Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis March 1-2, 1991 |
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Friday, March 1 | |
1:00 p.m. | Welcome |
1:15 p.m. | David Cox, University of Waterloo “An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis of the Impact of a Canada-Mexico-U.S. Free Trade Agreement on Canada” (Joint work with Richard G. Harris) |
2:30 p.m. | Horacio Sobarzo, El Colegio de Mexico “A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Gains from Trade for the Mexican Economy of a North American Free Trade Agreement” |
3:45 p.m. | Break |
4:15 p.m. | Drusilla Brown, Tufts University “A Computational Analysis of a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement” (Joint work with Alan Deardorff andRobert Stern) |
5:30 p.m. | Cocktail party |
Saturday, March 2 | |
9:00 a.m. | Clinton R. Shiells, U.S. Department of Labor “Trade Substitution Elasticities for Analysis of a North American Free Trade Area” (Joint work with Kenneth A. Reinert) |
10:15 a.m. | Break |
10:45 a.m. | James R. Markusen, University of Colorado “U.S.-Mexico Free Trade and the North American Auto Industry: A Theoretical and Applied General Equilibrium Analysis” (Joint work with Linda Hunter and Thomas F. Rutherford) |
12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00 p.m. | Luis Rivera Batiz, University of California at San Diego “Economic Integration and Endogenous Growth” (Joint work with Paul M. Romer) |
2:15 p.m. | Patrick J. Kehoe, University of Minnesota “In Search of Scale Effects in Models of Trade and Growth” (Joint work with David K. Backus and Timothy J. Kehoe) |
3:00 p.m. | Break |
3:30 p.m. | Round Table Discussion: Economic Modeling and the Free Trade Agreement |