SI 2020 International Trade & Investment
Laura Alfaro, Costas Arkolakis, and Stephen J. Redding, Organizers
July 6-9, 2020
on Zoom.us
| Monday, July 6 | ||||
| Trade Policy | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Sang Hoon Kong, Columbia University David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER The Effect of the U.S.-China Trade War on U.S. Investment
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| 12:00 pm |
Michael Blanga-Gubbay, University of Zurich Paola Conconi, University of Oxford Mathieu Parenti, Paris School of Economics Globalization for Sale
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| 1:00 pm | Break | |||
| 1:30 pm | One-hour unstructured meetings in random chat rooms | |||
| Trade Dynamics | ||||
| 2:30 pm |
George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER Shafaat Y. Khan, Syracuse University Armen Khederlarian, Hunter College CUNY Taking Stock of Trade Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from China's Pre-WTO Accession
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| 3:30 pm |
Adrien Bilal, Stanford University and NBER The Geography of Unemployment
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 7 | ||||
| Multinationals and Welfare | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University and NBER Multinationals, Markets, and Markups
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| 12:00 pm |
Esteban Mendez-Chacon, Central Bank of Costa Rica Diana Van Patten, Yale University and NBER Multinationals, Monopsony and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 2:00 pm | ITM meeting | |||
| Wednesday, July 8 | ||||
| Trade and Labor | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Sascha O. Becker, Monash University Hartmut Egger, University of Bayreuth Michael Koch, Aarhus University Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego and NBER Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy
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| 12:00 pm |
Ester Faia Sébastien Laffitte, CYU - Cergy Paris University Maximilian Mayer, Goethe University Frankfurt Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View
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| COVID 10 min lightning talks | ||||
| 1:00 pm |
Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER Andrew N. Greenland, North Carolina State University Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time |
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| 1:10 pm |
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Globalization and Pandemics |
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| 1:20 pm |
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER Wookun Kim, Southern Methodist University Cristiano Mantovani, Pompeu Fabra Edouard Schaal, Pompeu Fabra University Optimal Lockdown in a Commuting Network |
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| 1:30 pm |
David O. Argente, Yale University and NBER Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER Munseob Lee, University of California, San Diego The Cost of Privacy: Welfare Effects of the Disclosure of COVID-19 Cases |
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| 1:40 pm |
Barthélémy Bonadio, New York University Abu Dhabi Zhen Huo, Yale University Andrei A. Levchenko, University of Michigan and NBER Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Global Supply Chains in the Pandemic |
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| 1:50 pm |
Alejandro Cuñat, University of Vienna Robert Zymek, International Monetary Fund The (Structural) Gravity of Epidemics |
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| 2:00 pm | Break | |||
| Trade and Inequality | ||||
| 2:30 pm |
Erhan Artuc, The World Bank Paulo Bastos, World Bank Eunhee Lee Trade, Jobs, and Worker Welfare
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| 3:30 pm |
Rodrigo Adão, University of Chicago and NBER Paul Carrillo, The George Washington University Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich Exports, Imports, and Earnings Inequality: Micro-Data and Macro-Lessons From Ecuador
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm | Virtual cocktail hour | |||
| Thursday, July 9 | ||||
| Trade and Global Networks | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Banu Demir, University of Oxford Ana Cecília Fieler, Yale University and NBER Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Kelly Kaili Yang, Duke University O-Ring Production Networks
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| 12:00 pm |
Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER Lin Ma, Singapore Management University Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare
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| 1:00 pm | Break | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Panel on The Future of Globalization Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER Gordon Hanson, Harvard University and NBER Anne Krueger, Johns Hopkins University and NBER |
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| Trade and Geography | ||||
| 2:30 pm |
Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER Simon Fuchs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER Alberto Graziano, CaixaBank Research Rocio Madera, Southern Methodist University Judit Montoriol-Garriga, CaixaBank Research Is Tourism good for Locals? Evidence from Barcelona
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| 3:30 pm |
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Plants in Space
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Proposed Session Structure: 30 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, 10 minutes Q&A, 10 minutes break. | ||||