Innovation, firm size, productivity and imbalances in the age of de-globalization
6th CompNet Annual Conference, June 29-30, 2017, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
As the criticism to globalisation mounts, so do the challenges to solid tenets of economic theory and practice connecting trade and productivity. How can we reconcile the decline in productivity in the last decade with still unabated barriers to globalisation? To what extent are increasing cross-border activities related to higher productivity? How would society's welfare be affected in case barriers to trade were imposed by nations in some form or another? How would a lower freedom to cross-border activities affect the spread of innovation globally and across firms? How will this affect Small and Medium Enterprises? Would such a "less globalised world" lead to smaller imbalances across economies and in terms of income inequality?
For more details, please check the conference program and the conference summary. Follows the presentations and materials discussed during the conference.
Introductory Remarks
Keynote Speech
- The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence
Session 1 - Trade and Productivity
- External Imbalances, Exchange Rate Regime and Firm Dynamics
- Margins of Trade: CEE Firms Before, During and After the Turmoil
- Import and Productivity of Multi-Product Firms
Keynote Address
Session 2 - Financial Frictions and Productivity
Chief Economist Panel
- Investment and Investment Finance – Open Questions?
- Rebalancing the Euro Area: Insight from BDF Research
- Firm Innovation and Productivity in Middle-Income Countries
- Financial Shocks and Productivity
- The Developing Country Perspective: Management Quality, Innovation and Risk
Keynote Address
Session 3 - Labour Market and Productivity
- Wage bargaining regimes and firms' adjustments to the Great Recession
- Comparative Advantage in Routine Production
- The Great Divergence(s)
