International Trade and Organizations Program Meeting

October 26, 2002

Gordon Hanson, Organizer

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Saturday, October 26, 2002

9:00 AM Continental Breakfast

9:30 AM NIKO MATOUSCHEK, Northwestern University

PAOLO RAMEZZANA, University of Virginia

Globalization, Market Efficiency and the Organization of Firms

10:45 AM Break

11:15 AM GEORGE BAKER, Harvard University and NBER

Relational Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

Relational Contracts in the Strategic Alliances

Informal Authority in Organizations

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM GENE GROSSMAN, Princeton University and NBER

ELHANAN HELPMAN, Harvard University and NBER

Managerial Incentives and the International

Organization of Production

2:45 PM Break

3:15 PM ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China

4:30 PM Adjourn

6:00 PM Evoo - 118 Beacon Street, Somerville, MA

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