Free Trade and Business at the Border
Tom Fullerton & Alberto Davila
Wednesday, 26 Oct 2016 at 7:00 pm – Richard and Joan Stark Lecture Hall, 1148 Gerdin Business Building
Tom Fullerton and Alberto Davila will discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement-NAFTA, including cross-border trade, the border economy, and its impact on labor markets and business. Both are graduates of the Iowa State Department of Economics. Tom Fullerton is a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and holds the Endowed Trade in the Americas Chair in the UTEP College of Business Administration. His work focuses on border economics, econometrics and regional forecasting. Alberto Davila is Associate Dean and V.F. "Doc" and Gertrude Neuhaus Chair for Entrepreneurship in the Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is a labor economist with a focus on the U.S.-Mexico border. Part of the Economics Forum and World Affairs SeriesCosponsored By:
- Economics
- World Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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