NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Universities Research Conference

Firm-Level Responses to Trade Policies

Bruce Blonigen, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MAY 10:

8:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

Plant-Level Studies

Chair: ANDREW BERNARD, Dartmouth College and NBER

9:00 AM MARC-ANDREAS MUENDLER, UC, Berkeley

Trade, Technology, and Productivity: A Study of Brazilian Manufacturers, 1986-1998

Discussant: MARC MELITZ, Harvard University and NBER

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM SULE OZLER, UC, Los Angeles

KAMIL YILMAZ, Koc University

Does Trade Liberalization Improve Productivity?

Plant Level Evidence From Turkish Manufacturing Industry

Discussant: JAMES LEVINSOHN, University of Michigan and NBER

11:30 AM ANDREW BERNARD, Dartmouth College and NBER

J. BRADFORD JENSEN, U.S. 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 Plants

Discussant: JOHANNES VAN BIESEBROECK, University of Toronto

12:30 PM Lunch

Session 2: Trade Policies and MNE Activity Chair: BRUCE BLONIGEN, University of Oregon and NBER

1:30 PM SUSAN FEINBERG, University of Maryland

MICHAEL KEANE, Yale University

Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade Using a Structural Model of U.S. MNCs

Discussant: KEITH HEAD, University of British Columbia

2:30 PM Break

3:00 PM YONGMIN CHEN, University of Colorado, Boulder

JOTA ISHIKAWA, Hitotsubashi University

ZHIHAO YU, University of Nottingham

Trade Liberalization and Strategic Outsourcing

Discussant: JOHN MCLAREN, University of Virginia and NBER

4:00 PM Adjourn

6:00 PM Reception and Group Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

SATURDAY, MAY 11:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

Session 3: Non-Tariff Trade Policies

Chair: ROBERT BALDWIN, University of Wisconsin and NBER

9:00 AM MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

JAMES HINES, University of Michigan and NBER

The Incidence of Export Subsidies as Revealed by Market Reactions

Discussant: KRISTIN FORBES, MIT and NBER

10:00 AM Break

10:30 AM PHILLIP McCALMAN, UC, Santa Cruz.

International Diffusion and Intellectual Property Rights: An Empirical Analysis

Discussant: SAMUEL KORTUM, University of Minnesota and NBER

11:30 AM MEREDITH CROWLEY, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Do Safeguard Tariffs and Antidumping Duties Open or Close Technology Gaps?

Discussant: THOMAS PRUSA, Rutgers University and NBER

12:30 PM Adjourn

Additional Paper Presented at Conference:

JOHANNES VAN BIESEBROECK, University of Toronto

Exporting Raises Productivity At Least in sub-Saharan African

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