11th ISGEP WORKSHOP on Firms, Trade and Productivity: empirical analysis based on recent theoretical advances

“G. d’Annunzio University”, Pescara, Italy
15–16 September 2016

ISGEP – International Study Group on Exports and Productivity – is a platform aimed at stimulating knowledge exchange and joint research on firm behaviour in international markets using micro-data. The 11th ISGEP WORKSHOP on “Firms, Trade and Productivity: empirical analysis based on recent theoretical advances” will be held at “G.d’Annunzio University” – Pescara (Italy) on 15-16 September, 2016 (Call for papers:LINK).

INVITED LECTURES: Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano (London School of Economics), Thomas Sampson (London School of Economics)

SPECIAL SESSION: “Trade and firm-level technology adoption/diffusion”

SPECIAL ISSUE: International Economics, Elsevier

Papers in the general field of “Firms, Trade and Productivity” are welcome. Contribution, both theoretical and empirical, to the SPECIAL SESSION are particularly encouraged.

Authors are invited to submit a draft version of their paper or an extended abstract by email to no later than June 5, 2016. Acceptance will be notified by July 5, 2016. Please specify name, title, affiliation and e-mail address.

Scientific committee: Massimo Del Gatto (“G.d’Annunzio” U), F. Bellone (U Nice Sophia Antipolis), D. Castellani (Henley Business School, U Reading), J. Damijan (U Ljubljana), S. Haller     (U College Dublin), S. Hiller (Ruhr-U Bochum and Aarhus U), S. Schiavo (U Trento), J. Wagner (U Lueneburg).

Previous ISGEP conferences were held in Nottingham (2007, 2008), Dublin (2009), Valencia (2009), Nice (2010), Lueneburg (2011), Stockholm (2012, 2014), Trento (2013), Birmingham (2015).