NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

International Trade and Organizations Working Group Meeting

 

April 26, 2008

 

Pol Antràs, Organizer

 

NBER

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

8:45 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:30 am

Arnaud Costinot, UC, San Diego & NBER

 

Heterogeneity and Trade

 

 

 

Discussant:  Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University

 

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00 am

Natalia Ramondo, University of Texas

 

Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State University & NBER

 

The Gains from Openness:  Trade, Multinational Production, and Diffusion

 

 

 

Discussant:  Costas Arkolakis, Yale University & NBER

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:30 pm

Paola Conconi, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles

 

Patrick Legros, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles

 

Andrew Newman, Boston University

 

Trade Liberalization and Organizational Choice

 

 

 

Discussant:  Emanuel Ornelas, London School of Economics

 

 

2:30 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

3:00 pm

Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College & NBER

   

J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University & NBER

 

Stephen Redding, London School of Economics

 

Peter Schott, Yale University & NBER

 

Intra-Firm Trade and Product Contractibility

 

 

 

Discussant:  Nathan Nunn, Harvard University & NBER

 

 

4:00 pm

Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Ignatius Horstmann, University of Toronto

 

James Markusen, University of Colorado, Boulder & NBER

 

Physical Capital, Knowledge Capital and the Choice Between FDI and Outsourcing

 

 

 

Discussant:  Kalina Manova, Stanford University

 

 

5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner

 

Sandrine’s Bistro

 

8 Holyoke Street

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

4/9/08