ATW17 Program

Australasian Trade Workshop

Department of Economics and Finance

Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School

University of Canterbury

Christchurch, New Zealand

16-17 March 2024

Venue

Rehua Building, University of Canterbury

Corner of Arts and Forestry Roads

Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa) Level 3 (Room 329)

PROGRAMME

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DAY 1: 16th March 2024 (Saturday)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

08:30 AM Registration opens

09:15 AM Welcome

Laura Meriluoto (HOD, Department of Economics and Finance, UC)

Frank Stähler / Onur A. Koska (ATW)

09:30 AM – 10:30 AM Session 1

Chair: James Markusen

Presenter: Germán Pupato (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Spatial Trade with Transportation Markets (with Busra Ariduru)

Discussant: James Markusen

Presenter: James Markusen (University of Colorado, Boulder )

A Heterodox Approach to Heterogeneous Firm Models Exploiting Non-Linear

Complementarity and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker

Discussant: Germán Pupato

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Morning Tea (Rehua, Level 2)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Parallel Session 2A

Chair: Asha Sundaram

Presenter: Daisuke Fujii (RIETI)

An Anatomy of Multinational Production: Evidence from Japan

Discussant: Frederic Warzynski

Presenter: Frederic Warzynski (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich)

Multi-product Firms and Competition: Fight or Flight? (with Luca Macedoni, Rui Zhang)

Discussant: Asha Sundaram

Presenter: Asha Sundaram (University of Auckland)

FDI, Geography and Welfare (with Jose Asturias, Marco Sanfilippo)

Discussant: Daisuke Fujii

Rehua, Level 3 (Room 329)

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Parallel Session 2B

Chair: Reshad Ahsan

Presenter: Zhe (Jasmine) Jiang (University of Sydney)

Structural Change and Aggregate Volatility (with Xinle Pang)

Discussant: Jingbo Yao

Presenter: Jingbo Yao (HKUST)

Global Monetary Policy Shocks and Export Prices (with Yao Amber Li, Lingfei Lu)

Discussant: Reshad Ahsan

Presenter: Reshad Ahsan (University of Melbourne)

Import Competition, Knowledge Access, and Innovation (with Pavel Chakraborty)

Discussant: Zhe (Jasmine) Jiang

12:30 PM – 14:00 Lunch Break (Rehua, Level 2)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Session 3 A

Chair: Frank Stähler

Presenter: Horst Raff (Kiel University)

The Importer Inventory Premium and the Cost of Global Sourcing: Theory and

Evidence from Danish Firms (with Sanne Kruse-Becher, Zhan Qu)

Discussant: John Gilbert

Presenter: John Gilbert (Utah State University)

International Trade, Technical Progress, and Wage Differentials with Imperfect Factor

Mobility (with Onur Koska, Reza Oladi)

Discussant: Frank Stähler

Presenter: Frank Stähler (University of Tübingen)

Disentagling frictions across the world: markups vs trade costs (with Benedikt Heid)

Discussant: Horst Raff

Rehua, Level 3 (Room 329)

14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Session 3B

Chair: Yong Tan

Presenter: Riandy Laksono (ANU)

Is imports-as-market-discipline hypothesis still relevant? Assessing the impact of trade

liberalization on markup in Indonesia's manufacturing sector

Discussant: Robin Kaiji Gong

Presenter: Robin Kaiji Gong (HKUST)

Does Access to Equity Promote Trade? Evidence from IPO Approvals in China (with Yao

Amber Li, Stephen Teng Sun, Shang-jin Wei)

Discussant: Yong Tan

Presenter: Yong Tan (NUFE)

Trade Policy Uncertainty & Resource Misallocation (with Joel Rodrigue, Qing Shi)

Discussant: Riandy Laksono

15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Tea (Rehua, Level 2)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

16:00 – 17:00 Session 4

Chair: Jakob Roland Munch

Presenter: Vladimir Tyazhelnikov (University of Sydney)

Skil Intensity of Labor Outsourcing and International Trade (with Luis Castro Peñarrieta,

