International Trade nd Investment.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment met at Stanford's Institute for Economic Policy Research on December 2 and 3, 2011. Program Director Robert C. Feenstra of the University of California, Davis organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* James Harrigan, University of Virginia and NBER, and Ariell Reshef, University of Virginia, "Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms, Trade Liberalization, and the Skill Premium" (NBER Working Paper No. 17604)

* Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics, "Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality"

* Ariel Burstein, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER, and Javier Cravino, University of California at Los Angeles, "Measured Aggregate Gains from International Trade"

* Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER; Natalia Ramondo, Arizona State University; Andres Rodriguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; and Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER, "Innovation and Production in the Global Economy"

* Ralph Ossa, University of Chicago and NBER, "Trade Wars and Trade...