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 :: Economics Analysis Seminar Series
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Office of Economics
Economics Analysis Seminar Series
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
2011
Thursday,
December 1, 2011 |
"Costs of Starting to Trade and Costs of Continuing to Trade"
Tim A. Graciano,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service |
Thursday,
November 17, 2011
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"Supercycle Subdued? Challenges to Two-Speed Recovery"
Kati Suominen
, Resident Fellow in Economics at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and American Assembly's Next Generation Fellow |
Thursday,
November 10, 2011
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"SPS Regulations on Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports and Exports"
Everett Peterson, Virginia Tech University |
Thursday,
October 20, 2011 |
"Ethnic Networks and Price Dispersion"
Michael Anderson, Washington and Lee University
Stephen Smith, Gordon College
Martin Davies, Washington and Lee University |
Thursday,
September 8, 2011 |
"Developing Professional Services in Africa: How Regional Integration Can Help"
Nora Dihel, World Bank
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Thursday,
August 4, 2011
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"Emission Taxes and Border Adjustments of Oligopolistic Industries"
Morihiro Yomogida
, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan |
Thursday,
July 28, 2011
11:30 a.m. |
"The Effect of CO2 Emissions Reduction on the U.S. Electricity Sector"
Stefan Osborne, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce |
Thursday,
July 21, 2011
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"Potential Implications of a Special Safeguard Mechanism in the World Trade Organizaion: the Case of Wheat"
Amanda M. Leister
, Market and Trade Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service |
Thursday,
July 14, 2011 |
"Brazil's Trade Policy: Old and New Issues"
Mauricio Mesquita Moreira, Inter-American Development Bank |
Thursday,
June 16, 2011 |
"Domestic Regulation and U.S. Exports "
David Riker, International Trade Administration |
Thursday,
June 2, 2011 |
"Does Exporting Increase Productivity? Evidence from India"
Megha Mukim, London School of Economics; Visiting Scholar, Columbia University and SAIS |
Thursday,
May 12, 2011 |
"Mycotoxins Regulations and International Trade Flows Of Agricultural Products: Are the Effects As Large As Perceived"
Devesh Roy, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Thursday,
April 28, 2011 |
"Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up"
Susan Aaronson, The George Washington University |
Thursday,
April 21, 2011 |
"Integration in the Absence of Institutions: China-North Korea Cross-Border Exchange"
Marcus Noland, Peterson Institute for International Economics |
Thursday,
April 7, 2011 |
"Innovation through Protection: Does Safeguard Protection Increase Investment in Research and Development"
Benjamin H. Liebman and Kara M. Reynolds, St. Joseph's University and American Univerity |
Thursday,
February 17, 2011 |
"Estimating Foreign Value-Added in Mexico's Manufacturing Exports "
Justino De La Cruz, U.S. International Trade Commission |
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2010
Tuesday,
December 7, 2010
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"The U.S. Recession:Can Trade Policy Help? "
Peter B. Dixon, Center of Policy Studies, Monash University
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Thursday,
December 2, 2010
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"Accounting for Underutilization of Trade Preference Programs: Generalized System of Preferences "
Shushanik Hakobyan, University of Virginia
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Thursday,
December 1, 2010
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“Pitfalls in Assessing Exchange Rate Undervaluations ”
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University |
Thursday,
November 18, 2010
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“Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance ”
Maggie Chen, George Washington University |
Thursday,
October 28, 2010
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“Product Standards Harmonization and Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade ”
Daniel Reyes, Georgetown University |
Thursday,
September 23, 2010 |
“Estimating Trade Elasticities from District-Level U.S. Import Data ”
David Riker, U.S. Department of Commerce - International Trade Administration |
Thursday,
August 5, 2010
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“Domestic Coalitions and the Push for Policy Change in Bangladesh's Garments and Textiles Industry ”
Sanchita Saxena, University of California-Berkeley and Woodrow Wilson Center |
Thursday,
July 22, 2010 |
“Knowledge Capital, Product Differentiation and Market Structure: a Comparative Static CGE Analysis ”
Csilla Lakatos, Purdue University |
Thursday,
July 15, 2010
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“Trade Policy and the Crisis ”
Chad Bown, World Bank |
Thursday,
May 20, 2010 |
“India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005 ”
Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Thursday,
April 15, 2010 |
“Big Constraints to Small Firms' Growth ”
Mary Hallward-Driemeier, World Bank |
Thursday,
March 18, 2010 |
“Optimizing the Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Benefits of CAFTA-DR: Trade-Led Agricultural Diversification ”
David Bathrick, Rural Growth Strategist and Retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer |
Thursday,
March 4, 2010
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“Protection for Free: The Political Economy of U. S. Tariff Suspensions ”
Rodney Ludema, Georgetown University |
Thursday,
February 25, 2010 |
“Foreign Acquisitions and National Security: What are Genuine Threats? What are Implausible Worries? A Framework for OECD Countries, and Beyond”
Theodore Moran, Georgetown University and Peterson Institute for International Economics |
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2009
Thursday,
November 19, 2009 |
"How Much of South Korea's Growth Miracle Can be Explained by Trade Policy?"
