International Trade and Investment Program Meeting

Stephen J. Redding, Organizer

March 31 - April 1, 2017


Feldstein Conference Room, 2nd Floor

NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, March 31
Participant List
8:45 am
Shuttle Van leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER (taxis and Uber for overflow)
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER

The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Giulia Brancaccio, New York University and NBER
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard University and NBER
Theodore Papageorgiou, Boston College

Geography, Search Frictions and Trade Costs
11:45 am
Break
12:00 pm
Raymond Owens, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Rethinking Detroit
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Dávid Krisztián Nagy, CREI

City Location and Economic Development
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Cheng Chen, Clemson University
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
4:30 pm
Adjourn
4:40 pm
Shuttle Van leaves NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel (taxis and Uber for overflow)
6:30 pm
Group Dinner at Bambara (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Saturday, April 1
8:15 am
Shuttle Van leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER (taxis and Uber for overflow)
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Federica Coelli, University of Zurich
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo

Better, Faster, Stronger: Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am
George Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER
Horag Choi, Monash University
Dan Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Trade Integration and the Trade Balance in China
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
Kalina Manova, University College London
Stephen Teng Sun, City University of Hong Kong
John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and NBER
Zhihong Yu, Nottingham University

Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US
12:30 pm
Lunch and Adjourn