Ports, Cities, and Borders in International Trade

RTG Workshop on

“Ports, Cities, and Borders in International Trade”


Organizers

Christiane Hellmanzik
(TU Dortmund)

Sanne Kruse-Becher
(Ruhr-University Bochum)

Jens Wrona
(University Duisburg-Essen)

Dates

September 6th 2022

Presentations 08:45-18:00

(German Local Time, CEST)

September 7th, 2022

Presentations 08:45-18:00

(German Local Time, CEST)

Location:

Nikolauskloster Jüchen,

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Contact

workshop@regional-disparities.de

Speaker

Jan Bakker (Bocconi University)

Marius Brüllhart (University of Lausanne)

Inga Heiland (IfW Kiel)

Laura Hering (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Maren Kaliske (TU Dortmund)

Felix Kersting (Humbold University Berlin)

Seda Koymen (Baskent University)

Ziv Oren (Michigan State University)

Ferdinand Rauch (Oxford University)

Georg Schaur (University of Tenesse)

Program, September 6th

08:00-08:30

Transfer from Hotel Schloss Dyck to the Nikolauskloster

1. Presentation session (chair: Christiane Hellmanzik) 

08:45 – 09:45

Georg Schaur

(University of Tennessee)

Border Processing and Trade Costs

( w. with Jeronimo Carballo, Alejandro Graziano and Christian Volpe Martincus)

09:45 – 10:45

Oren Ziv

(Michigan State University)

Entrepôt: Hubs, Scale and Trade Costs

(w. Sharat Ganapati and Woan Foong Wong)

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Inga Heiland

(IfW Kiel)

Trade from Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks

(w. Andreas Moxnes, Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe and Yuan Zi)

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch at Nikolauskloster

2. Presentation session (chair: Sanne Kruse-Becher) 

13:30 – 14:30

Seda Köymen Özer

(Baskent University)

Brexit Blues: Are European Multinationals Giving up on the British Market?

(w. Beata Javorcik and Banu Demir Pakel)

14:30 – 15:30

Maren Kaliske

(TU Dortmund)

Convergence in Political Preferences and the EU Single Market

(w. Christiane Hellmanzik and Jens Wrona)

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00

Felix Kersting

(Humboldt University Berlin)

Trade Shocks, Labor Markets, and Elections in the First Globalization

(w. Richard Bräuer and Wolf-Fabian Hungerland)

17:00 – 18:00

Ferdinand Rauch

(Oxford University)

Trade Persistence and Trader Identity – Evidence from the Demise of the Hanseatic League

(w. Max Marczinek and Stephan Maurer)

18:00 – 19:00

Walk from the Nikolauskloster to Schloss Dyck (2 km)

19:00 – 20:30

Dinner at Schloss Dyck

20:30 – 21:30

Visiting the Illumination Festival at Schloss Dyck

Program, September 7th

08:00-08:30

Transfer from Hotel Schloss Dyck to the Nikolauskloster

3. Presentation session (chair: Jens Wrona) 

08:45 – 09:45

Jan Bakker

(Bocconi University)

Cities, Heterogenous Firms and Trade

(w. Alvaro Garcia Marin, Andrei Potlogea, Nico Voigtländer and Yang Yang)

09:45 – 10:45

Marius Brülhart

(University of Lausanne)

Let There Be Light: Trade and the Development of Border Regions

(w. Olivier Cadot and Alexander Himbert)

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00

Laura Hering

(Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Looking for the Bright Side of the China Syndrome: Rising Export Opportunities and Life Satisfaction in China

(w. Matthieu Crozet and Sandra Poncet)

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch at Nikolauskloster

13:30 – 15:00

Departure

“Thanks for the Photo, Levke Jessen-Thiese!”