Winter meeting, Dec. 5-6, in San Diego

From: Robert Feenstra <rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:29:14 -0700

Dear ITI group:

Attached and listed below is the agenda for the upcoming ITI meeting in San Diego. You will be receiving a more formal invitation from the Bureau shortly. I look forward to seeing you there,

Sincerely,
Rob

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

December 5-6, 2008

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday, December 5:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Market Penetration Costs and Trade Dynamics

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Marc-Andreas Muendler, UC, San Diego and NBER
                        The Extensive Margin of Exporting Goods: A Firm-Level Analysis

11:45 am Lunch

1:00 pm Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Mine Senses, Johns Hopkins University
International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States

2:00 pm Break

2:15 pm Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago and NBER
Gordon Hanson, UC, San Diego and NBER
Income Maximization the Selection and Sorting of International
Migrants

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Dhammika Dharmapala, University of Connecticut
C. Fritz Foley, Harvard University and NBER
Kristin Forbes, MIT and NBER
The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act: Implications for
Financial Constants, Governance, and International Tax Policy

4:30 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Dinner (to be arranged)

Saturday, December 6:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Penny Goldberg, Princeton University and NBER
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia Business School
                        Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER
                        Petia Topalova, IMF
                        Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Ram Acharya, Industry Canada
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and NBER
Estimating the Productivity Selection and Spillover Effects of Imports

11:15 am Break

11:30 am Stefania Garetto, Boston University and Princeton University
                        Input Sourcing and Multinational Production

12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn

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