
	Friday, March 31
	Participant List
8:45 am	Shuttle Van leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER (taxis and Uber for overflow)
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Geography, Search Frictions and Trade Costs Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER Theodore Papageorgiou, Boston College
11:45 am	Break
12:00 pm	Rethinking Detroit Raymond Owens, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	City Location and Economic Development Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity Cheng Chen, Clemson University Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:40 pm	Shuttle Van leaves NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel (taxis and Uber for overflow)
6:30 pm	Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
	Saturday, April 1
8:15 am	Shuttle Van leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER (taxis and Uber for overflow)
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Better, Faster, Stronger: Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization Federica Coelli, University of Zurich Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Trade Integration and the Trade Balance in China George Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER Horag Choi, Monash University Dan Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Kalina Manova, University College London Stephen Teng Sun, City University of Hong Kong John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER Zhihong Yu, Nottingham University
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn

Participants

George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER
Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
James E. Anderson, Boston College and NBER
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Cheng Chen, Clemson University
Federica Coelli, University of Zurich
Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Thibault Fally, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ana Cecília Fieler, Yale University and NBER
Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Inga Heiland, University of Oslo
J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown University and NBER
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER
Dan Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Kalina Manova, University College London
John McLaren, University of Virginia and NBER
Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER
Ferdinando Monte, Georgetown University and NBER
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI
Raymond Owens III, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Theodore Papageorgiou, Boston College
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
J. David Richardson, Syracuse University
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Katheryn Russ, University of California, Davis and NBER
Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
James R. Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo
Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Michael E. Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Kei-Mu Yi, University of Houston and NBER