International Trade and Investment Program Meeting
Organized by Stephen J. Redding
April 10-11, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 10
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am

Trade and Welfare under Oligopolistic Competition: Reciprocal Dumping or Pro-Competitive Effects?

Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Daniel Ramos, Johns Hopkins SAIS
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Optimal Dynamic Spatial Policy

Eric Donald, University of Pittsburgh
Masao Fukui, Boston University and NBER
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University
11:45 am
Break
12:00 pm

Tariff Wars and Net Foreign Assets

Mark A. Aguiar, Princeton University and NBER
Manuel Amador, University of Minnesota and NBER
Doireann Fitzgerald, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm

Elsewhere in North America: How U.S. Tariffs on China Boosted Mexico's Manufacturing Employment and Output

Hâle Utar, Grinnell College
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

The Local Root of Wage Inequality

Hugo Lhuillier, Columbia University
4:15 pm
Break
4:30 pm

Trade and Industrial Policy in Supply Chains: Directed Technological Change in Rare Earths

Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
Harald Fadinger, University of Vienna
Jan S. Schymik, University of Mannheim
Gede Virananda, New York University
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Dinner
Saturday, April 11
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Using Global Shocks to Understand the Level and Structure of Executive Compensation

David Hummels, Purdue University and NBER
Jakob Munch, University of Copenhagen
Huilin Zhang, Purdue University
9:30 am
Break
9:45 am

Geopolitical Barriers to Globalization

Tianyu Fan, Yale University
Mai Wo, Yale University
Wei Xiang, University of Michigan
10:45 am
Break
11:00 am

How Globalization Unravels: A Ricardian Model of Endogenous Trade Policy

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Tomohide Mineyama, International Monetary Fund
Dongho Song, Johns Hopkins University
12:00
Adjourn