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