NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

Robert Feenstra, Organizer and Program Director

March 28-29, 2003

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 28:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:15 AM ANDREW ROSE, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?

10:15 AM Break

10:45 AM BRUCE BLONIGEN, University of Oregon and NBER

Evolving Discretionary Practices of U.S. Antidumping Activity

11:45 AM Lunch

1:00 PM ANDREW BERNARD, Dartmouth College and NBER

J. BRADFORD JENSEN, Institute for International Economics

PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER

Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics

2:00 PM JOSHUA AIZENMAN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

MARK SPIEGEL, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Institutional Efficiency, Monitoring Costs, and the Investment Share of FDI

3:00 PM Break

3:30 PM WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Texas, Austin and NBER

STEPHEN YEAPLE, University of Pennsylvania

Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth:

Firm-Level Evidence from the United States

4:30 PM Adjourn

6:30 PM Dinner

Elephant Walk

2067 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

SATURDAY, MARCH 29:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:15 AM DONALD DAVIS and DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER

A Search for Multiple Equilibria in Urban Industrial Structure

10:15 AM Break

10:45 AM PINELOPI GOLDBERG, Yale University and NBER

NINA PAVCNIK, Dartmouth College and NBER

The Response of the Informal Sector to Trade Liberalization

11:45 AM Lunch and Adjourn

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