PROGRAM
The final program of APTS2023 in PDF is now available here.
The 18th Meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars
APTS 2023 Program, June 10-11, 2023
June 10
9:00-9:30 Venue: Lobby Area, North 1 & North 2, Burwood Corporate Centre (BCC), Deakin University
Registration
9:30-9:40 Venue: North 1 & North 2
Opening remarks: Taiji Furusawa (University of Tokyo) and Mehmet Ulubasoglu (Deakin University)
9:40-10:40 Venue: North 1 & North 2
Larry Qiu (Lingnan University), Qing Liu (Renmin University of China), Stephen Yeaple (Pennsylvania State University)
(Learning to) Export Like China: From Processing Trade to Ordinary Trade
Taiji Furusawa (University of Tokyo), Yoichi Sugita (Keio University), Amanda Jakobsson (Singapore Management University), Yohei Yamamoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Global Value Chains and Aggregate Income Volatility
10:40-11:00 Venue: Lobby area, North 1 & North 2 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Venue: North 1 & North 2
Chi Zhang (National University of Singapore), Liuchun Deng (Yale-NUS)
Idea Flows and the Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
John Gilbert (Utah State University), Onur Koska (University of Canterbury), Reza Oladi (Utah State University)
Factor-Augmenting and Factor-Eliminating Technical Change in Simple General Equilibrium Models
12:00-13:30 Venue: Lobby area, North 1 & North 2 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Venue: North 1
Daisuke Fujii (RIETI), Kevin Lim (University of Toronto)
The Impact of Trade on Resource Reallocations with Production Networks
Bin Qiu (Southeast University), Qun Zhang (Southeast University), Shaoqin Sun (Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology), Yuwei Yi (Southeast University)
Liberalization of Trade in Services, Global Value Chain Position, and China's International Circulation
13:30-14:30 Venue: North 2
Laura Puzzello (Monash University), Massimiliano Cali (World Bank), Aufa Doarest (World Bank), James Lake (University of Tennessee)
Trade Restrictiveness Indices and Non-Tariff Measures
Reshad Ahsan (University of Melbourne), Pavel Chakraborty (Lancaster University)
Import Competition, Knowledge Spillovers, and Innovation
14:30-14:50 Venue: Lobby area, North 1 & North 2 Coffee break
14:50-15:50 Venue: North 1
Cui Hu (Central University of Finance and Economics), Ning Wang (Central University of Finance and Economics)
Robots and Trade Structure
David Kim (University of Sydney), Hyeon-seung Huh (Yonsei University)
Reginal Value Chains for Asia and the Covid-19: An Empirical Study
14:50-15:50 Venue: North 2
Munirul Nabin (Deakin University), Xuan Nguyen (Deakin University), Pasquale Sgro (Deakin University)
Sampling, Absorptive Capacity, and Technology Adoption
Bilgehan Karabay (RMIT University)
Bargaining Order in Organizational Design
15:50-16:10 Venue: Lobby area, North 1 & North 2 Coffee break
16:10-17:00 Venue: North 1 & North 2
Keynote Lecture: Chair: Martin Richardson (Australian National University)
Costas Arkolakis (Yale University), Conor Walsh (Columbia University)
Clean Growth
19:00 Venue: Prince Hotel 2 Acland Street St Kilda, VIC3182 (https://theprince.com.au/)
Conference Dinner
June 11
9:40 - 10: 40 Venue: North 1 & North 2
Arghya Ghosh (UNSW), Tomohiro Ara (Fukushima University), Arpita Chatterjee (IIM Bangalore), Hongyong Zhang (RIETI)
Optimal Input Tariff: Role of Demand Structure, Firm Heterogeneity, and Entry in Oligopoly
Vladmir Tyazhelnikov (University of Sydney), Luca Macedoni (Aahus University), John Morrow (Kings College London)
Technological Distance: Grow Up or Grow Out?
10:40-11:00 Venue: Lobby area, North 1 & North 2 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Venue: North 1
Evgenii Monastyrenko (University of Luxembourg), P.M. Picard (University of Luxembourg)
Full-Scale Russia's Trade Sanctions and Their Welfare Outcomes
Nobuaki Yamashita (Swinburne University of Technology), Doan Thi Thanh Ha (ERIA)
Participation in Global Value Chains and Rent Sharing by Small Firms in Viet Nam
11:00-12:00 Venue: North 2
Akira Sasahara (Keio University), Yumin Sui (Keio University), Emily Taguchi (University of Cologne)
Immigration, Imports, and (im)mutable Japanese Labor Markets
Lourenço Paz (Baylor University), Bruno César Araújo (IPEA), James West (Baylor University)
Cracks in the Glass Ceiling and Gender Equality: Do Exports Shatter the Glass Ceiling?
12:00-13:30 Venue: Lobby area, North 1 & North 2 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Venue: North 1
Jianhuan Xu (Singapore Management University), Jungho Lee (Singapore Management University)
Customer Capital, Outsourcing, and Trade
Xiaopeng Yin (University of International Business and Economics), Yixuan Xiao (University of International Business and Economics)
Economics of Scale or Economics of Scope? Product Strategies of Chinese Multi-Product Exporter under Uncertainty
13:30-14:30 Venue: North 2
Onur Koska (University of Canterbury)
The MFN Clause under Quality Differentiation, Asymmetric Vertical Separation and Upstream Market Power
Tomohiro Ara (Fukushima University)
Trade with Search Friction: Identifying Sources of Firm Heterogeneity
14:30-14:50 Lobby area, North 1 & North 2 Coffee break
14:50-15:50 Venue: North 1 & North 2
Gang Li (Toyo University), Akihiko Yanase (Nagoya University)
Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Production-Environment Nexus and International Trade
Jota Ishikawa (Gakushuin University), Kazuharu Kiyono, Morihiro Yomogida (Sophia University)
Technology Transfer, Emissions Trading, and International Trade
15:50-16:00 Venue: North 1 & North 2
Closing remark: Jota Ishikawa (Gakushuin University)