Brookings Trade Forum

The Brookings Trade Forum, launched in 1997, provides a new platform for addressing current issues in international trade and finance. Its central tenet is that good policy is made in light of informed debate.

Each year, the editor(s) select a set of topical questions that revolve around a broad theme and identify experts to prepare papers on each topic. These papers provide relevant background information and policy analysis at a level that is accessible to a broad audience. A key feature of the forum is a two-day conference focused on the identified topics. The attendees are a diverse and relatively large number of local individuals from government, international institutions, academia and the private sector, in addition to the identified experts. A significant product of the forum is a volume containing the revised papers and discussant commentary, which is published within twelve months.

FORUM 2007 - FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (in progress)

This project will explore key dimensions of the issues and implications raised by FDI, including the importance of FDI for China's economic performance and the role of tax policy differences across countries in determining the location and productivity of FDI.

FORTHCOMING PAPERS:

How to Investigate the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development, and Use the Results to Guide Policy
Author: Theodore Moran (Georgetown University)

Discussants
Laura Alfaro (Harvard University)

Beata Javorcik (The World Bank)


China and FDI
Authors: John Whalley (University of Western Ontario) & Xian Xin (China Agricultural University)

Discussants
Nicholas Lardy (The Peterson Institute for International Economics)
Wing Thye Woo (The Brookings Institution)


Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI
Authors: Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University/Cornell University) & Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University)

Discussants
Mihir Desai (Harvard University)

Deborah Swenson (The University of California, Davis)


Profit Sharing Between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel
Authors: Margaret McMillan (Tufts University) & Andrew Waxman (The World Bank)

Discussant
Shang-Jin Wei (IMF/The Brookings Institution)


Returns on FDI: Does the US Really Do Better?
Authors: Barry Bosworth (The Brookings Institution), Susan M. Collins (The Brookings Institution/Georgetown University), & Gabriel Chodorow Reich (The Brookings Institution)

Discussant
Cedric Tille (The Federal Reserve Board of New York)


PREVIOUS TRADE FORUM JOURNALS

Brookings Trade Forum 2006: Global Labor Markets?
Susan M. Collins and Carol Graham, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 2005: Offshoring White-Collar Work
Susan M. Collins and Lael Brainard, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 2004: Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality
Susan M. Collins and Carol Graham, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 2003
Susan M. Collins and Dani Rodrik, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 2002
Susan M. Collins and Dani Rodrik, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 2001
Susan M. Collins and Dani Rodrik, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 2000
Susan M. Collins and Dani Rodrik, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 1999
Susan M. Collins and Robert Z. Lawrence, eds.

Brookings Trade Forum 1998
Robert Z. Lawrence


CONTACT US


Lindsey Wilson
Phone: (202) 797-6283
Fax: (202) 797-6181
E-mail: tradeforum@brookings.edu