NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

 

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

 

December 2-3, 2005

 

NBER

30 Alta Road

Stanford, CA

 

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2:

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs Stanford Park Hotel for 30 Alta Road

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:15 am

CARSTEN ECKEL, University of Goettingen

 

J. PETER NEARY, University College Dublin

 

Multi-Product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the Global Economy

 

 

10:15 am

Break

 

 

10:45 am

VOLKER NOCKE, University of Pennsylvania

 

STEPHEN YEAPLE, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Endogenizing Firm Scope: Multiproduct Firms in International Trade

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

POL ANTRAS, MIHIR DESAI, and

 

C. FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University and NBER

 

FDI Flows and Multinational Firm Activity

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

LEE BRANSTETTER and

 

RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER

 

C. FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University and NBER

 

KAMAL SAGGI, Southern Methodist University

 

Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

ANDREW BERNARD, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

J. BRADFORD JENSEN, Institute for International Economics

 

PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER

 

Transfer Pricing by U.S.-Based Multinational Firms

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

4:45 pm

Shuttle Van Departs 30 Alta Road for Stanford Park Hotel

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Zibibbo Restaurant

 

430 Kipling Street

 

Palo Alto, CA

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3:

 

8:15 am 

Shuttle Van Departs Stanford Park Hotel for 30 Alta Road

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

DIEGO PUGA and

 

DANIEL TREFLER, University of Toronto and NBER

 

Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng: The Rise of Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

SVETLANA DEMIDOVA, Pennsylvania State University

 

HIAU LOOI KEE, The World Bank

 

KALA KRISHNA, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

Rules of Origin and Firm Heterogeneity

 

 

11:15 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

CHRISTIAN BRODA, University of Chicago

 

NUNO LIMAO, University of Maryland

 

DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER

 

Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/28/05