Workshop in International Trade, 2007/08 - 2011/12
| 2007/08 | 2008/09 | 2009/10 | 2010/11 | 2011/12 |
To find the Archives for more recent years, go to the Events/Seminars page and scroll to the bottom, Past Events
2011/12 | |
Sep. 8 | David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States" (with David Dorn and Gordon Hanson) [Paper] |
Sep. 21 | Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto, "Roads and Trade: Evidence from the U.S." (with Peter Morrow and Matthew Turner) [Paper] |
Sep. 28 | Josh Ederington, University of Kentucky, "Domestic Policies, Hidden Protection and the GATT/WTO" [Paper] |
Oct. 5 | David Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "How Large are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-2001" (with A. Costinot) [Paper] |
Oct. 13 | Jan DeLoecker, Princeton University, "Firm Performance and Trade Liberalization" Joint with Industrial Organization Seminar |
Oct. 19 | Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt University, "Equilibrium Parallel Import Policies and International Market Structure" (with Santanu Roy) [Paper] |
Oct. 26 | Fernando Parro, Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System, "Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Skill Premium in a Quantitative Model of Trade" [Paper] |
Nov. 2 | Olga Timoshenko, Yale University, Product switching in a model of learning, |
Nov. 9 | Kei Mu Yi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "How Much of South Korea's Growth Miracle Can be Explained by Trade Policy?" (with Kelly Connolly) [Paper] |
Nov. 16 | Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms of Trade Manipulation" [Paper] |
Nov. 30 | Dan Lu, Princeton University, "Exceptional Exporter Performance? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms" [Paper] |
Feb. 15 | Jonathan Eaton, Penn State, "A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics" (with M. Eslava, C.J. Krizan, M. Kugler, J. Tybout) |
Feb. 22 | Aranzazu Crespo Rodriguez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, "Trade Innovation and Productivity" [Paper] |
Feb. 28 | George Allesandria, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, "Trade Wedges, Inventories, and International Business Cycles" (with J. Kaboski, V. Midrigan) Joint with Macroeconomics Workshop |
Mar. 21 | Kohta Mori, Yale University, "Impacts of International Anti-corruption Treaties on Domestic Political Institutions" |
Mar. 28 | Robert Feenstra, University of California - Davis, "International Prices and Endogenous Quality" (with J. Romalis) [Paper] |
Apr. 4 | Costas Arkolakis, Yale University, "The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade" (with A. Costinot, D. Donaldson, A. Rodriguez-Clare) [Paper] |
Apr. 11 | Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale School of Management, "The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies" (with F. Monte and E. Rossi-Hansberg) [Paper] |
Apr. 18 | James Tybout, Penn State, "Supplier Responses to Wal-Mart's Invasion of Mexico" (with L. Iacovone, B. Javorcik, W. Keller) [Paper] |
Apr. 25 | Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, "Export Markets and Labor Reallocation in a Poor Country" [Paper] |
May 2 | Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics, "Diversification through Trade" (with F. Caselli, M. Koren, M. Lisicky) [Paper] |
May 9 | Cristina Tello-Trillo, Yale University, "The Impact of Trade Competition on Managerial Incentives and Productivity" |
May 23 | Treb Allen, Yale University, "The Dynamics of Spatial Price Dispersion" |
2010/11 | |
Sep. 8 | John Sutton, London School of Economics, "Capabilities, Wealth and the Export-Mix" (with Daniel Trefler) [Paper] |
Sep. 15 | Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego, "Exporting Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations" (with Chong Xiang) [Paper] |
Sep. 29 | Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University, "Regional Labor Market Effects of Trade Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Liberalization" [Paper] |
Oct. 6 | Ananth Ramanarayanan, Dallas Fed and University of Western Ontario, "International Trade Dynamics with Intermediate Inputs" [Paper] |
Oct. 20 | Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago, "The Network Structure of International Trade" [Paper] |
Oct. 27 | Lorenzo Caliendo, Princeton University, "On the Dynamics of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory" [Paper] |
Nov. 3 | Kerem Cosar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, "Adjusting to Trade Liberalization: Reallocation and Labor Market Policies" [Paper] |
Nov. 10 | Ann Harrison, UC Berkeley, "Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers? The Implications of China’s 'Special Characteristics'" (with Du and Jefferson) [Paper] |
Nov. 17 | Rod Ludema, Georgetown University, "Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions" (with Anna Maria Mayda and Prachi Mishra) [Paper] |
Dec. 1 | Juan Carlos Hallak, Universidad de San Andres, "Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiaed Goods Across the Development Divide" (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel) |
Feb. 16 | Swati Dhingra, Princeton University, "Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands" [Paper] |
Feb. 23 | Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University, "Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade" (with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Gene M. Grossman) [Paper] |
Mar. 2 | Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University |
Mar. 30 | Doireann Fitzgerald, Stanford University, "Exporters and Exchange Rates" |
Apr. 6 | Antoine Gervais, University of Notre Dame, "Product Quality, Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade" [Paper] |
Apr. 13 | Michael Waugh, New York University, "Specialization, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences" (with David Lagakos) [Paper] |
Apr. 20 | Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State University, "Proximity vs Comparative Advantage: A Quantitative Theory of Trade and Multinational Production" |
Apr. 27 | Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon, "Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas" (with Benjamin H. Liebman, Wesley W. Wilson) [Paper] |
2009/10 | |
Sep. 16 | Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, "Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India" (with Penny Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, and Petia Topalova) [Paper] |
Oct. 7 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University, "Spatial Development" (with Klaus Desmet) [Paper] |
Oct. 21 | Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University, "Competition and Quality Upgrading" (with Mary Amiti) [Paper] |
Oct. 28 | Robert Staiger, Stanford University, "Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements" (with Pol Antrás ) [Paper] |
Nov. 4 | Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University, "Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium" (with Ariel Burstein) [Paper] |
Nov. 11 | Marc Melitz, Harvard University, "Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters" (with Thierry Mayer and Gianmarco Ottaviano) [Paper] |
Nov. 18 | Kalina Manova, Stanford University, "Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models" (with Zhiwei Zhang) [Paper] |
Dec. 2 | Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia, "Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows" (with Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato) [Paper] |
Feb. 3 | Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo, "The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and Implications for Intra-Industry Reallocation" (with Alfonso Irarrazabal and Luca David Opromolla) [Paper] |
Feb. 10 | David Atkin, Yale University, "Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico" [Paper] |
Feb. 24 | Alberto Salvo, Northwestern University (Visiting Yale), "The Tip of the Iceberg: Actual Trade Flows Understate the Extent of Globalization" [Paper] |
Mar. 24 | Beata Javorcik, University of Oxford, "Shipping the Good Tequila Out: Investment, Domestic Unit Values and Entry of Multi-product Plants into Export Markets" (with Leonardo Iacovone) [Paper] |
Apr. 7 | Rebecca Hellerstein, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "A Framework for Identifying the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability with an Empirical Application" (with Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg) [Paper] |
Apr. 14 | David Weinstein, Columbia University, "Globalization, Markups, and the U.S. Price Level" (with Robert Feenstra) [Paper] |
Apr. 21 | James Tybout, Penn State University, "A Search and Learning Model of Export Markets" (with Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava, C.J. Krizan, and Maurice Kugler) [Paper] |
Apr. 28 | Eric Bond, Vanderbilt University, "Product Safety in International Trade" (with Makoto Yano) [Paper] |
May 5 | Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University, "Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs" (with Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright) [Paper] |
2008/09 | |
Sep. 18 | Gene Grossman, Princeton University, "Task Trade between Similar Countries" (with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg) [Paper] |
