SI 2026 International Trade & Macroeconomics
Organized by Yan Bai and Michael E. Waugh
July 14, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Format: 25 min presentations, 15 min discussions, and 10 min open discussion

Tuesday, July 14

12:00 pm

Lunch

12:45 pm

Shipping to America

Xiwen Bai, Tsinghua University
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Yiliang Li, Peking University
Ricardo Marto, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Francesco Zanetti, University of Oxford

Discussant:
Simon Fuchs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

1:35 pm

A Quantitative Theory of Trade in Services

Benny Kleinman, Stanford University and NBER
Tamar Yerushalmi, Stanford University

Discussant:
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER

2:25 pm

Break

2:40 pm

The Dynamics of Technology Transfer: Multinational Investment in China and Rising Global Competition

Jaedo Choi, University of Texas at Austin
George Cui, International Monetary Fund
Younghun Shim, International Monetary Fund
Yongseok Shin, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

Discussant:
George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER

3:30 pm

Tariff Front-Running

Maria Jose Carreras Valle, The Pennsylvania State University
Sang Min Lee, University of South Carolina - Columbia

Discussant:
Swapnika Rachapalli, UBC Sauder School of Business

4:20 pm

Adjourn