Kei-Mu Yi, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadephia |
Thursday,
November 12, 2009 |
“Trade as Engine of Creative Destruction: The Mexican experience with Chinese competition”
Leonardo Iacovone, World Bank |
Thursday,
November 5, 2009 |
“The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia”
Maurice Kugler, CID, Harvard University and Wilfred Laurier University |
Thursday,
October 29, 2009 |
“Implications of Limiting CO2 Concentrations for Land Use and Energy ”
Ronald Sands , U.S. Department of Agriculture |
Thursday,
October 15, 2009 |
“What Triggers an Antidumping Investigation? Finding the Devil in the Details”
Russell Hillberry, University of Melbourne |
Thursday,
September 24, 2009 |
"The Implications of New Trade Potentials to Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Low Income Countries"
John Mellor, John Mellor Associates, Inc. |
Thursday,
June 04, 2009 |
"Land Transport for Exports: The Effects of Cost, Time, and Uncertainty in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Nannette Christ, USITC
Michael Ferrantino, USITC |
Thursday,
May 28, 2009 |
"Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India"
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University |
Thursday,
May 21, 2009 |
"Compensating for Climate Change: An Analysis of Weather-Related Deaths"
David Wheeler, Center for Global Development |
Thursday,
April 30, 2009
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"Climate Treaties and International Trade: Problems and Prospects"
Scott Barrett, SAIS, John Hopkins University |
Wednesday,
April 15, 2009
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"Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence"
James Harrigan United States International Trade Commission
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Thursday,
March 19, 2009
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Robert Johnson IES Fellow, Princeton University |
Thursday,
February 26, 2009
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James Giesecke Monash University |
Thursday,
February 19, 2009
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Paul Brenton World Bank |
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2008
Thursday,
December 11, 2008
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"Avoidance Behaviors of Exporters and Importers: Evidence From the U.S.-China Trade Data Discrepancy"
Michael Ferrantino, International Economist, United States International Trade Commission;
Zhi Wang, International Economist, United States International Trade Commission
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Wednesday,
November 19, 2008 |
"Cyclical Dumping and US Antidumping Protection: 1980-2001,"
Meredith Crowley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Thursday,
November 13, 2008 |
"India's rapid rise in the global economy"
Arvind Panagariya, Professor Columbia University
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Thursday,
October 23, 2008 |
"Trade Policy and Development: The Role of U.S. Preference Programs"
Kim Elliot, IIE and Center for Global Development |
Thursday,
October 16, 2008
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"Seeping in Slowly: The WTO and Human Rights"
Susan Aaronson, George Washington University |
Thursday,
October 02, 2008
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"Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier"
Harry Broadman, Managing Director, Albright Group
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Thursday,
September 25, 2008 |
"Assessment of Five-Year Impact of the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Tade Agreement on Vietnam's Trade, Investment, and Economic Structure"
Steve Parker, Development Alternatives, Inc.
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Thursday,
June 26, 2008 |
"Trade Remedies and Non-Market Economies: Economic Implications of the First U.S. Countervailing Duty Case on China"
Longyue Zhao and Yan Wang, World Bank |
Thursday,
June 19, 2008
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"Comparing Policies to Combat Emissions Leakage: Border Tax Adjustments versus Rebates"
Alan K. Fox, United States International Trade Commission and
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future
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Tuesday,
June 03, 2008
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"Quality Competition, Pricing-To-Market and Non-Tariff Measures"
Michael Ferrantino, Robert Feinberg, and Lauren Deason United States International Trade Commission
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Thursday,
May 15, 2008 |
"Location Decisions of Hetergeneous Multinational Firms"
Maggie Chen and Michael O. Moore George Washington University
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Thursday,
May 01, 2008
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"Market-Driven Regionalism in Asia: Integration, Competitiveness and the Quest for Best Practices"
Michael Plummer, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University and East-West Center
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Tuesday,
April 29, 2008 |
"How much of Chinese exports is really made in China? Assessing Foreign and Domestic Value-in Gross Exports?"
