NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002

International Trade and Investment Workshop

Gordon Hanson and James Harrigan, Organizers

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 5 - 8, 2002

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



MONDAY, AUGUST 5:



9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries



Trade and Wages



9:30 AM ANDREW BERNARD, Dartmouth College and NBER

J. BRADFORD JENSEN, Bureau of the Census

PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER

Survival of the Best Fit: Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of US Manufacturing Firms



10:30 AM Break



11:00 AM PINELOPI KOUJIANOU GOLDBERG, Yale University and NBER

NINA PAVCNIK, Dartmouth College and NBER

Trade, Wages, and the Political Economy of Trade Protection:

Evidence from the Colombian Trade Reforms



12:00 PM Lunch



Foreign Direct Investment



1:00 PM ELHANAN HELPMAN and MARC MELITZ, Harvard University and NBER

STEPHEN YEAPLE, University of Pennsylvania

Exports versus FDI



2:00 PM Break



2:30 PM KEITH HEAD and JOHN REIS, University of British Columbia

BARBARA SPENCER, University of British Columbia and NBER

Vertical Networks and US Auto Parts Exports: Is Japan Different?



3:30 PM Adjourn



6:00 PM Clambake

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

SI02 ITI program

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6:



9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries



Trade Cost and Trade Patterns



9:30 AM SIMON EVENETT, World Bank

ANTHONY VENABLES, London School of Economics

Export Growth in Developing Countries:

Market Entry and Bilateral Trade Flows



10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM DAVID HUMMELS, Purdue University and NBER

PETER KLENOW, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER

The Variety and Quality of a Nation's Trade



12:00 N Lunch



1:00 PM DAVID PARSLEY, Vanderbilt University

SHANG-JIN WEI, International Monetary Fund and NBER

Currency Arrangement and Goods Market Integration:

A Price Based Approach



2:00 PM Break



Political Economy, part 1



2:30 PM CHAD BOWN, Brandeis University

On the Economic Success of GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement



3:30 PM Adjourn



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7:



9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries



Political Economy, part 2



9:30 AM PUSHAN DUTT, University of Alberta

DEVASHISH MITRA, Syracuse University and NBER

Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy:

An Empirical Investigation



10:30 AM Break



11:00 AM PIERPAOLO BATTIGALLI, Bocconi University

GIOVANNI MAGGI, Princeton University and NBER

An Incomplete-Contract Theory of International Trade Institutions



12:00 N Lunch



SI02 ITI Program

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Trade and Development



1:00 PM JAMES MARKUSEN, University of Colorado and NBER

THOMAS RUTHERFORD, University of Colorado

Developing Domestic Entrepreneurship and Growth through Imported Expertise



2:00 PM Break



2:30 PM PHILLIPE AGHION, Harvard University and NBER

ROBIN BURGESS and STEPHEN REDDING, London School of Economics Liberalisation, Institutions, and Industrial Performance: Evidence from India



3:30 PM Adjourn



THURSDAY, AUGUST 8:



9:00 AM Coffee and Pastries



The Heckscher-Ohlin Model



9:30 AM BIN XU, University of Florida

Trade, Capital Mobility, and Southern Production



10:30 AM Break



11:00 AM ALEJANDRO CUÑAT, London School of Economics

MARCO MAFFEZZOLI, Bocconi University

Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade



12:00 N Lunch and Adjourn





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