RSIE Schedule

Economics 841-842 Research Seminar in International Economics Schedule - Fall 2007
Seminar meets weekly, this year on Thursdays 11:40 AM - 1:00 PM in the Smith Seminar Room (201) of Lorch Hall, except as noted. Exceptions are indicated for seminars joint with the seminars for Macroeconomics (Macro), Applied Microeconomics (ApMic), Business Economics (BE) in the Business School, and the Economic Development and Transition Seminar (ETDS) of the International Policy Center (IPC) of the Ford School. Titles that are highlighted are available here on line.
Date	Day	Time	Place	Jnt/w	Speaker	From	Topic
Sep 6, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Alan Deardorff and Bob Stern	U of M	"Some Reflections on Nurkse�s 'Patterns of Trade and Development'"
Sep 13, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Kozo Kiyota	U of M	"Paths of Development in a Neoclassical Growth Model"
Sep 20, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Isao Kamata	U of M	"Comparative Advantage, Firm Heterogeneity, and Selection of Exporters"
Sep 27, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Arnoud Costinot	UCSD	"What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions"
Oct 4, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Ivan Kandilov	NCSU	"The Determinants of Service Offshoring: Does Distance Matter?"
Oct 11, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Neviana Petkova	U of M	"Does Foreign Ownership Lead to Higher Firm Productivity?"
Oct 18, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Honggue Lee	U of M	"Protection Effects of AD Measures: A Case of the United States during the Period of 1990-1996"
Oct 25, 2007	Thu	NOTE: 4-5:30 PM	1230 Weill	BE & EDTS	Andrew Bernard	Dartmouth	"Intra-Firm Trade"
Nov 1, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		Pol Antràs	Harvard	"Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective"
Nov 8, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch		James Rauch	UCSD	"Gravity and Matching"
Nov 15, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	201 Lorch	BE	Christian Broda	Chicago GSB	"Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications"
Nov 30, 2007	NOTE: Fri	10-11:30 AM	201 Lorch	ApMic, BE, EDTS	Michael Kremer	Harvard	"Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation, and Institutions"
Dec 5, 2007	NOTE: Wed	4-5:30 PM	201 Lorch	Macro	Vincenzo Quadrini	USC	"Financial Liberalization and International Business Cycle"
Dec 6, 2007	Thu	11:40 AM	NOTE: 5240 Weill		Lucia Tajoli	Politecnico di Milano and Bocconi	"Does Offshoring Affect the Domestic Labor Market? The Case of Italy"
Dec 12, 2007	NOTE: Wed	4-5:30 PM	201 Lorch	Macro	Guido Lorenzoni	MIT	"Persistent Appreciations and Overshooting: A Normative Analysis"