Italian Trade Study Group (ITSG)
Conference :” Trade And Productivity”
CRENoS - University of Cagliari and University of Sassari
Aula Magna - Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
Viale S. Ignazio, 78 - Cagliari
June 11-12, 2009
PROGRAMME
Thursday, June 11
14:00-14:30 Registration and welcome coffee
14:30-14:45 Welcome and opening address:
Ore 14:45 – 18:10
TRADE PATTERNS, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
Chair: Giorgia Giovannetti
Luca De Benedictis - Lucia Tajoli, University of Macerata and Politecnico di Milano
THE WORLD TRADE NETWORK
Discussant: Alessandra Colombelli
Luigi Benfratello - Tiziano Razzolini - Alessandro Sembenelli, University of Torino, University of Siena and Collegio Carlo Alberto
DOES ICT INVESTMENT SPUR OR HAMPER OFFSHORING? EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM MICRODATA
Discussant: Marco Giansoldati
Novella Bottini - Mohamed Ali Marouani - Laura Munrso, Cattaneo University - LIUC, Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne and OCED
AN ESTIMATION OF SERVICE SECTORS RESTRICTIVENESS IN THE MENA REGION
Discussant: Luca Salvatici
Ore 16:45 Coffee break
Marcella Nicolini, Fondazione ENI, Enrico Mattei
INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT
Discussant: Lucia Tajoli
Cristina Cattaneo, Fondazione ENI, Enrico Mattei and University of Sussex
THE DECISION TO MIGRATE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: EVIDENCE FROM ALBANIA
Discussant: Anna Maria Pinna
18:15hrs Meeting of the “Italian Trade Study Group”
Friday, June 12
9:00-12:00
FIRMS HETEROGENEITY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Chair: Raffaele Paci
Davide Castellani - Giorgia Giovannetti, Università di Perugia and Università di Firenze, European University Institute and Fondazione Manlio Masi-ICE
PRODUCTIVITY AND THE INTERNATIONAL FIRM: DISSECTING HETEROGENEITY
Discussant: Massimo Del Gatto
Daniela Maggioni, Università Politecnica delle Marche
LEARNING BY EXPORTING: WHICH CHANNELS? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS FOR TURKEY
Discussant: Carlo Altomonte
Carlo Altomonte and Gabor Békés, Bocconi University and Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Science
TRADE COMPLEXITY AND PRODUCTIVITY
Discussant: Luigi Benfratello
Mario Macis and Fabiano Schivardi, University of Michigan and Università di Cagliari
TRADE AND WAGES: EVIDENCE FROM MATCHED EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA
Discussant: Davide Castellani
12.00-13.00
Luigi Guiso
Keynote Lecture – CULTURAL BIASES IN ECONOMIC EXCHANGE?
Ore 14:15 – 17:15
TRADE POLICIES
Chair: Fabrizio Onida
Paolo Epifani and Gino Gancia, Università Bocconi
TRADE, MARKUP HETEROGENEITY AND MISALLOCATION
Discussant: Enrico Sette
Alejandro Cuñat, Szabolcs Deák and Marco Maffezzoli, IGIER – Università Bocconi
TAX CUTS IN OPEN ECONOMIES
Discussant: Fabio Cerina
Matteo Bugamelli, Silvia Fabiani and Enrico Sette, Bank of Italy
THE PRO-COMPETITIVE EFFECT OF IMPORTS FROM CHINA: AN ANALYSIS ON FIRM-LEVEL PRICE DATA
Discussant: Rodolfo Helg
Fabio Cerina and Francesco Mureddu, CRENoS and University of Cagliari
AGGLOMERATION AND REGIONAL GROWTH WITH INTERSECTORAL KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS
Discussant: Paolo Epifani
