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For its annual Summer Trade Workshop, Princeton IES invites select academics from around the world to Princeton for a three-day research conference.

The 2018 workshop took place from June 25 to June 27.

Agenda

Monday, June 25

8:00am - 8:45am

Breakfast

8:45am - 9:45am

Paper: “Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production”
Author: Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield
Presenter: Ezra Oberfield

9:45am - 9:55am

Discussion: Felix Tintelnot

9:55am - 10:05am

Discussion: Sam Kortum

10:05am - 10:15am

General Discussion

10:15am - 10:30am

Short Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Paper: “A New Engel on the Gains from Trade”
Authors: David Atkin, Ben Faber, Thibault Fally, and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Presenter: Ben Faber

11:30am - 11:40am

Discussion: Swati Dhingra

11:40am - 11:50am

Discussion: David Weinstein

11:50am - 12:00pm

General Discussion

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Paper: “The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States”
Authors: Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri, and Walter Steingress
Presenter: Anna Maria Mayda

2:00pm - 2:10pm

Discussion: Keith Head

2:10pm - 2:20pm

Discussion: Andrew Bernard

2:20pm - 2:30pm

General Discussion

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Paper: “Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference”
Authors: Rodrigo Adão, Michal Kolesár, and Eduardo Morales
Presenter: Eduardo Morales

4:00pm - 4:10pm

Discussion: Peter Egger

4:10pm - 4:20pm

Discussion: Gordon Hanson

4:20pm - 4:30pm

General Discussion

4:30pm - 4:45pm

Short Break

4:45pm - 5:45pm

Paper: “Business Groups as Knowledge-Based Hierarchies of Firms”
Authors: Carlo Altomonte, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and Armando Rungi
Presenter: Gianmarco Ottaviano

5:45pm - 5:55pm

Discussion: Pol Antrás

5:55pm - 6:05pm

Discussion: Lorenzo Caliendo

6:05pm - 6:15pm

General Discussion

7:00pm

Cocktails and Dinner at Palmer House

Tuesday, June 26

8:15am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Paper: “Trade and Innovation: The Role of Scale and Competition Effects”
Authors: Kevin Lim, Daniel Trefler, and Miaojie Yu
Presenter: Kevin Lim

10:00am - 10:10am

Discussion: Cecilia Fieler

10:10am - 10:20pm

Discussion: Jonathan Vogel

10:20am - 10:30am

General Discussion

10:30am - 10:45am

Short Break

10:45am - 11:45am

Paper: “Robots, Trade, and Luddism”
Authors: Arnaud Costinot and Iván Werning
Presenter: Arnaud Costinot

11:45am - 11:55am

Discussion: Matthew Grant

11:55am - 12:05pm

Discussion: Marc Melitz

12:05pm - 12:15pm

Lunch

2:15pm

Bus Pickup at Nassau Inn for Trip to Grounds for Sculpture

5:00pm

Return Bus from Grounds for Sculpture to Nassau Inn

7:00pm

Dinner at Mistral

Wednesday, June 27

8:15am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Paper: “The Geography of Path Dependence”
Authors: Treb Allen and Dave Donaldson
Presenter: Treb Allen

10:00am - 10:10am

Discussion: Dávid Krisztián Nagy

10:10am - 10:20am

Discussion: Jonathan Eaton

10:20am - 10:30am

General Discussion

10:30am - 10:45am

Short Break

10:45am - 11:45am

Paper: “Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting”
Authors: Pablo Fajgelbaum and Cecile Gaubert
Presenter: Cecile Gaubert

11:45am - 11:55am

Discussion: Costas Arkolakis

11:55am - 12:05pm

Discussion: Robert Staiger

12:05pm - 12:15pm

General Discussion

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm

Adjourn