11th ISGEP WORKSHOP on

Firms, Trade and Productivity: empirical analysis based on

recent theoretical advances

“G. d’Annunzio University” - Pescara, Italy

15 – 16 September 2016

ISGEP - International Study Group on Exports and Productivity - is a platform aimed at stimulating knowledge exchange and joint research on firm behaviour in international markets using micro-data. In 2016, ISGEP celebrates 10 years of activity. Past conferences were held in Nottingham (2007, 2008), Dublin (2009), Valencia (2009), Nice (2010), Lueneburg (2011), Stockholm (2012, 2014), Trento (2013), Birmingham (2015).

CONFERENCE VENUE: “G.d‘Annunzio” University, Department of Economics, Pescara - ITALY (LINK)

FORMAT: The workshop will start on Thursday, 15 September, at around 9.00 am, and will end on Friday, 16 September, in the afternoon. An informal welcome reception will take place in the evening of Wednesday, 14.

INVITED LECTURES: Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano (London School of Economics), Thomas Sampson (London School of Economics)

SPECIAL SESSION: “Trade and firm-level technology adoption/diffusion”

SPECIAL ISSUE: International Economics, Elsevier

AGENDA: LINK

DROPBOX FOLDER: a dropbox folder “ISGEP” has been created (an invitation will follow the paper acceptance):

- please, fill in all the fields in the file “REGISTRATION.xls”;

- please, take care of saving a copy of your paper and/or presentation in the folder “Presentations”, before the conference.

ACCOMMODATION: LINK

HOW TO REACH PESCARA: LINK

SOCIAL DINNER: Thursday’s sessions will be followed by a conference dinner (venue: LINK and PHOTO)

MAP: LINK

Download the CALL FOR PAPERS

Should you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me: massimo.delgatto@gmail.com