NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001
International Trade and Investment Workshop
Gordon Hanson and James Rauch, Organizers
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 6 to 9, 2001
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, AUGUST 6:
9:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
Trade and Industrial Organization: Cases
9:30 AM DOUGLAS IRWIN and NINA PAVCNIK, Dartmouth College and NBER
Airbus versus Boeing Reconsidered:
International Competition in the Aircraft Market
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM SANGIN PARK, SUNY at Stony Brook
Learning Curve Optimization and the 1986 Semiconductor Trade Arrangement
12:00 N Lunch
Trade and Industrial Organization: Theory
1:00 PM KALA KRISHNA, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
CEMILE YAVAS, Pennsylvania State University
Trade in Indivisible Goods: Market, Transition, and Developing Economies
2:00 PM Break
2:30 PM GENE GROSSMAN, Princeton University and NBER
ELHANAN HELPMAN, Harvard University and NBER
International Outsourcing
3:30 PM Adjourn
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 7:
9:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
Foreign Direct Investment and Spillovers
9:30 AM JONATHAN HASKEL, University of London
SONIA PEREIRA, University College London
MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER
Does Inward Foreign Direct Investment Boost the Productivity
of Domestic Firms?
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM LEE BRANSTETTER, UC Davis and NBER
Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers?
Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Texas and NBER
Do the New Global Information and Trade Links of the 1990s Lead to Convergence or Divergence?
2:00 PM Break
Political Economy: Theory
2:30 PM KYLE BAGWELL, Columbia University and NBER
ROBERT STAIGER, University of Wisconsin and NBER
Shifting Comparative Advantage and Accession in the WTO
3:30 PM Adjourn
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8:
9:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
Trade Costs
9:30 AM DAVID HUMMELS, Purdue University
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM JOHN ROMALIS, MIT
Factor Proportions and the Structure of Commodity Trade
12:00 N Lunch
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1:00 PM ALAN DEARDORFF, University of Michigan
Local Comparative Advantage: Trade Costs and the Pattern of Trade
2:00 PM Break
Political Economy: Empirics
2:30 PM ANNA MARIA MAYDA, Harvard University
DANI RODRIK, Harvard University and NBER
Why are Some People (and Countries) more Protectionist than Others?
3:30 PM Adjourn
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9:
9:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
Trade and Labor Markets
9:30 AM RAYMOND ROBERTSON, Macalester College
Relative Prices and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Mexico
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM STEPHEN CAMERON and SHUBHAM CHAUDHURI, Columbia University
JOHN MCLAREN, University of Virginia and NBER
Mobility Costs and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustments
to External Shocks
12:00 N Lunch and Adjourn
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