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THURSDAY 30 MARCH
12.15-13.15 Registration and coffee
13.15-13.30
Welcome: Alan Hughes, Director, Centre for Business Research
13.30-15.00 Session 1- Industrial Populations |
15.30-17.00 Session 2- International/FDI |
Foreign Direct Investment
and Unskilled Workers in US Manufacturing 1973-1994
(Dirk William te Velde,
National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London)
Technology Spillovers
From Foreign Direct Investment in The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
(Sumit K Majumdar, Imperial
College)
21.30-23.00 Bar open
FRIDAY 31 MARCH
08.00-09.00 Breakfast
in Hall
0900-10.00 Session 3- Markets and Hierarchies |
The transfer and development
of competencies in the upstream oil and
gas industry.
(John H Finch, University
of Aberdeen)
A Globalised Industry
and Changed Trade Policy
(Yumiko Myoken, LSE and
MITI)
10:00-11:00 Session 4- New Developments |
11.30-13.00 Session 5- Information |
Industrial organization
of R&D, Innovation types, and appropriability
conditions
(Bruno Verasaevel, Ecole
de Management de Lyon, France)
14.15-16.15 Session 5- Firm Performance |
Income Inequality, Competitive
Balance and the Attractiveness of
Team Sports; Some Evidence and a Natural Experiment from
(Stefan Szymanski, Imperial
College)
The determinants of firms’
performance: can finance constraints improve technical efficiency?
(Vania Sena, University
of Leeds)
R&D Activity And Labour
Market Chracteristics In The North Eastern
Region Of The UK
(K A Lawler, H Seddighi,
M C Ling, University of Sunderland)
16:45-18:15 Session 7- Regulation |
Social Norms and Corporate
Debt Restructuring : The Case of the London Approach
(John Armour and Simon Deakin,
Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge)