NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

International Trade and Organizations Working Group Meeting

May 1, 2009

Pol Antràs, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline A/B

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 30:

6:00 pm Dinner

Evoo Restaurant

118 Beacon Street

Somerville, MA

FRIDAY, MAY 1:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am Andrew Atkeson, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Ariel Burstein, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade

Discussant: Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University

10:30 am Coffee Break

11:00 am Maria Guadalupe, Columbia University and NBER

Julie Wulf, Harvard University

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition

Discussant: Diego Puga, IMDEA

12:00 pm Lunch – Skyline C

1:00 pm Federico Díez, University of Wisconsin

The Asymmetric Effects of Tariffs on Offshoring Industries: How North/South Tariffs Affect Intra-Firm Trade

Discussant: Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

2:00 pm Coffee Break

2:30 pm Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and NBER

Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Discussant: Gordon Hanson, UC, San Diego and NBER

3:30 pm Adjourn

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