Mainz Workshop on Trade, Growth, and Wages

August 30 - 31, 2011

University of Mainz Campus / Dekanatssaal (03-150)

Jakob-Welder-Weg 9, 55128 Mainz

Workshop Program

(The workshop is public and open to all.)

Day 1: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
14:00 Welcome
14:10-15:00 Keynote Speech: Offshoring: Patterns and Implications
Elias Dinopoulos (University of Florida)
15:00-15:50 Trade, Superstars, and Welfare
Bohdan Kukharskyy (University of Passau)

15:50-16:20

Coffee Break
16:20-17:10 Gender Wage Discrimination and Trade Openness
Sarra Ben Yahmed (Université de la Mediterranée / GREQAM)
18:30 Workshop Dinner (Ristorante Al Cortile)

Day 2:

Wednesday, August 31, 2011
9:00-09:50 Firm Size and the Choice of Export Mode
Jennifer Abel-Koch (University of Mainz)

09:50-10:40

Wage Inequality in Trade-in-tasks Models
Hugo Rojas-Romagosa (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis)

10:40-11:10

Coffee break

11:10-12:00 In Support of the TRIPS Agreement
Amanda Jakobsson (Stockholm School of Economics)
12:00-13:00

Lunch Break

13:00-13:50 Innovating like China: a Theory of Stage-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights
Guido Cozzi (University of Durham)
13:50-14:40 Privatization of Knowledge: Did the US Get it Right?
Silvia Galli (Hull University Business School)
14:40-15:10 Coffee Break
15:10-16:00 Endogenous Technological Change and Selection under Private Information
Oscar Valencia (Toulouse School of Economics)

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