Session Title: Parallel Imports and
Trade Policy
Time and place: Saturday, Jan 3rd, at 2:30 PM in Pacific Suite C
of the Marriott Hotel.
Presiding: Kamal Saggi,
Southern Methodist
University
Keith E. Maskus
(University of Colorado
– Boulder) – Competition
policy, wholesale price discrimination, and parallel imports (Presidential
address)
Kamal Saggi (Southern Methodist University) – Parallel imports under
endogenous market structure
Ben Zissimos
(Vanderbilt University) – Optimum tariffs and
retaliation: how country numbers matter
Ronald Davies (University College,
Dublin) and Carsten Eckel (University
of Bamberg) – Tax
competition for heterogeneous firms with endogenous entry
Discussants:
Eric W. Bond (Vanderbilt University)
Martin Richardson (Australian National University)
Costas Syropoulos
(Drexel University)
Ben Zissimos
(Vanderbilt University)
Session Title: What
the Big Mac and the Taylor Rule Have in Common
Time and place: Saturday, Jan 3rd, at 10:15 AM in Pacific Suite
C of the Marriott Hotel.
Presiding: Mario J. Crucini, Vanderbilt University
Robert Driskill
(Vanderbilt University) – Big Mac Exchange Rates: A
General Equilibrium Dynamic Model.
Andrei Zlate
(Boston College) – Production Sharing and
Business Cycle Co-Movements with Heterogeneous Firms
Yin-Wong Cheung
(UC – Santa Cruz) and Eiji
Fujii (University
of Tsukuba) – Deviations from the Law
of One Price in Japan.
Hyeongwoo Kim (Auburn University)
and Masao Ogaki (Ohio
State University)
– Purchasing Power Parity and the Taylor Rule.
Discussants:
Kanda Nakoi (Purdue University)
Joel Rodrigue
(Vanderbilt University)
Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt University)
David Papell (University of Houston)