December 3-4, 2010 meeting

From: Robert Feenstra <rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:05:57 +0000

Dear ITI group:

Listed below -- and attached -- is the agenda for the upcoming winter meeting in San Francisco. You will be receiving the usual invitation from the NBER shortly. I look forward to seeing you there.

Looking ahead, the upcoming meeting dates are:

Spring meeting, March 25-26, 2011 (Cambridge)
Summer institute, August 1-4, 2011 (Cambridge)

Rob

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
International Trade and Investment Program Meeting
December 3 - 4, 2010

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
101 Market Street
San Francisco, California

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday, December 3:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Session I Financing Trade

9:30 am Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
                        C. Fritz Foley, Harvard Business School and NBER
Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Davin Chor, Singapore Management University
Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER
Over the Cliff and Back? Credit Conditions and International Trade during
                        the Global Financial Crisis

11:45 am Lunch

1:00 pm Robert Feenstra, UC, Davis and NBER
Zhiyuan Li, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Miaojie Yu, Peking University
Exports and Credit Constraints under Private Information: Theory and
Evidence from China

2:00 pm Break

Session II Re-Examining Trade Theory

2:15 pm Jessie H. Handbury, Columbia University
David E. Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
Is New Economic Geography Right? Evidence from Price Data

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm James Markusen, University of Colorado, Boulder and NBER
Putting Per-Capita Income Back into Trade Theory

4:30 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Dinner (to be arranged)

Saturday, December 4:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

Session III Firm and Sector Heterogeneity

9:00 am A. Kerem Coþar, University of Chicago
Nezih Guner, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Ina Simonovska, UC, Davis and NBER
Michael E. Waugh, New York University
                        The Elasticity of Trade: Estimates and Evidence

11:15 am Break

11:30 am James Harrigan, University of Virginia and NBER
                        Victor Shlychkov, Columbia University
Export Prices of U.S. Firms

12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn

Received on Wed Oct 13 2010 - 18:05:57 EDT