Robert B. Koopman, Zhi Wang, United States International Trade Commission and Shang-Jin Wei, CEPR and NBER
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Thursday,
March 27, 2008
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"China´s and India´s Challenge to Latin America"
Daniel Lederman, World Bank |
Thursday,
March 20, 2008 |
"A Consistent Picture of the Protection Across the World in 2004: MAcMap-HS6 Version 2"
David LaBorde, IFPRI
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Monday,
February 25, 2008 |
"Reducing Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.: A Dynamic CGE Analysis"
Peter B. Dixon, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University,
Martin Johnson U.S. Department of Commerce,
Maureen T. Rimmer, Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University |
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2007
Thursday,
December 20, 2007
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"BEA's Industry Accounts: Current Status and Future Prospects"
Erich Strassner, BEA
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Thursday,
December 06, 2007
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"Getting Ready: Preparation for Exporting"
Leonardo Iacovone, University of Sussex and World Bank
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Thursday,
November 29, 2007 |
"The Genesis of the GATT"
Doug Irwin, Dartmouth College and
Petros Mavroidis, Columbia University
Law School Jointly Hosted by the USITC and the World Bank
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Thursday,
November 15, 2007 |
"Measuring U.S. International Relative Prices: A WARP View of the World"
Jaime Marquez, Federal Reserve Board
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Thursday,
November 08, 2007
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"Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China´s Environment"
Judy Dean, United States International Trade Commission and Mary Lovely, Syracuse University |
Wednesday,
November 07, 2007
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"Developing Countries in International Trade 2007 - Trade and Development Index (TDI)"
Sujip Ranjan Basu, UNCTAD and
Victor Ognitsev UNCTAD
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Thursday,
October 11, 2007
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"Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China"
Will Martin, World Bank
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Thursday,
October 04, 2007
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"Closing China's Trade Surplus"
Doug Nyhus, INFORUM, University of MD |
Thursday,
September 27, 2007
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"The Rising Sophistication of China´s Exports: Assessing the Roles of Processing Trade, Foreign Invested Firms, Human Capital, and Government Policies"
Zhi Wang, United States International Trade Commission and Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University
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Wednesday,
September 26, 2007
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"China´s Innovation Policy in the Context of National Innovation System Reform"
Lan Xue Professor and Director China Institute for S&T Policy, Tsinghua Uniiversity
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Wednesday,
June 06, 2007
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"Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity"
Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon
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Monday,
May 07, 2007
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"Stuctural Estimation and Solution of Internation Trade Models with Heterogeneous Firms"
Edward J. Balistrer, Colorado School of Mines |
Thursday,
May 03, 2007
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"Legislated Protection and the WTO"
T. Renee Bowen, Georgetown University
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Thursday,
April 26, 2007 |
"Developing Economies and International Investors: Do investment promotion agencies bring them together?"
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, World Bank
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Thursday,
April 05, 2007
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"U.S. Antidumping on Vietnamese Catfish: Impacts on Mekong Farmers"
Irene Brambilla, Yale
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Thursday,
March 29, 2007
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"China's Emerging Domestic Debt Markets (from 1867 to 1960)"
Pieter Bottelier, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University
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Tuesday,
March 13, 2007
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"The 2007 Farm Bill: Help or Hindrance to the Doha Round and Resolution of the Brazil Cotton Case?"
Prof. Robert Thompson, University of Illinois
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Wednesday,
March 07, 2007
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"Trade, Politics, and the Environment Tailpipe vs. Smokestack"
Carol McAusland, University of Maryland, College Park
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Thursday,
February 08, 2007
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"Vertical Linkages in Partial Equilibrium Models"
James Fetzer, United States International Trade Commission
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Thursday,
January 25, 2007
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"How and Why Does Trade Grow?"
