NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
International
Trade and Organizations Working Group Meeting
April
16, 2005
Gordon
Hanson, Organizer
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
PROGRAM
SATURDAY, APRIL 16:
8:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
9:30 AM VOLKER NOCKE, University of Pennsylvania
STEPHEN YEAPLE, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
An Assignment Theory
of Foreign Direct Investment
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER
YONGMIN CHEN, University of Colorado
Buyer Investment,
Product Variety, and Intrafirm Trade
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM ARNAUD COSTINOT, Princeton University
Contract
Enforcement, Division of Labor, and the Pattern of Trade
2:00 PM Break
2:15 PM NATHAN NUNN, University of Toronto
Relationship-Specificity,
Incomplete Contracts, and the Pattern of Trade
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM BILGEHAN KARABAY, University of Virginia
JOHN MCLAREN, University of Virginia and NBER
Outsourcing and the
Invisible Handshake
4:30 PM Adjourn
5:45 PM Dinner at Evoo
118 Beacon Street, Somerville, MA
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