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Firm-Level Heterogeneity, Financial Health, and Global Engagement
Kiel, 23 – 24 April 2010
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| 09.15 - 09.30h | Welcome |
Session 1
| 09.30 - 10.15h | Kalina Manova – Stanford University |
| Firm exports and multinational activity under credit constraints | |
| 10.15 - 11.00h | Horst Raff – IfW and Kiel University |
| Multinational enterprises and credit constraints | |
| 11.00 - 11.30h | c o f f e e b r e a k |
| 11.30 - 12.15h | Peter Egger – ETH Zurich |
| Corporate taxation, debt financing and foreign plant ownership | |
| 12.15 – 13.45h | l u n c h |
Session 2
| 13.45 - 14.30h | Gregory Corcos – Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration |
| Trade Crisis? What Trade Crisis? | |
| 14.30 - 15.15h | Daria Taglioni – European Central Bank and Graduate Institute Geneva |
| Firms and the global crisis: French exports in the turmoil | |
| 15.15 - 15.45h | c o f f e e b r e a k |
| 15.45 - 16.30h | Jonathan Haskel – Imperial College London |
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| 19.00h | c o n f e r e n c e d i n n e r |
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Session 3
| 09.30 - 10.15h | Natalia Trofimenko – IfW Kiel |
| The Linkages between Technology Upgrading and Exporting: Evidence from Argentina | |
| 10.15 - 11.00h | Roberto Alvarez – Central Bank of Chile and University of Chile |
| Financial Crisis, Trade Credit and Export Performance: Evidence From Chile | |
| 11.00 - 11.30h | c o f f e e b r e a k |
| 11.30 - 12.15h | Nils Braakmann – Lüneburg University |
| Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: Evidence from the German clothing industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement | |
| 12.15 – 13.45h | l u n c h |
Session 4
| 13.45 - 14.30h | Marina Eliza Spaliara – Loughbrough University |
| The role of bond finance in firms' survival during the Asian crisis | |
| 14.30 - 15.15h | Holger Görg – IfW and Kiel University |
| Creating backward linkages from multinationals: Is there a role for financial incentives? | |
| 15.15 - 15.45h | c o f f e e b r e a k |
| 15.45 - 16.30h | Sourafel Girma – Nottingham University |
| Start-up size and domestic and foreign sources of finance | |
| 19.00h | i n f o r m a l d i n n e r |