【Speaker】Professor Robert C. Feenstra, C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair Professor, University of California, Davis

【Topic】Exports and Credit Constraints under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China

【Time】14:30-16:00pm, 2011-04-21, Thursday

【Venue】Weilun 409, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Organizer】Department of Economics, Center for International Economic Research at Tsinghua University

Speaker’s Bio

Professor Robert C. Feenstra graduated from MIT in 1981, with a Ph.D. in Economics. He taught at Columbia University from 1981 to 1986, and currently is the C. Bryan Cameron Distinguished Chair Professor at the University of California, Davis. Professor Feenstra is the director of “International Trade and Investment” program of NBER. He was the editor forJournal of International Economicsand associate editor forAmerican Economic Reviewand other top journals in economics. Professor Feenstra was the winner of “Bernhard Harms Prize” in 2007 for his significant contributions to theoretical and empirical research in international trade.

Professor Feenstra is the author of “Advanced International Trade: Theory and Evidence,” and “International Economics” (co-authored with Alan Taylor), both of which have been widely adopted in the economics departments of top universities in the world. In 2008, professor Feenstra and professor WEI Shangjin co-edited a book “China’s Growing Role in World Trade.”