Ceres

RIN 2002

•Call for Papers

•Program

•List of Participants

Tentative Program

REGIONAL INTEGRATION NETWORK
Punta del Este, Uruguay, December 17-19, 2002

Tuesday, December 17th

Session I: Brainstorming Sessions

09:00 - 10:30 am	“Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938” Jeffrey Williamson (Harvard University) Discussant: Stephen Meardon (IADB)
10:30 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm	“The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Income: A Survey on Empirics” Anthony Venables (London School of Economics and CEPR), joint with Henry G. Overman and Stephen Redding Discussant: Edward Leamer (UCLA Anderson School)
12:30 - 02:30 pm	Lunch
02:30 - 04:00 pm	“Endogenous Protection in Mercosul: A Quantitative Assessment” Renato Flôres (Fundação Getulio Vargas) Discussant: Mauricio Mesquita (IADB)
04:00 - 04:30 pm	Coffee Break
04:30 - 06:00 pm	“The FTAA as a Two-Level Bargaining Game” Anil Hira (Simon Fraser University) Discussant: Andrew Powell (UTDT)

Wednesday, December 18th

Session II: Brainstorming Sessions

09:00 - 10:30 am	“Reciprocity in Free Trade Agreements” Caroline Freund(The World Bank) Discussant: John Romalis (Chicago University)
10:30 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 pm	“The Currency Union Effect on Trade: Early Evidence from the European Union” Ernesto Stein (IADB), joint with Alejandro Micco and Guillermo Ordoñez Discussant: Eduardo Levy (UTDT)
12:30 - 02:30 pm	Lunch
02:30 - 04:00 pm	“Relative Prices and Wage Inequality: Evidence from Mexico” Raymond Robertson(Macalester College) Discussant: Pablo Sanguinetti (UTDT)

Thursday, December 19th

Round Table (open to the public)

08:30 - 09:00 am

Registration

09:00 - 09:15 am

Opening Remarks
Guillermo Calvo, Chief Economist, IADB
Ernesto Talvi, Executive Director, CERES

09:15 - 10:30 am	Presentation of the Economic and Social Progress Report (IPES) of the Inter-American Development Bank “Beyond Borders: The New Regionalism in Latin America” Panelists: Robert Devlin, Deputy Manager; Integration and Regional Programs Department, IADB Antoni Estevadeordal, Principal Trade Economist; Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division, IADB Ernesto Stein, Senior Economist, Research Department, IADB
10:30 - 10:45 am	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30 am	Panel of Discussants of the IPES TBA
11:30 - 12:30 pm	General Discussion (including questions from the public)

Notes:

Brainstorming Sessions

Brainstorming sessions will have a duration of 1 hour and 30 minutes. Each speaker will have 40 minutes to present the paper. Each paper will have a discussant and each discussant will have 20 minutes for his/her presentation. There will be 30 minutes for general discussion.