International Trade and Investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco on December 4-5, 2009. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra of University otc California, Davis, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Edward Leamer, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, "The Heckscher-Ohlin Framework and the Craft of Economics"

* Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University and NBER, "Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium"

* Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER; Arnaud Costinot, MIT and NBER; and Andres Rodriguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State University and NBER, "New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?"

* Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER, "Exports and Financial Shocks"

* Katheryn Russ, University of California, Davis and NBER, and Diego Valderrama, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, "Financial Choice in a Non-Ricardian Model...