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Globalization in an Age of Crisis:

Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century

PRECONFERENCE

 

Robert C. Feenstra and Alan M. Taylor, Organizers

 

March 24, 2011

 

NBER

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

Program

 

8:15 am

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

Opening remarks

 

 

9:15 am

DOUGLAS A. IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Kevin H. O’Rourke, Trinity College Dublin and NBER

 

Globalization in an Age of Crisis: Multilateral Economic Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century

 

 

10:00 am

Coffee break

 

 

10:15 am

GIANCARLO CORSETTI, University of Cambridge

 

Gernot J. Müller, University of Bonn

 

Rethinking Multilateral Policy Cooperation in the XXI Century:  What do we Know about Cross-Border Effects of Fiscal Policy?

 

 

11:00 am

Coffee break

 

 

11:15 am

Maurice Obstfeld, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

The International Monetary System:  Living with Asymmetry

 

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Kyle Bagwell, Stanford University and NBER

 

Robert W. Staiger, Stanford University and NBER

 

Can the Doha Round Be a Development Round? Setting a Place at the Table

 

 

1:45 pm

Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

 

Preferential Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trade System

 

 

2:30 pm

Coffee break

 

 

3:00 pm

RICHARD E. BALDWIN, Graduate Institute of Geneva and NBER

 

Philippe martin, Sciences Po, Paris

 

Trade and Growth

 

 

3:45 pm

LEE G. BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

 

WILLIAM A. PIZER, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and the Environment, U.S. Department of the Treasury

 

The Climate Change Challenge and International Cooperation

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn