International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

Stephen J. Redding, Organizer

December 7-8, 2018

SIEPR, Stanford University, Room 130, 366 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA

Friday, December 7
9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
9:30 am	Jeronimo Carballo, University of Colorado at Boulder Kyle Handley, University of California, San Diego and NBER Nuno Limão, Georgetown University and NBER Economic and Policy Uncertainty: Export Dynamics and the Value of Agreements
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University Matching and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Firm-to-Firm Trade
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Alberto Cavallo, Harvard University and NBER Robert C. Feenstra, University of California, Davis and NBER Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen Foreign and Domestic Trade Costs, Product Variety, and the Standard of Living Across Countries
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Rodrigo Adão, University of Chicago and NBER Michal Kolesar, Princeton University Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER Patrick Kennedy, UCLA and NBER Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER The Return to Protectionism: Causes and Consequences of the 2018 Trade War
4:30 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Dinner INDO Restaurant 3295 El Camino Real Palo Alto, CA
Saturday, December 8
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Levent Celik, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Bilgehan Karabay, RMIT University John McLaren, University of Virginia and NBER Fast-Track Authority: A Hold-Up Interpretation
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Zhen Huo, Yale University Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER The Global Business Cycle: Measurement and Transmission
11:15 am	Break
11:30 am	Dominick G. Bartelme, University of Michigan Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER External Economies of Scale and Industrial Policy: A View from Trade
12:30 pm	Lunch and Adjourn