Trade and Trade Policy in the 21st Century Conference
Organized by Stephen J. Redding and Robert W. Staiger
Supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation
April 8-9, 2022
Cambridge and on Zoom
Friday, April 8
10:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Global Supply Chains
10:30 am

Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring?

Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
Hugo Lhuillier, Columbia University
11:30 am
Break
12:00 pm

Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks

Hanwei Huang, City University of Hong Kong
Kalina Manova, University College London
Frank Pisch, Technical University of Darmstadt
Oscar Perello, University College London
1:00 pm
Lunch (boxed lunches)

Lunch Talk: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General, World Trade Organization
Trade Agreements
2:30 pm

The Costs and Benefits of Rules of Origin in Modern Free Trade Agreements

Emanuel Ornelas, Sao Paulo School of Economics
John Turner, University of Georgia
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm

The Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Agreements (slides)

Meredith Crowley, University of Cambridge
Lu Han, Bank of Canada
Thomas Prayer, University of Cambridge
4:45 pm
Break
5:00 pm

The World Trade Organization and US Domestic Politics (slides)

Renee Bowen, Georgetown University and NBER
J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego
Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego and NBER
6:00 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, April 9
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Trade Policy
9:00 am

Protectionism Unchained: Determinants and Consequences of Discretionary Trade Policy in Argentina (slides)

David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Joaquin Blaum, Boston University
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Augusto Ospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Trade Protection, Stock-Market Returns, and Welfare

Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Sang Hoon Kong, Smith College
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy

Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER
Bingjing Li, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
12:30 pm
Lunch - Parkview Room
Industrial Policy
1:30 pm

Precautionary Protectionism

Sharon Traiberman, New York University and NBER
Martin Rotemberg, New York University
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy

Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
Song Ma, Yale University and NBER
3:45 pm
Adjourn