Institute for International Economic Policy
News & Events
Antidumping Use Across the World
Implications for Developing Countries and U.S. Businesses
Thursday and Friday, April 9 & 10, 2009
Lindner Commons, Suite 602
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
Thursday, April 9, 2009
8:00 - 8:45 a.m. - Continental breakfast
8:45 - 9:45 a.m. - Tom Prusa (Rutgers and NBER) - Trade Liberalization, Tariff Overhang and Antidumping Filing in Developing Countries"
Discussant: Michael Moore (GWU-IIEP) PPT
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Maurizio Zanardi (ULB-ECARES): "Trade Liberalization and Antidumping in Developing Countries: Is There a Substitution Effect?" - Paper and PPT
Discussant: Rod Ludema (Georgetown)
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. - Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Kara Reynolds (American): "Overcoming Free-Riding: A Cross-Country Analysis of Firm Participation in Antidumping Petitions" - Paper and PPT
Discussant: Judith Dean (USITC) PPT
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - Chad Bown (Brandeis) "Exporters in Developing Countries: Adjustment to Foreign Market Access after a Trade Policy Shock"
Discussant: Bob Feinberg (American) PPT
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Justin Pierce (Georgetown): "Plant Level Responses to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturers" - Paper and PPT
Discussant: Maggie Chen (GWU-IIEP) PPT
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Friday, April 10, 2009
"Expanding Use of Antidumping and Prospects for Reform"
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. - Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Global Antidumping Use and Implications for Developing Countries
Chad Bown (Brandeis)
Maurizio Zanardi (ULB-ECARES) PPT
Jorge Miranda (King and Spaulding) PPT
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Basic Concepts of Antidumping
Tom Prusa (Rutgers and NBER) - Economists' Views
Matt Nolan (Arent Fox) - Lawyers' views
Stephen Claeys (former Dep. Asst. Sec. for Import Administration) - Administrators' views
11:00 - 11:15 a.m. - Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Reforming Antidumping
Michael Moore (GWU-IIEP) - Economists' views PPT
Jim Durling (Winston and Strawn) - Respondent Lawyers' views
Stephen Jones (King and Spaulding) - Petitioner Lawyers' views
12:15 - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch and Keynote Address
Grant Aldonas (former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade)
"Trade Remedies' Impact on U.S. Commercial Policy"
Upcoming Events
2nd Annual "G2 at GW" Conference on Chinese Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations" on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
Confirmed speakers include Dr. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute; Harry Harding, Dean, University of Virginia; Prof. Bruce Reynolds, University of Virginia; Prof. Loren Brandt, Univ. of Toronto; Prof. John Giles, Michigan State University and World Bank; Prof. Zhu Caihua, China Foreign Affairs University; Prof. Margaret Pearson, Univ. of Maryland; Dr. Lixin Colin Xu, World Bank; Dr. Philip Levy, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute; and Prof. Bruce Dickson, GWU.
The event is made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. Seating will be limited: to register send an email to iiep@gwu.edu. Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy, The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and GW-Center for International Business Education and Research
Recent Events
Vera Chiodi, Poverty Action Lab J-PAL Europe, and Paris School of Economics, "The Existence of Poverty Traps: Old Question-New Answer. Evidence from Rural Mexico"
Friday, November 13, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Suite 501, 1957 E Street, NW
RSVP to iiep@gwu.edu
Sergio Margulis (Lead Environmental Economist for Climate Change) and Urvashi Narain (Senior Environmental Economist), World Bank, "Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: Methodology"
Thursday, November 12, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Suite 505, 1957 E Street, NW
RSVP to iiep@gwu.edu
Phillip Swagel (Georgetown and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy), "The Financial Crisis: An Inside View"
Wednesday, November 11, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lindner Commons, 1957 E Street, NW, Suite 602
RSVP to iiep@gwu.edu
Breakfast with Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
Tuesday, November 10, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
City View Room, 1957 E St., NW
This event is CLOSED. Cosponsored by the Washington International Trade Association.
Randy Kroszner (U of Chicago and former Federal Reserve Board Governor), "Crisis Response at the Fed and the New Regulatory Landscape"
Friday, November 6, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Gerald Nelson (IFPRI), "Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts and the Costs of Adaptation in Developing Countries"
Tuesday, November 3, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"Correcting Global Imbalances: How Much Farther Do We Have To Go?"
Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Pearlstein (Washington Post)
Friday, 2 October, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
For analysis of Mr. Pearlstein's remarks click here.
Prof. Steve Charnovitz (GWU)
Book talk on "Global Warming and the World Trading System"
(March 2009, coauthored with Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jisun Kim). Friday, 18 September, 12:00-2:00 p.m. at 1957 E St., NW, Room 601M. This event made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor.
IIEP cosponsored "The Day Before: A Conference on the Security Implications of Climate Change" on Thursday, 10 September, 2009 in conjunction with the American Security Project. Participants included Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass), former CIA Director James Woolsey, member of the Nobel Prize (2007) winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton), Charles Glaser (GWU), Adil Najam (Boston University), Ladeene Freimuth (Freimuth Group, LLC), Bernard Finel (American Security Project), and Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn (U.S. Navy, Ret.).
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