January 18

"A Trade Restrictiveness Index for the United States" (from 1867 to 1960)
Irwin, Doug, Darmouth

January 25

"How and Why Does Trade Grow?"
Tim Kehoe, University of Minnesota

Februrary 8

"Vertical Linkages in Partial Equilibrium Models"
James Fetzer, U.S. International Trade Commission

March 7

"Trade, Politics, and the Environment Tailpipe vs. Smokestack"
Carol McAusland, University of Maryland, College Park

March 13

"The 2007 Farm Bill: Help or Hindrance to the Doha Round and Resolution of the Brazil Cotton Case?"
Prof. Robert Thompson, University of Illinois

March 29

"China's Emerging Domestic Debt Markets" (from 1867 to 1960)
Pieter Bottelier, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University

April 5

"U.S. Antidumping on Vietnamese Catfish: Impacts on Mekong Farmers"
Irene Brambilla, Yale

April 26

"Developing Economies and International Investors: Do investment promotion agencies bring them together?"
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, World Bank

May 3

"Legislated Protection and the WTO"
T. Renee Bowen, Georgetown University

May 7

"Stuctural Estimation and Solution of Internation Trade Models with Heterogeneous Firms"
Edward J. Balistreri, Colorado School of Mines

June 6

"Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity"
Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon

September 26

"China’s Innovation Policy in the Context of National Innovation System Reform"
Lan Xue, Professor and Director China Institute for S&T Policy, Tsinghua Uniiversity

September 27

"The Rising Sophistication of China’s Exports: Assessing the Roles of Processing Trade, Foreign Invested Firms, Human Capital, and Government Policies "
Zhi Wang, USITC and Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University

October 4

"Closing China's Trade Surplus"
Doug Nyhus, INFORUM, University of MD

October 11

"Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China"
Will Martin, World Bank

November 7

"Developing Countries in International Trade 2007 – Trade and Development Index (TDI) "
Sujip Ranjan Basu, UNCTAD Victor Ognitsev, UNCTAD

November 8

"Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China’s Environment"
Judy Dean, USITC and Mary Lovely, Syracuse University

November 15

"Measuring U.S. International Relative Prices: A WARP View of the World "
Jaime Marquez, Federal Reserve Board

November 29

"The Genesis of the GATT"
Doug Irwin, Dartmouth College and Petros Mavroidis, Columbia University Law School Jointly Hosted by the USITC and the World Bank"

December 6

"Getting Ready: Preparation for Exporting"
Leonardo Iacovone, University of Sussex and World Bank

December 20

"BEA's Industry Accounts: Current Status and Future Prospects"
Erich Strassner, BEA