SI 2024 International Trade & Investment

Cécile Gaubert and Oleg Itskhoki, Organizers

July 8-10, 2024

Serrano Ballroom, Hotel Marlowe

Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 8
9:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:01 am
Session on Topics in Trade
The following paper will not be available on YouTube:
10:00 am

The Value of De Minimis Imports
Discussant: Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am

Multinational Networks and Trade Participation
Discussant: Isabela Manelici, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm

Trade and the End of Antiquity
Discussant: Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Third-Country Effects of U.S. Immigration Policy
Discussant: Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
3:45 pm
Break
4:00 pm

Measuring Information Frictions in Migration Decisions: A Revealed-Preference Approach
Discussant: Milena Almagro, University of Chicago and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 9
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:31 am
Session on Trade and Trade Policies
9:00 am

A World Trading System For Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs
Discussant: Ralph Ossa, University of Zurich
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am

Trade War and Peace: U.S.-China Trade and Tariff Risk from 2015–2050
Discussant: Marc Melitz, Harvard University and NBER
11:45 am
Lunch at Hotel Marlowe
12:45 pm
International Trade and Macroeconomics continues at the Royal Sonesta
4:30 pm
Panel Honoring Jonathan Eaton
Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER (chair)
Sam Kortum, Yale University and NBER
Mark Aguiar, Princeton University and NBER
Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, July 10
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:31 am
Session on Spatial Economics
9:00 am

Unpacking Aggregate Welfare in a Spatial Economy
Discussant: Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:15 am

Should I Stay or Should I Grow? How Cities Affect Learning, Inequality and Productivity
Discussant: Levi Crews, University of California, Los Angeles
11:15 am
Break
11:30 am

Banks in Space
Discussant: Thomas J. Holmes, University of Minnesota and NBER
12:30 pm
Lunch
12:31 pm
Session on Trade and Migration
1:30 pm

The Gains from Trade from Rural-Urban Migration
Discussant: Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm

Cross-Border Product Adoption: Individual Imports, Migrant Networks, and Domestic Retailers
Discussant: Kirill Borusyak, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:45 pm
Adjourn