International Trade and Investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's International Trade and Investment Program met in Cambridge on March 16-17. The meeting focused on "Trade and Geography." International Trade and Investment Program Director Stephen J. Redding and Research Associate Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, both of Princeton University, organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Enrico Berkes, Northwestern University and Ruben Gaetani, University of Toronto, "Income Segregation and Rise of the Knowledge Economy"

* Fabian Eckert, Yale University, and Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER, "Spatial Structural Change"

* Matthew J. Delventhal, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Barcelona GSE, "The Globe as a Network: Geography and the Origins of the World Income Distribution"

* Bernt Bratsberg and Oddbjorn Raaum, Frisch Centre, Oslo, and Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo, "Opening the Floodgates: Immigration and Structural Change"

* Peter Egger and Nicole Loumeau, ETH Zurich, "The Economic Geography of Innovation"

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