Doug Irwin and I, as co-organizers, would like to inform you of a conference
sponsored by the Columbia University Department of Economics, the Program in
Economic Policy Management, the Center for Economic and Political, Analysis,
and the Association of Graduate Economics Students:

"Trade, Development, and History"
in Honor of Ron Findlay

There will be two sessions at Columbia University in the International
Affairs Building, 15th Floor

Friday April 20, 2001, 3-5 pm: Roundtable on Trade, Development, Political
Economy, and History

Chair: Douglas Irwin (Economics, Dartmouth)
1. Trade and Development
        - Francisco Rivera-Batiz (Economics, Columbia)
        - Ronald Jones (Economics, Rochester)
2. Political Economy
        - Marc Busch (Business, Queens, Canada)
        - Stanislaw Wellisz (Economics, Columbia)
3. History and Economics
        - Herbert Klein (History, Columbia)
        - Michael Edelstein (Economics, Queens, NY)
        - Mats Lundahl (Stockholm School of Economics)

Saturday April 21, 2001, 9-5 pm: Papers on Trade, History and Development

I. Ronald Jones (Rochester), “Economic Development, Trade, and Wages”
II. Alan Deardorff (Michigan), “Local Comparative Advantage”
III. Anne Krueger (Stanford), “Crony Capitalism, Directed Lending, and the
Role of Financial Institutions in Development”
IV. Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson (Trinity College and Harvard),
“Understanding 1492”
V. Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth), “Internal Improvements and Antebellum Tariff
Politics”
VI. Rob Feenstra [with Gordon Hanson] (UC Davis and Michigan),
“Intermediaries in Entrepôt Trade: Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods”
VII Donald Davis and David Weinstein (Columbia), “A New Approach to
Bilateral Trade Patterns and Balances”

There will also be a dinner for conference participants Saturday night from
6:30 to 10 PM at Salaam Bombay, 319 Greenwich St., Tribeca. For those not on
the conference program, the dinner is $50.00 all inclusive. RSVP.

Please let me know if you will be interested in participating in the
conference and dinner asap.

A complete version of the program is attached.

Thanks,

Don Davis
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Donald R. Davis
Professor of Economics
Columbia University
1038 Intl. Affairs Building
420 West 118th Street
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-4037 office
(212) 854-8059 fax
http://www.columbia.edu/~drd28/
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