Sep. 24 | Chad Bown, Brandeis University, "The WTO, Developing Country Exports, and Market Access: Firm-Level Evidence from an Unlikely Trade Preference Shock" (with Guido Porto) [Paper] |
Oct. 15 | Vani Archana, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, "India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export" (with T.N. Srinivasan) [Paper] |
Oct. 29 | Gita Gopinath, Harvard University, "Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through" (with Oleg Itskhoki) [Paper] |
Nov. 5 | Ariel Burstein, UCLA, "Understanding Movements in Aggregate and Product-Level Real Exchange Rates" (with Nir Jaimovich) [Paper] |
Nov. 19 | Robert C. Johnson, Princeton University and UC Berkeley, "Trade and Prices with Heterogeneous Firms" [Paper] |
Nov. 26 | Marc-Andreas Muendler, UC San Diego, "The Extensive Margin of Exporting Goods: A Firm-level Analysis" (with Costas Arkolakis) [Paper] |
Dec. 3 | Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University, "Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy" (with Elhanan Helpman and Stephen Redding) [Paper] |
Dec. 10 | Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, "Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation and Information Technology" (with Mirko Draca and John Van Reenen) [Paper] |
Feb. 18 | Stefania Garetto, Princeton University, "Input Sourcing and Multinational Production" [Paper] |
Apr. 3-4 | Conference on "The Economics, Law, and Politics of the WTO" (organized by Giovanni Maggi, Kenneth Scheve, and Joanne Gowa) |
Apr. 8 | Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota, "Trade, Growth, and Productivity" [Paper] |
Apr. 22 | Kim Ruhl, New York University, "New Exporter Dynamics" (with Jonathan L. Willis) [Paper] |
Apr. 29 | Emanuel Ornelas, London School of Economics, "Sequential Exporting" (with Facundo Albornoz, Héctor F. Calvo Pardo, and Gregory Corcos) [Paper] |
May 7 | Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto, "Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India" (with Runjuan Liu) [Paper] |
May 13 | Ellen McGrattan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "Transition to FDI Openness" [Paper] |
2007/08 | |
Sep. 19 | Shang-Jin Wei, IMF, "Current Account Adjustment: Some New Theory and Evidence" (with Jiandong Ju) [Paper] |
Sep. 26 | Margaret McMillan, Tufts University, "Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and US Manufacturing Employment" (with Ann Harrison) [Paper] |
Oct. 10 | Costas Arkolakis, Yale University, "Market Access Costs and Trade Dynamics" [Paper] |
Oct. 17 | Arnaud Costinot, University of California, San Diego, "What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions" (with Ivana Komunjer) [Paper] |
Oct. 24 | Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University, "Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements and Private Information" [Paper] |
Oct. 31 | Christian Broda, University of Chicago, "Understanding International Price Differences UsingBarcode Data" (with David Weinstein) [Paper] |
Nov. 7 | Don Davis, Columbia University, "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization" (with James Harrigan) [Paper] |
Nov. 14 | Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado, "Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets" (with Carol H. Shiue) [Paper] |
Nov. 28 | Amalavoyal Chari, Yale University, "License Reform in India: Theory and Evidence" [Paper] |
Feb. 13 | Jee-Hyeong Park, Seoul National University, "Private Trigger Strategies in the Presence of Concealed Trade Barriers" [Paper] |
Mar. 5 | Taiji Furusawa, Hitotsubashi University, "A Factor-Proportions Theory of Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity" (with Hitoshi Sato) [Paper] |
Mar. 26 | Gordon Hanson, University of California-San Diego, "Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants" (with Jeffrey Grogger) [Paper] |
Apr. 2 | John McLaren, University of Virginia, "Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment: A Structural Empirical Approach" (with Erhan Artuc and Shubham Chaudhuri) [Paper] |
Apr. 16 | Natalia Ramondo, University of Texas, "The Role of Multinational Production in Cross-Country Risk Sharing" (with Veronica Rappoport) [Paper] |
Apr. 23 | Jonathan Eaton, New York University, and Samuel Kortum, University of Minnesota, "Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment" (with Robert Dekle) [Paper] |
Apr. 30 | Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University, "Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports, Output Prices and Input Prices in Colombia" (with Maurice Kugler) [Paper] |
May 7 | Pol Antràs, Harvard University, "Foreign Influence and Welfare" (with Gerard Padró i Miquel) [Paper] |