International Trade and Development Workshops Fall 2007

Trade and Development Workshops are held on Tuesdays from 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. in the John W. Kendrick Seminar Room, Monroe Hall 321 (located on 2115 G Street) unless otherwise noted. For information contact Steven Suranovic at (202) 994-7579; smsuran@gwu.edu or Michael O. Moore (202) 994-6157; mom@gwu.edu.

Tues., 29 Jan 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Marc Busch (Georgetown University) with Jennifer Tobin "A BIT is Better Than a Lot: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Preferential Trade Agreements"

Tues., 5 Feb 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Santiago Levy (Chief Economist, Inter-American Development Bank) "Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes; Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico"

Mon., 11 Feb 2008 Time: 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Nuno Limao (University of Maryland-College Park) "Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from International Trade Agreements"

Tues., 19 Feb 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Jiandong Ju (Oklahoma and IMF)
"When is quality of financial system a source of comparative advantage?"

Tues., 4 March 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University) with Bob Staiger
"An Incomplete-Contracting Theory of the WTO's Dispute Settlement Procedure"

Tues., 11 March 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University) "Bilateralism, Pure Multilateralism, and the Quest for Global Free Trade"

Tues., 25 March 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Vijayendra Rao, World Bank, “The Political Construction of Caste in South India” (with Radu Ban, LSE)

Friday, 28 March 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m. CANCELLED
Marc F. Bellemare (Duke) "Testing between Competing Theories of Reverse Share Tenancy" --Please note different day

Tues., 1 April 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Scott Baier (Clemson University and currently at the Council of Economic Advisers)
"Estimating the Effects of Free Trade Agreements on Trade Flows
Using Matching Econometrics"

Fri., 11 April 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
James Foster (Vanderbilt and Oxford) with Sabina Alkire (Oxford)
"Multidimensional Poverty Measurement" --Please note different day

Tues., 15 April 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Maggie Chen and Sumit Joshi (George Washington University)
"Third-Country Effect in the Evolution of Free Trade Networks"

Tues., 22 April 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Xavi Gine (World Bank)
"Rational Expectations? Evidence from Planting Decisions in Semi-Arid India "

Tues., 29 April 2008 Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Virginia Robano and Chris Blaha (George Washington University)
PhD Dissertation Research Seminars