NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

Giovanni Maggi and Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Organizers

March 31, 2006

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 31:

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 JULIAN DI GIOVANNI and ANDREI LEVCHENKO, IMF

Openness, Volatility and the Risk Content of Exports

10:00 am Break

10:30 am POL ANTRAS, Harvard University and NBER

LUIS GARICANO, University of Chicago

ESTEBAN ROSSI-HANSBERG, Princeton University and NBER

Organizing Offshoring: Middle Managers and Communication Costs

11:30 am DOIREANN FITZGERALD, UC, Santa Cruz

Trade Costs, Limited Enforcement and Risk Sharing: A Joint Test

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm JORGE BALAT and GUIDO PORTO, World Bank

IRENE BRAMBILLA, Yale University and NBER

Export Crops, Marketing Costs and Poverty

2:30 pm Break

3:00 pm CHRISTIAN BRODA, University of Chicago

JOSHUA GREENFIELD, Columbia University

DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER

From Groundnuts to Globalization:

A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth

4:00 pm Adjourn

4:15 pm Shuttle van departs NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel

6:30 pm Group Dinner joint with ITO group

Royal Sonesta Hotel – University Room

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