Centre for the Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex (CARIS)

Conferences

CARIS organises an annual conference where high profile speakers are invited to debate the most important international trade issues. In 2009 the annual conference was co-hosted with the World Bank.

Forthcoming 2011

FEMISE-DEFI-CARIS conference on "Firms, Trade and Development" 

 - Programme

 - Presentation

The conference will be held in Aix-en-Provence (France) the next 4-5th July 2011 and will see the presence of the following high profile experts among others:

- Beata Javorcik (Oxford University)
- Francesco Daveri (University of Parme, Igier & CESifo), Maria Laura Parisi (Brescia University) et Rémy Lecat (Banque de France)
- Olivier Cadot (HEC Lausanne and World Bank)
- Leonardo Iacovone (World Bank)
- Richard Kneller (University of Nottingham)
- Joep Konings (Université Libre de Louvain)
- Juan Manez (University of Valencia), Juan Sanchis-Llopis  (University of Valencia) and Maria Rochina-Barrachina (University of Valencia)
- Khalid Sekkat (Economic Research Forum)
- Flora Bellone (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)

 

2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

2010

The Future of GSP

Held on 30 September, the main theme of the conference is the analysis of GSP arrangements with a particular focus on the following issues:

  • Comparisons among the GSP programs;
  • S&D in the WTO in terms of eligibility criteria;
  • Legality and security of GSP;
  • Coherence  and coordination across different GSP schemes.

Participants also explored whether countries such as China, Brazil, India and other big emerging economies could play a role in this area of international trade policy commensurate with their trading power. For example, China already has unilateral preferences towards some African countries. Based on the existing regime, would it be feasible to expand the coverage of commodities/sectors towards African countries and extend to unilateral preferences to other LDCs?

Documents 2010

Coming soon

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2009

CARIS-World Bank Conference on Regional Integration in Asia and Europe

Held on September 14-15 2009 at the University of Sussex. The conference was organized jointly held with Trade Department of the World Bank (PRMTR) in collaboration with colleagues from the Swiss NCCR Trade Centre.

The main themes of the conference were on Asian and Europe and the role of deep integration in trade and institutions on development. Presentations covered empirical evidence on the causes and effects of Asian regional integration including comparison with Europe; and issues of behind the border regulations in RTAs – based on recent World Bank studies on competition and government procurement provisions, environmental provisions, labour standards and labour mobility provision, technical standards, SPS and dispute settlement mechanism.

Documents 2009

  1. Deep intergation in EU FTAs by Peter Holmes [DOC 171.00KB]
  2. Deep intergration in EU FTAs - why so difficult? by Peter Holmes with colleagues [PPT 56.00KB]
  3. Korea-China FTA as a catalyst for fostering the intra-industry specialization with agglomeration effect by Hae-du Hwang, Yonghee Lee and Sungchul Bang [DOC 223.00KB]
  4. Why not in the WTO? The erosion of WTO centricity in trade liberalisation by Richard Baldwin and Theresa Carpenter [PDF 204.98KB]
  5. A 3 bloc dance: East Asian regionalism and the North Atlantic trade giants by Richard Baldwin and Theresa Carpenter [PDF 260.00KB]
  6. A 3 bloc dance: East Asian regionalism and the North Atlantic trade giants by Richard Baldwin and Theresa Carpenter [PPT 950.50KB]
  7. The Politics of Trade in the United States and in the Obama Administration: Implications for Asian Regionalism by Clauda Barfield [DOC 113.50KB]
  8. The Determinants of Intrafirm Trade in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China by Ana Fernandes [PDF 1.09MB]
  9. China's Strategy in the Global Regional Integrations: Fundamental Insights and Impact Evaluation Framework by Dr Mingtai Fan [PDF 132.40KB]
  10. How productive is Chinese labour? The contributions of labour market reforms, competition and globalisation by Linda Yueh [PDF 291.96KB]
  11. China’s carbon emissions and international trade: implications for post-2012 policy by Tao Wang and Jim Watson [PDF 132.13KB]
  12. Climate Change and the Globalisation: China's Emissions and Trade by Tao Wang and Jim Watson [PPT 1.35MB]
  13. CARIS-World Bank Conference on Regional Integration in Asia and Europe: Summary [DOC 50.50KB]

