SI 2023 International Trade & Investment
Organized by Oleg Itskhoki and Ina Simonovska
July 10-13, 2023
Serrano Ballroom, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us
Monday, July 10
10:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
10:29 am
Firms and Trade
10:45 am

Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms

Benny Kleinman, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
11:45 am

Firm Export Dynamics in Interdependent Markets

Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Central Bank of Costa Rica
Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, University of Chicago and NBER
Sebastian Fanelli, CEMFI
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER

Discussant:
Felix Tintelnot, Duke University and NBER
12:45 pm
Lunch
1:29 pm
Trade and History
1:45 pm

The Death and Life of Great British Cities

Dávid Krisztián Nagy, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Alex Trew, University of Glasgow
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol

Discussant:
Kerem Coşar, University of Virginia and NBER
2:45 pm

The Who, What, When, and How of Industrial Policy: A Text-Based Approach

Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
Nathan J. Lane, University of Oxford
Emily Oehlsen, University of Oxford
Veronica C. Perez, Boston University

Discussant:
Linda Tesar, University of Michigan and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
3:59 pm
Trade with Market Power
4:00 pm

Gravity with Granularity

Holger Breinlich, University of Surrey
Harald Fadinger, University of Vienna
Volker Nocke, University of Mannheim
Nicolas Schutz, University of Mannheim

Discussant:
Katheryn Russ, University of California, Davis and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 11
9:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:29 am
Spatial Growth and Dynamics
9:30 am

A Dynamic Spatial Knowledge Economy

Levi G. Crews, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant:
Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
10:30 am

Heterogeneous Agents Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium

Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Discussant:
Sharon Traiberman, New York University and NBER
11:30 am
Lunch
12:30 pm
ITM at Sonesta (Parkview Room)
Wednesday, July 12
10:15 am
Coffee and Pastries
10:44 am
Trade, Development, and Political Economy
10:45 am

No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India (slides)

Yingyan Zhao, The George Washington University
Kala Krishna, The Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Shoumitro Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
Kalyani Padmakumar, The Pennsylvania State University

Discussant:
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
11:45 am

The Topography of Nations

Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER

Discussant:
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, Center for Research in International Economics
12:45 pm
Lunch
1:44 pm
Trade Policy and Political Economy
1:45 pm

Why is Trade Not Free? A Revealed Preference Approach

Rodrigo Adão, University of Chicago and NBER
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
John Sturm, Princeton University

Discussant:
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:45 pm

Reciprocity and the China Shock

Chad P. Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Fernando Parro, University of Rochester and NBER
Robert W. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
Alan O. Sykes, Stanford University

Discussant:
Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm
Policy Panel on the Future of Global Value Chains
Moderator: Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Panelists:
Renee Bowen, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Chad Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Ralph Ossa, Chief Economist, World Trade Organization
5:15 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 13
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:59 am
Trade and Environment
9:00 am

The Carbon Footprint of Multinational Production (slides)

Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Natalia Ramondo, Boston University and NBER
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Discussant:
Grace Weishi Gu, University of California, Santa Cruz
10:00 am

Clean Growth

Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Conor Walsh, Columbia University

Discussant:
David Hémous, University of Zurich
11:00 am
Break
11:14 am
Trade and Labor Market
11:15 am

Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity and Skill Acquisition

Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics
Gaston Navarro, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Ricardo M. Reyes-Heroles, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Discussant:
Tatjana Kleineberg, The World Bank
12:15 pm
Lunch and Adjourn