NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

International Trade and Macroeconomics Workshop

 

Jeffrey Frankel, Program Chair

 

Paul Bergin and Fabio Ghironi, Organizers

 

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

 

PROGRAM

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 

Global Crisis and International Trade

 

 

1:00 pm

Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER

 

Logan Lewis, University of Michigan

 

Linda Tesar, University of Michigan and NBER

 

The Collapse of International Trade During the 2008-2009 Crisis: In Search of the Smoking Gun

 

 

 

Discussant: David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

George Alessandria, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

 

Joseph Kaboski, Ohio State University and NBER

 

Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University and NBER

 

The Great Trade Collapse of 2008-09: An Inventory Adjustment?

 

 

 

Discussant: Robert Johnson, Dartmouth College

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 

International Trade and Labor Markets

 

 

3:30 pm

A. Kerem Coşar, Pennsylvania State University

 

Nezih Guner, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

 

James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

 

Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

 

 

 

Discussant: Matteo Cacciatore, HEC Montréal

 

 

 

International Trade and Business Cycles

 

 

4:30 pm

Keyu Jin, London School of Economics

 

International Business Cycles with Heterogeneous Sectors

 

 

 

Discussant: Jiandong Ju, University of Oklahoma

 

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

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