May 1-2, 2009
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Friday, May 1, 2009 River Room | |
Moderator | Tom Holmes, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota |
1:00—2:00 |
“Markups and Firm-Level Export Status” [Slides] |
2:00—2:15 | Break |
2:15—3:15 |
“Does Foreign Competition Spur Productivity? Evidence from Post WWII U. S. Cement Manufacturing” [Slides] |
3:15—3:30 | Break |
3:30—4:30 |
“Market size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporter” [Slides] |
4:30—4:45 | Break |
4:45—5:45 |
“Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on IT and Innovation" [Slides] |
7:00 | Dinner at Sapor (invitation only) |
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Moderator |
Minjung Park, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota |
8:30—9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00—10:00 |
“Railroads and the Raj: Estimating the Economic Impact of Transportation Infrastructure” |
10:00—10:15 | Break |
10:15—11:15 |
“The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations |
11:15—11:30 | Break |
11:30—12:30 |
“A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics” |
12:30—1:15 | Lunch |
1:15—2:15 | “The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Columbia” Speaker: Maurice Kugler (Harvard) and Eric Verhoogen (Columbia) [Slides] Discussant: Michael Waugh [Slides] (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NYU) |
2:15—2:30 |
Break |
2:30—3:30 | “Do Falling Iceberg Costs Account for Recent US Export Growth?” [Slides] Speaker: George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), and Horag Choi (University of Auckland) Discussant: Kim Ruhl (NYU) [Slides] |