International trade and investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on March 26-27, 2010. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra of the University of California, Davis, organized the meeting and chose these papers to discuss:

* Jonathan Eaton, Pennsylvania State University and NBER; Sam Kortum and John Romalis, University of Chicago and NBER; and Brent Neiman, University of Chicago, "Trade and the Global Recession"

* Daniel Berger and Shanker Satyanath, New York University; William Easterly, New York University and NBER; and Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER, "Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War"

* James E. Anderson, Boston College and NBER, and Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University, "Specialization: Pro- and Anti- Globalizing, 1990-2002"

* Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER, "Do Tariffs Affect the Terms of Trade? Evidence from U.S. Tariff Shocks"

* Xiaobo Lu and Kenneth F. Scheve, Yale University, and Matthew J. Slaughter, Dartmouth College and NBER, "Envy, Altruism, and the...