Lunch-time Seminar in International Economics
The purpose of the seminar is to provide a platform for presenting and discussing ongoing research in the area of international economics. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please inform anyone you think may be interested in attending.
The seminar takes place on Fridays between 12:00 and 13:00h in the building of the Kiel Institute (Room 211, Medienraum).
If you would like to present your work in the seminar, please send an e-mail to and .
Program
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| March 26, 2010 | Holger Görg | Offshoring, tasks and the skill wage pattern |
| March 19, 2010 | Aoife Hanley | Web Switching and International Outsourcing: A Matching Approach |
| March 12,2010 | Sebastian Braun | Unionisation Structures and Heterogeneous Firms |
| March 5, 2010 | Aidan Islyami | FDI in Distribution Services and Trade versus Investment Trade-Off |
Feb. 26, 2010 | Sebastian Braun | Unionisation Structures and Heterogeneous Firms |
| Feb. 19, 2010 | Dennis Görlich | Complementary tasks and the limits of offshorability |
| Feb. 12, 2010 | Erich Gundlach | The religious transition |
| Feb. 5, 2010 | Markus Kelle | Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Micro-Data |
| Jan. 29, 2010 | Natalia Trofimenko Gabriela Schmidt | Technology choice and market strategy: Evidence from Argentinean manufacturing firms |
| Jan. 22, 2010 | Philipp Schröder, Allan Sorensen | Technological Progress, Exit and Trade |
| Jan. 8, 2010 | Markus Kelle | German Firms in Services Trade |
| Dec. 18, 2009 | Horst Raff | Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry |
| Dec. 4, 2009 | Daiju Narita | Climate Policy, Technology Choice, and Financing Gaps in A Developing Economy: An Overlapping-Generations Model |
Oct. 23, 2009 cancelled! | Sanne Hiller | Trend Breaks and Trade Openness |
| Oct. 9, 2009 | Marina Spaliara | Financial health, exports and firm survival |
| Oct. 2, 2009 | Sourafel Girma | The political economy of industry dynamics in China |
| August 21, 2009 | Eckhardt Bode, | A new test of nonlinear New Economic Geography models |
| July 17, 2009 | Stephen Redding | Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy |
| July 3, 2009 | James Markusen, | t.b.a. |
| May 29, 2009 | Markus Kelle | The Choice of Service Trade Mode: Evidence from Germany |
| May 15, 2009 | Erich Gundlach | The Agricultural and Democratic Transitions |
| May 8, 2009 | Horst Raff Holger Görg | Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: Service Market Thickness and Firms' International Sourcing |
| Apr 3, 2009 | Michael Ryan | Credit Availability and the Foreign Affiliate Ownership Choice: Evidence from the Japanese Banking Crisis |
| Mar 27, 2009 | Wan-Hsin Liu | Roles of R&D, Knowledge Stock and Global Engagement for Knowledge Production: Firm-level Evidence in the PRD, China |
| Feb 20, 2009 | Holger Görg | Spillovers through backward linkages with multinationals: are they real? |
| Feb 6, 2009 | Balazs Muraközy | Temporary Trade |
| Jan 30, 2009 | Dennis Görlich | Organizational Change, Versatility, and Wage Inequality |
| Jan 23, 2009 | Horst Raff | International Trade with Heterogeneous Retailers |
| Jan. 9, 2009 | Dirk Dohse, Ingrid Ott | Balanced versus unbalanced skills in an endogenous growth model |
| Dec. 5th, 2008 | Ingo Geishecker | International Outsourcing and Job Loss Fears: An Econometric Analysis of Individual Perceptions |
| Nov. 21st, 2008 cancelled! new date: Jan 23rd | Horst Raff | International Trade with Heterogeneous Retailers |
| Nov. 14th, 2008 | Michael Hübler, Th. Lontzek | Narrowing the Technology Gap: Technology Diffusion via FDI |
| Nov. 7th, 2008 | Albert de Vaal Roger Smeets | Multinational Ownership, Intellectual Property Rights, and Knowledge Diffusion from Foreign Direct Investment |
| Sept. 19th, 2008 | Russell Hillberry | Structural Estimation and Solution of International Trade Models with Heterogeneous Firms |
| July, 18th, 2008 | Yundan Gong | Directed Technical Change, Indigenous and Foreign Innovation Efforts and Drivers of Technology Upgrading: Evidence from China |
| July 4th, 2008 | Gerald Willmann | Trade, education and the shrinking middle class |
| June 27th, 2008 | Erich Gundlach | A neglected insight on trade and growth: The Deardorff Diagram |
| June 13th, 2008 | Sebastian Wilckens | Tradable Retaliation in the WTO |
| June 6th, 2008 | Dennis Görlich | Decomposing Wage Inequality Changes in the UK |
| May 30th, 2008 | Holger Görg | Export prices and distance: Some explorations with firm-product data |
| May 23rd, 2008 | Olivier Godart | Labour Demand Elasticity and Core Competence Differences Between UK Headquarters and Foreign Affiliates Located in the UK |
| May 16th, 2008 | Aoife Hanley | Exporting, innovation and the environment: A new look with micro data |
| May 9th, 2008 | Horst Raff | Whole vs. Shared Ownership of Foreign Affiliates |