International Trade and Investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met in Cambridge on March 22 and 23, 2013. Program Director Robert Feenstra of University of California, Davis, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Alberto Cavallo, MIT; Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER; and Roberto Rigobon, MIT and NBER, "Product Introduction, Currency Unions, and the Real Exchange Rate" (NBER Working Paper No. 18563)

* JaeBin Ahn, International Monetary Fund, "Estimating the Direct Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks on the Real Economy: Evidence from Letter-of-Credit Import Transactions in Colombia"

* Dennis Novy, University of Warwick, and Alan Taylor, University of Virginia and NBER, "Trade and Uncertainty"

* Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER, and Jing Zhang, University of Michigan, "Ricardian Productivity Differences and the Gains from Trade"

* Robert Johnson, Dartmouth College and NBER, and Andreas Moxnes...