NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

March 30 and 31, 2007

Lee Branstetter, Organizer

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 30:
8:15 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	DEVASHISH MITRA, Syracuse University and NBER
	PRIYA RANJAN, UC, Irvine
	Offshoring and Unemployment
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	ANDRES RODRIGUEZ-CLARE, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
	Offshoring in a Ricardian World
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	NIKOLAJ MALCHOW-MOLLER and BERTEL SCHJERNING, CEBR
	JAMES MARKUSEN, University of Colorado, Boulder and NBER
	Foreign Firms, Domestic Wages
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	RICHARD BALDWIN, University of Geneva and NBER
	JAMES HARRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
	Zeros, Quality, and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	JOHN SUTTON, London School of Economics
	Quality, Trade and the Moving Window: Competitiveness and the Globalization Process
4:00 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Group Dinner
	Legal Sea Foods
	Kendall Square
	5 Cambridge Center
	Cambridge, MA
SATURDAY, MARCH 31:
8:15 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	ALLA LILEEVA, York University
	DANIEL TREFLER, University of Toronto and NBER
	Does Improved Market Access Raise Plant-Level Productivity?
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	JIANDONG JU, University of Oklahoma
	SHANG-JIN WEI, International Monetary Fund and NBER
	Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of International Capital Flows
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	WOLFGANG KELLER and CAROL SHIUE, University of Colorado, Boulder and NBER
	Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
3/28/07