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Istituto Bruno Leoni. Fifth Mises Seminar. Discussant of Parashar Kulkarni's paper titled Domestic Regulation in GATS and South Asia: Integrating the Domestic Reform Agenda with GATS Disciplines. Sestri Levante. 4-6 October 2008.

Centre for the Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex, University of Sussex. Regional Integration and Deep Integration: Concepts and Empirics. Gave presentation titled Must FTAs be Vehicles for Discrimination? 22-23 May 2008.

Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Annual Nordic conference for International Trade. Gave Keynote speech titled The Current Doha Round "Impasse": Four Causes and the Interaction. 17-18 April 2008. Bergen, Norway.

Inter-American Development Bank, Fifth Annual Conference of the Euro-Latin Study Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT). Gave Keynote Lecture titled The Political Economy of Reciprocal Trade Liberalisation: What Can Theory Learn Take From The Doha Round Impasse? 25 October 2007, Barcelona.

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, Breaking the Deadlock at Doha: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Gave presentation titled Deadlock in Trade Negotiations: Any lessons from the current Doha Round “Impasse”? 9 November 2007, Cambridge.

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI), Graduate Institute, Geneva. The Calculation and Design of Trade Sanctions in WTO Dispute Settlement. Gave presentation on A welfare economic perspective and lessons learned from antitrust. 18-19 July 2008. Geneva.

St Gallen Competition Law Forum XIII. Gave presentation titled Efficiencies in Mergers: One Economist's Perspective. May 2007.

CAPTN conference. Toronto. Presented paper titled Trade Policy Jungle: A Survival Guide for Academic Economists. 10 February 2007. Toronto.

Max Planck Institute conference titled Public International Law and Economics: The Power of Rational Choice Methodology in Guiding the Analysis and the Design of Public International Law Institutions. To be a discussant of Professor Sandler's paper titled Treaties: Strategic Considerations. 15-16 December 2006. Bonn.

Inter-American Development Bank and World Trade Organization (WTO). Workshop titled: Regional Rules in the Global Trading System. Gave presentation with Robert D. Anderson on Incorporating Competition Elements into RTAs: Characterization and Empirical Analysis. 26-27 July 2006. Washington, D.C.

CESifo (Munich). Conference on Regional Trade Agreements. Gave presentation on The Prospects for the Doha Development Agenda: What Role for Economic Analysis? Venice, 19-21 July 2006.

Centre for Economic Policy Research. Competition Policy for International Development, Growth and Trade. Gave presentation on Conformity With International Recommendations on Merger Reviews and chaired session titled What Next For Research on International Competition Policy and Inter-Firm Rivalry in International Markets? and Trade Reforms, Market Power, and Pass Through in Selected East Asian Nations. Brussels. 9-10 December 2005.

Inter-American Development Bank and World Trade Organisation: Workshop titled: Regional Rules in the Global Trading System. Presented a paper titled Competition Provisions in RTAs: A Constraint on State Practices? 24-25 September 2005, Geneva.

Inter-American Development Bank and University of Notre Dame: Conference titled: The sequencing of Regional Economic Integration: Issues in the Breadth and Depth of Economic Integration in the Americas. Presented a paper titled “Competitive Liberalization”: A Tournament Theory-Based Interpretation. University of Notre Dame Indiana. 9-10 September 2005.

Competition Policy Foundations for Trade Reform, and Sustainable Development (CPFTR) Mid-Term Meeting, Brussels. 26 April 2005. Gave presentation titled Extracting the most out of reforms: What role for competition? with Julian L. Clarke and Krista Lucenti.

Competition Policy Foundations for Trade Reform, and Sustainable Development (CPFTR) Mid-Term Meeting, Brussels. 26 April 2005. Gave presentation titled Analytical Considerations in the Design of Regional Rules on Competition Law.

Centre for Economic Policy Research, Trade and Industrialisation Network. Some Simple Analytics of Antidumping Orders: Bureaucratic Discretion and Risk, Anti-Importer Bias, and The Byrd Amendment. Brussels. November 2004.

Inter-American Development Bank-INTAL Second Annual Conference of the Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT). Florence, Italy, October 29-30, 2004. Discussant of Alessia Lo Turco's paper titled South-South Trade Trade Agreements and Growth. A Panel Data Approach to the Evaluation of Three Latin American Agreements.

