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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

March 28-29, 2014

The Embassy Row Hotel
Ambassador Room (First Floor)
2015 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC

PROGRAM

Participant List

Friday, March 28:  J. David Richardson and Matthew Slaughter, Organizers

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:30 am


Brian Cadena, University of Colorado Boulder
Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession

10:30 am

Break


10:45 am


Jose Fillat, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Stefania Garetto, Boston University
Lindsay Oldenski, Georgetown University
Diversification, Cost Structure, and the Risk Premium of Multinational Corporations


11:45 am


Break


12:00 pm


Panel Discussion
Moderated by Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College and NBER

Panelists:
Chad Bown, The World Bank
Cathy Koch, Tax Adviser to Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid


1:00 pm


Lunch – Restaurant (Ground Level)


2:00 pm


Anca Cristea, University of Oregon
David Hummels, Purdue University and NBER
Brian Roberson, Purdue University
Estimating the Gains from Liberalizing Services Trade: The Case of Passenger Aviation

3:00 pm

Break

3:30 pm

Jennifer Poole, University of California at Santa Cruz
Business Travel as an Input to International Trade

4:30 pm

Adjourn

6:30 pm

Dinner
Restaurant Nora
2132 Florida Avenue NW
Washington, DC


Saturday, March 29:  Robert Feenstra, Organizer

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Alan Spearot, University of California at Santa Cruz
Tariffs, Competition, and the Long of Firm Heterogeneity Models

10:00 am

Break


10:15 am


Emily Blanchard, Dartmouth College
Gerald Willmann,
Bielefeld University
Unequal Gains, Prolonged Pain: Dynamic Adjustment Costs and Protectionist Overshooting

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Katheryn Russ, University of California at Davis and NBER
Balazs Murakozy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Competition with Multinational Firms: Theory and Evidence

12:30 pm

Lunch – Restaurant (Ground Level)

1:30 pm

Meeting Adjourns