The Future of Globalization Conference

Stephen J. Redding and Robert W. Staiger, Organizers

April 9-10, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, April 9
Timing for each 1 hour session:
45 minute presentation
10 minute Q&A
5 minute mini break
Gains from Trade and Distributional Consequences of Trade
10:00 am

The Darwinian Returns to Scale
11:00 am

The Rise of Agribusinesses and its Distributional Consequences
12:00 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Lunch Plenary Talk
Maurice Obstfeld, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Globalization and Nationalism
Slides
Technology Spillovers and Capital Misallocation
1:30 pm

Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers
2:30 pm

Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India
3:30 pm
Break
Offshoring and Outsourcing
4:00 pm

Automation, Trade and Multinational Activity: Micro Evidence from Spain
5:00 pm

Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output
6:00 pm
Adjourn

Informal Cocktail Hour/ Breakout Rooms
Saturday, April 10
COVID and Trade
10:00 am

Trade Under Lockdown
11:00 am

Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic
12:00 pm
Break
12:30 pm
Lunch Plenary Talk
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University and NBER
The Future of Globalization
Slides
1:30 pm

Globalization and Pandemics
Climate and Trade
2:30 pm

Trade, Firm-Delocation, and Optimal Climate Policy
3:30 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World
5:00 pm

International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta
6:00 pm
Adjourn