Wednesday, July 20

8:30 am

Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline

Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:15 am

Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER
Adam Osman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:30 am

Entry Costs Rise with Development

Albert Bollard, Stanford University
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

11:15 am

Factor Misallocation in India

Gilles Duranton, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ejaz Ghani, The World Bank
Arti Grover Goswami, The World Bank
William R. Kerr, Harvard University and NBER

1:15 pm

The Arrival of Fast Internet and Skilled Job Creation in Africa

Jonas Hjort, University College London
Jonas Poulsen, Uppsala University

3:00 pm

The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfers

Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER