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The 15th meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars APTS 2019 Program June 29-30, 2019 University of Tokyo
June 29 9:00-9:30 Registration at Kojima Hall Opening remarks: Taiji Furusawa (University of Tokyo) 9:30-9:40 Kojima Conference Room 9:40-9:50 Break Kojima Confefrence Room (2F) Seminar Room 1 (1F) Seminar Room 2 (1F) Jaiodong Ju (Tsinghua University) John Gilbert (Utah State University) Yong Tan (Nanjing University of Finance and Zhengwen Liu (Peking University) Reza Oladi (Utah State University) Economics) Dong Cheng (Vanderbilt University) Exit Friction, Firm Selection and Trade Reform Factor Eliminating Technical Change in a Developing Jian Yu (Central University of Finance and Economics) Economy Credit Rationing and Firm Exports: Microeconomic Evidence 9:50-10:50 from SMEs in China Yao Amber Li (HKUST) Olena Ivus (Queen's University) Xiao Wang (USTC) Haichao Fan (Fudan University) Alireza Naghavi (University of Bologna) Wontae Han (CUHK-Shenzhen) Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus University) Larry D. Qiu (University of Hong Kong) Jian Wang (CUHK-Shenzhen)
Trade Liberalization, Demand, and Markups of Multi- Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Innovation FDI and firm productivity: the role of financial constraints Product Firms 10:50-11:10 Coffee break Anna Ignatenko (University of California Davis) Loretta Fung (National Tsing Hua University) Lena Sheveleva Yao Amber Li (HKUST) International Transport Costs Beyond Iceberg: Evidence Jin-Tan Liu (National Taiwan University) Minimal Model of Multi-product Firms and Implications Offshoring, Multinational R&D and Patents: An Empirical Analysis of Taiwanese Firms and Their Affliates in China 11:10-12:10 Timothy Hazledine (University of Aukland) Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus University) Yiming Zhou (Harbin Institute of Technology) Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth) Hangtian Xu (Hunan University) Trust, Transaction Costs and Trade: a World Gravity Model Teresa Fort (Dartmouth) for 2015 Valerie Smeets (Aarhus University) Heterogeneous Firms and Industrial Specialization: Country Size Matters Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization 12:10-13:30 Lunch break Han (Steffan) Qi (Hong Kong Baptist University) Hayato Kato (Osaka University) Sibo Liu (Lingnan University) Edwin Lai (HKUST) Toshihiro Okubo (Keio University) Yi Huang (Graduate Institute of Geneva) Chen Lin (University of Hong Kong) Fragmentation and Gains from Trade Firm location under trade cost uncertainty Heiwai Tang (Johns Hopkins University)
Trade Linkages and Firm Value: Evidence from the 2018 US-China “Trade War” Alireza Naghavi (University of Bologna) Angdi Lu (Singapore Management University) Laixun Zhao (Kobe University) 13:30-15:00 Stefano Bolatto (University of Bologna) Pao-Li Chang (Singapore Management University) Yuhua Li Gianmarco Ottaviano (LSE) Xin Yi (Singapore Management University) Xizhe Wu Katja Zajc Kejzar (University of Ljubljana) Firm Sorting, Agglomeration, and Quality Specialization Political Conflicts and Bilateral Trade: A Global Perspective Appropriability of Intellectual Assets and the Organization Across Space: Theory and Quantification of Global Supply Chains Bilgehan Karabay (RMIT University) Kazutaka Takechi (Hosei University)
Vertical Fragmentation and International Sourcing Quality Sorting, Alchian-Allen Effect, and Geography 15:00-15:20 Coffee break Chang Sun (University of Hong Kong) Jaerim Choi (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Lasha Chochua (Bielefeld University) Cheng Chen (Clemson University) Kozo Kiyota (Keio University) Stefan Berens (Bielefeld University) Hongyong Zhang (RIETI) Foreign Ownership and Employment Volatility The Farsighted Stability of Global Trade Policy Learning from Siblings within Multinational Firms Arrangements Xiaonan Sun (Asian Growth Research Institute) Xin Wang (Peking University) Jakob Munch (University of Copenhagen) 15:20-16:20 Zhe Chen (UIBE) Magnus Buus (University of Copenhagen) Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment and Human Capital Joel Rodrigue (Vanderbilt University) Productivity, Market Penetration and Allocation of Sales Accumulation Georg Schaur (University of Tennessee)
Firm Specific Trade Policy: Evidence on Effectiveness and Mechanisms 16:20-16:40 Coffee break Economics Building Classroom 1 (B1F) Plenary session 1: Chair: Martin Richardson (Australian National University) 16:40-17:30 Samuel Kortum (Yale University)
In Search of Trade Frictions 17:45-19:45 Cocktail party at Kojima Conference Room 2 / 2
June 30
