Thursday, May 20
10:30 am
Welcome
James Poterba, MIT and NBER
Spiro Stefanou, US Department of Agriculture
10:45 am

Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation

Sunghun Lim, Louisiana State University
Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota
11:30 am

Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient Under Coronavirus (COVID-19)? Findings From an Econometric Assessment

Shawn Arita, US Department of Agriculture
Jason Grant, Virginia Tech
Sharon S. Sydow, US Department of Agriculture
Jayson Beckman, US Department of Agriculture
12:15 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Keynote Lecture: Food Supply Chains in Less Developed Countries
Thomas A. Reardon, Michigan State University
1:20 pm
Break
1:30 pm

Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World

Bruno Conte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
2:15 pm

The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change

Ishan B. Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
3:00 pm
Break
Shorter Presentations Session
3:15 pm

Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity

Farid Farrokhi, Boston College
Heitor S. Pellegrina, University of Notre Dame
3:30 pm

Contracting and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from an Experiment in Senegal

Joshua Deutschmann, University of Chicago
Tanguy Bernard, GREThA, University of Bordeaux, and International Food Policy Research
Ouambi Yameogo, IITA
3:45 pm

Unfair Trade? Market Power in Agricultural Value Chains

Lucas Zavala, Princeton University
4:00 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm
Adjourn
Friday, May 21
10:45 am

Concentration and Resiliency in the US Meat Supply Chains (slides)

Meilin Ma, Purdue University
Jayson L. Lusk, Purdue University
11:30 am

Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing

Austin F. Ramsey, Virginia Tech
Barry Goodwin, North Carolina State University
Mildred Haley, US Department of Agriculture
12:15 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Keynote Lecture: The Performance and Future of Agricultural Supply Chains
A.G. Kawamura, Former Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture
1:20 pm
Break
1:30 pm

Risk, Arbitrage, and Spatial Price Relationships: Insights from China’s Hog Market under the African Swine Fever (slides)

Michael Delgado, Purdue University
Meilin Ma, Purdue University
H. Holly Wang, Purdue University
2:15 pm

Reverse Dutch Disease with Trade Costs: Prospects for Agriculture in Africa's Oil-Rich Economies

Obie Porteous, Middlebury College
3:00 pm
Break
Shorter Presentations Session
3:15 pm

Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains (slides)

Sandro Steinbach, North Dakota State University
3:30 pm

Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Flexibility

Liang Lu, University of Idaho
Jason Winfree, University of Idaho
3:45 pm

Algal Blooms and the Social Cost of Fertilizer

Charles A Taylor, Harvard University
Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University and NBER
4:00 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm
Adjourn