Princeton IES 2017 Summer Trade Workshop

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Authors: Xue Bai, Arpita Chatterjee, Kala Krishna, and Hong Ma

2:00 p.m.

Discussion: David Atkin

2:10 p.m.

Discussion: Arnaud Costinot

2:20 p.m.

General Discussion

2:30 p.m.

Short Break

2:45 p.m.

“Distortions and the Structure of the World Economy”
Authors: Lorenzo Caliendo, Fernando Parro and Aleh Tsyvinsky

3:45 p.m

Discussion: Andrei Levchenko

3:55 p.m.

Discussion: Treb Allen

4:05 p.m.

General Discussion

4:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:45 p.m

“Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium”
by Pablo Fajgelbaum and Edouard Schaal

5:45 p.m.

Discussion: Costa Arkolakis

5:55 p.m.

Discussion: Jonathan Eaton

6:05 p.m.

General Discussion

6:45 p.m.

Dinner at Mistral in Princeton

10:00 p.m.

Bus to Chauncey Center

8:00 a.m.

Breakfast at Chauncey Center in Princeton

8:45 a.m

Bus to Princeton from Chauncey Center

9:30 a.m.

“The Global Productivity Distribution and Ricardian Comparative Advantage”
Author: Thomas Sampson

10:30 a.m.

Discussion: Chris Tonetti

10:40 a.m.

Discussion: Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

10:50 a.m.

General Discussion

1:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00 p.m.

“Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.”
Authors: Ariel Burstein, Gordon Hanson, Lin Tian, and Jonathan Vogel

3:00 p.m.

Discussion: Rodrigo Adão

3:10 p.m.

Discussion: Peter Schott

3:20 p.m.

General Discussion

3:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

4:00 p.m.

“Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the United States”
Authors: Nick Bloom, Kalina Manova, John van Reenen, Stephen Sun, and Zhihong Yu

5:00 p.m.

Discussion: Daniel Xu

5:10 p.m.

Discussion: Penny Goldberg

5:20 p.m.

General Discussion

6:15 p.m.

Dinner at Prospect House in Princeton

9:30 p.m

Bus to Chauncey Center

8:00 a.m.

Breakfast at Chauncey Center

8:45 a.m

Bus to Princeton from Chauncey Center

9:30 a.m.

“On the Geography of Global Value Chains”
Author: Pol Antrás and Alonso de Gortari

10:30 a.m.

Discussion: Amit Khandelwal

10:40 a.m

Discussion: Sam Kortum

10:50 a.m.

General Discussion

11:00 a.m

Coffee Break

11:30 a.m.

“Trade Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age”
Authors: Gojko Barjamovic, Thomas Chaney, Kerem Coşar and Ali Hortaçsu

12:30 p.m.

Discussion: Walker Hanlon

12:40 p.m.

Discussion: Dave Donaldson

12:50 p.m.

General Discussion

1:00 p.m

Lunch

2:00 p.m.

Adjourn