NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

International Trade and Investment Workshop

 

Nina Pavcnik and Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Organizers

 

August 2 - 5, 2010

 

NBER

Martin Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, AUGUST 2:

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

Beyond CES Preferences and Iceberg Costs

 

 

9:30 am

Dennis Novy, Warwick University

 

International Trade and Monopolistic Competition without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity

 

 

 

Discussant:  Ana Cecilia Fieler, University of Pennsylvania

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Alfonso Irarrazabal and Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo

 

Luca David Opromolla, Banco de Portugal

 

The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and Implications for Intra-industry Reallocation

 

 

 

Discussant:  Donald Davis, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

Trade Theory

 

 

1:00 pm

Pol Antras, Harvard University and NBER

 

Arnaud Costinot, MIT and NBER

 

Intermediated Trade

 

 

 

Discussant:  Ralph Ossa, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago and NBER

 

The Network Structure of International Trade

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jonathan Eaton, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3:

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

Trade in Intermediate Products

 

 

9:30 am

Lorenzo Caliendo, University of  Chicago
Fernando Parro, University of Chicago

 

Estimates of the Trade and Welfare E¤ects of NAFTA

 

 

 

Discussant:  Dave Donaldson, MIT and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Robert Johnson, Dartmouth College
Guillermo Noguera, UC, Berkeley

 

Accounting for Intermediates: Production Sharing and Trade in Value Added

 

 

 

Discussant:  Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

Trade Institutions and Trade Policy

 

 

1:00 pm

Holger Breinlich, University of Essex

 

Alejandro Cunat, University of Vienna

 

Trade Liberalization and Heterogeneous Firm Models: An Evaluation Using the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement

 

 

 

Discussant:  Gordon Hanson, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

Rodney Ludema and Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University,

 

Do terms-of-trade effects matter for trade agreements? Evidence from WTO countries

 

 

 

Discussant:  Robert Staiger, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4:

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

FDI and Outsourcing

 

 

9:30 am

Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER
Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

Gravity in the Weightless Economy

 

 

 

Discussant:  Stefania Garetto, Boston University

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

David Atkin, Yale University

 

Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico

 

 

 

Discussant:  Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Lindsay Oldenski, Georgetown University

 

Export Versus FDI: A Task-Based Approach

 

 

 

Discussant:  Peter Schott, Yale University and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

David Hummels and Chong Xiang, Purdue University and NBER

 

The Wage and Employment Effects of Outsourcing: Evidence from Danish Matched Worker-Firm Data

 

 

 

Discussant:  Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5:

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 

Trade and Heterogeneous Firms

 

 

9:30 am

Swati Dhingra, University of Wisconsin

 

Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands

 

 

 

Discussant:  Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Carsten Eckel, University of Munich
Leonardo Iacovone,
University of Sussex
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Peter Neary, Oxford University

 

Multi-Product Firms at Home and Away: Cost- Versus Quality-Based Competence

 

 

 

Discussant:  Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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