NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

 

March 27-28, 2009

 

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

Friday, March 27:

 

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:45 am and 9:00 am

 

9:00 am            Continental Breakfast

 

Intermediation in International Trade

 

9:30 am            Bernardo Blum, University of Toronto

Sebastian Claro, Central Bank of Chile

Ignatius Horstmann, University of Toronto

Intermediation and the Nature of Trade Costs: Theory and Evidence

 

10:30 am          Coffee Break

 

11:00 am          Gene Grossman, Princeton University and NBER

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER

Task Trade Between Similar Countries

 

12:00 pm         Lunch

 

Evidence on Heterogeneous Firm Models

 

1:00 pm            Irene Brambilla, Yale University and NBER

                        Daniel Lederman, World Bank

                        Guido Porto, Universidad Nacional do La Plata

                        The Quality of Trade: Exports, Export Destinations and Wages

 

2:00 pm           Coffee Break


 

2:15 pm            Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER

                        Zhiwei Zhang, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

                        Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models

 

3:15 pm            Coffee Break

 

3:30 pm            Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan

                        Julian di Giovanni, International Monetary Fund

                        Firm Entry, Trade, and Welfare in Zipf’s World

 

4:30 pm            Adjourn

 

Shuttle leaves NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel at 4:40 pm and 4:50 pm

 

6:30 pm            Group Dinner

                        The Similans

                        145 1st Street

                        Cambridge, MA

 

Saturday, March 28:

 

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:45 am and 9:00 am

 

9:00 am            Continental Breakfast

 

Other Topics

 

9:30 am            Jiandong Ju, International Monetary Fund

                        Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

                        When is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?

 

10:30 am          Coffee Break

 

11:00 am          Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon and NBER

                        New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences

 

12:00 pm          Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/24/09