ITALIAN TRADE STUDY GROUP Cagliari, 3-4 July 2014

ITALIAN TRADE STUDY GROUP
Cagliari, 3-4 July 2014
PROGRAMME
Thursday 3
14.00-14.15 Welcome address - Stefano Usai, Director of CRENoS
14.15-17.30 Global Crisis
14.15-15.45 – The Crisis I - Chair Stefano Usai
Antonio Accetturo and Anna Giunta
Global Value Chains and the Great Recession: evidence from Italian and German Firms
Discussant: Enrico Marvasi
Carmine Pappalardo, Stefano Costa and Claudio Vicarelli
Financial crisis, internationalization choices and Italian firm survival
Discussant: Filippo Vergara Caffarelli
15.45 Coffee Break
16.00-17.30 The Crisis II – Chair Giorgio Ricchiuti
Eliana Viviano, Matteo Bugamelli and Eugenio Gaiotti
Domestic and foreign sales in Italy during the global crisis and before: complements or substitutes?
Discussant: Carlo Mastinu
Stefano Costa and Francesca Luchetti
Export, strategie e performance: il Made in Italy durante la crisi 2011-2013
Discussant: Lucia Tajoli
17.30 Coffee Break
18.00-19.00 – Keynote Speech
Rethinking the EMU architecture after the crises
Ramon Marimon, European University Institute
Chair Beniamino Quintieri
Friday 4
9.00-13.15
9.00-11.00 Migration – Chair Adriana Di Liberto
Massimiliano Bratti, Luca De Benedictis and Gianluca Santoni
Immigrant firms and exports
Discussant: Giuseppe De Arcangelis
Mauro Lanati and Giorgia Giovannetti
The impact of product quality on the pro-trade elasticity of immigrants
Discussant: Romano Piras
Majlinda Johxe
Selection on temporary migration, the role of ethnic networks
Discussant: Giovanni Sulis
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30-13.30 - Geography and Trade – Chair Fabio Cerina
Sotiris Blanas and Adnan Seric
Foreign affiliates with and without intra-firm trade: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Discussant: Giorgia Giovannetti
Gábor Békés , Lionel Fontagné, Balázs Muraközy and Vincent Vicard
Shipment frequency of exporters and demand uncertainty
Discussant: Rosario Crinò
Anna Maria Pinna and Luca De Benedictis
Bad geography, connectedness and trade
Discussant: Giulia Felice
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.30 Firms Internationalization – Chair Emanuela Marrocu
Maria Luisa Mancusi, Serena Frazzoni, Zeno Rotondi, Maurizio Sobrero and Andrea Vezzulli
Innovation and export in SMEs: the role of relationship banking
Discussant: Manuela Deidda
Laura Ogliari and Rosario Crinò
Financial frictions, financial vulnerability and product quality
Discussant: Fabio Cerina
Michele Mancini and Alessandro Borin
IDE e performance d’impresa: un’analisi empirica basata su un campione di imprese italiane
Discussant: Marco Sideri
16.30-17.00 Coffee and Conclusions