Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus will host the International Conference on Trade, Investment and Production Networks in Asia from February 15-16, 2012. The conference will take place at the Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre.
We would like to invite professionals, teachers and students from your school, department or organisation interested in economics to attend this conference.
The conference includes The Boustead Annual Globalisation Lecture, which will be given by Professor Hal Hill, Australian National University; and The World Economy Asia Lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Chris Milner, Professor of International Economics, University of Nottingham.
Programme of events: Wednesday, 15th February
Session 1 (Chair: Chris Milner)
- Multinationals, Trade, Global Production Networks and the Development of Domestic Technological Capabilities in East and Southeast Asia by Rajah Rasiah, University of Malaya
- Discussant: Hal Hill
- Determinants of Trade in Parts and Components: The Role of Ethical Distance by Bala Ramasamy, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
- Discussant: Premachandra Athukorala
Session 2 (Chair: Camilla Jensen)
- 11.00 – 13.00 How Did the Japanese Exports Respond? The Global Financial Crisis and the East Japan Earthquake (with Mitsuyo Ando) by Fukunari Kimura, Keio University and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
- Discussant: Rajah Rasiah
- Growing with Global Production Sharing: The Tale of Penang Export Hub by Premachandra Athukorala, Australian National University
- Discussant: Shandre Thangavelu
- China’s Export Expansion: A Threat to its Asian Neighbours by Kong Yoke Fong, GEP, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
- Discussant: Jay Menon
Session 3 (Chair: Richard Kneller)
- Exporter Dynamics and Information Spillovers through the Main Bank by Keiko Ito, Senshu University
- Discussant: Camilla Jensen
- FDI, Export Competitiveness and Foreign Workers: Case of Singapore and Malaysia, Shandre Thangavelu, National University of Singapore
- Discussant: Fukunari Kimura
Session 4 (Chair: Michael Yap)
- The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Production Networks (with Michael Yap) Rasyad Parinduri, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
- Discussant: Keiko Ito
- Preferential and Non-Preferential Approaches to Trade Liberalization, with Special Attention to Reciprocity and Utilization Rates Jay Menon, Asian Development Bank
- Discussant: Chris Milner
Session 5 (Chair: David Greenaway)
Boustead Annual Globalisation Lecture: Malaysia's Development Challenges: Graduating from the Middle, Professor Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University
19.30 – 20.30 Reception, sponsored by Boustead Holdings Berhad
Thursday, 16th February
Session 6 (Chair: Shandre Thangavelu)
- Does Trade Openness Explain Labour Productivity Growth? A Comparison of China and India, Wing Leong Teo, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
- Discussant: Archanun Kohpaiboo
- Exchange Rates and Trade in East Asia, Willem Thorbecke, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
- Discussant: Richard Kneller
Session 7 (Chair: Rasyad Parinduri)
- China and East Asian Integration: Implications for the World, Wai Heng Loke, GEP, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
- Discussant: Wing Leong Teo
- Import-as-market Discipline in Production Network: Evidence from Thai Manufacturing, Archanun Kohpaiboo, Thammasat University
- Discussant: Rasyad Parinduri
- Trade Liberalisation and Chinese Firm Level Productivity Growth: The Role of Direct and Indirect Imported Inputs, Richard Kneller
- Discussant: Bala Ramasamy
- 12.40 – 13.50 lunch
- 13.50 – 14.50 transfer to the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Semenyih
- 14.50 – 15.30 tour of campus
- 15.30 – 16.00 coffee/tea/cold drinks
Session 8 (Chair: David Greenaway)
- 16.00 – 17.00 The World Economy Asia Lecture sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell: Declining Protection in Developing Countries: Fact or Fiction? Professor Chris Milner, Professor of International Economics, GEP, University of Nottingham.
- 17.30 Return to Kuala Lumpur
- 19.30 Conference dinner in KL