CIGI/UWO Research Workshop*
The Changing Global Economy
April 25th, 2008
University of Western Ontario
Sponsored by CIGI, Waterloo
Room 9420, SSC, UWO
Schedule
| 8:30-8:45 | Coffee and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45-8:55 | Opening Remarks |
| 8:55-9:55 | Dennis Novy (Warwick): "Gravity Redux: Measuring International Trade Costs with Panel Data" |
| 9:55-10:10 | Coffee Break |
| 10:10-11:10 | Maurice Kugler (WLU): "Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports, Output Prices and Input Prices in Colombia" (joint with Eric Verhoogen) |
| 11:15-12:15 | Peter Morrow (Toronto): "East is East and West is West: A Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin Model of Comparative Advantage" |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Jim Tybout (PSU): "The Margins of Entry into Export
Markets: Evidence from Colombia" (joint with Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava and Maurice Kugler) "Figures and Tables" |
| 2:35-3:35 | Michael Waugh (Iowa): "International Trade and Income Differences" |
| 3:35-3:50 | Coffee Break |
| 3:50-4:50 | Ray Riezman (Iowa) "Metrics of Globalization" (joint with John Whalley and Shunming Zhang) |
| 5:15-6:30 | Discussion of Future Activities |
| 7:30-9:00 | Dinner: Location TBA |
*Open to all Faculty and students from UWO, WLU, UW and also all at CIGI.
Papers will be posted as they become available.
