International Trade and Investment Program Meeting
Organized by Stephen J. Redding
April 12-13, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (Parkview Room)
Format: Authors will be given the full hour of each session, with questions during the presentation.
Friday, April 12
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Trade Intermediation in Global Production Networks

Kalina Manova, University College London
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo
Oscar Perello, University College London
Break
11:00 am

Supply Chain Disruption and Reorganization: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine’s War

Vasily Korovkin, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Alexey Makarin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University
Lunch - Charles Room
1:00 pm

The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy

Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Diego J. Perez, New York University and NBER
William Witheridge, University of Maryland, College Park
Break
2:15 pm

EXIM's Exit: The Real Effects of Trade Financing by Export Credit Agencies

Poorya Kabir, National University of Singapore
Adrien Matray, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore
Chenzi Xu, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Break
3:30 pm

Revisiting the Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements

Maria Ptashkina, Princeton University
Break
4:45 pm

Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages

Kerem Coşar, University of Virginia and NBER
Roberto Bonfatti, University of Padova
Adjourn
Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta)
Saturday, April 13
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

A Framework for Geoeconomics

Christopher Clayton, Yale University and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER
Break
10:15 am

Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy

Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Giacomo Magistretti, International Monetary Fund
Break
11:30 am

Multinational Production and Innovation in Tandem

Jin Liu, Princeton University
Lunch - Charles Room
1:30 pm

Navigating the Waves of Global Shipping: Drivers and Aggregate Implications

Jason Dunn, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Fernando Leibovici, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Adjourn