NBER Summer Institute 2011 Week 4 Master Agenda

Monday, August 1
9:30 am	ITI	Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Welfare Gains from Economic Integration: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1840-2000
	IO	Silke J. Forbes, University of California at San Diego Mara Lederman, University of Toronto Trevor Tombe, University of Toronto Do Firms Game Quality Ratings? Evidence from Mandatory Disclosure of Airline On-Time Performance
11:00 am	ITI	Eduardo Morales, Harvard University Gloria Sheu, Department of Justice Andres Zahler, Harvard University Gravity and Extended Gravity: Estimating a Structural Model of Export Entry
	IO	James W. Roberts, Duke University Andrew Sweeting, Duke University and NBER When Should Sellers Use Auctions?
1:00 pm	ITI	Giacomo Ponzetto, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Heterogeneous Information and Trade Policy
1:30 pm	IO	Christopher T. Conlon, Columbia University Julie Holland Mortimer, Harvard University and NBER Effects of Product Availability: Experimental Evidence
2:30 pm	ITI	Emily Blanchard, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth Xenia Matschke, University of Trier U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access
3:00 pm	IO	Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Mar Reguant Rido, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen P. Ryan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pollution Permits and the Evolution of Market Structure
4:30 pm	IO	Steven Tadelis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Florian Zettelmeyer, Northwestern University and NBER
		Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment
Tuesday, August 2:
:15 am	IO	Song Yao, Northwestern University Carl F. Mela, Duke University Jeongwen Chiang, China Europe International Business School Yuxin Chen, Northwestern University Determining Consumers’ Discount Rates With Field Studies
9:30 am	ITI	Rafael Dix Carneiro, Princeton University Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics
10:45 am	IO	Connan Snider, University of California at Los Angeles Jonathan W. Williams, University of Georgia Barriers to Entry in the Airline Industry: An Analysis of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Act
11:00 am	ITI	Lorenzo Caliendo, University of Chicago Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
1:00 pm	ITI	Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises
2:30 pm	ITI	Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University Endogenous Ranking and Equilibriurm Lorenz Curve Among (ex-ante) Identical Countries
Wednesday, August 3:
9:30 am	ITI	Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER When Institutional Reform is Embedded in Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
11:00 am	ITI	Kamran Bilir, Stanford University Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and the Global Sourcing Decisions of U.S. Multinationals
1:00 pm	ITI	James E. Anderson, Boston College and NBER Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002
2:30 pm	ITI	Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Princeton University Labor Market Frictions, Firm Growth, and International Trade
Thursday, August 4:
9:30 am	ITI	Robert Feenstra, University of California at Davis and NBER John Romalis, University of Chicago and NBER Estimating A Model of Trade with Endogenous Quality Choice Discussant: Juan Carlos Hallak, Universidad de San Andrés and NBER
11:00 am	ITI	Mark J. Roberts, Pennsylvania State University and NBER Daniel Xu, New York University and NBER Firm Quality, Productivity, and Capability Among Chinese Exporters Discussant: Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER