Department of Economics
The University of Western Ontario
 

Conference on International Trade
Friday, September 21 - Saturday, September 22, 2001

Room 9420 Social Science Centre


Special Guest: Jim Melvin

Conference Co-ordinator: Sharon Phillips

Friday, September 21, 2001

9:00 - 9:45 Jim Markusen (Boulder)
General-Equilibrium Approaches to the Multinational Firm: A Review of Theory and Evidence
9:45 - 10:30 Ray Riezman (Iowa)/John Whalley (UWO)
How Reasonable are Assumptions Used in Theoretical Models?: Computational Evidence on the Likelihood of Trade Pattern Changes
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Ig Horstmann (Toronto/UWO)
Multi-Issue Bargaining and Linked Agendas: Ricardo Revisited or No Pain No Gain
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 Dan Trefler (Toronto)
Waltzing with Heckscher and Roy: International Trade and Rent-Seeking
2:15 - 3:00 Bob Conlon (New South Wales)
Canada and the Development of the Australian Auto Industry
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:15 Ronald Jones (Rochester)
Joint Outputs and Real Wages
6:00 pm Dinner and Reception
Michael's (Reception - 6:00 pm, Dinner - 7:00 pm)

Saturday, September 22, 2001

9:30 - 10:15 Rick Harris/Nic Schmitt (SFU)
An Analysis of Canada-U.S. Intra-Industry Trade
+ Appendix
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30 Alan Deardorff (Michigan)
Local Comparative Advantage: Trade Costs and the Pattern of Trade
11:30 - 12:15 Elton Fairfield (UWO)
Explaining the Decrease in the Canada-US Border Effect
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 James Redekop (Waterloo)
Heterogenous Time Preference and the Distributions of Wealth and Income

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