In Honor of Ronald Findlay

Sponsored by

Department of Economics, Columbia University 

Program in Economic Policy Management

Center for Economic and Political Analysis

Association of Graduate Economic Students

Friday, April 20, 2001, 3 PM

Roundtable on Trade, Development, Political Economy, and History

15^th Floor, International Affairs Building, Columbia University

Chair: Douglas Irwin (Economics, Dartmouth)

1.Trade and Development

- Francisco Rivera-Batiz (Economics, Columbia)

- Ronald Jones (Economics, Rochester) 

2.Political Economy

- Marc Busch (Business, Queens, Canada)

- Stanislaw Wellisz (Economics, Columbia)

3.History and Economics

- Herbert Klein (History, Columbia)

- Michael Edelstein (Economics, Queens, NY)

- Mats Lundahl (Stockholm School of Economics)

The purpose of this Friday session is to open the conference with a discussion of links between work in each of these areas.The session will run from 3:00 pm until 5:30 pm on Friday, April 20, and will be followed by a reception.The session should prove a fitting opening to the celebration of Ronald Findlay and help set the stage for the paper presentations on the next day.

5:30 pmReception Hosted by Ron and Jane Findlay, Faculty House, Harrison Room

Saturday April 21, 2001

8:30 Coffee and Donuts, 15^th Floor, International Affairs Building, Columbia University

9:00Welcoming Remarks

Richard Clarida, Chair, Department of Economics

Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Director, Program in Economic Policy Management

Introduction to the Conference

Douglas Irwin, Donald Davis, Co-Organizers

Sessions

I. Ronald Jones, “Economic Development, Trade, and Wages”

II. Alan Deardorff, “Local Comparative Advantage”

III. Anne Krueger, “Crony Capitalism, Directed Lending, and the Role of Financial Institutions in Development”

IV. Kevin O’Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson,“After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800.”

V.Douglas Irwin, “How Did the United States Become a Net Exporter of Manufactured Goods? ”

VI. Rob Feenstra (with Gordon Hanson), “Intermediaries in Entrepôt Trade: Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods”

VIIDonald Davis and David Weinstein, “A New Approach to Bilateral Trade Patterns and Balances”

6:30 - 10:00 pm:Conference Dinner at Salaam Bombay, 317 Greenwich Street, near Duane Street, TriBeCa, (212) 226-9400. Map

Other anticipated participants include: Kyle Bagwell, Jagdish Bhagwati, Andre Burgstaller, Bob Baldwin, Guillermo Calvo, Alessandra Casella, Rich Clarida, Max Corden, Slobodan Djajic, Avinash Dixit, Theo Eicher, Linda Goldberg, Penny Goldberg, Harry Grubert, Ann Harrison, Henryk Kierzkowski, Paul Krugman, Bob Lipsey, Mats Lundahl, Robert Mundell, Peter Neary, Maury Obstfeld, Rohini Pande, Priya Ranjan, Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Jay Wilson, Bin Xu.

Contact: Donald Davis,or Douglas Irwin.