|
Conference Agenda
Day 1
Friday, October 17, 2008 UCSC University Center Alumni Room
Session I: Chair: Phil McCalman (SCCIE)
8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15am Welcoming Remarks
9:15-10:30am James Harrigan (University of Virginia)
"Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence"
Discussant: Kalina Manova (Stanford)
10:30-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45-12:00pm David Papell (University of Houston)
"Taylor Rules and the Euro" (with Tanya Molodtsova and Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy)
Discussant: Sylvain Leduc (SF Federal Reserve Board)
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
Session II: Chair: Michael Hutchison (SCCIE)
1:30-2:45pm Jonathan Robinson (UC Santa Cruz)
"Village Banking and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Kenya"
Discussant: Seema Jayachandran (Stanford)
2:45-3:00pm Coffee Break
3:00-4:15pm Viktoria Hnatkovska (University of British Columbia)
"Interest Rates and the Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale" (with Amartya Lahiri and Carlos Vegh)
Discussant: Mark Spiegel (SF Federal Reserve Board)
4:15-4:30pm Closing Remarks
4:30-5:30pm External Advisory Board Meeting (University Center Sentinel Room)
5:00-6:00pm Reception (University Center Rotunda, Bar, Lanai)
6:00-8:00pm Dinner (University Center Bhojwani Dining Room)
*Keynote Address by Ricardo Hausmann (Harvard University)
"Products, Capabilities, and Development"
Presentation of Eileen Brooks Memorial Scholarship Award
By: UCSC Economics Department Chair, Ken Kletzer
To: 4th Year Ph.D. Student, Conglin Xu
Day 2
Saturday, October 18, 2008 UCSC University Center Alumni Room
Session III: Chair: Joshua Aizenman (SCCIE)
8:30-9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:15am Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado)
"Estimating the Productivity Selection and Technology Spillover Effects of Imports"
Discussant: Jennifer Poole (UC Santa Cruz)
10:15-11:30am Matilde Bombardi (University of British Columbia)
"Competition and Political Organization: Together or Alone in Lobbying for Trade Policy?"(with Francesco Trebbi)
Discussant: Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University)
11:30-11:45am Coffee Break
11:45-1:00pm Nelson Mark (Notre Dame University)
"PPP Strikes Out: The effect of common factor shocks on the real exchange rate" (with Donggyu Sul)
Discussant: Dennis Novy (Warwick University)
1:00pm Closing Remarks Lunch
|
