Fall 2011 Seminars

Fall, 2011 SCHEDULE

International Trade Seminar

Spring 2011

DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION

September 22
Catherine Thomas, Columbia Business School
“Innovation and Foreign Ownership”

September 29
No seminar

October 6
David Weinstein, Columbia University
“Is New Economic Geography Right? Evidence from Price Data”

October 13
Ferdinando Monte, Johns Hopkins University, Carey School of Business
“Skill Bias, Trade, and Wage Dispersion”

October 20
Dan Lu,University of Rochester (IES Fellow 2011-2012)
“Exceptional Exporter Performance? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms”

October 27
No IES seminar – Departmental seminar on October 26

November 3
No seminar – Fall Break

November 10
Tao Wang, Princeton University
“The Kyoto Protocol and Patterns of International Trade”

November 17
Daniel Xu, New York University
“Competition, Markups and the Gains from International Trade”

November 24
No seminar – Thanksgiving

December 1
Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago
“Staggered Adjustment and Trade Dynamics”

December 8
Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles
“Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy”

December 15
Veronica Rappoport,Columbia Business School
“Horizontal vs. Vertical FDI: Revisiting Evidence from U.S. Multinationals”

ALL SEMINARS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAYS FROM 4:15 TO 5:45 P.M. IN 200 FISHER HALL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. 

For further information, contact Sharon Ernst at sernst@princeton.edu or 258-5715.