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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2014 International Trade & Investment

Stephen J. Redding and Arnaud Costinot, Organizers

July 7-10, 2014

Hotel Marlowe
Muse Ballroom
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 7:

TRADE AND LABOR MARKETS

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:30 am

Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER
Firms, Trade and Labor Market Dynamics

Discussant: Kerem Cosar, University of Chicago

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Ariel Burstein, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University and NBER
Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality

Discussant: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Gabriel Felbermayr, University of Munich
Giammario Impullitti, University of Nottingham
Julien Prat. CREST
Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies

Discussant: John McLaren University of Virginia and NBER

2:00 pm

Break

FIRMS AND TRADE

2:30 pm

David Atkin, Yale University and NBER
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER
Adam Osman, Yale University
The Impact of Exporting: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Discussant: Jim Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

3:30 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 8:

FIRMS AND TRADE

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College
Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago
The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

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

10:00 am

Break


10:15 am


Thomas Sampson,
London School of Economics
Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade and Growth

Discussant: Sam Kortum, Yale University and NBER

11:15 am

Adjourn

11:30 am

Lunch at the Hotel Marlowe followed by a joint session with International Trade and Macroeconomics at the Royal Sonesta Hotel across the street.


1:00 pm


Robert Dekle, University of Southern California
Hyeok Jeong, KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University and NBER
Dynamics of Firms and Trade in General Equilibrium

Discussant: Fabio Ghironi, University of Washington and NBER


2:00 pm


François Langot, Université du Mans
Lise Patureau, Université de Lille 1
Thepthida Sopraseuth, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Unemployment, Public Spending and International Trade: Challenges for an Optimal Tax Design
Discussant: Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER

3:00 pm

Break


3:30 pm


Federico S. Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Andrei Zlate, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Offshoring, Low-skilled Immigration, and Labor Market Polarization

Discussant: Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University and NBER


4:30 pm


Sebastian Stumpner, University of California, Berkeley
Trade and the Geographic Spread of the Great Recession

Discussant: Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER

5:30 pm

Adjourn

Wednesday, July 9:

TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:30 am


David Atkin, Yale University and NBER
Benjamin Faber, University of California at Berkeley
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of Toronto
Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

Discussant: Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am


Paula Bustos, CREI
Bruno Caprettini, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jacopo Ponticelli, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation. Evidence from Brazil.

Discussant: Kei-Mu Yi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

12:00 n

Lunch

TRADE AND GEOGRAPHY


1:00 pm


Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Fernando Parro, Federal Reserve Board
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy

Discussant: Treb Allen, Northwestern University and NBER

2:00 pm

Break

2:30 pm

Cecile Gaubert, Princeton University
Firm Sorting and Agglomeration

Discussant: Don Davis, Columbia University and NBER

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Jonathan I. Dingel, Columbia University
The Determinants of Quality Specialization

Discussant: Gene Grossman, Princeton University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 10:

GAINS FROM TRADE

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER
Measuring the Unequal Gains From Trade

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

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Ina Simonovska, University of California at Davis and NBER
Michael Waugh, New York University
Trade Models, Trade Elasticities, and the Gains from Trade

Discussant: Ralph Ossa, University of Chicago and NBER

11:15 am

Break

11:30 am

Luigi Pascali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development


Discussant: James Feyrer, Dartmouth College and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn