National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER: ITI meetings in the spring

Subject: ITI meetings in the spring
From: Kala Krishna (kmk4@psu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 17:14:44 EST


Hi everyone:

The rough program for the spring meetings is pasted below. I am sure you
will get it officially from the NBER as well shortly.

Thanks:

Kala

         International Trade and Investment Program Meeting
     April 2-3rd
     PROGRAM
     FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND
     8:15 AM
     Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
     8:30 AM
     Continental Breakfast
     9:15 AM
     Marc Melitz and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
     "Market Size, Trade and Productivity"
     10:15AM
     []Break
     10:45AM
     Andrew Bernard, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott
     "Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms"
     11:45 AM
     []Lunch
     1:00 PM
     Robert Feenstra and Hiau Looi Kee
     "Export Variety and Country Productivity"
     2:00 p.m. Break
     2:30 p.m.
     Abhijit V. Banerjee and Andrew F. Newman
     "Inequality, Trade and Growth"
     3:30 p.m. Break
     4:00 p.m. Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and Kristen Forbes
     "Shelters From the Storm: Multinational Linkages During Currency Crises"
     5:00 p.m. End Day 1
     6:30 PM
     Dinner
         Saturday, April 3rd:
     8:15 AM
     Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER
     8:30 AM
     Continental Breakfast
     9:00 AM
     Shubham Chaudhuri, Pinelopi K. Goldberg and Panle Jia
     "Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceutical:
A case Study of Quinolones in India"
     10:00 AM
     Break
     10:15 AM
     Rebecca Hellerstein
     "Who Bears the Cost of a Change in the Exchange Rate? The case of
Imported Beer"
     11:15 AM Break
     11:30
     Richard Baldwin and Daria Taglioni.
     "Positive OCA Criteria: Microfoundations for the Rose Effect"
     12:30
     Lunch and Adjourn

Professor Kala Krishna
Department of Economics
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, 16802
Ph. 814 865 1106
Fax 814 863 4775