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	David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University Networks, Barriers, and Trade
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER Identity Politics and Trade Policy (slides)
12:00 pm	Lunch - Charles B
1:00 pm	Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics The Distributional Effects of Trade: Theory and Evidence from the United States
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Spencer Lyon, New York University Michael E. Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER Quantifying the Losses from International Trade (slides)
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER André Kurmann, Drexel University Philip A. Luck, University of Colorado Denver The Impact of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, The Bad, and The Apocryphal
4:30 pm	Break
4:45 pm	Rui Costa, London School of Economics Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics Stephen J. Machin, London School of Economics 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	Kevin Lim, University of Toronto Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER Miaojie Yu, Liaoning University Trade and Innovation: The Role of Scale and Competition Effects
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Alonso de Gortari, Princeton University Disentangling Global Value Chains
12:00 pm	Lunch - Charles B
1:00 pm	Ryan Kim, Johns Hopkins University Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Trade and Inequality across Local Labor Markets: The Margins of Adjustment
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Donald R. Davis, Columbia University and NBER Eric Mengus, HEC Paris Tomasz K. Michalski, HEC Paris Labor Market Polarization and the Great Divergence: Theory and Evidence
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Paula Bustos, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University Joan Monras, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER Juan Manuel Castro-Vincenzi, Harvard University Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth
4:30 pm	Adjourn