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 and 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 Exports versus FDI

 

 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 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

 

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

            Trade Policy, continued

 

 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 and Innovation

 

10:30 AM         Break

 

11:00   AM       MARY AMITI and LISA CAMERON, University of Melbourne

                        Industrial Location and Wages in a Developing Country: 

                        The case of Indonesia

 

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 AM          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 PM          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 PM         Break

 

10:15 PM         MARIA BORGA and WILLIAM ZEILE, Bureau of Economic Analysis

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

Multinational Companies

 

11:00 PM         Break

 

11:15 PM         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