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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
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