IESG 25th Annual Conference

Silver Jubilee

International Economics in the 21st Century:

a Research Agenda

Isle of Thorns, University of Sussex

8th to 10th September 2000

Conference Programme

Friday

14.15 Registration & Coffee

15.00 Conference Opening, Alasdair Smith (Sussex)

16.00 Tea

16.30 Arne Melchior (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Globalisation & Industrial Location: the Impact of Trade Policy when Geography Matters

Dieter Schumacher (DIW), Explaining Comparative Advantages in Bilateral Trade by Relative Per Capita Income

Zhihao Yu (Nottingham), Market Integration & Industrial Structure: Home Market Effects Revisited

19.00 Drinks Reception

19.30 Conference Dinner & Bar

21.30 IESG Reminiscences, Max Corden (in the lounge)

Saturday

09.00 Max Corden (Johns Hopkins), The Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes for the New Century: Lessons from Recent Crises

Kate Phylaktis (City), Can We Control Capital Flows?

10.30 Coffee
11.00 Currency Panel Discussion

Myrvin L Anthony & Andrew Hughes-Hallett (Strathclyde), Should Argentina Adopt the US Dollar?

David Fielding & Kalvinder Shields (Leicester), Modelling Macroeconomic Shocks in the CFA Franc Zone

David G Mayes & Matti Viren (Bank of Finland & South Bank). Monetary Policy Problems for Currency Unions: Asymmetry & the Problem of Aggregation in the Euro Area

13.00 Lunch

14.15 Sam Laird (WTO), Prospects for Trade Liberalisation & Co-operation in the WTO

Douglas R Nelson (Tulane), The Peculiar Political Economy of NAFTA: Complexity, Uncertainty & Footloose Policy Preferences

Paola Conconi & Carlo Perroni (Warwick), Issue Linkage & Issue Tie-In in Multilateral Negotiations

16.30 Tea

16.45 John H Dunning (Reading & Rutgers), A Rose by Any Other Name…? FDI in Retrospect & Prospect

Holger Gorg (Nottingham) & Eric Strobl (University College Dublin), Multinationals as a Catalyst for Industrial Development?: an Evaluation of the Evidence & Issues for Further Research

19.30 Dinner & Bar

Sunday

08.45 Ray Barrell, Dawn Holland & Nigel Pain (NIESR), Openness, Integration & Transition: Prospects & Policies for Economies in Transition

L Alan Winters (Sussex), Trade Liberalisation & Poverty

Harvey Armstrong (Sheffield) & Robert Read (Lancaster), Economic Development in Micro-States: Policy Lessons from Sub-National Regions?

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Araceli Rodriguez & Isabel Campos (FUNAC, Valladolid), Crises & Credibility in Target Zones: a Logit from a Markov-Switching Model.

Roland Eisenberg (LSE), Monetary Policy Co-ordination in a Regime Choice Framework

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Conference Close