Monday, July 12
FORMAT: All one-hour sessions will have 35 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, and 15 minutes Q&A and extended discussion.
Optimal Policy
11:00 am

Import Tariffs and Global Sourcing (slides)

Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
Agustin Gutierrez, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Felix Tintelnot, Duke University and NBER

Discussant:
Iván Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm

When Does Procompetitive Entry Imply Excessive Entry? (slides)

Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University
Philip Ushchev, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Discussant:
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
1:00 pm
Break
Impacts of Trade Policy
2:00 pm

Trade-Induced Urbanization and the Making of Modern Agriculture (slides)

Yuan Tian, University of Nottingham
JunJie Xia, Peking University
Rudai Yang, Peking University

Discussant:
Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University (slides)
3:00 pm
Break
3:05 pm

Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States (slides)

Holger Breinlich, University of Surrey
Elsa Leromain, Université Catholique de Louvain
Dennis Novy, University of Warwick
Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics

Discussant:
Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
4:05 pm
Break
4:10 pm

The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (slides)

Peter Morrow, University of Toronto
Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Allison Devlin, University of Toronto

Discussant:
Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
5:10 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 13
Firms in Trade
11:00 am

Exporting Ideas: Knowledge Flows from Expanding Trade in Goods

Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics
Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris
Timothee Gigout, College de France
Matthieu Lequien, INSEE
Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
12:00 pm

Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress

Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Maggie Chen, The George Washington University
Jin Liu, New York University
Xiaosheng Mu, Princeton University
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER

Discussant:
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
1:00 pm
Adjourn
2:00 pm
International Trade & Macroeconomics
Wednesday, July 14
Immigration
11:00 am

Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage

Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER
Chen Liu, National University of Singapore

Discussant:
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
12:00 pm

Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade (slides)

Brett A. McCully, Collegio Carlo Alberto

Discussant:
Melanie Morten, Stanford University and NBER
1:00 pm
Break
Multinationals and Development
1:30 pm

Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers

Louise Guillouet, Columbia University
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER
Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics
Matthieu Teachout, Columbia University

Discussant:
Lindsay Oldenski, Georgetown University
2:30 pm
Policy Panel
Trade Disruptions: Short-Run Impacts and Long-Term Consequences
Chad Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Caroline Freund, Dean of UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS)
Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
3:30 pm

Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Central Bank of Costa Rica
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Isabela Manelici, London School of Economics
José P. Vásquez, London School of Economics

Discussant:
Pamela M. Medina, University of Toronto
4:30 pm
Adjourn and Meet on Wonder platform for virtual happy hour
Thursday, July 15
Trade Costs
11:00 am

Entrepot: Hubs, Scale, and Trade Costs (slides)

Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER
Woan Foong Wong, University of Oregon
Oren Ziv, Michigan State University

Discussant:
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER
12:00 pm

Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation

Matthew Grant, Dartmouth College
Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER

Discussant:
Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics
1:00 pm
30 minute break, plus one-hour unstructured meetings
Spatial Economics
2:30 pm

Spatial Production Networks (slides)

Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Federico Huneeus, Duke University
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University

Discussant:
Yuan Zi, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
3:30 pm

Sufficient Statistics for Dynamic Spatial Economics (slides)

Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
Benny Kleinman, Stanford University and NBER
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Ricardo M. Reyes-Heroles, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
4:30 pm
Adjourn