Merton Seminar in International Trade: Hilary Term 2009

Week 1: January 20

Alberto Behar (St. Anne's, Oxford)

Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance and Firm Heterogeneity (with Ben Nelson)

Week 2: January 27

Mirabelle Muûls (LSE)

Exporters and credit constraints. A firm level approach

Week 3: February 3

Joe Francois (JKU, Linz and CEPR)

Seminar postponed until May 12

Week 4: February 10

Farid Toubal (Angers and PSE)

Productivity and the Sourcing Modes of Multinational Firms: Evidence from French Firm-Level Data (with Fabrice Defever)

Elhanan Helpman will present the 2009 Hicks Lecture in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building, on Friday, February 13, at 5 p.m.

Week 5: February 17

Bas Straathof (CPB, The Hague, and IFS)

Europe's Internal Market at Fifty: Over the Hill? (with Gert-Jan Linders)

Week 7: March 3

Peter Egger (Munich; visiting Said Business School)

The Trade Effects of Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements (with Mario Larch, Kevin E. Staub and Rainer Winkelmann)

Week 8: March 10

Henry Overman (LSE)

The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy (with Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin and John van Reenen)

The Seminar is organised by Beata Javorcik, Peter Neary (convener), Volker Nocke and Tony Venables

For further details contact:
Jasmin Levy ecomaster@economics.ox.ac.uk
Department of Economics, University of Oxford
Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ
Tel.: +44 (0)1865-281293
Fax: +44 (0)1865-271094

Archive:
Seminar Schedule for Michaelmas term, 2008
Seminar Schedule for Trinity term, 2008
Seminar Schedule for Hilary term, 2008
Seminar Schedule for Michaelmas term, 2007
Seminar Schedule for Hilary term, 2007

Thanks to the Oxford Department of Economics and the Research Committee of Merton College for support.