SI 2022 International Trade & Investment

Ina Simonovska and Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, Organizers

July 11-14, 2022

Hotel Marlowe

Hotel Marlowe, Serrano Ballroom, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

1:14 pm
Aggregate Impacts of Trade
Monday, July 11
10:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Trade Policy
10:30 am
Andrew N. Greenland, North Carolina State University
John W. Lopresti, College of William and Mary

Trade Policy as an Exogenous Shock: Focusing on the Specifics
Discussant: Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:30 am
Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Mi Dai, Beijing Normal University
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
Miaojie Yu, Liaoning University

Are Export-Supply Curves Flat
Discussant: Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
Beliefs about Trade
1:30 pm
Diana Van Patten, Yale University and NBER
Esteban Mendez-Chacon, Central Bank of Costa Rica

Voting on a Trade Agreement: Firm Networks and Attitudes Towards Openness
Discussant: Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University and NBER

Understanding of Trade (slides)
Discussant: Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
Trade and the Environment
4:00 pm
Farid Farrokhi, Boston College
Ahmad Lashkaripour, Indiana University

Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change? (slides)
Discussant: Ishan B. Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 12
10:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Firms and Trade
10:30 am
Andrew B. Bernard, Dartmouth College and NBER
Yuan Zi, The Graduate Institute, Geneva

Sparse Production Networks
Discussant: Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University (slides)
11:30 am
Xiang Ding, Georgetown University
Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College and NBER
Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER

Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States
Discussant: Javier Cravino, University of Michigan and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
ITM sessions - (Program)
Wednesday, July 13
10:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Monopsony Power
10:30 am
Mayara Felix, Yale University and NBER

Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages
Discussant: Hamid Firooz, University of Rochester
11:30 am
Lucas Zavala, Princeton University

Unfair Trade? Monopsony Power in Agricultural Value Chains
Discussant: Tomas Dominguez-Iino, University of Chicago
12:30 pm
Lunch
Aggregate Impacts of Trade
1:15 pm
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
Peter J. Klenow, Stanford University and NBER
Kazuatsu Shimizu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Romer or Ricardo? (slides)
Discussant: Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University (slides)
2:15 pm
Break
Aggregate Impacts of Trade
2:30 pm
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Mauricio Ulate, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Jose P. Vasquez, London School of Economics

Trade with Nominal Rigidities: Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock (slides)
Discussant: Ariel Burstein, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
3:30 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Policy Panel - Sanctions and the Global Economy
Moderator: Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER

David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Ruediger Bachmann, University of Notre Dame
Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Guido Lorenzoni, Northwestern University and NBER
Ivan Werning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, July 14
9:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
Health Services and Trade
10:00 am
Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER
Joshua D. Gottlieb, University of Chicago and NBER
Maya Lozinski, University of Chicago
Pauline Mourot, Boston University

Market Size and Trade in Medical Services (slides)
Discussant: Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:00 am
Chad P. Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College and NBER
Robert W. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

Vaccine Supply Chain Resilience and International Cooperation (slides)
Discussant: Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch
Trade and Labor Markets
1:00 pm
Mathilde Muñoz, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Trading Non-Tradables: The Implications of Europe's Job Posting Policy (slides)
Discussant: Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University (slides)
2:00 pm
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Matti Sarvimäki, Aalto University
Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Exposure(s) to Trade and Earnings Dynamics: Evidence from the Collapse of Finnish-Soviet Trade (slides)
Discussant: Brian K. Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER (slides)
3:00 pm
Adjourn