Third Annual Day-Long Conference
Friday, April 12, 2013
Lindner Family Commons, 6th Floor
1957 E ST. NW, Washington D.C. 20052

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Second Annual Conference
April 6, 2012
1957 E Street

• Session 1: 8:30-9:20

• Rafael Dix-Carneiro "Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics" University of Maryland

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  Kara Reynolds as discussant - Comments

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• Session 2: 9:20-10:10

• Mine Senses "Globalization, Labor Markets and the Role of Human Capital" Johns Hopkins University-SAIS (with Pravin Krishna and Guru Sethupathy)

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  Teresa Fort as discussant - Comments

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• Coffee Break

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• Session 3: 10:30-11:20

• Anna Maria Mayda "Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions" Georgetown University (with Rod Ludema and Prachi Mishra)

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  Michael Moore as discussant - Comments

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• Session 4: 11:20-12:10

• Robert Feinberg "Exports-at-Risk: The Effect of Multi-Market Contact in International Trade" American University

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  Zhi Wang as discussant - Comments

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• Lunch

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• Session 5: 1:20-2:10

• Erhan Artuc "Trade Policy and Wage Inequality: A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility" World Bank (with John McLaren)

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• Session 6: 2:10-3:00

• Tani Fukui, "A Global Database of Foreign Affiliate Activity" U.S. International Trade Commission (with Csilla Lakatos)

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  Andrei Zlate as discussant - Comments

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• Coffee Break

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• Session 7: 3:20-4:10

• Chris Kurz "Trade and Volatility at the Firm and Plant Level" Federal Reserve Board (with Mine Senses)

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  Logan Lewis as discussant - Comments

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• Session 8: 4:10-5:00

• Maggie Chen "Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillovers: Identifying the Impact of Multinational Activity on Aggregate Productivity" George Washington University (with Laura Alfaro)

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  Laura Alfaro as discussant - Comments

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First Annual Day-Long Conference
March 11, 2011
1957 E Street

• 8:00-8:45: Continental breakfast

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• 8:45-9:00: Opening remarks by Michael Moore (GWU)

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• 9:00-10:00: J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University
  Multi Market Service Firms
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  Jose Signoret (ITC) as discussant

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• 10:00-11:00: Nuno Limao, University of Maryland-College Park
  Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence
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  Chris Kurz (Fed) as discussant - Comments

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• Coffee break

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• 11:20-12:20: Pravin Krishna, Mine Senses - Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), and Jennifer Poole - UC-Santa Cruz
  Trade Liberalization, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
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  Rod Ludema (Georgetown) as discussant - Comments

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12:20-1:30: Lunch Break

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• 1:30-2:30: Hiau Looi Kee, The World Bank
  Local Intermediate Inputs, Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of Domestic Firms: When Firms Share Common Local Input Suppliers
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  Michael Moore (GWU) as discussant - Comments

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• 2:30-3:30: Maggie Chen, George Washington University and Institute for International Economic Policy
  The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
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  Michael Ferrantino (ITC) as discussant - Comments

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• Coffee break

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• 3:45-4:45: Benjamin Mandel, Federal Reserve Board
  Offshoring, Terms of Trade and the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth.
  Related Papers:
  Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing: Implications for Productivity and Value Added
  Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth
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  Justin Pierce (Census) as discussant - Comments

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The conference will be held at The Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, DC.

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George Washington University's Institute for International Economic Policy, housed at the Elliott School of International Affairs, is dedicated to producing and disseminating high-quality non-partisan academic and policy relevant research on international economic policy. Areas of focus include international trade, international finance, and development economics.