ARC Workshops

 ARC conference on Geographical mobility of workers and firms

January 17-18, 2012
IRES, Université catholique de Louvain
Auditoire MORE 53
Place montesquieu , 2
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique
 

January 17 

14:30-15:30      Keynote address (Chair: Frédéric Docquier)

14:30-15:30      Yves Zenou (University of Stockholm)
                        "Criminal Networks: Who is the Key Player? "
                        (Joint with Xiaodong Liu, Eleonora Patacchini and Lung-Fei Lee)

15:30-16:00      Coffee break

16:00-18:30      Session 1 - International migration (Chair: Fabio Mariani)

16:00-16:10      Introduction

16:10-16:55      Michel Beine (Université du Luxembourg)
                        "Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration: Evidence from Canadian Provinces"
                        (joint with Serge Coulombe and Wessel Vermeulen)

16:55-17:40      Pierre Picard (University of Luxembourg)
                        "Sustainable migration policies"
                        (joint with Tim Worrall)

17:40-18:00      Sara Salomone (IRES)
                        "International Migration and Female Political Empowerment"
                        (joint with Elisabetta Lodigiani)

18:00-18:20      Chrysovalantis Vasilakis (IRES)
                        "International Migration and the Propagation of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa"
                        (joint with Frédéric Docquier and Dieudonnée Tamfutu Munsi)

18:20-18:30      Discussion of juniors' papers by Tobias Muller (University of Geneva)

19:00               Dinner

January 18

10:00-12:30     Session 2 - Firm' mobility and firms' dynamics (Chair: Hylke Vandenbussche)

10:00-10:10     Introduction

10:10-10:55     Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan University)
                       "Migration, FDI and the margins of trade"
                       (joint with Maurice Kugler)

10:55-11:40     Annette Schminke (KULeuven)
                       "Using Export Market Performance to Evaluate Regional Preferential Policies in China"
                       (joint with Johannes Van Biesebroeck)

11:40-12:00     Francesco Di Comite (IRES)
                       "Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition"
                       (joint with Jacques Thisse and Hylke Vandenbussche)

12:00-12:20     Laura Rovegno (IRES)
                       "Endogenous trade restrictions and firms' pricing behaviour"

12:20-12:30     Discussion of juniors' papers by Florian Mayneris (IRES)

12:30-14:00     Lunch

14:00-16:30     Session 3 - Workers' mobility and the labor market (Chair: Henri Sneessens)

14:00-14:10     Introduction

14:10-14:55    Jos van Ommeren (VU University Amsterdam)
                      "Wages and commuting: quasi-natural experiments' evidence from firms that relocate"
                      (joint with Ismir Muladic and Ninette Pilegaard)

14:55-15:40    Bruno Van der Linden (IRES)
                      "Inefficient equilibrium unemployment in a matching model with commuting"

15:40-16:00    Paola Montero Ledezma (IRES)
                      "Matching equilibrium with commuting and skill heterogeneity"

16:00-16:20    Vanessa Lutgen (IRES)
                      "Collective bargaining in a two-region matching model"

16:20-16:30    Discussion of juniors' papers by Henri Sneessens and Olivier Pierrard

This workshop is financially supported by the Belgian French-speaking Community (convention ARC 09/14-019) and the FRS-FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique)
Organizers: Frédéric Docquier, Khalid Sekkat, Hylke Vandenbussche and Bruno Van der Linden