Spring 2010 Seminars

Spring, 2010 SCHEDULE

International Trade Seminar

Fall 2009

DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION

February 18
Natalia Ramondo, University of Texas, Austin (IES Kenen Visiting Fellow 2009-2010)
“The Proximity-Concentration Tradeoff in a Risky Environment”

February 25
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University
“Firms and Global Production”

March 4
Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University (Joint with Industrial Relations Section)
“International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States”

March 11
Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota (Joint with Industrial Organization)
“An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade”

March 18
No seminar – spring break

March 25
Kamal Saggi, Southern Methodist University
“Equilibrium Parallel Import Policies and International Market Structure”

April 1 – Department Wide Seminar
Patrick Kehoe
“Asset Market Frictions in International Macroeconomics”

April 8
Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, Université de Genève
“Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection and Agglomeration”

April 15
Michael Waugh, New York University, Stern School of Business
“The Elasticity of Trade: Estimates and Evidence”

April 22
The Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture***(Note change of time and location)***
Avinash K. Dixit, Princeton University (Graham Lecturer)
“Governance and FDI”

April 29
Kei-Mu Yi, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
“Structural Change in an Open Economy”

May 6
Vernon Henderson, Brown University
“Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space”

May 13
Mariana Colacelli, Barnard College, Columbia University 
“Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports and Real Exchange Rates”

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.