Seminar in International Trade

Econ 281/ARE 239
Spring 2002

Mondays, 12-2
639 Evans Hall
January 28  Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth)
"Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam."
February 4  Scott Taylor (Wisconsin)
"A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol"
February 11  Andrew Rose
"One Reason Countries Pay their Debts:  Renegotiation and International Trade"
February 25  Phillipe Martin (New York Federal Reserve Bank)
March 4  Gordon Hanson (UC San Diego)
"The Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns"
March 11  Rob Feenstra (Davis; Visiting Berkeley)
"A Market-Power Based Model of Business Groups"
March 18  David Weinstein (Columbia)
"Bones, Bombs, and Breakpoints: The Geography of Economic Activity"
March 25  No seminar (spring break)
April 1  No seminar (spring break)
April 8  Romain Wacziarg (Stanford University)
"Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements"
April 15  Rebecca Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)
"Vertical Contracts and Exchange Rate Pass-Through"
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Pablo Klein  (UC Berkeley)
"The Impact of NAFTA on Stock Returns in Mexico"
April 19
10am-
11:30pm
FRIDAY

Andrew B. Bernard (Dartmouth) Note: that this seminar is being held on a Friday instead of a Monday and at a different time.Monday schedule resumes the following Monday, 4/22, see below.
"The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants"
April 22 Alex Cukierman (Tel Aviv University)
"The Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes and Speculative Attacks"
April 29 Jim Levinsohn (U of Michigan)
"Productivity in a Differentiated Products Markets"
May 6 Deborah Swenson (UC Davis)
"Overseas Assembly and Country Sourcing Choices"
May 13
Don Davis (Columbia)
"Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration"