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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

December 4 – 5, 2009

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

101 Market Street

San Francisco, California

PROGRAM

Friday, December 4:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Session I Trade Theory

9:30 am Edward Leamer, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

The Heckscher-Ohlin Framework and the Craft of Economics

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Ariel Burstein, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University and NBER

Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium

11:45 am Lunch

1:00 pm Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER

Arnaud Costinot, MIT and NBER

Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?

2:00 pm Break

Session II Financing Trade

2:15 pm Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER

Exports and Financial Shocks

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Katheryn Russ, UC, Davis and NBER

Diego Valderrama, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade

4:30 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Dinner

Postrio

545 Post Street

San Francisco, CA

Saturday, December 5:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

Session III Country Evidence

9:00 am Danielken Molina, UC, San Diego

Marc-Andreas Muendler, UC, San Diego and NBER

Preparing to Export

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Ivan Cherkashin, Pennsylvania State University

Svetlana Demidova, McMaster University

Hiau Looi Kee, World Bank

Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments

11:15 am Break

11:30 am JaeBin Ahn, Columbia University

Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade

12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn

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