SI 2021 International Trade & Investment
Laura Alfaro, Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, and Stephen J. Redding, Organizers
July 12-15, 2021
on Zoom.us, Times in US EDT
| Monday, July 12 | ||||
| FORMAT: All one-hour sessions will have 35 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion, and 15 minutes Q&A and extended discussion. | ||||
| Optimal Policy | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER Agustin Gutierrez, University of Chicago Felix Tintelnot, Duke University and NBER Import Tariffs and Global Sourcing
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| 12:00 pm |
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University Philip Ushchev, Universite Libre de Bruxelles When Does Procompetitive Entry Imply Excessive Entry?
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| 1:00 pm | Break | |||
| Impacts of Trade Policy | ||||
| 2:00 pm |
Yuan Tian, University of Nottingham JunJie Xia, Peking University Rudai Yang, Peking University Trade-Induced Urbanization and the Making of Modern Agriculture
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:05 pm |
Holger Breinlich, University of Surrey Elsa Leromain, Université Catholique de Louvain Dennis Novy, University of Warwick Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States
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| 4:05 pm | Break | |||
| 4:10 pm |
Peter Morrow, University of Toronto Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER Allison Devlin, University of Toronto The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
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| 5:10 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 13 | ||||
| Firms in Trade | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Antonin Bergeaud, HEC Paris Timothee Gigout, College de France Matthieu Lequien, INSEE Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER Exporting Ideas: Knowledge Flows from Expanding Trade in Goods
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| 12:00 pm |
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER Maggie Chen, The George Washington University Jin Liu, New York University Xiaosheng Mu, Princeton University Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
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| 1:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 2:00 pm | International Trade & Macroeconomics | |||
| Wednesday, July 14 | ||||
| Immigration | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Gordon H. Hanson, Harvard University and NBER Chen Liu, National University of Singapore Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
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| 12:00 pm |
Brett A. McCully, Collegio Carlo Alberto Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade
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| 1:00 pm | Break | |||
| Multinationals and Development | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Louise Guillouet, Columbia University Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER Rocco Macchiavello, London School of Economics Matthieu Teachout, Columbia University Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
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| 2:30 pm |
Policy Panel Trade Disruptions: Short-Run Impacts and Long-Term Consequences Chad Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics Caroline Freund, Dean of UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
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| 3:30 pm |
Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Central Bank of Costa Rica Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Isabela Manelici, London School of Economics José P. Vásquez, London School of Economics Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn and Meet on Wonder platform for virtual happy hour | |||
| Thursday, July 15 | ||||
| Trade Costs | ||||
| 11:00 am |
Sharat Ganapati, Georgetown University and NBER Woan Foong Wong, University of Oregon Oren Ziv, Michigan State University Entrepot: Hubs, Scale, and Trade Costs
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| 12:00 pm |
Matthew Grant, Dartmouth College Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation
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| 1:00 pm | 30 minute break, plus one-hour unstructured meetings | |||
| Spatial Economics | ||||
| 2:30 pm |
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER Federico Huneeus, Duke University Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University Spatial Production Networks
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| 3:30 pm |
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER Benny Kleinman, Stanford University and NBER Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER Sufficient Statistics for Dynamic Spatial Economics
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||