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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 International Trade & Investment

Eric Verhoogen and Stephen J. Redding, Organizers

July 8-11, 2013

Hotel Marlowe

Muse Ballroom

25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 8:

OFFSHORING AND FDI

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:30 am


Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Gino Gancia, CREI
Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich
Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

Discussant: Jon Vogel, Columbia University and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Paola Conconi, ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Andre Sapir, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Maurizio Zanardi, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
The Internationalization Process of Firms: from Exports to FDI

Discussant: Eduardo Morales, Columbia University

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Felix Tintelnot, Pennsylvania State University
Global Production with Export Platforms

Discussant: Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER

2:00 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Kamran Bilir, University of Wisconsin
Davin Chor, Singapore Management University
Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER
Host Country Financial Development and MNC Activity

Discussant: Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon and NBER

3:30 pm

Adjourn

TUESDAY, JULY 9:

SORTING

8:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
Philipp Kircher, University of Pennsylvania
Matching and Sorting in the Global Economy

Discussant: Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Jonathan I. Dingel, Columbia University
The Comparative Advantage of Cities

Discussant: Daniel Sturm, London School of Economics

11:15 am

Depart for the Sonesta and joint session with International Trade & Macroeconomics

12:00 n

Lunch – Ballroom B at the Royal Sonesta Hotel


1:00 pm


Friederike Niepmann, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Banking across Borders

Discussant:
Katheryn N. Russ, University of California at Davis and NBER


2:00 pm


Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
Maggie X. Chen, George Washington University
Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillovers: The Gains from Multinational Production

Discussant:
Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

3:00 pm

Break


3:30 pm


Paul R. Bergin, University of California at Davis and NBER
Giancarlo Corsetti, Cambridge University
International Competitiveness and Monetary Policy: Strategic Policy and Coordination with a Production Relocation Externality

Discussant:
Matteo Cacciatore, HEC Montreal


4:30 pm


Rudolfs Bems, International Monetary Fund

Robert C. Johnson, Dartmouth College and NBER
Value-Added Exchange Rates

Discussant:
Menzie D. Chinn, University of Wisconsin and NBER

5:30 pm

Adjourn

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10:

FIRM HETEROGENEITY AND TRADE

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:30 am

Monika Mrazova, London School of Economics
Peter Neary, Oxford University
Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms

Discussant: Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics
John M. Morrow, London School of Economics
Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity

Discussant: Robert Feenstra, University of California at Davis and NBER



12:00 n

Lunch

TRADE AND QUALITY

1:00 pm

Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes
Ana Cecilia Fieler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Trade, Skills and Quality-Upgrading: A Theory with Evidence from Colombia

Discussant: Juan Carlos Hallak, Universidad San Andres and NBER

2:00 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Joaquin Blaum, Brown University
Claire LeLarge, SESSI
Michael Peters, Yale University
Non-Homothetic Import Demand: Firm Productivity and Quality Bias

Discussant: Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California at Los Angeles

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Raluca E. Dragusanu, Harvard University
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University and NBER
The Impacts of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence From Coffee Producers in Costa Rica

Discussant: Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER

5:00 pm

6:00 pm

Adjourn

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA

THURSDAY, JULY 11:

IMPORT COMPETITION

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Justin R. Pierce, Federal Reserve Board
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER
The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment

Discussant: Gordon Hanson, , University of California at San Diego and NBER

10:00 am

Break

THE SPATIAL ECONOMY


10:15 am


Treb Allen, Northwestern University
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy

Discussant:
Andres Rodriguez-Clare, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Klaus Desmet, Universidad Carlos III
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming

Discussant: Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn