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Global and Local

Saturday, October 12, 2013: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Chair:
Somnath Sen, Rollins College—USA
Organizer:
M. Peter van der Hoek, Erasmus University—Netherlands
Multinational firms and plant divestiture
Andreas Waldkirch, Colby College—USA; Pehr-Johan Norback, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)—Sweden; Ayca tekin-Koru, TED University—Turkey
How global is globalization?
Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University—USA; Andrew Young, West Virginia University—USA
Agglomeration economies in China: Evidence on levels, locations, causes, and effects
John Gibson, University of Waikato—New Zealand; Chao Li, University of Waikato—New Zealand
Discussants:
John Gibson, University of Waikato—New Zealand ; Andreas Waldkirch, Colby College—USA and Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University—USA