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Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN)

Agenda – III Annual Conference

Friday, September 30

8:45 –  9:00 Registration.
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks: Fernando Lorenzo, Minister of Finance, Uruguay, Presented by Susana Mallo, Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences.
9:15 – 11:00 Policy Panel: Regional Integration and Industrial Policy (Sponsored by Red Mercosur) Moderator: Ricardo Markwald, Funcex/Red Mercosur Panelists: Carlos Márcio Cozendey, Ministério da Fazenda de Brasil, Hernán Avendaño, Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo de Colombia, Sebastián Torres, Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Minería de Uruguay.
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break.

Academic Program

11:15 – 12:15 Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry
KeremCosar, University Of Chicago Booth
Discussant: Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University.
12:15 – 13:15 Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-1992
YotoYotov, Drexel University
Discussant: Carlos Cinquetti, Universidade de Sao Paulo.
13:15 – 14:30 Lunch.
14:30 – 15:30 Comparative Advantage Across Goods and Product Quality
Francisco Alcalá, Universidad de Murcia and Ivie
Discussant: Marcel Vaillant, Universidad de la República.
15:30 – 16:30 Men, Women, and Machines: How Trade Impacts Gender Inequality
Carolina Villegas, ESADE
Discussant: Nathan Nunn, Harvard University.
16:30 – 16:45 Coffee Break.
16:45 – 17:45 Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide
Juan Carlos Hallak, Universidad de San Andrés
Discussant: Gerardo Esquivel, El Colegio de México.
17:45 – 18:45 Brain Drain or Brain Gain?Technology Diffusion and Learning On-The-Job
Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics
Discussant: Germán Pupato, Fundacao Getulio Vargas.

Saturday, October 1

9:00 – 10:00 Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations
George Alessandria, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Discussant: John Romalis, University of Chicago.
10:00 – 11:00 The Effect of Trade Protection on Trade Productivity in Uruguay
Carlos Casacuberta, Universidad de la República
Discussant: Pedro Moncarz, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break.
11:15 – 12:15 The Impact of Export Restrictions on Targeted Firms: Evidence from Antidumping Against South Korea
Laura Rovegno, Université Catholique de Louvain
Discussant:Pablo Sanguinetti, CAF and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
12:15 – 12:30 ClosingRemarks:Pablo Sanguinetti, CAF and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Christian Volpe Martincus, Inter-American Development Bank, and Marcel Vaillant, Universidad de la República.

Information

Montevideo, Uruguay
September 30 
October 1, 2011
Facultad de ciencias sociales
Departamento de economía, constituyente 1502, Salón L5

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