Subject: Winter ITI meeting, Dec. 2-3, 2005
From: Robert Feenstra (rcfeenstra@ucdavis.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 16 2005 - 17:30:56 EDT
Dear ITI group:
Thanks to everyone for the submissions for the December meeting. I'm
afraid that there were more than I could include, so my apologies to those
not selected. The agenda for the December 2-3 meeting is listed
below. You should be receiving the same information, along with travel and
hotel details, from the Bureau quite soon.
Sincerely, Rob
Winter 2005 ITI meeting, December 2-3, Palo Alto
Friday a.m.
Carsten Eckel (University of Gottingen) and J. Peter Neary (University
College Dublin), "Multi-Product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the
Global Economy"
Volker Nocke (University of Pennsylvania) and Stephen Yeaple (University of
Pennsylvania and NBER), "Endogenizing Firm Scope: Multiproduct Firms in
International Trade"
Friday p.m.
Pol Antras (Harvard University and NBER), Mihir Desai (Harvard Business
School and NBER) and C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business School and
NBER), "FDI Flows and Multinational Firm Activity"
Lee G. Branstetter (Columbia University and NBER), Ray Fisman (Columbia
University and NBER), C. Fritz Foley (Harvard Business School and NBER) and
Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University), "Intellectual Property Rights,
Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence"
Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth College and NBER), J. Bradford Jensen (Institute
For International Economics) Peter Schott (Yale University And NBER),
"Transfer Pricing By U.S.-Based Multinational Firms"
Dinner: To be announced
Saturday a.m.
Diego Puga (University of Toronto and NBER) and Daniel Trefler (University
of Toronto and NBER), "Wake Up and Smell the Ginseng: The Rise of
Incremental Innovation in Low-Wage Countries"
Svetlana Demidova (Pennsylvania State University), Hiau Looi Kee (The World
Bank) and Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University and NBER), "Rules of
Origin and Firm Heterogeneity"
Christian Broda (University of Chicago), Nuno Limao (University of
Maryland) and David Weinstein (Columbia University and NBER), "Optimal
Tariffs: The Evidence"
Lunch and adjourn
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