Observing Trade Conference Papers
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Please contact the authors for copies of their papers, or see Observing Trade: Revealing International Trade Networks and Their Impacts, March 9-11, 2006.
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Thursday, March 9, 2006: METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
Welcome and Introductions
Sara R. Curran
Introduction to Growing Knowledge about Globalization and ‘Observing Trade’
Miguel Centeno
Observing Trade: Overview of Changes 1980-2001
Conceptualization and Analyzing Global Trade
Gary Hamilton*, Rob Feenstra
Trade Data Archeology
Paulette Lloyd*, Jan de Leeuw, Matthew Mahutga, John Galloway
Measuring Economic Globalization: Exploring methods to map the changing structure of world trade
Daniel Müller
International Trade from a Societal Metabolism Perspective
Valentino Piana
The ‘Pattern Approach’ to World Trade Structures and Their Dynamics
Gary Gereffi, John Humphrey, Timothy Sturgeon*
The Governance of Global Value Chains (for similar work see their article in Review of International Political Economy 12:1 February 2005: 78-104.)
Measuring and Data Limitations
Bobray Bordelon for Ronald Jansen
The Compilers Manual of International Merchandise Trade Statistics
Scudder Smith
‘I’d like to know…’: Ten Major Questions about Trade Information
Logistics: Underlying Constraints for Trade
Richard Appelbaum
Giant Retailers and Giant Contractors in China: Emergent Trends in Global Supply Chains
Jess Browning
Logistics and Socio-Economic Issues in Global Trade
Keynote Address and Discussion
Gary Gereffi
International Trade and Offshore Production: Tracking China's Shifting Role in the Global Economy Gereffi's slides (help · info)
Friday, March 10, 2006 GOVERNING TRADE: COMMODITIES and CASE STUDIES
Trade Regulated within the Private Sector
Seishi Kimura
Learning for Upgrading: The ‘Controlled’ Growth of the Japanese Aircraft Firms
Nelson Lichtenstein
Supply-Chains, Workers' Chains, and the New World of Retail Supremacy
David Weil
Lean Retailing and Supply Chain Restructuring: Implications for Private and Public Governance
Trade Governed by Civil Society
April Linton*, Marie Murphy
‘Good’ Markets and Public Goods: Impacts of Fair Trade in the Global South
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
Trade Governed by Formal Regulatory Regimes
Melissa Mahony, William Milberg* and Markus Schneider, Rudi von Arnim
Spurring Growth Dynamics from Services Offshoring
Andrew Schrank
Labor Standards and Human Resources: A Natural Experiment in an Unlikely Laboratory
Carol Wise
China’s Trade with North America: What Does this Mean for NAFTA?
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