NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

December 5-6, 2008

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California

AREA MAP

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5:

Social Sciences Building, Room 104

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER

Market Penetration Costs and Trade Dynamics

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER

Marc-Andreas Muendler, UC, San Diego and NBER

The Extensive Margin of Exporting Goods: A Firm-Level Analysis

11:45 am Lunch

Gardner Room, IR/PS

1:00 pm Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

Mine Senses, Johns Hopkins University

International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States

2:00 pm Break

2:15 pm Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago and NBER

Gordon Hanson, UC, San Diego and NBER

Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Connecticut

C. Fritz Foley, Harvard University and NBER

Kristin Forbes, MIT and NBER

The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act:

Implications for Financial Constraints, Governance, and International Tax Policy

4:30 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Dinner

Estancia La Jolla Hotel

La Jolla Ballroom

9700 N. Torrey Pines Road

La Jolla, CA

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6:

Gardner Room, IR/PS

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Ram Acharya, Industry Canada

Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and NBER

Estimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Pinelopi Goldberg, Princeton University and NBER

Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University

Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER

Petia Topalova, IMF

Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth:

Evidence from India

11:15 am Break

11:30 am Stefania Garetto, Princeton University

Input Sourcing and Multinational Production

12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn

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