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Regional Development at the Periphery:
Theory, Policy and Measurement

Hosted by the Centre for Public Policy and Regions, Glasgow

February 11-12, 2005

Programme

Location
Room 2.12, Sir William Duncan Building
130 Rottenrow, University of Strathclyde

Friday 11 February

 
09.00 - 09.30 Registration

 
Session 1 Chair: Ian Wooton

 
09.30 - 10.15 Agglomeration, Regional Grants and Firm Location

Michael P. Devereux (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
Rachel Griffith (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
*Helen Simpson (Institute for Fiscal Studies)

 
10.15 - 11.00 Functional Specialization and the Location of Multinational Firms in the Enlarged Europe

Fabrice Defever (University of Paris I)

 
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee

 
11.30 - 12.15 Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential

*Marius Brülhart (University of Lausanne and CEPR)
Matthieu Crozet (University of Paris I)
Pamina Koenig (CREST and University of Paris I)

 
12.15 - 13.00 The Role of Geographical Forces and International Fragmentation of Production in the Determination of Industry Location: the EU-CEECs Case

Gianfranco De Simone (Università di Torino and Università degli Studi de Milano)

 
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

 
Session 2 Chair: Andy Cumbers

 
14.00 - 14.45 The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Stephen Redding (London School of Economics and CEPR)
*Daniel M. Sturm (University of Munich and CEPR)

 
14.45 -15.30 European Integration, the Internal Geography of Trade and FDI: Evidence from Western-European Border Regions

Miren Lafourcade (Université d'Évry and CERAS)
*Elisenda Paluzie (Universitat de Barcelona)

 
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee

 
16.00 - 17.30 Roundtable on Economic Geography and Regional Policy in Theory and Practice

Victor Norman (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and CEPR)
Anthony J. Venables (London School of Economics and CEPR)
A.N. Other

 
20.00 Dinner

Metropolitan Restaurant, 5 Candleriggs

 
Saturday 12 February

 
Session 3 Chair: Jan Haaland

 
09.00 - 09.35 Spatial Wage Disparities: Sorting Matters!

*Pierre-Philippe Combes (CERAS and CEPR)
Gilles Duranton (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Laurent Gobillon (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques and LSE)

 
09.35 - 10.10 R&D Investment, Labor Market Pooling and International Location in Oligopolist Industries

Armando José Garcia Pires (Technical University of Lisbon)

 
10.10 - 10.45 Unions, Location of Firms and the Periphery

Karolien De Bruyne (Catholic University of Leuven)

 
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee

 
11.15 - 11.50 Spatial Determinants of Productivity: Analysis for the Regions of Great Britain

Patricia Rice (University of Southampton)
*Anthony J. Venables (London School of Economics and CEPR)

 
11.50 - 12.25 Regional Policy and Rent Seeking

*Kjetil Bjorvatn (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
Nicola D. Coniglio (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)

 
12.25 - 13.00 Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography: Selection and Sorting

Richard E. Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and CEPR)
Toshihiro Okubo (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva)

 
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

 
Session 4 Chair: Tony Venables

 
14.00 - 14.45 Does Local Taxation Affect Business's Decisions?

Gilles Duranton (London School of Economics and CEPR)
Laurent Gobillon (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques and LSE)
*Henry G. Overman (London School of Economics and CEPR)

 
14.45 - 15.30 Is There Regional Tax Competition? Firm-Level Evidence for Belgium

*Hylke Vandenbussche (Catholic University of Leuven and CEPR)
Boudewijn Janssen (Catholic University of Leuven and University of Maastricht)
Karen Crabbé (Catholic University of Leuven)

 
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee

 
16.00 - 16.45 Globalization, Tax Competition, and Fiscal Equalization

*Carl Gaigné (Inra-Cesaer and University of Strathclyde)
Stéphane Riou (Université de Saint-Etienne)

 
16.45 - 17.30 Domestic Labour Markets and Foreign Direct Investment

*Jan I. Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and CEPR)
Ian Wooton (University of Strathclyde and CEPR)

 
20.00 Dinner

Corinthian Restaurant, 191 Ingram Street

 
Organizers: Andy Cumbers (University of Glasgow)
Ian Wooton (University of Strathclyde)

 
*denotes speaker

 

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