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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

 

December 2 – 3, 2011

 

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

 

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Gunn Building
366 Galvez Street

Stanford, California

 

PROGRAM

 

Friday, December 2:

 

9:00 am           Continental Breakfast

 

Session I         Trade and Wages

 

9:30 am           James Harrigan, University of Virginia and NBER

Ariell Reshef, University of Virginia

                        Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium

 

10:30 am         Break

 

10:45 am         Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics

Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality

 

11:45 am         Lunch

 

Session II        Quantitative Evaluation of Trade Models

 

1:00 pm           Ariel Burstein, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

                        Javier Cravino, UC, Los Angeles

Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade

 

2:00 pm           Break

 

2:15 pm           Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER

Natalia Ramondo, Arizona State University

Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

Innovation and Production in the Global Economy

 

3:15 pm           Break

 

3:30 pm           Ralph Ossa, University of Chicago and NBER

Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data

 

4:30 pm           Adjourn

 

6:30 pm           Dinner
                        Zibibbo Restaurant
                        430 Kipling Street
                        Palo Alto, CA

 

 

Saturday, December 3:

 

8:30 am           Continental Breakfast

 

Session III      China and Trade

 

9:00 am           Julian di Giovanni, International Monetary Fund and University of Toronto

                        Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER

                        Jing Zhang, University of Michigan

The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change

 

10:00 am         Break

 

10:15 am         Jiandong Ju, Tsinghua University and University of Oklahoma

Kang Shi, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

Trade Liberalizations and Global Current Account Imbalances

 

11:15 am         Break

 

11:30 am         Yue Ma, Lingnan University

Heiwai Tang, Tufts University

Yifan Zhang, Lingnan University

Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

 

12:30 pm         Lunch and Adjourn