Session 1: Friday, November 13, 9 am-12:15

• "Productivity Performance and International Competitiveness: A New Test of an Old Theory"
  • Ehsan U. Choudri, Carleton University
  • Lawrence L. Schembri, Carleton University

Discussant:
• John Ries, University of British Columbia.

10:00 - 11:00

• "Estimating the Knowledge-Capital Model of the Multinational Enterprise" (PDF 312k)
  • David L. Carr, University of Colorado
  • James Markusen, University of Colorado
  • Keith Maskus, University of Colorado

Discussant:
• Peter Schott, UCLA

11:15 - 12:15

• "Exporting and Productivity"
  • Andrew B. Bernard, Yale University
  • J. Bradford Jensen, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussant:
• Jon Haveman, Purdue University.

Session 2: Friday, November 13, 1:30 - 6:00pm

1:30 - 2:30

• "Trade Barriers and the Volatility of Comparative Advantage" (PDF 94k)
  • Johannes Moenius, University of California, San Diego
  • David Riker, University of California, San Diego

Discussant:
• Lawrence L. Schembri, Carleton University.

2:30 - 3:30

• "Patterns in US RCA Indexes Across Time and Sector and Trading Partner, Chaos or Coherence?"
  • J. David Richardson, Syracuse University
  • Chi Zhang, Stanford

  Discussant:

  • Aileen Thompson, Carleton University.

3:45 - 4:45

• "One Size Fits All? Theory, Evidence and Implications of Cones of Diversification"
  • Peter Schott, UCLA

Discussant:

• Peter Debaere, University of Texas - Austin.

5:00 - 6:00

• "Product Differentiation, Scale Economies, and Foreign Trade"
  • Wolfgang Keller, University of Texas

Discussant:
• David Hummels, University of Chicago.

Session 3: Saturday, November 14, 9 am-12:15

9:00-10:00

• "Relative Wages and Relative Prices: Can the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem Explain Relative Wage Movements? Evidence from Mexico"
  • Raymond Robertson, Syracuse University

Discussant:

• Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College.

• "Does Border Enforcement Protect U.S. Workers from Illegal Immigration?"
  • Gordon H. Hanson, University of Michigan
  • Raymond Robertson, Syracuse University
  • Antonio Spilembergo, IMF
  
  Discussant:
  • James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

• "Trade Disputes and the Implementation of Protection Under the GATT: An Empirical Assessment" PDF (391k)
  • Chad P. Bown, University of Wisconsin
  
  Discussant:
  • Marie Thursby, Purdue University.

Session 4: Saturday, November 14, 2-5:30pm

2:00 - 3:00

• "Technology and Comparative Advantage"
  • Jonathon Eaton, Boston University
  • Samuel Kortum, Boston University
  
  Discussant:
  • Andrew Bernard, Yale University.

• "Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?" PDF version (536k)
  • Werner Antweiler, University of British Columbia
  • Brian R. Copeland, University of British Columbia
  • Scott Taylor, University of Wisconsin
  
  Discussant:
  • Keith Maskus, University of Colorado, Boulder.

4:30 - 5:30

• "Factor-Price Insensitivity to Immigration and the Rybczynski Theorem: Evidence from Israel and U.S. States"
  • Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University
  • Gordon H. Hanson, University of Michigan
  • Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth College
  
  Discussant:
  • Raymond Robertson, Syracuse University.

Session 5: Sunday, November 15, 9 am-12:15

9:00 - 10:00

• "Factor Quality and International Specialization"
  • James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

10:00 - 11:00

• "Offshore Production and the Home Employees of Japanese Manufacturers" (PDF 139k)
  • Keith Head, University of British Columbia
  • John Ries, University of British Columbia
  
  Discussant:
  • Simon Evenett, Rutgers University and World Bank.

11:15 - 12:15

• "Sectoral Employment Effects of Trade and Trade-Induced Labor Saving in A Small Economy" PDF (83k)
  • Filip Abraham, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Ellen Brock, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  
  Discussant:
  • William Hutchinson, Miami University of Ohio.

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• Third Annual: 1996
• Fourth Annual: 1997

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