NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

International Trade and Investment Workshop

Andrew Bernard and James Harrigan, Organizers

August 4-6, 2003
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

and

August 7-8, 2003
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY  PROGRAM

MONDAY, AUGUST 4, NBER:

 

 

 9:00 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

International Trade and Industrial Organization

 

 

 9:30 AM

JAMES TYBOUT, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

ERKAN ERDEM, Pennsylvania State University

 

Trade Policy and Patterns of Industrial Evolution: A dynamic structural model

 

 

10:30 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM

J. PETER NEARY, University College, Dublin

 

Cross-Border Mergers as Instruments of Comparative Advantage

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

International Trade and Industrial Organization, continued

 

 

 1:00 PM

ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER

 

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China

 

 

 2:00 PM

Break

 

 

 2:30 PM

POL ANTRAS, MIT and NBER

 

Incomplete Contracts and the Product Cycle

 

 

 3:30 PM

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 PM

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, NBER:

 

 

 9:00 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Monetary Effects on Trade

 

 

 9:30 AM

ROBERT ANDERTON, European Central Bank

 

RICHARD BALDWIN, Graduate Institute for International Studies and NBER

 

DARIA TAGLIONI, Graduate Institute for International Studies

 

The Impact of Monetary Union on Trade Prices

 

 

10:30 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM

JOHN ROMALIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

CHRISTIAN BRODA, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Identifying the effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on the Composition and Volume of Trade

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

Regional Policies and Economic Geography

 

 

1:00 PM

VINCENT DUPONT, University of Lille 1

 

PHILIPPE MARTIN, University of Paris 1

 

Regional Policies and Inequalities:  Are Subsidies Good For You?

 

 

 2:00 PM

Break

 

 

 2:30 PM

RIKARD FORSLID, Stockholm University

 

Regional Policy, Integration and the Location of Industry

 

 

 3:30 PM

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, NBER

 

 

 9:00 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Trade Policy

 

 

 

 9:30 AM

DOUGLAS IRWIN, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

The Welfare Cost of Autarky: 

 

Evidence from the Jeffersonian Trade Embargo, 1807-1809

 

and

 

Trade Disruptions and America’s Early Industrialization

 

(Joint with JOSEPH DAVIS, The Vanguard Group)

 

 

10:30 AM

Break

11:00 AM

NUNO LIMÃO, University of Maryland

 

Preferential Agreements as Stumbling Blocks for Multilateral

 

Trade  Liberalization: Empirical Estimates for the U.S.

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

1:00 PM

RAYMOND ROBERTSON, Macalester College

 

Did NAFTA Increase Labor Market Integration between the

 

United States and Mexico?

 

 

 2:00 PM

Break

 

 

Effects of Distance, Part 1

 

 

 2:30 PM

DAVID HUMMELS, Purdue University and NBER

 

ALEXANDRE SKIBA, Purdue University

 

Shipping the Good Apples Out?  

 

An Empirical Confirmation of the Alchian-Allen Conjecture

 

 

3:30 PM

Adjourn

 

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, Royal Sonesta Hotel:

 

 

 9:00 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

Effects of Distance, Part 2

 

 

 9:30 AM

GIOVANNI PERI, UC, Davis

 

Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation

 

 

10:30 AM

Break

 

 

11:00 AM

MARY AMITI and LISA CAMERON, University of Melbourne

 

Economic Geography and Wages 

 

 

12:00 N

Lunch

 

 

JOINT MEETING WITH THE CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH ON INCOME AND WEALTH,

FIRM-LEVEL DATA, TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT

 

 

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

 

 

 1:00 PM

ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER

 

Introduction

 

 

 1:15 PM

SUSAN FEINBERG, University of Maryland

 

MICHAEL KEANE, Yale University

 

Accounting for the Growth of MNC-based Trade using a Structural

 

Model of U.S. MNCs

 

 

 2:15 PM

Break

 

 

 2:45 PM

JONATHAN EATON, New York University and NBER

 

SAMUEL KORTUM, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

FRANCIS KRAMARZ, INSEE, France

 

An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms

 

 

 3:45 PM

Break

 

 

 4:00 PM

MARK AGUIAR and GITA GOPINATH, University of Chicago

 

JOHN ROMALIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Cross-Border Ownership, Liquidity and Technology Transfer

 

 

 5:00 PM

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, Royal Sonesta Hotel:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 AM

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

RAYMOND MATALONI, JR., Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Expansion Abroad and the Domestic Operations of U.S. Multinational Firms

 

 

10:00 AM

Break

 

 

10:15 AM

MARIA BORGA and WILLIAM ZEILE, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

International Fragmentation of Production and the Intrafirm Trade of U.S.

 

Multinational Companies

 

 

11:00 AM

Break

 

 

11:15 AM

MARIA BORGA, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

ROBERT LIPSEY, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and NBER

 

Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Multinationals

12:00 N

Adjourn

 

 

6/26/03