Agenda for winter ITI meeting

From: Robert Feenstra <rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:21:12 -0700

Dear all:

Attached and listed below is the agenda for the winter meeting in San Francisco. You will be receiving the invitation from the Bureau soon, and authors will also be asked to provide or upload their papers. We will investigate Postrio for dinner again (unless there are other suggestions). I look forward to seeing you there,

Sincerely,
Rob

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday, December 4:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Session I Trade Theory

9:30 am Edward Leamer, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Heckscher-Ohlin Models for a Post-Industrial Age

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Ariel Burstein, Leamer, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University and NBER
Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium

11:45 am Lunch

1:00 pm Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Arnaud Costinot, MIT and NBER
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?

2:00 pm Break

Session II Financing Trade

2:15 pm Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
Exports and Financial Shocks

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Katheryn Russ, UC, Davis and NBER
Diego Valderrama, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model of Trade

4:30 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Dinner (to be arranged)

Saturday, December 5:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

Session III Country Evidence

9:00 am Danielken Molina, UC, San Diego
Marc-Andreas Meundler, UC, San Diego and NBER
Preparing to Export

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Ivan Cherkashin, Pennsylvania State University
Svetlana Demidova, McMaster University
Hiau Looi Kee, World Bank
Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and BER
Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy
Experiments

11:15 am Break

11:30 am JaeBin Ahn, Columbia University
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade

12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn

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Robert Feenstra
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis CA 95616
Phone: (530)752-7022
Fax: (530)752-9382
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Received on Wed Sep 30 2009 - 13:21:12 EDT