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2008

Regional Integration & Deep Integration: Concepts & Empirics

With the well documented rapid rise in regional trading arrangements, the aim of the conference is to focus on the potential role of, what is often referred to as, "deep integration". In the broader sense CARIS is interested in the circumstances under which the welfare effects arising from deeper integration might overcome the well-known distortions associated with shallow integration, in particular for developing countries. This annual conference focuses in more detail on what is meant by the concept of deep integration itself, considering ways in which deep integration might be appropriately measured and evaluating the possible impact of deeper integration.

Documents 2008

  1. Must FTAs Be Vehicles For Discrimination? by Simon J. Evenett [PPT 337.00KB]
  2. Globalisation and Deep Integration by Michael Gasiorek and Peter Holmes [DOC 212.50KB]
  3. Conceptualising Deep Integration by Michael Gasiorek and Peter Holmes [PPT 81.00KB]
  4. Investigating the Needs and Potential Effects of Some Aspects of Deep Integration in the EU-Egypt Association Agreement and Neighbourhood Policy by Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim [DOC 259.00KB]
  5. Investigating the Needs and Potential Effects of Some Aspects of Deep Integration in the EU-Egypt Association Agreement and Neighbourhood Policy by Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim [PPT 197.00KB]
  6. East vs South East Asian Innovation Systems by Mike Hobday [PPT 328.00KB]
  7. Conceptualising Deep Integration by Michael Gasiorek and Peter Holmes [PPTX 133.16KB]
  8. How might regional production networks be shaped by regional agreements on standards? by John Humphrey [PPT 361.00KB] 
  9. Shipping good tequila out: investment, domestic unit values and entry of multi-product plants into export markets by Leonardo Iacovone and Beata S. Jarvorcik [PDF 305.76KB]
  10. Shipping Good Tequila Out:Investment, Domestic Unit Values and Entry of Multi-product Plants into Export Markets by Leonardo Iacovone and Beata S. Javorcik [PDF 708.63KB] 
  11. Trade and Foreign Investment in Business Services by James R. Markusen and Bridget Strand [PDF 85.56KB]
  12. Trade and foreign direct investment in business services by James R Markusen and Bridget Strand [PDF 53.45KB]
  13. Liberalization of Services in Europe; Polish perspective on Economic Implications of the Services Directive by Jan Hagemejer, Jan J. Michalek and Tomasz Michalek [PDF 276.68KB]
  14. Liberalization of Services in Europe; Polish perspective on Economic Implications of the Services Directive by Jan Hagermejer, Jan J. Michalek and Tomasz Michalek [PPT 623.00KB]
  15. Productivity and Firm Selection: Intra- vs International Trade by Gregory Corcos, Massimo Del Gatto, Giordano Mion and Gianmarco I. P. Ottavino [PDF 536.93KB]
  16. Productivity and Firm Selection: Intra-National and Internationl Trade by Gregory Corcs, Massimo Del Gatto, Giordano Mion and Gianmarco I. P. Ottavino [PDF 271.30KB]
  17. Regional integration, growth and convergence: Analytical techniques and preliminary results by Dirk Willem te Velde [DOC 543.00KB]
  18. Regional integration, growth and convergence Analytical techniques and preliminary results by Dr Dirk Willem te Velde [PPT 312.50KB]

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2007

CARIS/SEI conference "What have we learned from European Economic Integration?"

