International Trade and Investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's International Trade and Investment Program met at Stanford on December 1-2. Program Director Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Victor Couture, University of California, Berkeley; Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; Yizhen Gu, Jinan University; and Lizhi Liu, Stanford University, "E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China"

* Stephan Heblich, University of Bristol; Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER; and Daniel Sturm, London School of Economics, "The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London"

* Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER; Luca David Opromolla, Banco de Portugal; Fernando Parro, Johns Hopkins University; and Alessandro Sforza, London School of Economics, "Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement" (NBER Working Paper No. 23695)

* Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and NBER, and William W Olney, Williams College, "Globalization and Executive Compensation" (NBER Working Paper No. 23384)

* Andrew B. Bernard, Dartmouth College and NBER; Emmanuel Dhyne, National Bank of Belgium; Glenn C.G. Magerman, ECARES & NBB; Kalina Manova, University of Oxford; and Andreas Moxnes...