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

Trade Policy as an Exogenous Shock: Focusing on the Specifics
Discussant: Douglas A. Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:30 am

Are Export-Supply Curves Flat
Discussant: Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Yale University and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
Beliefs about Trade
1:30 pm

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

Understanding of Trade (slides)
Discussant: Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
Trade and the Environment
4:00 pm

Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change? (slides)
Discussant: Ishan B. Nath, Harvard University
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 12
10:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Firms and Trade
10:30 am

Sparse Production Networks
Discussant: Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University (slides)
11:30 am

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

Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages
Discussant: Hamid Firooz, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
11:30 am

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

Romer or Ricardo? (slides)
Discussant: Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University (slides)
2:15 pm
Break
Aggregate Impacts of Trade
2:30 pm

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

Market Size and Trade in Medical Services (slides)
Discussant: Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:00 am

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

Trading Non-Tradables: The Implications of Europe's Job Posting Policy (slides)
Discussant: Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University (slides)
2:00 pm

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