Held on the 16th and Tuesday 17th of July 2007. The aim of the conference is to analyze the experience of European integration in its different aspects. The EU in its development over the last 50 years from customs union to common market and now including monetary union has been a natural experiment in economic integration. This has had important implications for the development of social science theory and analysis as well as for the understanding of practical policy making. Fifty Years after the Treaty of Rome, 20 years after the Cecchini Report and 15 years after the founding of SEI and in the light of ongoing work at SEI and CARIS it seemed an appropriate moment to reflect on the experience of the European Union and the academic research that it stimulated and what it means for future research.

Documents 2007

  1. What have we learned from modelling European economic integration? by Alasdair Smith [PPT 180.00KB]
  2. The external dimension of the internal market by Peter Holmes [PPT 160.00KB]
  3. Regional Trading Arrangements, Developing Countries and Deep Integration by Michael Gasiorek [PPT 414.50KB]
  4. Asia-Pacific Regional Integration: a Global Challenge by David Vines [PPT 235.00KB]
  5. The Political Economy of Network Industries Integration by Francis McGowan [DOC 51.00KB]
  6. 20 years after Cecchini: What have policy makers & business learned about European Integration from Economic Analysis [PPT 580.00KB]
  7. Where next on the Single Market? by Adriaan Dierx and Fabienne Ilzkovitz [PPT 3.63MB]
  8. Movement of Labour and Deep Integration by L. Alan Winters [PPT 159.00KB]
  9. Economic integration: a policy maker’s guide to the state of the art or what have we learned from the Sussex Framework [PPT 115.00KB]
  10. Regional impacts of regional integration by Tony Venables [PPT 295.00KB]
  11. What have we learned from European Economic Integration? [DOCX 19.02KB]

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2006

Developing Countries and the Challenge of Regionalism: Assessing the Options

Held on September 28th to 30th 2006, the aim of the conference was to build on DFID and European Commission funded research undertaken by the team of researchers at Sussex University over the past few years which has focused on the potential role of regional integration for developing countries. As part of that research programme a handbook/framework for the evaluation of the potential costs and benefits of regional integration has been developed, using explicit criteria and careful use of descriptive statistical methods. The intention being that such a framework can provide useful input into the policy making process. The Conference is based on presentations by key experts in the field as well as on papers arising from the work undertaken by the Sussex team. A key aim of the conference is thus to outline the framework, the conceptual issues underpinning it, and to illustrate the application of the framework to case studies.

Documents 2006

  1. Assessing regional trade agreements with developing countries: shallow and deep integration, trade, productivity and economic performance [PDF 2.21MB]
  2. Competition Provisions in RTAs by Ana Maria Alvarez [PPT 1.00MB]
  3. The Analytical Method and the Egypt Case Study by David Evans and Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim [PPT 467.50KB]
  4. Assessing the EU-Caribbean EPA process by Michael Gasiorek, Michanne Haynes-Prempeh, Tomasz Iwanov, Gonzalo Varela and Jedrzej Chwiejczak [PPT 1.55MB]
  5. Multilateralising regionalism: spaghetti bowls as building blocs on the path to global free trade by Richard E. Baldwin [PDF 1.46MB]
  6. Regional Integration, Economic Performance, and Trade Agreements by Peter Holmes, Leonardo Iacovone and Sherman Robinson [PPT 330.50KB]
  7. Managing the Noodle Bowl: The fragility of East Asian Regionalism by Richard E. Baldwin [PDF 382.04KB]
  8. Law, Economics and RTAs: characterization questions for deep integration by James H. Mathis [PPT 176.00KB]
  9. U.S. Trade Policy: The Emergence of Regional and Bilateral Alternatives to Multilateralism by Claude Barfield [PDF 247.08KB]
  10. East Asian Regionalism: Managing the Noodle Bowl by Theresa Carpenter and Richard Baldwin [PPT 1.64MB]
  11. Regionalism: Policy Options for India by Pradeep S Mehta & Dr N C Pahariya [PDF 129.58KB]
  12. Regionalism: Policy Options For India by Pradeep S. Mehta [PPT 197.50KB]
  13. Regionalism: Developing a Useful Analytical Framework for Policymakers by Jim Rollo [PPT 33.00KB]

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