#KRUGMAN CONFERENCE HALL SERIES#

#KRUGMAN CONFERENCE HALL SERIES#

The first day of Alan's Festschrift involved a series of panels in which invited participants reflected on his contributions, including his writings on comparative advantage, trade and growth, the gains from trade and globalization, and computational modeling and trade policy analysis. Often the papers are presented at a conference prior to publication. A Festschrift book contains original contributions by the scholar's close colleagues and former students and is usually published on the occasion of the honoree's retirement or a milestone birthday (Alan turned 65 on June 6, 2009).

Deardorff.' The event was co-organized by two of Deardorff's former students, Drusilla Brown of Tufts University and Bob Staiger of Stanford University, together with Bob Stern representing the U-M.Ī 'Festschrift' is typically a volume of scholarly papers produced in honor of a distinguished academic. The conference, which brought many of the world's leading trade economists to Ann Arbor, was called 'Comparative Advantage, Economic Growth, and the Gains from Trade and Globalization: A Festschrift in Honor of Alan V. In early October, the Ford School and the Department of Economics hosted an academic conference honoring the career contributions of Alan V.

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