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International Seminar on International Trade (ISIT): Challenges to Globalization

A CEPR/NBER/SNS Conference

24/25 May 2002

Friday 24 May

 
09.30 – 10.30 Geography, Institutions and Export Performance

Figures available

Stephen Redding (London School of Economics and CEPR)
*Anthony Venables (London School of Economics and CEPR)

 
11.00 – 12.00 The Impact of Globalization, through Vertical Specialization, on the Labor Market: the French Case

Vanessa Strauss-Kahn (INSEAD, Fontainebleau)

 
12.00 – 13.00 Assessing Globalization’s Critics: “Talkers are no Good Doers???”

Figures available

*Kimberly Ann Elliott (Institute for International Economics, Washington)
Debayani Kar (Institute for International Economics)
J David Richardson (Syracuse University and NBER)

 
14.00 – 15.00 Financial Opening: Evidence and Policy Options

Joshua Aizenman (University of California  at Santa Cruz and NBER)

 
15.00 – 16.00 The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon? A Survey of the LIterature

*Simon Commander (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and London Business School)
Mari Kangasniemi  (University of Sussex)
L Alan Winters (University of Sussex and CEPR)

 
16.30 – 17.30 Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers

*Christopher L Gilbert (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and CEPR)
Panos Varangis (World Bank)

 
Saturday 25 May

 
09.00 – 10.00 Competition for Multinational Investment in Developing Countries: Human Capital, Infrastructure and Market Size

James R Markusen (University of Colorado at Boulder and CEPR and NBER)
*Keith Maskus (University of Colorado at Boulder)

 
10.00 – 11.00 Globalization and Dirty Industries: Are there Pollution Havens?

Figures
Tables
Appendix

Jaime de Melo (Université de Genève and CEPR)
*Jean-Marie Grether (Université de Neuchâtel)

 
11.30 – 12.30 Home and Host Country Effects of FDI

Robert E Lipsey (The City University of New York and NBER)

 
12.30 – 13.30

The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Drusilla Brown (Tufts University)
*Alan V Deardorff (University of Michigan)
*Robert M Stern (University of Michigan)

 
14.30 – 15.30 The Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave Of The Late 1990s

Tables available

Simon J Evenett (World Bank)

 
15.30 – 16.30 Globalization and Democracy

Figures available

Carl B Hamilton (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)

 
17.00 – 18.00 Openness and Growth: What’s the Empirical Relationship?

Robert E Baldwin (University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER)

 
Organizers: Robert  E Baldwin (University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER)
L Alan Winters (University of Sussex and CEPR)
* Indicates speaker
We would like to thank the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation for their financial support

 

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