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2012 West Coast Trade Workshop

Saturday, March 3

8:30am:  Breakfast and Welcome


GAINS FROM TRADE
Chair:  Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon


9:00am – 10:00am:
Different Trade Models, Different Trade Elasticities?
Ina Simonovska, UC Davis (with Michael Waugh)


10:00am – 11:00am:  
Increasing Returns and Economic Prosperity:  How Can Size Not Matter?
Andres Rodriguez-Clare, UC Berkeley (with Natalia Ramondo and Milagro Saborio-Rodriguez)

11:00am – 11:15am:  Coffee Break


11:15am – 12:15pm:
Estimating the Gains from Liberalizing Services Trade:  The Case of Passenger Aviation           
Anca Cristea, University of Oregon (with David Hummels)


12:15pm – 2:00pm:  Lunch


TRADE AND INVESTMENT PARTICIPATION
Chair:  Jennifer Poole, University of California, Santa Cruz


2:00pm – 3:00pm:
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions with Heterogeneous Firms:  Technology vs. Market Motives
Donghyun Lee, University of Oregon – Winner: West Coast Trade Graduate Student Award

3:00pm – 4:00pm:
Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity:  Evidence from Chinese Exporters           
Heiwai Tang, Tufts and MIT Sloan (with Yua Ma and Yifan Zhang)

4:00pm – 4:15pm:  Coffee Break

4:15pm – 5:15pm:
Processing vs. Ordinary Trade
Kalina Manova, Stanford University (with Zhihong Yu)

Sunday, March 4


8:30am:  Breakfast

GLOBALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONS
Chair:  Nicholas Sly, University of Oregon


9:00am – 10:00am:

The Impacts of Post-TRIPS Patent Reforms on the Structure of Exports

Keith Maskus, University of Colorado (with Lei Yang)

10:00am – 11:00am:  
Offshoring, Unemployment, and Wages:  The Role of Labor Market Institutions           
Priya Ranjan, UC Irvine

11:00am – 11:15am:  Coffee Break


TRADE COSTS
Chair:  Alan Spearot, University of California, Santa Cruz


11:15am – 12:15pm:
Understanding Markups in the Open Economy under Bertrand Competition           
Katheryn Russ, UC Davis (with Beatriz de Blas)

12:15pm – 1:15pm:
How Geography Affects Quality
Alexandre Skiba, Univeristy of Wyoming (with Volodymyr Lugovskyy)


1:15pm:  Adjourn.


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