NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

International Trade and Investment

 

April 1 and 2, 2005

 

Bruce Blonigen, Organizer

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 1:

10:30 a.m.

DAVID HUMMELS, Purdue University and NBER

 

VOLODYMYR LUGOVSKYY, University of Memphis

 

Trade in Ideal Varieties: Theory and Evidence

 

 

11:30  a.m.

Break

 

 

11:45 a.m.

JAMES HARRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

 

Airplanes and Comparative Advantage

 

 

12:45 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:45 p.m.

LINDA GOLDBERG, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

 

CÉDRIC TILLE, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Vehicle Currency Use in International Trade

 

 

 2:45 p.m.

Break

 

 

 3:00 p.m.

DOIREANN FITZGERALD, UC, Santa Cruz

 

A Gravity View of Exchange Rate Disconnect

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

GIANMARCO I.P. OTTAVIANO, Universita’ di Bologna and CEPR

 

GIOVANNI PERI, UC, Davis and NBER

 

Gains from “Diversity”: Theory and Evidence from Immigration in U.S. Cities

 

 

 5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 p.m.

Group Dinner

 

Legal Sea Foods

 

Charles Square

 

20 University Road

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 2:

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

DIEGO PUGA and DANIEL TREFLER, University of Toronto and NBER

 

International Trade and Domestic Institutions:

 

The Medieval Response to Globalization

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

10:15 a.m.

JOSHUA AIZENMAN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER

 

ILAN NOY, University of Hawaii

 

Endogenous Financial and Trade Openness: Efficiency and Political Economy Considerations

 

 

11:15 a.m.

RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER

 

PETER MOUSTAKERSKI, Booz Allen Hamilton

 

SHANG-JIN WEI, International Monetary Fund and NBER

 

Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as Entrepôt Trader

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/11/05