International trade and investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met at Stanford University on December 5-6, 2014. NBER Research Associate Gordon Hanson of University of California, San Diego organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Treb Allen, Northwestern University and NBER; Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER; and Yuta Takahashi, Northwestern University, "Universal Gravity"

* Colin Hottman, Columbia University; Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER; and David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER, "What is Firm Heterogeneity in Trade Models? The Role of Quality, Scope, Markups, and Cost" (NBER Working Paper No. 20436)

* Jonathan Eaton, Brown University and NBER; Samuel Kortum, Yale University and NBER; and Francis Kramarz, CREST, "Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market"

* Andrew Bernard and Andreas Moxnes, Dartmouth College and NBER, and Yukiko Saito, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, "Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance"

* Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER, and Matej Drev, Georgia Institute of...