Murphy Institute Conference on The Political Economy of Migration | 24-25 March 2000 Richardson Memorial Building (Map), Room #305 Final Program   24 March 2000  

• 1:00p--Welcome
  
  
• Richard F. Teichgraeber III (Director of the Murphy Institute)
  
  
• Douglas R. Nelson (Murphy Institute)
  
  
• Panel I: Some Studies in the Economics of Migration (Chair, Doug Nelson)
  
  
• 2:00-3:30p--Panel IA: Regional Migration and Inequality
  
  
• Emilson C. D. Silva and Li Zhu (Tulane University): "Regional Inequalities and the Political Economy of Migration in China"
  
  
• Michael Burda (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): "East-West German Wage Convergence after Unification: Migration or Institutions?".
  
  
• 4:00-5:30p--Panel IB: The Relationship between International Trade and International Migration 
  
  
• Zhihao Yu (University of Nottingham): "Immigration and Trade Creation: What Can the Evidence from Britain Tell Us?". 
  
  
• Yutaka Horiba (Tulane University): "U.S. Interregional Trade and Migration". (Paper tables)
  
  

6:00p: Dinner at Upperline Restaurant (1413 Upperline St, New Orleans)

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  25 March 2000  

• Panel II: Political Economy of Immigration Policy (Chair, Antonio Spilimbergo, IMF)
  
  
• 9:00-10:30a--Panel IIa: Comparative Politics of Immigration
  
  
• Gary Freeman (University of Texas): "Political Science and Comparative Immigration Politics.".
  
  
• 10:30-11:00a: Coffee
  
  
• 11:00-12:30p--Panel IIb: Political Economy of U.S. Immigration Policy
  
  
• James Gimpel (University of Maryland): "From Consensus to Controversy:  The Congressional Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy"
  
  
• Matthew Slaughter (Dartmouth College): "What Determines Individual Preferences Over Trade and Immigration Policy?"
  
  
• 12:30-1:30p--Lunch
  
  
• 1:30-3:00p--Panel IIc: Political Economy of European Immigration Policy
  
  
• Grete Brochmann (Berkeley): "The Attraction of Europe. The Current Traps of Immigration Policies"
  
  
• André Sapir (Institut d'Études Européennes, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and European Commission): "The Political Economy of Migration in Europe"

 
• 3:00-3:15p: Coffee
 
• Panel III: Normative Theory for Political Economy of Migration (Chair, Arja Turunen-Red, University of New Orleans)
  
  
• 3:30-5:00p--Panel IIIa: Welfare Economics of Migration
  
  
• Peter Hammond (Stanford): "Gains from Trade versus Gains from Migration: What Makes Them So Different?"
  
  
•  Jaume Sempere (Collegio de Mexico): "Second best redistribution and migration."
  
  

 5:00-5:15p--Break


• 5:15-6:00p--Panel IIIb: Social Choice Perspective on Migration Policy 
  
  
• Doug Nelson (Tulane University) and Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University): "Normative Migration Theory: A Social Choice Theoretic Approach".
  
  
6:00p-6:45--Reception

7:00p--Dinner at Clancy's Restaurant (6100 Annunciation St, New Orleans)