MSU-CIBER and the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) are co-sponsoring a conference on "International Trade: Firms and Workers," to be held at the University of Nottingham June 24 "25, 2010. This conference is a follow-up to a workshop on "Testing Trade Models with Labor Market Heterogeneity," hosted by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in December 2008. That earlier workshop, also co-sponsored by MSU-CIBER, brought together researchers from around the world for the purpose of initiating collaborative research aimed at developing a better understanding of the labor-market effects of globalization in a world where workers have heterogeneous skills and firms have heterogeneous technologies. Eighteen months hence, projects that emerged from that initial meeting are beginning to take shape and will be presented in Nottingham. Colleagues from Michigan State and Nottingham will be joined by researchers from the University of Oregon, University of California at San Diego, Columbia University, University of London, University of Copenhagen, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and Koc University.

The 2010 meeting will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from June 25-29, 2010.

Ambassador Han Duk-Soo of the Republic of Korea will be discussing the US/Korea Free Trade Agreement and the significance of the relationship between Michigan & Korea for both US exports and Foreign Direct Investment.

Elizabeth Haar, president and CEO of Accident Fund Holdings, will speak.

Professor Yves Doz has published path-breaking research on the strategy and organization of multinational companies, particularly in high technology industries, most notably including The Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision, co-authored with C.K. Prahalad (1987) and From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy co-authored with José Santos and Peter Williamson, two INSEAD colleagues (2001). The latter book showed how companies can mobilize dispersed knowledge to learn from the world. His research on strategic alliances has been summarized in Alliance Advantage, co-authored with Gary Hamel (1998). In Fast Strategy: How Strategic Agility Will Help You Stay Ahead of the Game (2008), Yves considers the dilemma faced by successful companies who often become victims of their own success. Yves Doz is Professor of Business Strategy and the Timken Chaired Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD.

Joe Badra from ICCS, Inc. will present on the topic "Doing Business in the Middle East"

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Dr. Kerem Cosar will present a research seminar on Adjusting to Trade Liberalization: Reallocation and Labor Market Policies. Dr. Cosar studies international trade and macroeconomics. His research contributes to the analysis of the short run effects of increased international competition. Dr. Cosar's bio can be found at: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=21748432896.

The annual International DEC Conference will be hosted for the first time in Detroit at the Renaissance Center Marriot from October 24 to 27, 2010. This year's Conference is entitled "Capitalizing on America's Export Advantages: Green and Innovation" and will feature world-renowned businesspersons and high-level government officials. Billed as the largest North America conference in 2010 devoted to exporting, the Conference is expected to attract in excess of 500 attendees. Among the unique aspects of the conference will be a private briefing in Windsor, Canada to attendees by the Canada Border Services Agency as well as opportunities to meet with Canadian businesses.

Tom Nickels, senior vice president of Federal Relations, American Hospital Association, will speak.