Economics Faculty
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Economics
549 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
(510) 642-0822
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Last Modified: 04/28/2003
Seminar in International Economics
Spring 2003
Mondays 12-2 pm
608-7 Evans Hall (before spring break)
201 Giannini Hall (after spring break)
Instructors:
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| Prof. Maurice Obstfeld obstfeld@econ.berkeley.edu |
Prof. Ann Harrison
harrison@are.berkeley.edu |
| January 20 | Holiday |
| January 27 | Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University) "An Information-Based Trade Off between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Portfolio Investment: Volatility, Transparency, and Welfare" |
| February 3 | 2-4 pm (Note change of time) Chang-Tai Hsieh (Princeton University) "Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity" |
| February 10 | Mark Wright (Stanford University) "Reputations and Sovereign Debt" |
| February 17 | Holiday |
| February 24 | Peter Blair Henry (Stanford University) "Risk Sharing and Asset Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment" |
| March 3 | Giovanni Peri (UC Davis) "Knowledge Flows and Innovation" |
| March 10 | Hui Tong (UC Berkeley) "Banking Crises and Currency Crises" |
| March 17 | Alan Taylor (UC Davis) Sovereign Risk, Credibility and the Gold Standard: 1870-1913 versus 1925-31" (with Maurice Obstfeld) |
| March 24 | No Seminar (spring break) |
| All seminars after spring
break (except the May 5th meeting) will be held in 201 Giannini
Hall. |
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| March 31 | Ed Leamer (UCLA) "Can FTAA suspend the law of gravity and give the Americas high growth and better income distributions?" |
| April 7 | Susan Collins (Brookings and Georgetown) "Probabilities, Probits and Currency Crises" [Paper and Figures] |
| April 14 | Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth) "Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics" |
| April 21 | Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto) "The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement" |
| April 28 | Kose John (New York University) "A Theory of Comparative Corporate Governance" [Paper 1] and [Paper 2] |
| May 5 | Note: This seminar will be held in
608-7 Evans. Bernard Yeung (New York University) "Corporate Stability and Economic Growth" |
| May 12 | No Meeting |