International Conference
on

"Recent Development in International Trade :
Theoretical and Empirical Investigations"

8:45-9:00

Welcome Address
Seiichi Katayama, Organizer (Kobe University)
Opening Address
Ken-ichi Ishigaki, Director of RIEB (Kobe University)

Session 1.

Sunday, March 22

Chair: Yasuhiro Sakai (Tsukuba University)

9:00-9:55

Satya Das (Indian Statistical Institute)
"Trade and Personal Distribution of Wealth and Income: Beyond the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem"
Discussant: Shunpei Takemori (Keio University)

10:10-11:05

Sajal Lahiri (University of Essex and Osaka University)
"Export-Oriented Foreign Direct Investment and local Content Requirement"
Discussant: Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)
11:20-12:15

Tatsuo Hatta (Osaka University) " A Theory of Optimum Tariff under Revenue Constraint"
Discussant: Takashi Fukushima (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

12:15-2:15

Lunch Break

Session 2.

Sunday, March 22
Chair: Michihiro Ohyama (Keio University)

2:15-3:10

Brian Copeland (University of British Columbia)
" Trade and the Environment: Theory and Empirical Results"
Discussant: Makoto Tawada (Nagoya City University)

3:25-4:20

James Levinsohn (University of Michigan)
"Merger Policies and Trade Liberalization"
Discussant: Fumio Dei (Kobe University)

4:35-5:30

Jonathan Eaton (Boston University)
"Technology and Bilateral Trade"
Discussant: Keith Maskus (University of Colorado)

Session 3.

Monday, March 23
Chair: Tadashi Inoue (Hosei University)

9:00-9:55

Michihiro Ohyama (Keio University)
"International Adjustment under Capital Mobility"
Discussant: Yoshiyasu Ono (Osaka University)

10:10-11:05

Carsten Kowalczyk (Tufts University)
" Trade, Transfers, Developing Countries, and the Core"
Discussant: Noritsugu Nakanishi (Kobe University)

11:20-12:15

Keith Maskus (University of Colorado)
"Is Small Beautiful ? Trade Shares and Trade Creation with Differentiated Products"
Discussant: Brian Copeland (University of British Columbia)

12:15-2:15

Lunch Break

Session 4.
Monday, March 23
Chair: Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)

2:15-3:10

Wilfred Ethier (University of Pennsylvania)
"Unilateralism in a Multilateral World"
Discussant: Koji Shimomura (Kobe University)

3:25-4:20

Alan Deardorff (University of Michigan)
"Fragmentation in Simple Trade Models"
Discussant: Makoto Yano (Keio University)

4:35-5:30

Ronald Jones (University of Rochester)
"Trade, Technology, and Income Distribution"
Discussant: Michihiro Ohyama (Keio University)

Session 5.

Tuesday, March 24
Chair: Kazuo Nishimura (Kyoto University )

9:00-9:55

Yuka Ohno and Kaz Miyagiwa ( Rice University and Kobe University)
"Nuclear Bombs and Sanctions"
Discussant: Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)

10:10-11:05

Ngo Van Long ( McGill University)
"Protection, Lobbying, and Market Structure"
Discussant: Sajal Lahiri (University of Essex and Osaka University)

11:20-12:15

Wolfgang Mayer (University of Cincinnati)
" Endogenous Corrections of Economic Policies under Majority Voting"
Discussant: Motoshige Itoh (The University of Tokyo)

12:15-12:20

Closing Address
Kaz Miyagiwa Co-organizer (Kobe University)