Presentation format: 30 min presentation, 5 min discussion.

Conference main location: GISB Building. Directions can be found at http://gisb.indiana.edu/

Registration will be held at GISB Room 1060. Staff will be available from 8 am through lunch on Friday.

Sessions will be held in GISB Room 1112.

Coffee breaks and lunches will be held in GISB room 1060.

Thursday, May12^th 2016

5:00 – 7:00pm Informal gathering at Nick’s English Hut

Friday, May13^th 2016

8:00 – 8:50am Registration, Arrival Tea/Coffee

8.50 – 9:00am Opening remarks

Session 1: Informal Institutions and Externalities

Chair: Gary Lyn (U. Mass Lowell)

9:00 – 9:35am   “Spatial Concentration of Sourcing in International Trade: The Role of Insititutions”, Fariha Kamal (Census Bureau), Asha Sundaram (University of Cape Town)

9:35 – 10:10am “Product Differentiation and the Effects of Trade Networks over Time”, Peter R. Herman (Indiana University), Ryan Lee (Indiana University)

10:10 – 10:45am “External Economies and International Trade: A Quantitative Framework”, Konstantin Kucheryavyy (U. of Tokyo), Gary Lyn (U. Mass Lowell), Andrés Rodríguez-Clare (UC Berkeley and NBER)

10:45 – 11:15am Coffee Break

Session 2: Institutions and Market Structure

Chair: Eric W. Bond (Vanderbilt University)

11:15 – 11:50am “External Reference Pricing Policies, Price Controls, and International Patent Protection”, Difei Geng (Vanderbilt University), Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University)

11:50 – 12:25pm “Compulsory Licenses”, Eric W. Bond (Vanderbilt University), Larry Samuelson (Yale University)

12:25 – 1:30pm Lunch

Session 3: Production Linkages

Chair: Rahul Mukherjee (Graduate Institute Geneva)

1:30 – 2:05pm “Swimming Upstream: Input-Output Linkages and the Direction of Product Adoption”, Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po.), Swati Dhingra (LSE), John Morrow (U. of Essex)

2:05 – 2:40pm “Liquidity-Driven FDI”, Ron Alquist (Kings Peak Asset Management), Rahul Mukherjee (Graduate Institute Geneva), Linda L. Tesar (U. of Michigan)

2:40 – 3.00pm Coffee Break

Session 4: WTO I

Chair: Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University)

3:00 – 3:35pm “Pre-trial Settlement with Imperfect Private Monitoring”, Mostafa Beshkar (Indiana University), Jee-Hyeong Park (Seoul National University)

3:35 – 4.10pm “Temporary Trade Barriers: When Will They End?”, Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University)

4:10 – 4:30pm Coffee Break

Keynote Address 1

Chair: Mostafa Beshkar (Indiana University)

4:30 – 5:30pm “Educational Quality Along Multiple Dimensions: A Cross Country Analysis”, Stephen Yeaple (Penn State)

6:00 – 9:00pm Conference Dinner at Scholars Inn

Saturday, May 14^th 2014

8:00 – 9:00am Arrival Tea/Coffee

Session 5: Institutional Change

Chair: Federica Carugati (Indiana University)

9:00 – 9:350am “’The Natural Resource Curse Revisited: Theory and Evidence from India”, Amrita Dhillon (King’s College), Pramila Krishman (U. of Cambridge), Manasa Patnam (CREST-ENSAE), Carlo Perroni (U. of Warwick)

9:35 – 10:10am “Property Rights Enforcement with Unverifiable Income”, Jan U. Auerbach (U. of Exeter)

10:10 – 10:45am  “Extending Access to the Rule of Law: Maritime Trade, Fiscal Policy, and Legal Change in Ancient Athens”, Federica Carugati (Indiana University)

10:45 – 11:15am Coffee Break

Session 6: Culture, Institutions and Immigration

Chair: Ben Zissimos (University of Exeter Business School)

11:15 – 11:50am “Complementarities, Coordination and Culture”, Christopher Ellis (U. of Oregon), John Thompson (Wilamette University), Jiabin Wu (U. of Oregon)

11:50am – 12:25pm “The Role of Institutions in Determining Immigration and Investment”, Atisha Ghosh (University of Exeter Business School) and Ben Zissimos (University of Exeter Business School)

12:25 – 1:30pm Lunch

Session 7: Economic Geography and Income Distribution

Chair: Tobias Seidel (U. of Duisburg-Essen, CESifo)

1:30 – 2:05pm “Income Distribution, Internal Geography, and Gains from Trade”, Volodymyr Lugovskyy (Indiana University), Alexandre Skiba (U. of Wyoming)

2:05 – 2:40pm “The Persistent Effects of Place-based Policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet”, Maximilian von Ehrlich (U. of Bern, CRED, CESifo), Tobias Seidel (U. of Duisburg-Essen, CESifo)

2:40 – 3:00pm Coffee Break

Session 8: Trade, Health and Wellbeing

Chair: Anna Kochanova (Max Planck Institute)

