ITI Program Meeting

Stephen J. Redding, Organizer

December 3-4, 2021

Cambridge, MA and on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, December 3
9:30 am
Coffee/Pastries
10:00 am
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Masao Fukui, Boston University

Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom? (slides)
11:00 am
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol

The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws
12:00 pm
Lunch - ArtBar
1:00 pm
Antoine Gervais, Universite de Sherbrooke
James R. Markusen, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER
Anthony Venables, University of Oxford

Regional Specialisation: From the Geography of Industries to the Geography of Jobs (slides)
2:00 pm
Nuno Limão, Georgetown University and NBER
Yang Xu, Xiamen University

Size, Trade, Technology and the Division of Labor
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
Cathy Ge Bao, University of International Business and Economics
Maggie Chen, George Washington University
Junjie Hong, University of International Business and Economics
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era
4:30 pm
George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER
Shafaat Y. Khan, Syracuse University
Armen Khederlarian, Hunter College CUNY
Kim J. Ruhl, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Joseph B. Steinberg, University of Toronto

Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of U.S.-China Trade
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, December 4
9:30 am
Coffee/Pastries
10:00 am
Nicolas de Roux, Universidad de los Andes
Marcela Eslava, Universidad de los Andes
Santiago Franco, University of Chicago
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University and NBER

Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
11:00 am
Sebastian Heise, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Justin R. Pierce, Federal Reserve Board
Georg Schaur, University of Tennessee
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER

Tariff Rate Uncertainty and the Structure of Supply Chains
12:00 pm
Lunch - University A
1:00 pm
James E. Anderson, Boston College and NBER

Non-Parametric Gravity
2:00 pm
Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Carlos A. Salamanca Malagon, Pennsylvania State University
Yuta Suzuki, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Christian Volpe Martincus, Inter-American Development Bank

Learning to use Trade Agreements
3:00 pm
Adjourn