International Trade and Investment Program Meeting
Organized by Stephen J. Redding
December 7-8, 2018
SIEPR, Stanford University, Room 130, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA
Friday, December 7
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Economic and Policy Uncertainty: Export Dynamics and the Value of Agreements

Jeronimo Carballo, University of Colorado Boulder
Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Nuno Limão, Georgetown University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Matching and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Firm-to-Firm Trade

Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Foreign and Domestic Trade Costs, Product Variety, and the Standard of Living Across Countries

Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER
Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER
Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen
2:00 pm
Break
2:15 pm

Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference

Rodrigo Adão, University of Chicago and NBER
Michal Kolesar, Princeton University
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm

The Return to Protectionism: Causes and Consequences of the 2018 Trade War

Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER
Patrick Kennedy, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
7:00 pm
Dinner
INDO Restaurant
3295 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA
Saturday, December 8
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Fast-Track Authority: A Hold-Up Interpretation

Levent Celik, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Bilgehan Karabay, Department of Economics and Management and School of International Studies, University of Trento
John McLaren, University of Virginia and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

The Global Business Cycle: Measurement and Transmission

Zhen Huo, Yale University
Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

External Economies of Scale and Industrial Policy: A View from Trade

Dominick G. Bartelme, University of Michigan
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch and Adjourn