| Kobe COE Conference on International Trade |
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| Organizing Units: Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB) Center of International Joint Research for Economic Analysis and Policy (COREAP) International Economics and Finance Society Japan (IEFS Japan) |
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| Organizing Committee: Toru Kikuchi (GSE/COREAP) Koji Shimomura (RIEB/COREAP) Laixun Zhao (RIEB/COREAP) |
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| Dates: | March 2 and 3, 2005 |
| Place: | RIEB Conference Room (2F NEW KANEMATSU Hall) |
| PROGRAM (Tentative) | |
| [March 2] | |
| 8:30-9:15 Registration | |
| 9:15-9:30 Opening Speech | |
| Hidetoshi Yamaji (Director of RIEB, Kobe University, Japan) | |
| - Session 1 - Chair: Toru Kikuchi | |
| 9:30-10:30 Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University, US) | |
| "Is the Tariff the 'Mother of Trusts' ? Reciprocal Trade Liberalization with Multimarket Collusion" (with Constantinos Syropoulos)  |
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| 10:30-11:30 Masahiro Endoh (Keio/Yale University, Japan/ US) | |
| "On Pareto-improving Preferential Trade Agreements without Income Transfer" (with Koichi Hamada and Koji Shimomura) |
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| 11:30-11:40 - Coffee Break - | |
| 11:40-12:40 Raymond Riezman (University of Iowa, US) | |
| "Trade, Human Capital and Inequality" (with Spiros Bougheas) |
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| 12:40-14:00 Lunch Break | |
| - Session 2 - Chair: Toshihiro Ichida | |
| 14:00-15:00 Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) | |
| "An Uzawa-Oniki-Uzawa Dynamic Two-Country Model of International Trade: Back to Heckscher and Ohlin" (with Kazuo Nishimura and Koji Shimomura) |
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| 15:00-16:00 Takumi Naito (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) | |
| "Growth, revenue, and welfare effects of tariff and tax reform: win-win-win strategies" |
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| 16:00-16:10 - Coffee Break - | |
| 16:10-17:10 Toru Kikuchi (Kobe University, Japan) | |
| "On the Emergence of Intra-Industrty Trade" (with Koji Shimomura and Dao-Zhi Zeng) |
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| 17:30- Reception at "SAKURA" | |
| Speech by Koji Shimomura | |
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| [March 3] | |
| - Session 3 - Chair: Laixun Zhao | |
| 9:30-10:30 Nicolas Schmitt (University of Geneva, Switzerland) | |
| "Why Parallel Trade May Raise Producers' Profits" (with Horst Raff) |
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| 10:30-11:30 Chia-Hui Lu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) | |
| "Foreign Direct Investment and the Degree of Southern Penetration" |
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| 11:30-11:40 - Coffee Break - | |
| 11:40-12:40 Kar-yiu Wong (University of Washington, US) | |
| "Free Trade Areas and International Rivalry" |
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| 12:40-14:00 Lunch Break | |
| - Session 4 - Chair: Takumi Naito | |
| 14:00-15:00 Toshihiro Ichida (Waseda University, Japan) | |
| "Occupational Choice and Compensation for the Losers from International Trade" |
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| 15:00-16:00 Laixun Zhao (Kobe University, Japan) | |
| "International Labor Standards and Their Harmonization" (with Kenzo Abe) |
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| 16:00-16:10 - Coffee Break - | |
| 16:10-17:10 Dao-Zhi Zeng (Kagawa University, Japan) | |
| "Home Market Effect and the Agricultural Sector" (with Toru Kikuchi) |
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| 17:30- Reception at "SAKURA" | |
| Speech by Kar-yiu Wong | |
| Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration - Kobe University |
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