SI 2024 International Trade & Investment

Cecile 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
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10:00 am
Pablo D. Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University and NBER

The Value of De Minimis Imports
Discussant: Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am
Paola Conconi, University of Oxford
Fabrizio Leone, Université libre de Bruxelles
Glenn C.G. Magerman, Université libre de Bruxelles
Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics

Multinational Networks and Trade Participation
Discussant: Isabela Manelici, London School of Economics
12:15 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Johannes Boehm, Sciences Po
Thomas Chaney, University of Southern California

Trade and the End of Antiquity
Discussant: Réka Juhász, University of British Columbia and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
Agostina Brinatti, University of Michigan
Xing Guo, Bank of Canada

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
Charly Porcher, Georgetown University
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University and NBER
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER

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
Rodrigo Adão, University of Chicago and NBER
John S. Becko, Princeton University
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

A World Trading System For Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs
Discussant: Ralph Ossa, University of Zurich
10:00 am
Break
10:30 am
George A. Alessandria, University of Rochester and NBER
Shafaat Y. Khan, Syracuse University
Armen Khederlarian, Hunter College CUNY
Kim J. Ruhl, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Joseph B. Steinberg, University of Toronto

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
Eric R. Donald, University of Pittsburgh
Masao Fukui, Boston University
Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University

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

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
Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University and NBER
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago and NBER
Nicholas Trachter, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Derek Wenning, Princeton University

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
Dennis Egger, Univeristy of Oxford
Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ming Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Wei Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

The Gains from Trade from Rural-Urban Migration
Discussant: Meredith Startz, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:45 pm
David Argente, Yale University and NBER
Esteban Méndez, Central Bank of Costa Rica
Diana Van Patten, Yale University and NBER

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