RSIE Schedule

Economics 841-842 Research Seminar in International Economics Schedule - Fall 2003
Seminar meets weekly, Fridays 11:40 AM - 1:00 PM except as noted, in the Smith Seminar Room (201) of Lorch Hall. Titles that are highlighted are available on line.
Date	Speaker		From	Topic
Sep 12	Jean-Marie Viaene		U of M	"On Procompetitive Trade Policies"
Sep 19	Peter Debaere		Texas	"Reversing the Perspective: Expansion Activities of Multinational Corporations From Middle-Income Countries"
Sep 26	Andrew Coleman		U of M	"Storage, slow transport, andthe law of one price: evidence from the nineteenth century US corn market"
Oct 3	David Papell		Houston	"Long Run Purchasing Power Parity: Cassel or Balassa-Samuelson"
Oct 10	NO SEMINAR
Oct 17	Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan		Houston	"Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An empirical investigation"
Oct 24	NO SEMINAR (Econ visiting committee)
Oct 31	Alan Deardorff		U of M	Comparative Advantage, based partly on "Ricardian Comparative Advantage with Intermediate Inputs"
Nov 7 12:10-1:30 201 Lorch	Nadia Sobeleva (Joint with IO)		Toronto	"Economic Reforms and Productivity of Domestic Firms and Industries"
Nov 14	Linda Tesar		U of M	TBA
Nov 21	Juan Carlos Hallak		U of M	"Specialization, Factor Accumulation, and Development"
Dec 5	Lucia Tajoli		U of M	"Patterns of International Fragmentation of Production and Implications for the Labor Market"
Dec 12 9 AM - 1 PM B-School Board Room	INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
		Peter Schott 9:30	Yale	"Export Prices and the Divergence of Leaders and Followers on the International Quality Ladder"
		Jim Tybout 11:30	Penn State	"Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses: Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence"
Dec 19	Bill Powers		U of M	"The Usual Suspects: An Empirical Roundup of Sources of Missing Trade and Their Magnitudes"