NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

November 30 - December 1, 2007

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

101 Market Street

San Francisco, California

PROGRAM

Friday, November 30:
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	Donald Davis, Columbia University and NBER
	James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
	Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
	Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University
	Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment
11:45 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Erhan Artuc, Koc University, Turkey
	Shubham Chaudhuri, World Bank
	John McLaren, University of Virginia and NBER
	Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Pol Antras, Harvard University and NBER
	Robert Staiger, Stanford University and NBER
	Offshoring and the Value of Trade Agreements
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Gordon Hanson, UC, San Diego and NBER
	Chong Xiang, Purdue University
	Testing the Melitz Model of Trade: An Application to U.S. Motion Picture Exports
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Dinner
	Postrio Restaurant
	545 Post Street
	San Francisco, CA
Saturday, December 1:
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Johannes Moenius, University of Redlands
	James Rauch, UC, San Diego and NBER
	Vitor Trindade, University of Missouri
	Gravity and Matching
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
	Ricardo Caballero, MIT and NBER
	Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Joshua Aizenman, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER
	Mark Spiegel, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
	Takeoffs
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
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