International trade and investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment, directed by Robert Feenstra of the University of California, Davis, met in Cambridge on March 20-21. These papers were discussed:

* Michael Dickstein, Stanford University and NBER, and Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER, "What do Exporters Know?"

* William Lincoln, Johns Hopkins Liniversity, and Andrew McCallum, Federal Reserve Board, "The Rise of Exporting By U.S. Firms"

* Thibault Pally, University of California, Berkeley, and Russell Hillberry, The World Bank, "A Coasian Model of International Production Chains"

* Emily Blanchard, Dartmouth College, and William Olney, Williams College, "Globalization and Human Capital Investment: How Export Composition Drives Educational Attainment"

* Ryan Monarch, Federal Reserve Board, "It's Not You, It's Me: Breakups in U.S.-China Trade...