Session II Chair person: Lars Persson
13.30–14.15 Holger Görg (University of Nottingham), Sourafel Girma (University of Nottingham) and Yuandan Gong, University of Nottingham), “Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises”
14.15–15.00 Shang-Jin Wei (International Monetary Fund and NBER) and Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), “Service Offshoring, Productivity, and Employment: Evidence from the United States”Discussant: Jonas Vlachos (Stockholm School of Economics)
15.00–15.30 Coffee
15.30–16.15 Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth College), “Intra-Firm Trade”
Discussant: Karolina Ekholm (Stockholm University and CEPR)
16.15–17.00 Jiandong Ju (University of Oklahoma) and Shang-Jin Wei (International Monetary Fund and NBER), “A Solution to Two Paradoxes of International Capital Flows”
Discussant: Henrik Horn, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies and CEPR
18.45 Boat trip with conference dinner
Monday 11 September
Session III Chair person: Henrik Horn
09.15–10.00 Katariina Hakkala (Research Institute of Industrial Economics), and Karolina Ekholm (Stockholm University and CEPR), “Regional Effects of Offshoring on Labor Demand in Sweden”
Discussant: Rikard Forslid (Stockholm University and CEPR)
10.00–10.45 Robert Feenstra (University of California, Davis, and NBER), Paul R. Bergin (University of California, Davis, and NBER) and Gordon H. Hanson (University of California, San Diego, and NBER),
“Outsourcing and Volatility”
Discussant: Harry Flam (Institute for International Economic Studies)
10.45–11.15 Coffee
11.15–12.00 Stephen Yeaple (University of Pennsylvania and NBER) and Volker Nocke (University of Pennsylvania and CEPR), “An Assignment T”
Discussant: Mattias Ganslandt (Research Institute of Industrial Economics)heory of Foreign Direct Investment
12.00–13.30 Lunch
Session IV Chair person: Pehr-Johan Norbäck
13.30–14.15 Keith Head (University of British Columbia), “FDI as an Outcome of the Market for Corporate Control: Theory and Evidence”
Discussant: Richard Friberg (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR)
14.15–15.00 Helder Vasconcelos (Bocconi University and CEPR) and Eileen Fumagalli (Bocconi University), “Cross-Border Merger Waves”
Discussant: Sven-Olof Fridolfsson (Research Institute of Industrial Economics)
15.00 Closing of the conference and boat to Stockholm