Economic Consequences of Trade Conference
Organized by Stephen J. Redding
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
April 5-6, 2019
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 5
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Networks, Barriers, and Trade

David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Identity Politics and Trade Policy (slides)

Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch - Charles B
1:00 pm

The Distributional Effects of Trade: Theory and Evidence from the United States

Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Quantifying the Losses from International Trade (slides)

Spencer Lyon, New York University
Michael E. Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm

The Impact of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, The Bad, and The Apocryphal

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER
André Kurmann, Drexel University
Philip A. Luck, University of Colorado Denver
4:30 pm
Break
4:45 pm

Trade and Worker Deskilling

Rui Costa, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Stephen J. Machin, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
5:45 pm
Adjourn
7:00 pm
Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 6
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Trade and Innovation: The Role of Scale and Competition Effects

Kevin Lim, University of Toronto
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER
Miaojie Yu, Liaoning University
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Disentangling Global Value Chains

Alonso de Gortari, Princeton University
12:00 pm
Lunch - Charles B
1:00 pm

Trade and Inequality across Local Labor Markets: The Margins of Adjustment

Ryan Kim, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Labor Market Polarization and the Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence

Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER
Eric Mengus, HEC Paris
Tomasz K. Michalski, HEC Paris
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth

Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University
Joan Monras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
Juan Manuel Castro-Vincenzi, University of Chicago and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn