Economic Consequences of Trade Conference

Stephen J. Redding, Organizer

April 5-6, 2019

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Friday, April 5
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	Networks, Barriers, and Trade
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Identity Politics and Trade Policy (slides)
12:00 pm	Lunch - Charles B
1:00 pm	The Distributional Effects of Trade: Theory and Evidence from the United States
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Quantifying the Losses from International Trade (slides)
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	The Impact of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, The Bad, and The Apocryphal
4:30 pm	Break
4:45 pm	Trade and Worker Deskilling
5:45 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Dinner Bambara Restaurant (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA
Saturday, April 6
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	Trade and Innovation: The Role of Scale and Competition Effects
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Disentangling Global Value Chains
12:00 pm	Lunch - Charles B
1:00 pm	Trade and Inequality across Local Labor Markets: The Margins of Adjustment
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Labor Market Polarization and the Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth
4:30 pm	Adjourn