NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

Conference on Research on Income and Wealth

Firm-level Data, Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Robert Feenstra, Organizer

August 7-8, 2003

Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


THURSDAY, AUGUST 7:

 

 

1:00 PM

ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER
Introduction

 

 

 1:15 AM

SUSAN FEINBERG, University of Maryland
MICHAEL KEANE, Yale University

Accounting for the Growth of MNC-based Trade using a Structural

 

Model of U.S. MNCs

 

 

 2:15 PM

Break

 

 

 2:45 PM

JONATHAN EATON, New York University and NBER

 

SAMUEL KORTUM, University of Minnesota and NBER

 

FRANCIS KRAMARZ, INSEE, France

 

An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms

 

 

3:45 PM

Break

 

 

 4:00 PM

MARK AGUIAR and GITA GOPINATH, University of Chicago

 

JOHN ROMALIS, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Cross-Border Ownership, Liquidity and Technology Transfer

 

 

 5:00 PM

Adjourn

 

 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8:

 

 

 8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 PM

GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

RAYMOND MATALONI, JR., Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

MATTHEW SLAUGHTER, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Expansion Abroad and the Domestic Operations of U.S. Multinational Firms

 

 

10:00 PM

Break

 

 

10:15 PM

MARIA BORGA and WILLIAM ZEILE, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

International Fragmentation of Production and the Intrafirm Trade of U.S.

 

Multinational Companies

 

 

11:00 PM

Break

 

 

11:15 PM

MARIA BORGA, Bureau of Economic Analysis

 

ROBERT LIPSEY, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY and NBER

 

Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Multinationals

12:00 N

Lunch and Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/13/03