Organized by Francisco Buera and Mark Wright

Friday, November 20, 2009

9:00 - 9:30: Coffee and pastries
9:30 - 10:45: Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University)
"Two Perspectives on Preferences and Structural Transformation",
with Richard Rogerson (Arizona State University) and Ákos Valentinyi (Magyar Nemzeti Bank)
10:45 - 11:15: coffee
11:15 - 12:30: Michael E. Waugh (NYU-Stern)
"Specialization, Economic Development and Aggregate Productivity Differences",
with David Lagakos (Arizona State University)
12:30 - 2:00: Lunch at UCLA Faculty Club
2:00 - 3:15: Ana Cecilia Fieler (University of Pennsylvania),
"Non-Homotheticity and Bilateral Trade: Evidence and a Quantitative Explanation"
3:15 - 3:45: coffee
3:45 - 5:00: Thomas Chaney (University of Chicago),
"Technological Mismatch: A Model of Internatioal Trade in Goods and Ideas"