Winter meeting, Dec. 2-3, 2011

From: Robert Feenstra <rcfeenstra_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:32:11 +0000

Listed below, and attached, is the program for the Winter meeting in Palo Alto. You will be receiving the formal invitation shortly from the Bureau, and I look forward to seeing you there.

Rob

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting
December 2 - 3, 2011

Robert Feenstra, Organizer
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research,
Stanford University, California

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Friday, December 2:

9:00 am Continental Breakfast

Session I Trade and Wages

9:30 am James Harrigan, University of Virginia and NBER
Ariell Reshef, University of Virginia
                        Skill biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics
Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality

11:45 am Lunch

Session II Quantitative Evaluation of Trade Models

1:00 pm Ariel Burstein, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
                        Javier Cravino, UC, Los Angeles
Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade

2:00 pm Break

2:15 pm Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Natalia Ramondo, Arizona State University
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Proximity versus Comparative Advantage: A Quantitative Theory of Trade and Multinational Production<http://www.econ.yale.edu/~ka265/research/ProximityVsCA/ARRYProximityVsCA.pdf>

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Ralph Ossa, University of Chicago and NBER

Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data

4:30 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Dinner (to be arranged)

Saturday, December 3:

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

Session III China and Trade

9:00 am Julian di Giovanni, International Monetary Fund and University of Toronto
                        Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER
                        Jing Zhang, University of Michigan
The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change

10:00 am Break

10:15 am Jiandong Ju, Tsinghua University and University of Oklahoma
Kang Shi, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Are Trade Liberalizations a Source of Global Current Account Imbalances?

11:15 am Break

11:30 am Yue May, Lingnan University
Heiwai Tang, Tufts University
Yifan Zhang, Lingnan University
Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

12:30 pm Lunch and Adjourn

Received on Thu Oct 13 2011 - 18:32:11 EDT