SI 2017 International Trade & Investment
Marc-Andreas Muendler and Jonathan Vogel, Organizers
July 10-13, 2017
Hotel Marlowe
Cambridge, MA
| Monday, July 10 | ||||
| 9:00 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| Trade Networks | ||||
| 9:30 am |
Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER The Value of Face-to-Face: Search and Contracting Problems in Nigerian Trade
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Edouard Schaal, Pompeu Fabra University Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch | |||
| Agglomeration | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER Rodrigo Adao, University of Chicago and NBER Federico Esposito, Tufts University Trade Openness, Agglomeration Effects, and Endogenous Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |||
| 2:30 pm |
Michael Peters, Yale University and NBER Refugees and Local Agglomeration - Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Expulsions
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| 3:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 11 | ||||
| 9:00 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| Trade and Welfare | ||||
| 9:30 am |
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER Accounting for Micro and Macro Patterns of Trade
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Ahmad Lashkaripour , Indiana University Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Indiana University National Differentiation and Industry-Wide Scale Effects
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch at the Hotel Marlowe | |||
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Afternoon joint with International Trade and Macroeconomics Parkview Room, Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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| 1:00 pm |
Felix Tintelnot, Duke University and NBER Ken Kikkawa, University of British Columbia and NBER Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER Emmanuel Dhyne, National Bank of Belgium Trade and Domestic Production Networks
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| 2:00 pm |
B. Ravikumar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Michael Sposi, Southern Methodist University Capital Accumulation and Dynamic Gains from Trade
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:30 pm |
Felipe Benguria, University of Kentucky Alan M. Taylor, Columbia University and NBER After the Panic: Are Financial Crises Demand or Supply Shocks? Evidence from International Trade
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| 4:30 pm |
Christopher Erceg, International Monetary Fund Andrea Prestipino, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Andrea Raffo, Federal Reserve Bank Minneapolis The Macroeconomic Effects of Trade Policy
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Wednesday, July 12 | ||||
| 9:00 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| Trade and Growth | ||||
| 9:30 am |
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University Engel's Law in the Global Economy: Demand-Induced Patterns of Structural Change and Trade Across Countries
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Chicago and NBER Sina T. Ates, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Giammario Impullitti, University of Nottingham Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris Matthieu Lequien, INSEE Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |||
| Trade Agreements | ||||
| 2:30 pm |
Robert W. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER Alan O. Sykes, Stanford University The Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements
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| 3:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel (Ballroom B/ West Tower) | |||
| Thursday, July 13 | ||||
| 9:00 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| Gravity | ||||
| 9:30 am |
Jonathan Eaton Ana Cecilia Fieler, Yale University and NBER Gravity of Unit Values
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Gojko Barjamovic, Harvard University Thomas Chaney, University of Southern California Kerem A. Cosar, University of Virginia and NBER Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
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| 12:00 noon | Lunch | |||
| Value Chains | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
Reka Juhasz, University of British Columbia and NBER Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Drivers of Fragmented Production Chains: Evidence from the 19th century
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |||
| 2:30 pm |
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER Alonso de Gortari, Princeton University On the Geography of Global Value Chains
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| 3:30 pm | Adjourn | |||