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The FIW - Research Centre International Economics (https://www.fiw.ac.at/) is a cooperation between the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), the University Vienna, the Johannes Kepler University Linz, the University of Innsbruck, WIFO, wiiw and WSR. FIW is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministries of Education, Research and Science (BMBFW) and of Labour and Economy (BMAW).
FIW Statistics
Current FIW Statistics on International Trade, a clear and graphical overview.
Programme of the 4th FIW Research Conference
9:00 Opening Remarks by Fritz Breuss (FIW/WIFO)
Room: UZA 4, Kern D, 7th Floor, Konferenzraum 1 (D706)
Session 1a - FDI, Multinational Firms and Trade in Services (9:15 – 11:15)
Chair: Gábor Hunya (FIW/wiiw)
Room: UZA 4, Kern D, 7th Floor, Konferenzraum 1 (D706)
09:15 Sven P. Jost and Michael Pfaffermayr
“Profit Shifting within Multinational Firms: The Role of Entity Characterization Profiles”
09:45 Konstantin M. Wacker (University of Göttingen)
“The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Developing Countries’ Terms of Trade”
10:15 Nikolaos Antonakakis and Gabriele Tondl (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
“Do determinants of FDI to developing countries differ among US and European investors? Insights from Bayesian Model Averaging”
10:45 Andrea Ariu and Giordano Mion (National Bank of Belgium)
“Trade in services: IT and task content“
Session 1b - Monetary and Exchange Rates (9:15 – 11:15)
Chair: Alfred Sitz (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Room: UZA 4, Kern A, 2nd floor, Seminarraum A212B
09:15 Vincenzo Cuciniello (Bank of Italy)
“Collective Bargaining Regimes and International Monetary Policy“
09:45 Jan Hogrefe (ZEW Mannheim), Benjamin Jung and Wilhelm Kohler (Tübingen University)
“Readdressing the Trade Effect of the Euro: Allowing for Currency Misalignment”
10:15 Oliver Hossfeld (HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management)
“Equilibrium Real Effective Exchange Rates and Real Exchange Rate Misalignments: Time Series vs. Panel Estimates”
10:45 Christian Dreger (DIW Berlin)
“Does the nominal exchange rate regime affect the real interest parity condition?”
Session 1c - Specialization and Gravity Models (9:15 – 11:15)
Chair: Robert Stehrer (FIW/wiiw)
Room: UZA 4, Kern D, 2nd floor, Seminarraum D202
09:15 Tine Jeppesen (University College Dublin)
“Export Spillovers in Central & Eastern Europe“
09:45 Nicole Palan (University of Graz) and Claudia Schmiedeberg (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Hamburg)
“Specialization Patterns of European Countries”
10:15 Peter Egger (ETH Zurich), Andrea Leiter and Michael Pfaffermayr (University of Innsbruck)
“Structural Estimation of Gravity Models with Market Entry Dynamics”
10:45 Robert Vermeulen (De Nederlandsche Bank)
“Gravity and International Portfolio Equity: Living with Country Heterogeneity”
Coffee break (11:15-11:45)
Keynote (11:45 – 12:45)
Chair: Fritz Breuss (FIW/WIFO)
Room: UZA 1, Kern C, 4th floor, H 4.40
11:45 Oded Stark (University of Klagenfurt)
“Mergers and Welfare”
Lunch break (12:45 -13:45)
Session 2a - New New Trade Theory & Empirics (13:45 – 15:45)
Chair: Roman Stöllinger (FIW/wiiw)
Room: UZA 4, Kern D, 7th Floor, Konferenzraum 1 (D706)
13:45 HaroldCreusen and ArjanLejour (CBP Netherlands)
“The export strategy of Dutch exporters"
14:15 Harald Oberhofer (University of Salzburg)
“Firm growth, European industry dynamics and domestic business cycles”
14:45 Francesco Di Comite, Jacques-François Thisse and Hylke Vandenbussche (Université Catholique de Louvain)
“Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition”
15:15 Hartmut Egger and Michael Koch (University of Bayreuth )
“Trade Unions and the Scale and Scope of Multi-Product Firms”
Session 2b - Issues in International Trade Theory (13:45 – 15:45)
Chair: Stefan Ederer (WIFO)
Room: UZA 4, Kern A, 2nd floor, Seminarraum A212B
13:45 Andreas Kohler (University of Zurich)
“Non-homothetic Preferences, Growth, and International Trade“
14:15 Birgit Bednar–Friedl and Karl Farmer(University of Graz)
“Nationally and Internationally Optimal Climate Policies: External Balances versus Environmental Preferences”
14:45 Gerhard Clemenz (University of Vienna)
“Identity Creating Goods and Free Trade”
15:15 Diego Gruber (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Executive Compensation and International Trade”
Session 2c - Crisis, Macroeconomics and Globalization (13:45 – 15:45)
Chair: Alejandro Cunat (University of Vienna)
Room: UZA 4, Kern D, 2nd floor, Seminarraum D203
13:45 Vanda Almeida, Gabriela Castro, Ricardo Mourinho Félix andJosé Francisco Maria (Banco de Portugal)
“Fiscal stimulus in a small euro area economy”
14:15 Michael Biggs, Thomas Mayer (University of Zurich)and Andreas Pick (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
“Credit and Economic Recovery: Demystifying Phoenix Miracles”
14:45 Enrico Casadio Tarabusi and Giulio Guarini(Sapienza University of Rome)
“An Inequality-Adjusted Aggregation Function Applied to the Human Development Index“
15:15 Jesús Crespo-Cuaresma (Vienna University of Economics and Business) and Octavio Fernández-Amador (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
“Business cycle convergence in EMU: A second look at the second moment”
Coffee break (15:45-16:15)
Session 3 - Plenary Session (16:15 – 17:30)
Chair: Fritz Breuss (FIW, WIFO),
Robert Stehrer (FIW, wiiw)
Room: UZA 4, Kern D, 7th Floor, Konferenzraum 1 (D706)
16:15 Marléne Isoré (Sciences Po)
“International Propagation of Financial Shocks in a Search and Matching Environment “
16:50 Katrin Peters and Monika Schnitzer (University of Munich)
“Trade liberalization and credit constraints: Why “opening up“ may fail to promote technology adoption”
Awards Ceremony (17:30 – 17:45)
Chair: Fritz Breuss (FIW, WIFO)
Robert Stehrer (FIW, wiiw)
Room: UZA 4, Kern D, 7th Floor, Konferenzraum 1 (D706)