NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

NBER-CEPR International Seminar on International Trade (ISIT) 2002 on

Challenges to Globalization

Robert Baldwin, Organizer

Pre-Conference Meeting for NBER-Side Authors

March 14, 2002

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM DRUSILLA BROWN, Tufts University

ALAN DEARDORFF and ROBERT STERN, University of Michigan

The Effects of Multinational Enterprises on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Discussant: RACHEL MCCULLOCH, Brandeis University

10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:15 AM SIMON EVENETT, World Trade Institute

The Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions Wave of the Late 1990s

Discussant: MARIANNE BAXTER, Boston University and NBER

11:15 AM KIMBERLY ELLIOTT and DEBAYANI KAR, Institute for International Economics

J. DAVID RICHARDSON, Syracuse University and NBER

Assessing Globalization's Critics: "Talkers Are No Good Doers???"

Discussant: MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

12:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM JOSHUA AIZENMAN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

Financial Opening: Evidence and Policy Options

Discussant: BLAKE LEBARON, Brandeis University and NBER

2:15 PM ROBERT LIPSEY, The City University of New York and NBER

Home and Host Country Effects of FDI

Discussant: ANDREW BERNARD, Dartmouth College and NBER

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM DAVID CARR, American University

JAMES MARKUSEN, University of Colorado and NBER

KEITH MASKUS, University of Colorado

Characteristics of US Outward Direct Investment Versus Popular Globalization Myths

Discussant: JAMES ANDERSON, Boston College and NBER

4:30 PM ROBERT BALDWIN, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER

Openness and Growth: What's the Relationship?

Discussant: CHAD BOWN, Brandeis University

5:30 PM Adjourn 3/12/02