NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

December 1-2, 2006

NBER

30 Alta Road

Stanford, CA

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1:
8:15 am	Shuttle Van Departs Stanford Park Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:15 am	Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring
	Gene Grossman and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	Trade, Diffusion and the Gains from Openness
	Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
11:45 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization
	Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Stephen Redding, London School of Economics
	Peter Schott, Yale University and NBER
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Quality Pricing and Endogenous Entry: A Model of Exchange Rate Pass-Through
	Raphael Auer, Swiss National Bank
	Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago and NBER
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Explaining Import Variety and Quality: The Role of the Income Distribution
	Yo Chul Choi and Chong Xiang, Purdue University
	David Hummels, Purdue University and NBER
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:45 pm	Shuttle Van Departs NBER for Stanford Park Hotel
6:30 pm	Dinner
	Zibibbo Restaurant
	430 Kipling Street
	Palo Alto, CA
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2:
8:15 am	Shuttle Van Departs Stanford Park Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
	Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER
	Petia Topalova, International Monetary Fund
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Trade, Knowledge and the Industrial Revolution
	Kevin O’Rourke, Trinity College, Dublin and NBER
	Ahmed Rahman, United States Naval Academy
	Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis and NBER
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
	M. Scott Taylor, University of Calgary and NBER
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
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