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Reception: IEFS and Review of International Economics (January 5, 2001, 6:00-7:30PM at Hilton Riverside-Grand Salon 22).

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Sessions:

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Global Aspects of International Trade (F1, F0): Sunday, January 7, 2001, 10:15AM, Hilton/Norwich.

***Presiding: Henry Thompson, Auburn University for Roy Ruffin, University of Houston

J. Peter Neary, University College Dublin -- Foreign Competition and Wage Inequality (Presidential Address)

Martin Richardson, University of Otago -- Trade Policy and Access to Retail Distribution

George Norman, Tufts University -- Internalization Revisited

Amitrajeet Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Hamid Beladi, University of Dayton -- A Dynamic Analysis of Protection and Environmental Policy in a Small Trading Developing Country

Discussants:

Ronald Jones, University of Rochester

Walter Oi, University of Rochester

Stephen L. Parente, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kar-Yiu Wong, University of Washington

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International Finance and Interest Rates (F3, F4): Saturday, January 6, 2001, 8:00AM, Hilton/Norwich.

***Presiding: J. Peter Neary, University College Dublin

Menzie D. Chinn, University of California at Santa Cruz and Council of Economic Advisers, and Guy Meredith, International Monetary Fund and Hong Kong Monetary Authority -- Interest Parity at Short and Long Horizons

Randal Verbrugge and Richard Ashley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute -- Real Exchange Rates and Real Interest Differentials Revisited

Joshua Aizenman, Dartmouth College, and Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington -- Reserve Requirements on Sovereign Debt in the Presence of Moral Hazard -- On Debtors or Creditors?

Walter Fisher and Franz Hof, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna -- Status and Small Open Economy Dynamics

Discussants:

David Parsley, Vanderbilt University

Nelson Mark, Ohio State University

Earl Grinols, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Theodore Palivos, Louisiana State University

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