Munich, Seminar for Comparative Economics, “The Organization of Knowledge in Multinational Firms”
• Youssouf KIENDREBEOGO, CERDI, University of Auvergne, “Export Activity and Productivity: Further Evidence”

 

13.00 End of Conference and Concluding Remark