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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

 

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

 

November 30 - December 1, 2012

 

SIEPR

Koret-Taube Conference Room 130

366 Galvez Street

Stanford University

Stanford, California

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, November 30


9:00 am


Continental Breakfast


9:30 am


Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER
Jozef Konings, University of Leuven
Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect


10:30 am


Break


10:45 am


Logan Lewis, Federal Reserve Board
Menu Costs, Trade Flows, and Exchange Rate Volatility


11:45 am


Lunch


1:00 pm


Donald Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Jonathan Dingel, Columbia University
A Spatial Knowledge Economy


2:00 pm


Break


2:15 pm


Olga Timoshenko, The George Washington University
Product Switching in a Model of Learning


3:15 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Ralph Ossa, University of Chicago and NBER
Why Trade Matters After All

Discussant:
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California at Berkeley and NBER


4:30 pm


Adjourn


6:30 pm


Dinner
Zibibbo Restaurant
430 Kipling Street
Palo Alto, CA



Saturday, December 1


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Lauren Cohen, Harvard University and NBER
Umit Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas
Christopher Malloy, Harvard University and NBER
Channels of Influence


10:00 am


Break


10:15 am


Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado-Boulder and NBER
Ben Li, Boston College
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado-Boulder and NBER
Shanghai's Trade, China's Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change Since the Opium War


11:15 am


Break


11:30 am


Antoine Gervais, University of Notre Dame
J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University and NBER
Are Services Tradable? Evidence from U.S. Microdata


12:30 pm


Lunch and Adjourn