Friday, April 9
Timing for each 1 hour session:
45 minute presentation
10 minute Q&A
5 minute mini break
Gains from Trade and Distributional Consequences of Trade
10:00 am

The Darwinian Returns to Scale

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

The Rise of Agribusinesses and its Distributional Consequences

Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics
Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics
12:00 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Lunch Plenary Talk
Maurice Obstfeld, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Globalization and Nationalism
Slides
Technology Spillovers and Capital Misallocation
1:30 pm

Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER
Sina T. Ates, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Josh Lerner, Harvard University and NBER
Richard R. Townsend, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Yulia Zhestkova, University of Chicago
2:30 pm

Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India

Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Adrien Matray, Princeton University and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
Offshoring and Outsourcing
4:00 pm

Automation, Trade and Multinational Activity: Micro Evidence from Spain

Katherine A. Stapleton, University of Oxford
Michael Webb, Stanford University
5:00 pm

Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output

Adrien Bilal, Stanford University and NBER
Hugo Lhuillier, University of Chicago
6:00 pm
Adjourn

Informal Cocktail Hour/ Breakout Rooms
Saturday, April 10
COVID and Trade
10:00 am

Trade Under Lockdown

Antoine Berthou, Banque de France
Sebastian Stumpner, Banque de France
11:00 am

Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic

Barthélémy Bonadio, New York University Abu Dhabi
Zhen Huo, Yale University
Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
12:00 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Lunch Plenary Talk
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University and NBER
The Future of Globalization
Slides
1:30 pm

Globalization and Pandemics

Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Climate and Trade
2:30 pm

Trade, Firm-Delocation, and Optimal Climate Policy

Farid Farrokhi, Boston College
Ahmad Lashkaripour, Indiana University
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 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
5:00 pm

International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta

Giovanni Maggi, Yale University and NBER
Robert W. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
6:00 pm
Adjourn