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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

 

March 26-27, 2010

 

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

Friday, March 26:

 

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

 

9:00 am            Continental Breakfast

 

9:30 am            Jonathan Eaton, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Sam Kortum, University of Chicago and NBER

Brent Neiman, University of Chicago

John Romalis, University of Chicago and NBER

Trade and the Global Recession

 

10:30 am          Coffee Break

 

11:00 am          Daniel Berger, New York University

William Easterly, New York University and NBER

Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

Shanker Satyanath, New York University

Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War

 

12:00 pm          Lunch

 

1:00 pm            James Anderson, Boston College and NBER

Yoto Yotov, Drexel University

Specialization: Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002

 

2:00 pm            Coffee Break


2:15 pm            Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Do Tariffs Affect the Terms of Trade?  Evidence from U.S. Tariff Shocks

3:15 pm            Coffee Break

 

3:30 pm            Xiaobo Lü, Yale University

Kenneth Scheve, Yale University

Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College and NBER

Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection

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 Restaurant, 145 1st Street, Cambridge, MA

 

Saturday, March 27:

 

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:15 am and 8:30 am

 

8:30 am            Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am            Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University

Giovanni Peri, UC, Davis and NBER

Greg Wright, UC, Davis

Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

 

10:00 am          Coffee Break

 

10:15 am          José Fillat, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Stefania Garetto, Boston University

Risk, Returns, and Multinational Production

 

11:15 am          Coffee Break

 

11:30 am          Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

Zhiwei Zhang, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

Firm Exports and Multinational Activity under Credit Constraints

 

12:30 pm          Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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