NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



International Trade and Investment Program Meeting



Kala Krishna, Organizer



April 2-3, 2004



NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA



PROGRAM



FRIDAY, APRIL 2:



8:15 AM Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER



8:30 AM Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:15 AM ABHIJIT BANERJEE, MIT

ANDREW NEWMAN, University College London

Inequality, Growth, and Trade Policy



10:15 AM Break



10:45 AM ANDREW BERNARD, Dartmouth College and NBER

STEPHEN REDDING, London School of Economics

PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER

Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms



11:45 AM Lunch



1:00 PM ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER

HIAU LOOI KEE, The World Bank

Export Variety and Country Productivity



2:00 PM Break



2:30 PM MARC MELITZ, Harvard University and NBER

GIANMARCO OTTAVIANO, University of Bologna

Market Size, Trade, and Productivity



3:30 PM Break



4:00 PM MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER

C. FRITZ FOLEY, University of Michigan

KRISTIN FORBES, MIT and NBER

Shelters from the Storm:

Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises



5:00 PM Adjourn



5:15 PM Shuttle van departs NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel



6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA





SATURDAY, APRIL 3:



8:15 AM Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER



8:30 AM Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER



8:30 AM Continental Breakfast



9:00 AM SHUBHAM CHAUDHURI, Columbia University

PINELOPI GOLDBERG, Yale University and NBER

PANLE JIA, Yale University

Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceuticals:

A Case Study of Quinolones in India



10:00 AM Break



10:15 AM REBECCA HELLERSTEIN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Who Bears the Cost of a Change in the Exchange Rate?

The Case of Imported Beer



11:15 AM Break



11:30 AM RICHARD BALDWIN, Graduate Institute of International Studies,

Geneva and NBER

DARIA TAGLIONI, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva

Positive OCA Criteria:

Microfoundations for the Rose Effect



12:30 PM Lunch and Adjourn





3/18/04