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ECON 281/ARE 239 Seminar in International Economics Spring 2002 Mondays 12-2 pm, 639 Evans Instructors: Prof. Maurice Obstfeld obstfeld@econ.berkeley.edu Prof. Ann Harrison harrison@are.berkeley.edu January 28 Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth) "Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam." February 4 Scott Taylor (Wisconsin) "Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol" February 11 Andrew Rose (Haas School, UC Berkeley) "One Reason Countries Pay their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade" February 18 Holiday February 25 Philippe Martin (New York Federal Reserve Bank) "Financial Globalization and Emerging Markets: With or Without Crash?" March 4 Gordon Hanson (UC San Diego) "The Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns" March 11 Rob Feenstra (UC Davis, visiting Berkeley) "A Market-Power Based Model of Business Groups" March 18 David Weinstein (Columbia) "Bones, Bombs, Breakpoints" March 25 No seminar (spring break) April 1 No seminar April 8 Romain Wacziarg (Stanford University) "Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements" April 15 Rebecca Hellerstein (UC Berkeley) "Vertical Contracts and Exchange Rate Pass-Through" Pablo Klein (UC Berkeley) "The Impact of NAFTA on Stock Returns in Mexico" April 19 Friday, 10-11:30 am. 639 Evans Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth) The Deaths of Manufacturing Plants" April 22 Alex Cukierman (Tel Aviv University) "The Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes and Speculative Attacks" April 29 Jim Levinsohn (University of Michigan) "Productivity in a Differentiated Products Markets" May 6 Deborah Swenson (UC Davis) "Overseas Assembly and Country Sourcing Choices" May 13 Don Davis (Columbia) "Technological Superiority and the Losses from Migration"