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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012

International Trade & Investment

Marc Melitz and Eric Verhoogen, Organizers

 

July 9-12, 2012

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 9:

Trade and Imported Intermediates

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:30 am


Pol Antràs, Harvard University and NBER
Davin Chor, Singapore Management University
Organizing the Global Value Chain

Discussant: Kunal Dasgupta, University of Toronto

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


Andreas Moxnes, Dartmouth College
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, University of Oslo
Esther Ann Boeler, University of Oslo
Technological Change, Trade in Intermediates and the Joint Impact on Productivity

Discussant: Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch


1:00 pm


W. Walker Hanlon, University of California at Los Angeles

Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change


Discussant: Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College and NBER

2:00 pm

Break

Trade Policy


2:30 pm


Rodney Ludema, Georgetown University
Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University
Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund
Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions

Discussant: Robert Staiger, Stanford University and NBER


3:30 pm


Adjourn

TUESDAY, JULY 10:

Trade and Markups

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andres Rodriguez-Clare, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade

Discussant: Robert Feenstra, University of California at Davis and NBER

10:00 am

Break


10:15 am


Jan De Loecker, Princeton University and NBER

Pinelopi Goldberg, Yale University and NBER

Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER

Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER

Prices, Markups and Trade Reform

Discussant: James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

11:15 am

Depart for the Sonesta for Lunch (Riverfront Room – East Tower), ITM (Parkview Room – East Tower) and the Feldstein Lecture (Ballroom B – West Tower)

Joint Trade and International Macroeconomics Session
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Parkview Room

Pol Antras and Fabio Ghironi, Organizers

 


1:00 pm


Jean Imbs, Paris School of Economics
Claudio Montenegro, World Bank
Romain Wacziarg, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Economic Integration and Structural Change

Discussant:  Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER

 


1:50 pm


Costas Arkolakis, Yale University and NBER
Jonathan Eaton, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago and NBER
Staggered Adjustments and Trade Dynamics

Discussant:  Giancarlo Corsetti, Cambridge University

 

2:40 pm

Break

 


3:10 pm


Se-Jik Kim, Seoul National University
Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University and NBER
Working Capital, Inventories and Optimal Offshoring

Discussant:  Gordon Hanson, University of California at San Diego and NBER

 


4:00 pm


Robert Feenstra, University of California at Davis and NBER
Robert Inklaar, University of Groningen
Marcel Timmer, University of Groningen
The Next Generation of the Penn World Table

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 11:


Worker Adjustment to Trade

9:00 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:30 am


Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College and NBER
Brian McCaig, Australian National University
Export Markets and Labor Reallocation in a Poor Country

Discussant: Jennifer Poole, University of California at Santa Cruz

10:30 am

Break


11:00 am


Gordon Hanson, University of California at San Diego and NBER
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Dorn, CEMFI
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence

Discussant: Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California at San Diego and NBER

12:00 pm

Lunch


Internal Trade Costs

1:00 pm

Treb Allen, Northwestern University
Information Frictions in Trade

Discussant: Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER

2:00 pm

Break


2:30 pm


David Atkin, Yale University and NBER
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Who’s Getting Globalized? Intranational Trade Costs and World Price Pass-Through

Discussant: Philippe Martin, Sciences Po

3:30 pm

Break


4:00 pm


Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto
Peter Morrow, University of Toronto
Matthew Turner, University of Toronto
Roads and Trade: Evidence from the U.S.

Discussant: Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

THURSDAY, JULY 12:


Trade and Labor Markets

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Justin Caron, ETH Zurich
Thibault Fally, University of Colorado
James Markusen, University of Colorado and NBER
Skill Premium and Trade Puzzles: A Solution Linking Production and Preferences

Discussant: Juan Carlos Hallak, Universidad de San Andrés and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale University and NBER
Ferdinando Monte, Johns Hopkins University
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and NBER
The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

Discussant: Maria Guadalupe, Columbia University and NBER

11:15 am

Break


11:30 am


Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER
Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University and NBER
Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Stephen Redding, Princeton University and NBER
Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation

Discussant: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn