Spring meeting, March 25-26, 2011

From: Robert Feenstra <rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:30:24 +0000

Dear ITI group:

Listed below is a preliminary agenda for the spring meeting, and you will be receiving an invitation from the NBER shortly.

Rob

NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

March 25-26, 2011

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

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

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday, March 25:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:30 am Matthieu Bussière, Banque de France
Giovanni Callegari, International Monetary Fund
Fabio Ghironi, Boston College and NBER
Giulia Sestieri, Banque de France
Norihiko Yamano, OECD
Estimating Trade Elasticities: Demand Composition and the Trade Collapse of 2008-09

10:30 am Coffee Break

11:00 pm Veronica Rappoport, Columbia University
Dissecting the Effect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm World Bank staff
Presentation on WITS software

1:15 pm Arnaud Costinot, MIT and NBER
Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University and NBER
Su Wang, MIT
An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains

2:15 pm Coffee Break

2:30 pm Richard Baldwin, Graduate Institute, Geneva and NBER
Anthony Venables, University of Oxford
                        Relocating the Value Chain: Offshoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy<http://www.nber.org/papers/w16611>

3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:45 am Beatriz de Blas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Katheryn Niles Russ, UC Davis and NBER
Teams of Rivals: Endogenous Markups in a Ricardian World

4:45 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Group Dinner

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

Saturday, March 26:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am David Autor, MIT and NBER
David Dorn, CEMFI and IZA
Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and NBER
The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in
the U.S.

10:00 am Coffee Break

10:15 am John McLaren, University of Virginia and NBER
Shushanik Hakobyan, University of Virginia
Looking for Local Labor-Market Effects of the NAFTA

11:15 am Coffee Break

11:30 am Kyle Handley, University of Maryland
Nuno Limão, University of Maryland and NBER
Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence

12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn
Received on Mon Feb 07 2011 - 14:30:24 EST