3:00 – 3:35pm “Trade-induced Mortality”, Jerome Adda (Bocconi University), Yarine Fawaz (CEMFI)

3:35 – 4.10pm “Minds for the Market: Non-Cognitive Skills in Post-Soviet Countries”, Anna Kochanova (Max Planck Institute), Maryam Naghsh Nejad (IZA)

4:10 – 4:30pm Coffee Break

Keynote Address 2

Chair: Ben Zissimos (U. of Exeter Business School)

4:30 – 5:30pm “The Disappearing Ninth Square: Land and Protests in China”, Kishore Gawande (McCombs School of Business, UT Austin), Nicholas Reith (UT Austin)

6:00 – 9:00pm Ostrom Workshop Dinner at Feast Market & Cellar

Sunday, May15^th 2016

9:00 – 9:30am Arrival Tea/Coffee

Session 9: WTO II

Chair: Shushanik Hakobyan (Fordham University)

9:30 – 10:05am “Deep Trade Agreements and the Extensive Margin of Trade”, David R. DeRemer (IEHAS)

10:05 – 10:40am “Anti-Dumping Duties and WTO Trade Disputes”, Shushanik Hakobyan (Fordham University), Anthoula Vasiliou (Fordham University)

10:40 – 11:00am Coffee Break

Session 10: Institutions and Market Structure

Chair: Tommaso Tempesti (U. Mass Lowell)

11:00 – 11:35am “Liberalizing for Liquidity: Local Firms, Financing Constraints and Investment Policy Reform”, Sarah Danzman (Indiana University)

11:35 – 12:10pm “Fringe Benefits and Import Competition”, Tommaso Tempesti (U. Mass Lowell)

12:10 – 12:30pm InsTED next steps

Afternoon

Tour at the IU Museum of Art

This is the eighteenth conference in what is now the largest annual conference on international trade in the world. ETSG conferences are open to any researcher with an interest in international trade issues. Everyone can submit a paper for presentation.

The deadline to submit an abstract for possible presentation at the next ETSG Conference is FRIDAY APRIL 29, 2016.

ETSG Conference website

Time: Jun 24, 2016 9 AM – Jun 25, 2016 5 PM

Address: CESifo Conference Centre, Poschingerstrasse 5, 81679 Munich

The Ifo Center of Excellence for Migration and Integration Research (CEMIR) is organising a junior economist workshop on migration research to be held on 24 & 25 June 2016 at the Ifo Institute in Munich, Germany.
The keynote lecture will be given by Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Universidad CArlos III de Madrid.

Interested Ph.D. students, post docs and assistant professors in economics with a firm interest in the field of migration are invited to submit a research paper they would like to present (plus a CV) to nikolka@ifo.de by 16 April 2016. Decisions on acceptance are made by 6 May. The chair of the programme committee is Panu Poutvaara. There are no participation fees and travel expenses (economy) are covered.

For further information on this workshop, please contact Till Nikolka (nikolka@ifo.de).

Scientific organiser(s): Professor Panu Poutvaara, Till Nikolka

Workshop Website

ICOPEC 2016 is organized by Batman University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Marmara University Faculty of Economics with the cooperation of University of Westminster (UK), Institute for Economic & Social Research of Piedmont (IRES, Italy), Ostrava Technical University (Czech Republic) and Pontifica Catholic University of Lima [Peru].

The main theme of 7th conference is defined as “State, Economic Policy, Taxation, & Development”.  However, ICOPEC 2016 will attempt to explain and account for all political economy’s subtopics and different aspects associated with political economy.

7. ICOPEC 2016 will be held in Istanbul on June 28-30, 2016.

It will be held at Långholmen, Stockholm (an old Swedish prison but now a modern-day conference center) from September 30 to October 1, 2016.

We aim to bring together researchers from both sides of the Atlantic to present and discuss their work, allowing for an in-depth interaction between those working on the empirical and theoretical analysis of crime and illegal behaviour.

The workshop will consist of two keynote lectures – to be given by Steven Raphael (UC Berkeley) and Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego) – and 10 to 12 contributed papers. This year there will be a special session on Labour Economics and Crime. We encourage submissions focusing on the impact that criminal behaviour and involvement with the criminal justice system may have on labour market inputs and outcomes. Topics may include (but are not limited to): education, skills, discrimination, labour supply and demand, labour mobility (including migration), (un)employment, wages, welfare, workfare, and active labour market policies.

Other suggested topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Social prevention of crime and violence
• Evaluation of police crime reduction strategies
• Reinsertion and rehabilitation interventions
• Guns (and related policies) and crime
• Social interactions, networks, and crime
• Biases in the criminal justice system
• Economic crises, poverty, inequality and crime

The workshop is organized by the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg and Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. We invite researchers to submit a paper (in PDF) by sending an e-mail to Randi Hjalmarsson (). The submission deadline is May 1st, 2016.

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by June 17th 2016. We will provide accommodation and reimburse economy travel costs for paper presenters.

The 2016 Organizing committee is: Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Gothenburg); Matthew Lindquist (Stockholm University); Olivier Marie (University of Maastricht); Emily Owens (University of Pennsylvania); Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University).