March 25 (Sat)

12:30 - 12:40
Opening Address
IGAWA Kazuhiro, Director of RIEB (Kobe University)
Welcome Address
KATAYAMA Seiichi, Organizer (Kobe University)

Session 1. 12:40 - 14:25 Chair : IGAWA Kazuhiro (Kobe University)

12:40 - 13:30
Satya DAS (Indian Statistical Institute)
"Endogenous Distribution and the Political Economy of Trade Policy"
Discussant : Sajal LAHIRI (University of Essex)

13:35 - 14:25
Sajal LAHIRI (University of Essex)
"Special Interest Politics and Aid Fungibility"
Discsaant : Edwin LAI (University of Hong Kong)

Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Session 2. 14:40 - 17:30 Chair : DEI Fumio (Kobe University)

14:40 - 15:30
Scott BRADFORD (Brigham Young University)
"Rents, Votes, and Protection: Explaining the Structure of Trade Barriers across Industries"
Discassant : Hiro LEE (Kobe University)

15:35 - 16:25
Martin RICHARDSON (University of Otago)
"Trade Policy and Parallel Imports"
Discussant : KIKUCHI Toru (Kobe University)

Coffee Break (15 minutes)

16:40 - 17:30
ISHIKAWA Jota and KIYONO Kazushi (Hitotsubashi University and Waseda University)
"International　Trade and　Global Warming"(tentative)
Discussant : KUBOTA Hajime (Shiga University)

18:00 - 20:00 Reception

March 26 (Sun)

Session 3. 9:00 - 11:50 Chair : SHIMOMURA Koji (Kobe University)

9:00 - 9:50
Heinrich URSPRUNG and KATAYAMA Seiichi (University of Konstanz and Kobe University)
"Business Culture, Political Culture and the Political Economy of Trade Policy"
Discussant : DEI Fumio (Kobe University)

9:55 - 10:45
YANO Makoto, DEI Fumio (Keio University and Kobe University)
"A Trade Model with Vertical Production Chain and Competition Policy in the Downstream Sector"
Discussant : NAKANISHI Noritsugu (Kobe University)

Coffee Break (15 minutes)

11:00 - 11:50
Arye HILLMAN (Bar-Illan University)
"Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State :Immigrations and Social Transfers"
Discussant : Kar-yiu WONG (University of Washington)

Lunch Break (90 minutes)

Session 4. 13:20 - 15:05 Chair : OHTA Hiroshi (Kobe University)

13:20 - 14:10
Larry QIU (Hong Kong University of Technology and Science)
"Lobbying, Multi-Sector Trade and Sustainability of Free-Trade Agreements"
Discussant : Satya DAS (Indian Statistical Institute)

14:15 - 15:05
Edwin LAI and Eric BOND (University of Hong Kong and The State University of Pennsylvania)
"Accession Rules and Trade Agreements: The case of the WTO"
Discussant : INOUE Tadashi (University of Tskuba)

Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Session 5. 15:20 - 17:05 Chair : NAKANISHI Noritsugu (Kobe University)

15:20 - 16:10
Kar-yiu WONG (University of Washington)
"On the Optimal Timing of Foreign Trade"
Discussant : SHIMOMURA Koji (Kobe University)

16:15 - 17:05
TAWADA Makoto, OHKAWA Takao, OKAMURA Makoto (University of Nagoya, Ritsumeikan University and Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
"Endogenous Timing and Welfare in Strategic Trade Policies for International Oligopoly"
Discussant : Arye HILLMAN (Bar-Illan University)

Closing Address
Heinrich URSPRUNG, Co-organizer (University of Konstanz)