Second Annual Conference on:

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.