International Trade and Investment Program Meeting
Organized by Robert C. Feenstra
March 22-23, 2013
NBER, Cambridge, MA

Friday, March 22

1

Product Introduction, Currency Unions, and the Real Exchange Rate

Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER
Brent Neiman, The University of Chicago and NBER
Roberto Rigobon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

2

Estimating the Direct Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks on the Real Economy: Evidence from Letter-of-Credit Import Transactions in Colombia

JaeBin Ahn, International Monetary Fund

3

Trade and Uncertainty

Dennis Novy, University of Warwick
Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER

4

Ricardian Productivity Differences and the Gains from Trade

Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER
Jing Zhang, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

5

Technology, Trade Costs, and the Pattern of Trade with Multi-Stage Production

Robert C. Johnson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo

6

How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China

Xue Bai, Brock University
Kala Krishna, The Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Hong Ma, Tsinghua University

7

Price and Quality Dispersion in an Offshoring Market: Evidence from Semiconductor Production Services

Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Ryan Michaels, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
David Byrne, Federal Reserve Board of Governors