International Trade And Investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on March 23 and 24, 2012. NBER Research Associate Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Runjuan Liu, University of Alberta, and Daniel Trailer, University of Toronto and NBER, "A Sorted Table of Globalization: White Collar Jobs and the Rise of Service Offshoring" (NBER Working Paper No. 17559)

* Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER, and Zhiwei Zhang, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, "Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality"

* Robert C. Johnson, Dartmouth College, and Guillermo Noguera, Columbia University, "Fragmentation and Trade in Value Added over Four Decades"

* Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon and NBER; Lionel Fontagne and Farid Toubal, Paris School of Economics; and Nicholas Sly, University of Oregon, "Cherries for Sale: The Incidence of Cross-Border M&A"

* Natalia Ramondo, Arizona State University; Veronica...