Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains
Organized by Pol Antràs and David Zilberman
Supported by the US Department of Agriculture
May 20-21, 2021
on Zoom.us
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 Polytechnic Institute and State University
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, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
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, Harvard University
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, Oklahoma State University
11:30 am

Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing

Austin F. Ramsey, University of Georgia
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 and NBER
Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University and NBER
4:00 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm
Adjourn