NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT

M. Scott Taylor, Organizer

March 15 - 16, 2002

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



FRIDAY, MARCH 15:



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:15 AM ALAN TAYLOR, UC, Davis and NBER

The Rise and Fall of World Trade: 1870 - 1939



10:15 AM Break



10:45 AM PRAVIN KRISHNA, Brown University and NBER

YONG SEOK CHOI, Brown University

The Factor Content of Bilateral Trade: An Empirical Test



11:45 PM PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER

Moving Up and Moving Out: US Product Level Exports and Competition from Low Wage Countries



12:45 PM Lunch



2:00 PM DANIEL CHIQUIAR, UC, San Diego

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages in Mexico and the United States



3:00 PM JOSE CAMPA, New York University and NBER

LINDA GOLDBERG, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

Exchange Rate Pass-Through into Import Prices: A Macro or Micro Phenomenon



4:00 PM Adjourn



7:00 PM Dinner



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SATURDAY, MARCH 16:



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM STEPHEN YEAPLE, University of Pennsylvania

A Simple Model of Trade, Technology and the Wage Premium



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM JOSHUA AIZENMAN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

NANCY MARION, Dartmouth University

The Merits of Horizontal versus Vertical FDI in the Presence of Uncertainty



11:15 AM Break



11:30 PM RICHARD BALDWIN, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

FREDERIC ROBERT-NICOUD, London School of Economics

Entry and asymmetric lobbying: Why governments pick losers



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn



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