Workshop CEPII‐PSE « Trade Policy Analysis »

Workshop CEPII‐PSE « Trade Policy Analysis »
Tuesday 6^th July 2010
Conference room “Jean Monnet”, Centre d’analyse stratégique, 18 rue de Martignac, 75007 Paris

This international workshop aims at confronting recent advances in the field of trade policy analysis, using disaggregated data. Trade liberalization is at the core of reform packages carried out in several countries. Evaluating the micro‐economic effects of trade integration on economic performance and firms’ decisions becomes crucial to understand aggregate trade patterns. Works using either detailed data on protection such as tariffs and NTBs at the product level, or individual firm level data will be privileged. The workshop is composed of four sessions. Format, 2 invited papers in opening session plus 6 other papers.

Welcome address ‐ 9:00

AGNES BÉNASSY‐QUÉRÉ (CEPII)

Session 1, 9 :10 – 11 :00

Chair: FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI (Bocconi University)

• “Productivity and Firm Selection: Quantifying the “New” Gains from Trade”, GREGORY CORCOS, MASSIMO DEL GATTO, GIORDANO MION (LSE), GIANMARCO I.P. OTTAVIANO.
• “Sequential Exporting”, FACUNDO ALBORNOZ, HECTOR CALVO, GREGORY CORCOS (NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION), EMANUEL ORNELAS.

Coffee break – 11:00‐11:30

Session 2, 11:30 – 12:00

Chair : DENIS COGNEAU (PSE)

• “Determinants and pervasiveness of the evasion of custom duties”, SÉBASTIEN JEAN (CEPII; INRA), CRISTINA MITARITONNA.
• “North‐South standards harmonization and international trade”, OLIVIER CADOT, ANNE‐CÉLIA DISDIER (INRA), LIONEL FONTAGNÉ

Lunch (Centre d’analyse stratégique) – 13 :00 ‐14:30

Session 3, 14 :30 – 16:10

Chair : ANDRÉ SAPIR (ULB)

• “Large firms and heterogeneity: the structure of trade and industry under oligopoly”, EDDY BEKKERS (LINZ UNIVERSITÄT), JOSEPH FRANÇOIS.
• “Unilateral Trade Liberalization and the Patterns of Multi‐product Exporters”, MARIA BAS (CEPII), PAMELA BOMBARDA.

Session 4, 16:10 – 17:30

Chair : GIANMARCO OTTAVIANO (BOCCONI UNIVERSITY)

• “Risk and Financial development: A matter of survival for Africa agri‐food exports”, MÉLISE JAUD (PSE), MADINA KUKENOVA, MARTHA D. PIEROLA.
• “The Art of Exceptions: Sensitive Products in the Doha Negotiations”, CHRISTOPHE GOUEL, CRISTINA MITARITONNA, MARIA PRISCILA RAMOS (UNIVERSIDAD ARGENTINA DE LA EMPRESACEPII).

Concluding remarks and research agenda ‐ 17h30‐17h45

FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI (Bocconi University)