FDI and the Multinational Corporation:
New Theories and
Evidence
Training and Mobility of
Researchers Network
Workshops and
Conferences
First Workshop - London, 27/28 November 1998
Second Workshop - Vouliagmeni, 17/18 September 1999
Third Workshop - Turin, 19/20 May 2000
Fourth Workshop - Barcelona, 21/22 September 2001
Final Conference, Hydra, 20–21 September 2002
European Research Network in International Trade - Bergen, June 1999
The Network's first Workshop...
The network’s first workshop was held in
London on 27/28 November 1998. The workshop was organized by Riccardo
Faini (CSLA, IMF and CEPR) and Anthony Venables (LSE, World Bank, and
CEPR)...read more.
The Network's second Workshop...
The Network’s second workshop was held in
Vouliagmeni, Greece, 17/18 September 1999. One of the key issues discussed at
the Workshop was how FDI works as a channel for R&D spillovers and the way
multinational enterprises acquire knowledge. Other issues discussed concerned
questions relating to the ownership structure of FDI, its impact on market
value, and the optimal timing of investment...read
more.
The Network's third Workshop...
FDI and the Multinational Corporation, Turin
A CEPR/LdA Workshop, entitled ‘Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation’, was held in Turin on 18/19 May 2000. The Workshop was organized by Giorgio Barba Navaretti (Università di Ancona and Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano), Riccardo Faini (Università degli Studi di Brescia, IMF and CEPR), Anna Falzoni (Università di Bergamo and Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano) and Anthony Venables (London School of Economics and CEPR). It formed part of the activities of the TMR Network of the same name...read more or view the programme.
The Network's fourth Workshop...
On 21/22 September 2001, the Network held a workshop in Barcelona, hosted and organised by the UPF team. The academic programme was compiled by Giorgio Barba Navaretti (Università di Ancona, CSLA, Università Bocconi, Milan), Antonio Cabrales (UPF) and Anthony J Venables (LSE and CEPR).
Final Conference, Hydra, 20–21 September 2002
This meeting was organized by the team at IMOP. The academic programme was put together by Helen Louri (IMOP), Giorgio Barba Navaretti (CSLA) and Anthony Venables (LSE). The first day of the conference was devoted to theoretical analysis of determinants of FDI as opposed to exports, as well the determinants of MNCs’ location of R&D and production activities. On the second day more empirical work was presented, which addressed the role of agglomeration economies and fiscal policy in attracting the location of MNCs’ productive activities, as well as the impact of MNCs’ activities on firms’ productivity and wages in host and home countries.
European Research
Workshop in International Trade
The
annual European Research Workshop in International Trade (ERWIT) was held
in Bergen on 24/27 June 1999. The workshop, under the auspices of CEPR and
The Norwegian School of Economics and Business, was organised by Richard
E. Baldwin
(Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and CEPR), Jan
I. Haaland (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration,
Bergen, and CEPR) and Karen-Helene
Midelfart Knarvik (Norwegian School of Economics and Business
Administration, Bergen, and CEPR). A total of 17 papers were presented.
Related Meetings
Irish Economic Association Annual Conference
A number of teams working on FDI-related issues met up at the Irish Economic Association annual conference in April 2000. Stephen Pavelin (UCD) presented a paper on ‘The Geographical Diversification of the Leading Firms in the EU’; Kristof Dascher (UCD) presented ‘Trade, FDI and Congestion: the Small and Very Open Economy’; and Holger Gorg (University of Ulster) and Eric Strobl (UCD) presented ‘Multinational Companies and the Development of Firm Start-Up Size: Evidence from Quantile Regressions from Ireland’.
Many members also met at the Symposium on New Issues in Trade and Location in August 1998 at Lund. This symposium was organised by Anthony Venables and Rikard Forslid and it addressed several issues, including new areas such as trade location and growth, empirical evidence and policy implications. Among the Network participants who presented papers were, Roger Bivand, (‘A Review of Spatial Statistical Techniques for Location Studies’), Frederico Trionfetti (‘The Dynamics of Country-Specific Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment’), Hans Kind (‘Uncertainty, Flexible Exchange Rates and Agglomeration’) and Rikard Forslid (MNCs, Growth and Location Externalities’). Other network members also presented papers and acted as discussants.
European Research Workshop in International Trade...
Many members of the Network also met at the
European Research Workshop in
International Trade in June 1998, of which Tony Venables (LSE) was one
of the organizers. Time was set aside for seminars in which
participants present their work, but a substantial amount was also reserved for
independent work and collaborative research with other participants.
Papers were presented by Network participants such as Rikard Forslid
(‘Economic Geography and Comparative Advantage’); Karen Helene
Midelfart-Knarvik and Frode Steen (‘Self-Reinforcing Agglomerations? An
Empirical Industry Study’); Marion Jansen (‘Job Creation, Job
Destruction, and the International Division of Labour’); Tony Venables
(‘Agglomeration and Economic Development: Import Substitution vs. Trade
Liberalisation’); and Jan Haaland (‘International Competition for
Multinational Investment’.
None of these meetings were funded by the TMR Network, but they are examples of the synergies that are possible with other ongoing CEPR research programmes.
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