Observing Trade: Revealing International Trade Networks and Their Impacts
March 9-11, 2006
You are invited to read working drafts of the conference papers.
PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHORS.
* = Presenting Author
Thursday, March 9, 2006
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
Welcome and Introductions
1:00pm-1:30pm in Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
Sara R. Curran
“Introduction to Growing Knowledge about Globalization and ‘Observing Trade’”
(No working paper will be posted for this introduction.)
Miguel Centeno
“Observing Trade: Overview of Changes 1980-2001” (here)
Conceptualization and Analyzing Global Trade
1:30pm-4:00pm in Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
Gary Hamilton*, Rob Feenstra
"Trade Data Archeology" (here)
Paulette Lloyd*, Jan de Leeuw, Matthew Mahutga, John Galloway
“Measuring Economic Globalization: Exploring methods to map the changing structure of world trade” (Part 1, Part 2)
Daniel Müller
“International Trade from a Societal Metabolism Perspective” (here)
Valentino Piana
“The ‘Pattern Approach’ to World Trade Structures and Their Dynamics” (here)
Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey, Timothy Sturgeon*
“The Governance of Global Value Chains” (here)
Measuring and Data Limitations
4:30pm-5:30pm in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
Bobray Bordelon for
Ronald Jansen
“The Compilers Manual of International Merchandise Trade Statistics” (here)
Scudder Smith
“ ‘I’d like to know…’: Ten Major Questions about Trade Information” (please check back soon)
Logistics: Underlying Constraints for Trade
5:30pm-6:30pm in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
Richard Appelbaum
“Giant Retailers and Giant Contractors in China: Emergent Trends in Global Supply Chains” (here)
Jess Browning
“Logistics and Socio-Economic Issues in Global Trade” (here)
Keynote Address and Discussion
8:00pm-9:30pm in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
Gary Gereffi
“International trade and offshore production: How can we use international trade analysis to explore new trends in the global labor market?”
(presentation slides here)
Friday, March 10, 2006
GOVERNING TRADE: COMMODITIES and CASE STUDIES
Trade Regulated within the Private Sector
8:30am-10:00am in Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
Seishi Kimura
“Learning for Upgrading: The ‘Controlled’ Growth of the Japanese Aircraft Firms” (here)
Nelson Lichtenstein
"Supply-Chains, Workers' Chains, and the New World of Retail Supremacy" (here)
David Weil
"Lean Retailing and Supply Chain Restructuring: Implications
for Private and Public Governance" (here)
Trade Governed by Civil Society
10:30am-12:30pm in Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
April Linton*, Marie Murphy
“‘Good’ Markets and Public Goods: Impacts of Fair Trade in the Global South” (here)
Pete W. Moore
"Contested Trade in the Middle East: How free trade helped end the Oslo Peace Process and de-liberalize the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" (here)
Trade Governed by Formal Regulatory Regimes
2:00pm-4:00pm in Aaron Burr Hall, Room 219
Melissa Mahony, William Milberg* and Markus Schneider, Rudi von Arnim
"Spurring Growth Dynamics from Services Offshoring" (here)
Andrew Schrank
“Labor Standards and Human Resources: A Natural Experiment in an Unlikely Laboratory” (here)
Carol Wise
“China’s Trade with North America: What Does this Mean for NAFTA?” (here)
Thank you to the following people in particular for their contributions to the discussions: Greg Shelton (GTTL, UW)
Robert James (PANYNJ)
Anbinh Phan (US Treasury Dept.)
Helen Milner, Christina Davis, Sophie Meunier, Steve Redding ( Princeton Univ.)
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