Kobe International Conference on Fragmentation, Time Zones, and their Dynamic Consequences
(Jointly supported by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A): Fragmentation, Time Zones, and their Dynamic Consequences and RIEB Seminar)
| Date&Time | Friday, November 14 - Saturday, November 15, 2014, Registration 9:00am- |
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| Place | Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor) |
| Intended Audience | Researchers/Faculties, Graduate Students, and People with Equivalent Knowledge |
| Language | English |
| Note | Copies of the paper will be available at the Office of Promoting Research Collaboration. There will be an After Session on the 14th. If you wish to attend the After Session, please email us at Office of Promoting Research Collaboration your name, affiliation and email address by Friday, November 7, 2014. |
November 14th
| 9:00am- | Registration | |
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| 10:30am- 10:40am |
Opening Remarks | |
| 10:40am- 11:20am |
Biswajit MANDAL (Department of Department Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati University) |
"Time Zones, Factor Prices and Inflow of Educational Capital: Changing Sectoral Composition" |
| 11:30am- 12:10pm |
Sugata MARJIT (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences) |
"Time Zones, International Trade and Optimal Endogenous Growth" |
| 12:10pm- 1:30pm |
Lunch Break | |
| 1:30pm- 2:10pm |
Jota ISHIKAWA (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University) |
"Trade and Industrial Policies With Endogenous Transport Costs (with Nori TARUI, University of Hawaii at Manoa)" |
| 2:20pm- 3:00pm |
BINH Tran-Nam (Business School, University of New South Wales) |
"A Simple Trade Model Incorporating the Assumption that Consumption Takes Time" |
| 3:20pm- 4:00pm |
Kenzo ABE (Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University) |
"Trade and Environmental policies with Domestic and International Transportation" |
| 4:10pm- 4:50pm |
Eden YU (Faculty of Commerce, Chu Hai College) |
"International Outsourcing, Environmental Costs and Welfare" |
| 5:00pm- 5:40pm |
Ngo Van LONG (Department of Economics, McGill University) |
"Border Tax Adjustments and the Green Paradox" |
| 6:00pm- 8:20pm |
After Session | |
November 15th
| 9:00am- | Registration | |
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| 10:30am- 11:10am |
Naoto JINJI (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) |
"The Optimal Rules of Origin With Compliance Costs in an FTA Under International Duopoly" |
| 11:20am- 12:00pm |
Dao-Zhi ZENG (Graduate School of Information Sciences,Tohoku University) |
"Offshoring, Globalization, and Welfare" |
| 12:00pm- 1:00pm |
Lunch Break | |
| 1:00pm- 1:40pm |
Nicolas SCHMITT (Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University) |
"Intermediation and Inventory Control in Global Supply Chains" |
| 1:50pm- 2:30pm |
Hong HWANG (Department of Economics, National Taiwan University) |
"Parallel Imports, Product Innovation and Market Structures" |
| 2:40pm- 3:20pm |
Raymond RIEZMAN (Department of Economics, University of Iowa) |
"Intermediate Goods Trade, Technology Choice and Productivity" |
| 3:20pm- 3:30pm |
Closing Remarks | |