Fall 2005
ECONOMICS 281
International Trade and Finance Seminar

(Supported by the Clausen Center for International Business & Policy & the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley)


Instructor: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
E-mail:
Seminar Room: 639 Evans Hall
Schedule: Monday 12:10 - 2:00
29 August Organizational Meeting
5 September Labor Day Holiday , No Meeting
12 September Mark M Spiegel , San Francisco Federal Reserve
Offshore Financial Centers: Parasites or Symbionts? (with Andrew K Rose)
*21 September* Roland G Fryer Jr (Department Seminar) , Harvard University Society of Fellows
An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White' [Time: 4-5:30pm, Location: 608-7 Evans Hall]
26 September Andrew Atkeson , UCLA
Trade Costs, Pricing to Market and International Relative Prices (with Ariel Burstein)
5 October Dan McFadden,(Department Seminar) UC Berkeley
[Time: 4-5:30pm, Location: 608-7 Evans Hall]
10 October Marc Melitz (Department Seminar) , Harvard University
Trading Partners and Trading Volumes
[Location: 608-7]
19 October Stephen Morris (Department Seminar) , Princeton University
[Time: 4-5:30pm, Location: 608-7 Evans Hall]
26 October Torsten Persson (Department Seminar) University of Stockhom & IIES
[Time: 4-5:30pm, Location: 608-7 Evans Hall]
31 October Rich Lyons , University of California, Berkeley
Exchange Rate Fundamentals and Order Flow
Joint with Martin Evans
7 November Rui Pedro Esteves , University of California, Berkeley
Quis custodiet quem? Sovereign Debt and Bondholders' Protection Before 1914
14 November Andres Rodriguez Clare , Pennsylvania State University
A Political-Economy Theory of Trade Agreements [Location: 31 Evans Hall]
CHANGE OF TIME notice
meets 12:30-2:00 p.m.
in 31 Evans
*15 November* George Akerlof (Department Seminar) , UC Berkeley
"The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics" [Time: 4-5:30pm, Location: 608-7 Evans]
28 November Adam Szeidl , UC Berkeley
Imports and Productivity
with Miklos Koren and Laszlo Halpern
5 December Steve Redding , LSE (Princeton)
The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification
The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification (slides)

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