Kojima Confefrence Room (2F) Seminar Room 1 (1F) Seminar Room 2 (1F) Mark Razhev (Melbourne University) Rizki Nauli Siregar (University of California Davis) Hirofumi Okoshi (University of Munich) Hayato Kato (Osaka University) Optimal Preferences: A Home Bias Example Price Shocks and Interregional Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia Economic integration and agglomeration of multinational production with transfer pricing Zhongzhong Hu (UIBE) Colin Davis (Doshisha University) Yang Shen (Hanyang University) Zhe Chen (UIBE) Ken-ichi Hashimoto (Kobe University) Kai Li (Xiamen University) Corporate Income Taxation and Multinational Production Productivity Growth, Industry Location Patterns and Labor 9:30-11:00 The Spillover Effect of Export Control Policy Along the Market Frictions Value Chain: Evidence from China's Magnet Industry Akira Sasahara (University of Idaho) Taiji Furusawa (University of Tokyo) Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu (IMF) Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University) Alexis Meyer-Cirkel (IMF) Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University) Hans Weisfeld (IMF) Transfer Pricing and the Arm's Length Principle under Importing Inputs for Climate Change Mitigation: The Case Imperfect Competition of Agricultural Productivity 11:00-11:20 Coffee break Xiaoping Chen (Nanyang Technological University) Jee-Hyeong Park (Seoul National University) Tadashi Morita (Kindai University) Xiaotao Zhao (Southeast University) Jaeyoun Roh (Yeungnam University) Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Osaka University)
Inventory and Trade Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Generalized Third-Country Effects on the Formation of Free Welfare, Tax Discrimination, and Horizontal Foreign Direct Chinese Exporters Trade Agreement Investment
11:20-12:20 Tommaso Aquilante (Bank of England) Naoto Jinji (Kyoto University) Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University) Ferran Vendrell-Herrero (University of Birmingham) Shoji Haruna (Fukuyama University) Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University) Yukiko Sawada (Ryukoku University) Hirofumi Okoshi (University of Munich) Bundling and exporting: evidence from German SMEs Xingyuan Zhang (Okayama University) Tax Havens and Cross-Border Licencing Deep Regional Trade Agreements and Cross-border Technology Transfer 12:20-13:40 Lunch break Thi Hang Banh (University of New South Wales) Chaoqun Zhan (Sun Yat-sen University) Maggie X. Chen (George Washington Universitty) Qing Liu (UIBE) Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School) Quality Upgrading and Import Competition in a Third Larry D. Qiu (University of Hong Kong) Davin Chor (Dartmouth) Market: Evidence from Exports to the US of Asian Developing Countries Foreign Direct Investment and Export Quality: Evidence Can Information Shift Preferences towards Trade Policy? from China 13:40-14:40 Mauro Caselli (University of Trento) Ian Wooton (University of Strathclyde) Baomin Dong (Henan University) Stefano Schiavo (University of Trento) Ben Ferrett (Loughborough University) Yibei Guo (Henan University) Jie Li (Jinan University) Markups, Import Competition and Exporting Targeting FDI Institutional Quality and Exports: Chinese Firm Level Evidence 14:40-15:00 Coffee break Michal Fabinger (Tokyo Data Science) Lourenço S. Paz (Baylor University) Cong S. Pham (Deakin University) E. Glen Weyle (Microsoft Research) Andre Filipe Zago de Azevedo (Unisionos) Hoa Nguyen (Deakin University) Magnus dos Reis (UFRGS) Functional Forms for Tractable Economic Models and the Impact of Terror on International Trade in Financial Cost Structure of International Trade Has WTO Membership promoted trade since the WTO Services: Does the Development of Financial Institutions foundation? Matter? 15:00-16:00 Tomohiro Ara (Fukushima University) Yifan Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Hea-Jung Hyun (Kyung Hee University) Mi Dai (Beijing Normal University) Jung Hur (Sogang University) Complementarity between Firm Exporting and Firm Wei Huang (National University of Singapore) Importing on Industry Productivity and Welfare Global Financial Crisis, Trade Credit Insurance and Scope How Do Households Adjust to Trade Liberalization? Adjustment of Multiproduct Exporting Firms Evidence from China’s WTO Accession 16:00-16:20 Coffee break Economics Building Classroom 1 (B1F) Plenary session 2: Chair: Larry D. Qiu (University of Hong Kong) Alan Woodland (University of New South Wales) 16:20-17:10 Xinyi Geng (University of New South Wales)
Issue Linkage in International Environmental Agreements Formation 17:10-17:20 Closing remark: Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)