Pavel Chakraborty)

Discussant: Jakob Roland Munch

Presenter: Jakob Roland Munch (University of Copenhagen)

Offshoring and the decline of Unions (with Jaerim Choi, William W. Olney)

Discussant: Vladimir Tyazhelnikov

17:00 – 18:30 Free time

18:30 Conference Dinner (Venue: Earl, 128 Lichfield Street, Central City)

DAY 2: 17th March 2024 (Sunday)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

09:30 AM – 10:30 AM Session 5

Chair: Dennis Novy

Presenter: James Lake (University Tennessee)

US Inequality in the 1980s: The Tokyo Round Trade Liberalization and the Swiss Formula

(with Andrew Greenland, John Lopresti)

Discussant: Dennis Novy

Presenter: Dennis Novy (University of Warwick)

Urban-Biased Structural Change (with Natalie Chen, Carlo Perroni, Horng Chern Wong)

Discussant: James Lake

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Morning Tea (Rehua, Level 2)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Parallel Session 6A

Chair: Tomohiro Ara

Presenter: Tengyu Zhao (HKUST)

Bilateral Economies of Scope (with Yao Amber Li, Sichuang Xu, Stephen R. Yeaple)

Discussant: Tomohiro Ara

Presenter: Tomohiro Ara (Fukushima University & RIETI)

Input Tariff in Oligopoly: Entry, Heterogeneity, and Demand Curvature (with Arpita

Chatterjee, Arghya Ghosh, Hongyong Zhang)

Discussant: Tengyu Zhao

Rehua, Level 3 (Room 329)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Parallel Session 6B

Chair: Sizhong Sun

Presenter: Lingfei Daniel Lu (HKUST)

Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Importers’ Credit Constraints: Evidence from China

(with Yao Amber Li)

Discussant: Sizhong Sun

Presenter: Sizhong Sun (James Cook University)

Trade Liberalization, Export and Product Innovation

Discussant: Lingfei Daniel Lu

12:00 PM – 13:30 Lunch Break (Rehua, Level 2)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

13:30 – 14:30 Parallel Session 7A

Chair: Yan Ma

Presenter: Elisa Navarra (ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles)

The Effects of Corporate Subsidies Along Supply Chains

Discussant: Yan Ma

Presenter: Yan Ma (Kobe University)

Super/submodularity, Skill Sensitivity, and Global Supply Chains (with Eric W. Bond)

Discussant: Elisa Navarra

Rehua, Level 3 (Room 329)

13:30 – 14:30 Parallel Session 7B

Chair: Rahul Sen

Presenter: Zhouyu (Cindy) Chen (Peking University)

Trade Shock and Supply Chain Reconstruction: Evidence from Chinese firms During the US -China Trade Tension (with Mingzhi(Jimmy) Xu, Miaojie Yu)

Discussant: Rahul Sen

Presenter: Rahul Sen (AUT)

A quantitative assessment of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and opting out of the trade pillar: Evidence from a global economic model (with Somesh Mathur)

Discussant: Zhouyu (Cindy) Chen

14:30 – 15:00 Afternoon Tea (Rehua, Level 2)

Rehua, Level 2 (Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

15:00 – 16:00 Session 8

Chair: Martin Richardson

Presenter: Pascalis Raimondos (QUT)

The impact of CBAM in an international duopoly (with Yi Liu)

Discussant: Martin Richardson

Presenter: Martin Richardson (ANU)

The economics of an optimal CBAM (with Frank Stähler, Halis M. Yildiz)

Discussant: Pascalis Raimondos

16:00 – 16:15 Closing Session / Farewell

(Rehua, Level 2, Room 226, Te Moana nui a Kiwa)

Frank Stähler / Onur Koska (ATW)

Onur Koska (on behalf of the ATW Organisers and the network) kindly acknowledges:

Research Committee

Department of Economics and Finance

Te Kura Umanga | UC Business School

University of Canterbury

for providing with the conference venues and the financial support.