SI 2015 International Trade & Investment
Organized by Dave Donaldson, Arnaud Costinot, and Robert C. Feenstra
July 6-9, 2015
Marriott

Monday, July 6

9:30 am

Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition

Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po
Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER
Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University

11:00 am

Optimal City Structure

Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER

1:00 pm

The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University and NBER
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER

Tuesday, July 7

9:00 am

Multilateral Trade Bargaining: A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records

Kyle Bagwell, Stanford University and NBER
Robert W. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University and NBER

10:15 am

HOV, Identification, and Factor Biased Technology

Peter Morrow, University of Toronto
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER

Wednesday, July 8

9:30 am

Information Frictions and the Law of One Price: “When the States and the Kingdom became United”

Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

11:00 am

Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930

Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER

1:00 pm

Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade

Simon Galle Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Moises Yi, U.S. Census Bureau

2:30 pm

The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms: Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies

Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Lindsay Oldenski, Georgetown University
Nicholas Sly, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

4:00 pm

The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics

Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Fernando Parro, University of Rochester and NBER

Thursday, July 9

9:00 am

The Impact of Innovation in the Multinational Firm

Kamran Bilir, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER

10:15 am

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER

11:30 am

International Shocks and Domestic Prices: How Large Are Strategic Complementarities?

Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University and NBER
Jozef Konings, Nazarbayev University