ITI spring meeting, March 26-27, 2010

From: Robert Feenstra <rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 19:51:49 -0800

Dear ITI group:

Attached and listed below is the agenda for the upcoming spring meeting. You will be receiving an invitation from the NBER shortly, and I look forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,
Rob

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

March 26-27, 2010

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Friday, March 26:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am Jonathan Eaton, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Sam Kortum, University of Chicago and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago
John Romalis, University of Chicago and NBER
Trade and the Global Recession

10:30 am Coffee Break

11:00 pm Daniel Berger, New York University
William Easterly, New York University and NBER
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER
Shanker Satyanath, New York University
Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm James E. Anderson, Boston College and NBER
Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University
Specialization: Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002

2:00 pm Coffee Break

2:15 pm Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Do Higher Tariffs Reduce Import Prices? Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Shock

3:15 pm Coffee Break

3:30 am Xiaobo Lü, Yale University
Kenneth Scheve, Yale University
Matthew J. Slaughter, Dartmouth College and NBER
Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection

4:30 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Group Dinner

                        The Similans Restaurant, 145 1st Street, Cambridge, MA

Saturday, March 27:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Universita’ Bocconi and CEPR
Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis and NBER
Greg C. Wright, University of California, Davis
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

10:00 am Coffee Break

10:15 am José L. Fillat, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Stefania Garetto, Boston University
Risk, Returns, and Multinational Production

11:15 pm Coffee Break

11:30 Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

Zhiwei Zhang, Hong Kong Monetary Authority and IMF

Firm Exports and Multinational Activity under Credit Constraints

12:30 Lunch and Adjourn

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Robert Feenstra Phone: (530)752-7022
Department of Economics Fax: (530)752-9382
University of California, e-mail: rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu
Davis CA 95616 Data: http://www.internationaldata.org<http://www.internationaldata.org/>
Home page: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/fzfeens/

Received on Wed Feb 03 2010 - 22:51:49 EST