- The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy

Conference

'Trade Costs, Infrastructure and Trade Development in Asia'

13th and 14th January 2010. Held at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia

The Conference includes The Boustead Annual Globalisation Lecture by Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Economics, University of Nottingham
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and also The World Economy Asia Lecture by Professor Masahiro Kawai, Asian Development Bank Institute
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Conference Programme available here
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Press release available here

Papers Presented

Presenter	Paper
Douglas Brooks	Asia's Melting Trade Costs
Prabir De	Trade Costs in Asia
Wai Heng Loke	Trade Costs in Malaysia: Issue and Challenges
Fabrice Defever	Contract Enforcement and International Trade
Chris Milner	Trade Costs and Trade Composition: Multi-Country and Product Evidence on Sources of Comparative Advantage
Hea-Jung Hyun	Trade Openness and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Korean Firm-level Data
Chang Liu	Financial Crisis and FDI's Interest in China's Hinterland: A Quest for Soft Environmental Factors
Jai Mah	Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries Regarding Export Promotion Policies under the WTO
Nao Ijiri	Air Transport and International Trade: The Case of Japanese Exports
Rasyad Parinduri	Road to Prosperity: The Effect of Transportation Infrastructure on Inter-village Trade
Shandre Thangavelu	Non-Tariff Barriers, Integration and Export Growth in ASEAN
Joseph Alba	Effects of Hub-and-Spoke Trade Agreements on Trade: A Panel Data Analysis
Jay Menon	Regional Economic Impacts of Cross-Border Infrastructure: A General Equilibrium Application to Thailand and Lao PDR

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