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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 International Trade & Investment

Dave Donaldson, Arnaud Costinot, and Robert C. Feenstra, Organizers

July 6-9, 2015

Marriott Cambridge
50 Broadway
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 06


9:00 am


Coffee and pastries


9:30 am


Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER
Thierry Mayer, The Paris Institute of Political Studies
Gianmarco Ottaviano, London School of Economics
Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition

Discussant: Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Treb Allen, Northwestern University and NBER
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Xiangliang Li, Peking University
Optimal City Structure

Discussant: Matt Turner, Brown University


12:00 noon


Lunch


1:00 pm


Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University
David K. Nagy, Princeton University
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

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


2:00 pm


Adjourn


Tuesday, July 07


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Kyle Bagwell, Stanford University and NBER
Robert W. Staiger, University of Wisconsin at Madison and NBER
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER
Multilateral Trade Bargaining: A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records

Discussant: Michele Ruta, The World Bank


10:00 am


Break


10:15 am


Peter Morrow, University of Toronto
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER
HOV, Identification, and Factor Biased Technology

Discussant: David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER


11:15 am


Adjourn.  Lunch at the Marriott followed by a joint session with International Trade and Macroeconomics at the Royal Sonesta Hotel.


1:00 pm


Jose Antonio Rodriguez Lopez, University of California at Irvine

Liquid Assets, Productivity, and International Trade

Discussant: Kalina Manova, Stanford University and NBER


2:00 pm


Grace Gu, University of California at Santa Cruz
A Tale of Two Countries: Sovereign Default, Trade, and Terms of Trade

Discussant: Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER


3:00 pm


Break


3:30 pm


Christoph Boehm, University of Michigan
Aaron B. Flaaen, University of Michigan
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Michigan
Input Linkages and the Transmission of Shocks: Firm Level Evidence from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

Discussant: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland and NBER


4:30 pm


Francis Kramarz, CREST at the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies
Julien Martin, L'Université du Québec à Montréal
Isabelle Mejean, Ecole Polytechnique
Volatility in the Small and in the Large: Diversification in Trade Networks

Discussant: Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER


5:30 pm


Adjourn


Wednesday, July 08


9:00 am


Coffee and pastries


9:30 am


Claudia Steinwender, Princeton University
Information Frictions and the Law of One Price: “When the States and the Kingdom became United”

Discussant: Ben Faber, University of California at Berkeley and NBER


10:30 am


Break


11:00 am


Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930

Discussant: Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER


12:00 noon


Lunch


1:00 pm


Simon Galle, University of California at Berkeley

Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Moises Yi, University of California at Berkeley

Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade

Discussant: Steve Redding, Princeton University and NBER


2:00 pm


Break


2:30 pm


Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Lindsay Oldenski, Georgetown University

Nicholas Sly, University of Oregon
The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms: Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies

Discussant: Marc Muendler, University of California at San Diego and NBER


3:30 pm


Break


4:00 pm


Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
Fernando Parro, Federal Reserve Board
The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics

Discussant: Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University


5:00 pm


Adjourn


6:00 pm


Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel


Thursday, July 09


8:30 am


Coffee and pastries


9:00 am


Kamran Bilir, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
The Impact of Innovation in the Multinational Firm

Discussant: Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago and NBER


10:00 am


Break


10:15 am


Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Davin Chor, National University of Singapore
Paola Conconi, ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

Discussant: Thibault Fally, University of California at Berkeley and NBER


11:15 am


Break


11:30 am


Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER
Jozef Konings, University of Leuven
International Shocks and Domestic Prices: How Large Are Strategic Complementarities?

Discussant: Ariel Burstein, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER


12:30 pm


Lunch and adjourn