NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

 

March 28-29, 2008

 

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, March 28:

 

 

8:45 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

9:00 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

Offshoring and Outsourcing

 

 

9:30 am

Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

 

Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER

 

The Boundaries of the Multinational Firm: An Empirical Analysis

 

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

11:00 am

Ann Harrison, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Margaret McMillan, Tufts University and NBER

 

Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

Productivity and Trade

 

 

1:00 pm

Robert Feenstra, UC, Davis and NBER

 

Marshall Reinsdorf, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth

 

 

2:00 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Susana Iranzo, Universitat Rovira Virgili

 

Giovanni Peri, UC, Davis and NBER

 

Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences:  Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration

 

 

3:15 pm

Coffee Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Ram Acharya, Industry Canada

 

Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder and NBER

 

Technology Transfer Through Imports

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

4:45 pm

Shuttle van departs NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner

 

The Similans

 

145 1st Street

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

Saturday, March 29:

 

 

8:45 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

9:00 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

Political Economy

 

 

9:30 am

Gerard Padró i Miquel, London School of Economics and NBER

 

Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER

 

A Theory of Foreign Influence

 

 

10:30 am

Coffee Break

 

 

10:45 am

Susumu Imai, Queen’s University

 

Hajime Katayama, University of Sydney

 

Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

A Quantile-Based Test of Protection for Sale Model

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/13/08