Last week I had the pleasure of assisting for first time to the annual conference organized by the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) in Leuven. Apart from the possibility to taste the lovely Belgian beers offered in the bars of Old Market Square (including a quadruple trappiste!), there were many development-related papers presented that I enjoyed. Here my selection:
- Routes, exports, and employment in developing countries (Christian Volpe, Jerónimo Carballo and Ana Cusolito)
- There goes gravity: how eBay reduces trade costs (Pierre-Louis Vezina, Andreas Lendle, Marcelo Olarreaga and Simon Schropp)
- Intellectual property rights protection in developing countries (Rodrigo Paillacar, Emmanuelle Auriol and Sara Biancin)
- Trade liberalization and export prices: the case of China (Vanessa Strauss-Kahn and Maria Bas)
