Thursday, April 16, 1998
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8:30 A.M.
| Continental Breakfast
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9:00 A.M.
| Introductory Remarks
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| Daniel P. Mulhollan, Director, CRS
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| Robert M. Stern, University of Michigan
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9:10 A.M.
| Foreigners and Robots: Assistants of
Some, Competitors of Others
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| Author:
| Edward Leamer,
UCLA
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| Discussants:
| Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute
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| T. N. Srinivasan, Yale University
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10:30 A.M.
| Coffee Break
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11:00 A.M.
| Economic
Research and the Debate over Immigration Policy
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| Author:
| George Borjas, Kennedy School
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| Discussants:
| Jack Otero, Otero GlobalResources
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| Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
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12:30 P.M.
| Lunch
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2:00 P.M.
| U.S.
Trade Adjustment Assistance Policies for Workers
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| Author:
| Greg Schoepfle, U.S. Department of Labor
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| Discussants:
| Steve Beckman, UAW
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| J. David Richardson, Syracuse University and IIE
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3:15 P.M.
| Coffee Break
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3:45 P.M.
| Has Trade Strengthened or Weakened U.S. and Foreign Environmental
Quality?
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| Author:
| John Kirton, University of Toronto
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| Discussants:
| David van Hoogstraten, Environmental Protection Agency
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| Alan V. Deardorff, University of Michigan
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Friday, April 17, 1998
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8:30 A.M.
| Continental Breakfast
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9:00 A.M.
| The
Role of Labor Standards in U.S. Trade Policies
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| Author:
| Gary Fields, Cornell University
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| Discussants:
| Pharis Harvey, International Labor Rights Fund
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| Dani Rodrik, Kennedy School
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10:15 A.M.
| Coffee Break
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10:45 A.M.
| The Simple Economics of Labor Standards and the GATT
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| Author:
| Robert W. Staiger, University of Wisconsin (with Kyle Bagwell, Columbia
University)
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| Discussants:
| John H. Jackson, Georgetown University
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| Jeffrey Schott, Institute for International Economics
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12:00 NOON
| Lunch
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1:30 P.M.
| U.S. Trade Policies and Consumer Welfare
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| Author:
| Drusilla K. Brown, Tufts University
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| Discussants:
| Mark Silbergeld, Consumers Union
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| Avinash Dixit, Princeton University
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2:45 P.M.
| Coffee Break
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3:15 P.M.
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Panel Discussion:
| The Role of Interest Groups in the Design and Implementation
of U.S. Trade Policies
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| Panelists:
| Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute
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| Phyllis Shearer Jones, Elan International
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| Robert Naiman, Public Citizen � Global Trade Watch
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| Michael Jendrzejczyk, Human Rights Watch/Asia
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| Nancy Dunne, Financial Times
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5:00 P.M.
| End of Conference
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