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  Monday 9th

  14 :00 Registration
  14 :15 Welcome address : François Bourguignon (PSE)
  14:30 Opening lecture : Peter Schott (Yale School of Management and NBER) “On quality, international competition and trade”
  15:45 Coffee break
  16:00 Session 1 : Measuring quality Chair : Mathias Thoenig (U. Lausanne)
  16:05 “Quality and Market Shares” Angela Cheptea (INRA), Lionel Fontagné (PSE, CEPII), Soledad Zignago (BdF)
  16:45 “The Long and Short (of) Quality Ladders” Amit Khandelwal (Columbia University and NBER)
  17:30 Round table on empirical challenges : Sebastien Jean (INRA, CEPII), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia Univ. & NBER), Bettina Wistrom (OECD) Moderator : Jean Imbs (PSE)
  18:30 Adjourn

Tuesday 10th

9:15 Welcome coffee
9:30 Session 2 : Quality and micro data Chair : Sebastian Krautheim (Universität Frankfurt)
9:35 “Quality Sorting and Trade : Firm-Level Evidence for French Wine” Matthieu Crozet (PSE) & Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po’ and CEPII)
10:15 “Import competition from and outsourcing to China : a curse or blessing for firms ?” Giordano Mion (LSE) & Linke Zhu (University of Leuven)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 “Reallocation across firms and Aggregate Quality Upgrading” Julien Martin (CREST) & Isabelle Méjean (Ecole Polytechnique)
12:15 “Export Destinations and Input Prices” Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University & NBER), Paulo Bastos (IADB) & Joana Silva (World Bank)
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Session 3 : Quality and income distribution Chair : Cristina Terra (University of Cergy and CEPII)
14:20 “Trade in quality and income distribution : An analysis of the enlarged EU market” Florian Mayneris (Université catholique de Louvain, IRES, CORE) & Hélène Latzer (Université catholique de Louvain, IRES). Download the slides.
15:00 “Putting per capita income back into trade theory” Thibaut Fally & James Markusen (U. Boulder, Colorado). Download the slides.
15:45 Round table on international competition in high-end products introduced and moderated by Lionel Fontagné (PSE) and Koen de Backer (OECD)
Elisabeth Ponsolles-Desportes (Colbert), Bertin Martens (EU DG Trade), Joaquim Oliveira Martins (OECD), Reinhilde Veugelers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
17:30 Adjourn