Economics 841-842:
Research Seminar in International Economics
Schedule - Winter 2003

Seminar meets weekly, Fridays 11:40 AM - 1:00 PM except as noted, in the Smith Seminar Room (201) of Lorch Hall. Titles that are highlighted are available on line.
Date Speaker From Topic
Sep 27 Kathy Yuan U of M "What Drives Stock Market Liberalization? Politics of Financial Development in Emerging Markets"
Oct 4 Jean Imbs London Business School "Volatility, Growth, and Aggregation"
Oct 11 Sebastian Auguste, Kathryn Dominguez, Herman Kamil, and Linda Tesar U of M "Cross-Border Trading as a Mechanism for Capital Flight: ADRs and the Argentine Crisis"
Oct 18 Lee Branstetter Columbia "Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States"
Oct 25 INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Jonathan Eaton NYU "Plants and Productivity in International Trade"
Peter Schott Yale "Survival of the Best Fit: Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth in US Manufacturing Plants"
Nov 1 Marc Melitz Harvard "Exports vs FDI"
Nov 8 Alex Monge Northwestern "Foreign Organizations and Human Capital"
Nov 15 INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Kristin Forbes MIT "One Cost of the Chilean Capital Controls: Increased Financial Constraints for Small Firms"
Nelson Mark Notre Dame "Continuous-Time Market Dynamics, ARCH Effects, and the Forward Premium Anomaly"
Nov 22 Ben Chabot and Chris Kurtz U of M "That's Where the Money Was. Home Bias and English Investments Abroad"
Dec 6 Andrew Coleman U of M "Gold flows and triangular arbitrage: estimating the dollar-sterling gold points, 1886-1905"
For more information about the seminar, e-mail Linda Tesar.

Schedules from Earlier Terms: Winter 02 Fall 01 Winter 01 Fall 00 Winter 00 Fall 99 Winter 99 Fall 98 Winter 98 Fall 97 Winter 97 Fall 96
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