Tim Kehoe, University of Minnesota
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Thursday,
January 18, 2007
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"A Trade Restrictiveness Index for the United States (from 1867 to 1960)"
Irwin Doug, Darmouth
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2006
Monday,
December 18, 2006
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"Partial-Equilibrium Analysis of RTAs: Deep Integration and Trade-Productivity Links"
Sherman Robinson, University of Sussex
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Thursday,
December 14, 2006
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"An Anatomy of China's Trade Growth"
Caroline Freund, World Bank
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Thursday,
October 19, 2006
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"Structural Estimation and Solution of International Trade Models with Heterogeneous Firms"
Russell H. Hillberry, University of Melbourne
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Thursday,
October 12, 2006
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"Accouting for Discrepancies in Bilateral Trade: The Case of China, Hong Kong and the U.S."
Michael Ferrantino and, Zhi Wang United States International Trade Commission
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Thursday,
October 05, 2006
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"Does Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization? An Empirical Analysis"
Michael O. Moore, George Washington University
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Thursday,
September 21, 2006
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"How Fragmented is China's Trade?"
K.C. Fung, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz and
Judy Dean, United States International Trade Commission
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Thursday,
September 14, 2006
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"Does China Need a New Growth Model?"
James Riedel, Johns Hopkins University - SAIS
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Thursday,
July 13, 2006
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"Estimating Hong Kong Re-export Markups and Reconciling Trade Statistics from China, Hong Kong and Trading Partners"
Zhi Wang, United States International Trade Commission
Mark Gelher, USDA, and
Shunli Yao, CCER, Peking University
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Thursday,
June 29, 2006
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"A Spatial Model of International Price Dispersion"
Michael Anderson, and Washington and Lee University, Kurt Schaefer, Calvin College
Stephen Smith, Gordon College
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Thursday,
June 08, 2006
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"Sectoral Gravity Modeling of Free Trade Agreements"
Bill Powers, United States International Trade Commission
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Thursday,
June 01, 2006
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"Global Logistics Indicators, Supply Chain Metrics, and Bilateral Trade Patterns"
Uma Subramanian, World Bank
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Thursday,
May 11, 2006
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"The Productivity Effects of Services Liberalization Evidence from the Czech Republic"
Jens Arnold, World Bank
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Thursday,
April 27, 2006
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"Japan´s Protection and the Effects of Reducing It"
Scott Bradford, Brigham Young University and Institute for International Economics
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Wednesday,
April 12, 2006
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"Does Regionalism Increase Foreign Direct Investment? An Empirical Investigation"
Maggie Chen, George Washington University
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Thursday,
March 16, 2006
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"The Effects of Outsourcing on the Elasticity of Labor Demand"
Mine Senses, Johns Hopkins University
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Thursday,
January 19, 2006
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"Policy Anchors: How Do Free Trade Agreements Compare With WTO Accessions As Vehicles For Developing-Country Policy Reform?"
Michael Ferrantino, United States International Trade Commission
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2005
Thursday,
November 17, 2005
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"Analysing Convergence with a Multi-Country Computable General Equilibrium Model"
Peter Dixon, and Maureen Rimmer, Monash University
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Thursday,
November 03, 2005
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"Doha Agricultural and Other Merchandise Trade Reform: What´s at Stake?""
Kym Anderson, University of Adelaide and World Bank
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Thursday,
October 20, 2005
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"Growth Dynamics: The Myth of Economic Recovery"
Valerie Cerra, IMF Institute and Sweta Saxena, University of Pittsburgh
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Thursday,
September 29, 2005
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"Service Outsourcing, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from US"
Mary Amiti, International Monetary Fund
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Thursday,
May 05, 2005
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"Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members' International Trade"
Jeff Bergstrand, University of Notre Dame
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Thursday,
April 14, 2005
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"Initiating U.S. Free Trade Agreements: How Do Potential Partners Stack Up"
Michael Moore, George Washington University
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Thursday,
March 24, 2005
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"Offshoring Tariff Evasion: Evidence from Hong Kong as Entrepot Trader"
Shang-Jin Wei, International Monetary Fund and Brookings Institution
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Thursday,
March 03, 2005
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"Estimating the Poverty Impacts of a WTO Agreement"
Tom Hertel, Purdue University and World Bank
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Papers are posted as they become available.
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Location: 500 E Street, SW
Washington, DC
Room : Conference Room - 615P
Metro Directions:
Take the orange, blue, yellow or green lines to the L'Enfant Plaza stop. Use the exit marked "7th & D Sts." Exit through the construction, down the stairs. Turn right and walk east to the corner of 6th and D Sts. (half a block). Turn right and walk south on 6th St. (2 blocks) to the corner of 6th and E Sts. The USITC building is on the left (SW corner).
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