Empirical Investigations in International Trade 1995

Date: November Annually

Session 1:
Friday,2pm-5:30pm
Chair: Jon Haveman

2:00-3:00 "Spatial Comparisons of the Prices of Tradables and Nontradables"
BETTINA ATEN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Discussant: Jerry Thursby, Purdue University.

3:15-4:15 "Imputing License Prices: Limitations of a Cost-Based Approach"
KALA KRISHNA, The Pennsylvania State University and NBER.
LING HUI TAN, The International Monetary Fund.
Discussant: Usha Nair, Georgia Institute of Technology.

4:30-5:30 "Shifts in Relative and Absolute Wages: The Role of Trade, Technology and Factor Endowments"
ROBERT E. BALDWIN, University of Wisconsin.
Discussant: Pamela Lowry, Illinois Weslayan University.

Session 2:
Saturday, 9am-12:30pm
Continental Breakfast: 8:30 - 9:00.
Chair: Janet Netz

9:00-10:00 "Technology, Factor Supplies and International Specialization: Testing the Neoclassical Model"
JAMES HARRIGAN, University of Pittsburgh.
Discussant: David Hummels, University of Chicago.

10:15-11:15 "Optimal Industrial Classification"
JOHN S. CHIPMAN, University of Minnesota.
Discussant: Robert McDougall, Purdue University.

11:30-12:30 "Determinants and Effectiveness of "Aggressively Unilateral" US trade actions"
J. DAVID RICHARDSON, Syracuse University.
Discussant: Christopher Dumler, Yale University.

12:45-1:45 Lunch - by invitation.
Speaker: Robert Baldwin

Session 3:
Saturday, 2:00pm-5:30pm
Chair: Jim Dunleavy

2:00-3:00 "Interregional and International Trade: Woody Allen was Right!"
DAVID E. WEINSTEIN, Harvard University.
Discussant: Daniel Bernhofen, Clark University.

3:15-4:15 "Immigration and Trade Creation: Econometric Evidence from Canada"
KEITH HEAD, University of British Columbia.
Discussant: Jon Haveman, Purdue University.

4:30-5:30 "On the General Validity of the Gravity Model (Incorrect title)"
DAVID HUMMELS, University of Chicago.
JON HAVEMAN, Purdue University.
Discussant: Jeffrey Bergstrand, Notre Dame University.

Session 4: Saturday, 6pm - .... 6pm-8pm Drinks
Chez Thursby 8pm Dinner at Heisei - Wonderful japanese cuisine.

Session 5:
Sunday, 9am-11:30am
Continental Breakfast: 8:30 - 9:00.
Chair: Jon Haveman

9:00-10:00 "Empirical Analysis of Intraindustry Trade: A Vertically Differentiated Approach"
JOHN T. DURKIN, JR., Wayne State University.
Discussant: Bill Hutchinson, Miami University of Ohio.

10:15-11:15 "International R&D Spillover and Intersectoral Trade Flows: Do They Match?"
WOLFGANG KELLER, University of Wisconsin.
Discussant: Marie Thursby, Purdue University.

11:30-12:30 "International Process Standards and Trade"
RANDALL WIGLE, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Discussant: Janet Netz, Purdue University.

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