Planning Commission and International Trade and Development Division, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Presentation on on-going research titled "Soft" Rules for International Commerce? Discussant of Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern’s paper titled Designing a Pro-Active Stance for India in the Doha Development Agenda Negotiations. Chaired session titled Other Issues. New Delhi. 18-19 October 2004

Meeting of the panel of the journal Economic Policy. Presentation of paper titled WTO Membership and Market Access: Evidence from the Accessions of Bulgaria and Ecuador.  Amsterdam. 15-16 October 2004.

Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, UK, 4 October 2004. Paper to be presented on Convergence in National Merger Review Regimes: Ends and Means.

Centre for Regulation and Competition, University of Manchester. Plenary presentation with Frederic Jenny at their annual conference in Cape Town, September 2004, on An Inventory of Allegations of Anti-Competitive Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa.

University of Malaya. Presentation titled Competition Policy and Development Policy: Implications for Malaysia. 19 July 2004.

Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, UK, 24-26 June 2004. Presented a paper titled Simple Analytics of Anti-dumping Orders: Bureaucratic Discretion and Risk, Anti-Importer Bias, and The Byrd Amendment. Discussant of a paper by Joseph Francois and Dean Spinanger titled The Impact of EU Anti-Dumping Measures on Trade.

TRALAC and IDRC, Joint IDRC-TRALAC Workshop on Regional Competition Rules and Development in Southern Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 17 March 2004. Presented a paper on The Rise of Anti-Dumping Use and Implications for Regional Agreements  With a discussion of the implications for regional integration agreements in Southern Africa.

University of Michigan, A Centennial of Anti-dumping Legislation and Implementation: A Symposium, Ann Arbor, 12 March 2004. Presented a paper on The Falling Number of EU Antidumping Actions: Temporary Downturn or Long Term Trend?

World Bank, January 2004.  Presentation on Policy Advice and the Singapore Issues. 

Inter-American Development Bank and Asian Development Bank Institute. FTAA and Transpacific Business Linkages: Implications for Japan and East Asia, Tokyo, December 2003. Moderator of Session IV and gave Closing Remarks for the conference.

Annual Meeting of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, December 2003. Paper on International Approaches to Competition Policy: Where Next?

European Trade Study Group, Madrid, September 2003. Paper presented on Picking winners or creating them? Revisiting the benefits of FDI in the Czech Republic.

World Trade Forum, World Trade Institute, Bern, June 2003. Paper presented on Performance under Pressure: Japan and the Uruguay Round on Government Procurement.

Centre for Economic Policy Research’s Trade and Development Network Meeting, June 2003. Paper presented on The deterrent value of the World Trade Organization’s Dispute Settlement Understanding and alternative remedial mechanisms.

American Society of International Law and the World Trade Institute. Conference titled International Trade and Human Rights. Discussant on a paper by Christine Breining-Kaufmann on The Right to Food and Trade in Agriculture.

Troisieme Cycle Romand En Economie Politique, March 2003. Paper presenter on The Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s.

Latin America/Caribbean and Asia/Pacific Economics and Business Association, January 2003. Paper presented on International Cartels and Implications for Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Washington DC, USA, January 2003. Paper presented on Performance under Pressure: Japan and the Uruguay Round on Government Procurement.

AEI-Brookings Center on Regulation, Washington DC, USA, January 2003. Paper presented on The Deterrent Effect of National Anti-Cartel Laws: Evidence from the International Vitamins Cartel.

University of Minnesota Law School. Sullivan Festrichft Conference, USA, September 2002. Paper presented on The Deterrent Effect of National Anti-Cartel Laws: Evidence from the International Vitamins Cartel.

European Trade Study Group, Kiel, Germany, September 2002. Paper presented on Do international cartels distort trade flows? Evidence from twelve cartels uncovered in the 1990s.

World Trade Institute, World Trade Forum 2002. Bern, Switzerland. Paper presented on Sticking to the Rules.

Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, University of Nottingham, UK, June 2002. Annual Conference on Globalisation. Paper presented on Export Growth by Developing Economies: Market Entry and Bilateral Trade. Discussant on Indirect versus Direct Globalisation Effects by Noel Gaston and Doug Nelson.

European Workshop on International Trade, Munich, Germany, June 2002. Paper presented on Export Growth by Developing Economies: Market Entry and Bilateral Trade.

Inter-American Development Bank and Harvard University, FTAA and Beyond: Prospects for Regional Integration in the Americas, June 2002. Paper presented on Competition Disciplines in the FTAA: Cross Border Spillovers, Evidence and Some Lessons from Europe.

NBER-CEPR International Seminar on International Trade, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2002. Paper presented on The Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s. Discussant on Jaime De Melo and Jean-Marie Grether’s paper on Globalisation and dirty industries: Do pollution havens matter?

World Bank conference on Trade Negotiations and Trade Policy, Cairo, Egypt, May 2002. Paper presented on Trade Policy Implications of Recent Research on Government Procurement Practices.

NBER-CEPR International Seminar on International Trade, London, United Kingdom, March 2002. Discussant.

NBER-CEPR International Pre-Conference Seminar on International Trade, Cambridge, USA, March 2002. Paper presented on The Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s.

American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta, USA, January 2002. Paper presented on The Geographic Spread of Trade.

Eighth Empirical Investigations in International Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, November 2001. Paper presented on Picking winners or creating them? Revisiting the benefits of FDI in the Czech Republic.

East Asia’s Future Economy, a conference organised by the World Bank in Bangkok, Thailand, June 2001. Paper presented on What role for regional approaches to competition policy?

Regional Integration and Trade in the Development Agenda, a conference organised at the Brookings Institution, USA, with the Inter-American Development Bank, May 30-June 1 2001. Paper presented on What role for regional competition policy in Latin America?

American Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, USA, January 2001. Session Chair and paper presented on The Outsourcing of Telecoms Parts: What is the Role of China’s Integration into the World Economy?

Stanford University, USA, November 2000. Presented on Emerging Issues in Trade and Competition Policy.

American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Boston, USA, January 2000. Session Chair and discussant on Geography, Trade and Economic Development.

Conference on Building a Transatlantic Market Place: Government Policies, Business Strategies and Market Governance, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, November 1999. Paper presented on The Empirics of Private Restraints and International Trade: What Can Policymakers Learn from the Economic Literature?

Sixth Empirical Investigations in International Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, November 1999. Paper presented on Exchange Rate Pass-Through and Antidumping Petitions and discussant.

World Services Congress, Atlanta, USA, November 1999. Paper presented with Bernard Hoekman on Towards a GATS Regime for Government Procurement.

European Workshop on International Trade, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration and CEPR, Bergen, Norway, June 1999. Presented on What Caused the Growth of Imports into OECD Nations?

Conference on the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, June 1999. Presented on Developing Nations in the Global Financial System: A Perspective from a Supranational Organisation.

World Services Congress, The University Club, Washington DC, USA, June 1999. Paper presented with Bernard Hoekman on Towards a GATS Regime for Government Procurement.

President’s Forum, AT10 Conference [Conference of the Ten Leading Think Tanks in Asia], Singapore, April 1999. Discussant on Financial Reforms in East Asia.

American Economic Association Annual Meetings, 1999. Session Organiser and Chair on International Evidence on Contingent Protection. Discussant on Transactions Costs and International Trade.

Planning Session for Davos 2000, World Economic Forum, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA, 1998. Participant.

Fifth Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, 1998. Discussant on Offshore Production and the Home Employees of Japanese Manufacturers.

Midwest International Economics Meetings, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, Fall 1998. Presented on The Growth of OECD Imports: 1970-96.

Transatlantic Workshop on Empirical International Trade, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, 1998. Presented on Willingness to Pay for Tariff Liberalisation.

Midwest International Economics Meetings, Michigan State University, Lansing, USA, Spring 1998. Presented on Willingness to Pay for Tariff Liberalisation. Discussant on Optimal Income Transfers and Tariffs.

Continuity and Change in Intellectual Property Rights in India, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA, 1998. Discussant.

American Economic Association Annual Meetings, Chicago, USA, 1998. Session Organiser. Presented on Willingness to Pay for Tariff Liberalisation.

Fourth Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, 1997. Discussant on Intra-Industry Trade and the Single Market: An Empirical Assessment based on Trade Types. Session Chair. Discussant on Goods Variety and Growth in South Korea and Taiwan.

The Economic Impact of Liberalising APEC Tariff and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade, US International Trade Commission, Washington DC, 1997. Presented on Liberalising Government Procurement in the APEC Nations.

Far Eastern Meeting of Econometric Society, Hong Kong, 1997. Presented on Estimates of the Restrictive Effect of Tariff Barriers in OECD nations: 1970-94.

Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in Japan, Yale University, USA, 1997. Discussant.

Third Empirical Investigations in International Trade Conference, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, 1996. Presented on Estimates of the Restrictive Effect of Tariff Barriers in OECD nations: 1970-94. Discussant on The Effects of Protection: A Disaggregated Approach.

Constituents of U.S. Trade Policies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 1996. Session Chair.

Multilateral Aspects of the World Trade Organization’s Government Procurement Agreement, World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 1995. Presented on Quantitative Estimates of the Effects of Preference Policies.