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The IES hosts three Kenen Fellows in 2009-2010. Kalina Manova visits
from Stanford University, where she is Assistant Professor of
Economics. Her research has addressed the implications of credit
contraints for the pattern and consequences of international trade. She
has also studied trade behavior by Chinese firms. Most recently, Kalina
has been working on outsourcing in the information technology (IT)
industry. Natalia Ramondo is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Ausin. Her research focuses largely on the role of multinational corporations in international trade. She has studied the role of multinational production in diversifying technological risk and has tried to measure the contribution that multinational corporations make to the gains from trade. Frédéric
Robert-Nicoud
is Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva. His research
interests include economic geoography, international trade, and
political economy. Frédéric's recent research
examines the dynamics of international trade agreements, the effects of
offshoring of services on the spatial distribution of manufacturing
activities, and the distribution of costs and benefits from the
clustering of manufacturing activities. |