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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 2023 workshop will take place from June 20 to June 22.

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Agenda

Tuesday, June 20

8:00am - 8:45am

Breakfast

8:45am - 9:45am

Paper: Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks
Authors: Kirill Borusyak, Rafael Dix-Carneiro and Brian K. Kovak
Presenter: Rafael Dix-Carneiro

9:45am - 9:55am

Discussant: Isabela Manelici

9:55am - 10:05am

Discussant: Rodrigo Adão

10:05am - 10:15am

General Discussion

10:15am - 10:30am

Short Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Paper: Remote Work and City Structure
Authors: Ferdinando Monte, Charly Porcher and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Presenter: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

11:30am - 11:40am

Discussant: Cecile Gaubert

11:40am - 11:50am

Discussant: Treb Allen

11:50am - 12:00pm

General Discussion

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Paper: Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection
Authors: David Hémous, Simon Lepot, Ralph Ossa, Thomas Sampson and Julian Schärer
Presenter: Thomas Sampson

2:00pm - 2:10pm

Discussant: Monika Mrazova

2:10pm - 2:20pm

Discussant: Marc Melitz

2:20pm - 2:30pm

General Discussion

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Paper: The Dawn of Civilization: Metal Trade and the Urban Revolution
Author: Matthias Flückiger, Mario Larch, Markus Ludwig and Luigi Pascali
Presenter: Luigi Pascali

4:00pm - 4:10pm

Discussant: Kerem Coşar

4:10pm - 4:20pm

Discussant: John McLaren

4:20pm - 4:30pm

General Discussion

4:30pm - 4:45pm

Short Break

4:45pm - 5:45pm

Paper: Adoption of Foreign Products and Information Externalities Across Domestic Networks
Authors: David Argente, Esteban Méndez and Diana Van Patten
Presenter: Diana Van Patten

5:45pm - 5:55pm

Discussant: Teresa Fort

5:55pm - 6:05pm

Discussant: Amit Khandelwal

6:05pm - 6:15pm

General Discussion

6:45pm

Cocktails and Dinner at Palmer House

Wednesday, June 21

8:15am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Paper: Why is Trade Not Free? A Revealed Preference Approach
Authors: Rodrigo Adão, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson and
John Sturm
Presenter: Dave Donaldson

10:00am - 10:10am

Discussant: Paola Conconi

10:10am - 10:20am

Discussant: Robert Staiger

10:20am - 10:30am

General Discussion

10:30am - 10:45am

Short Break

10:45am - 11:45am

Paper: The Gravity of Violence:Embedding Conflicts in Quantitative Spatial Models
Authors: Mathieu Couttenier, Julian Marcoux, Thierry Mayer and
Mathias Thoenig
Presenter: Thierry Mayer

11:45am - 11:55am

Discussant: David Atkin

11:55am - 12:05pm

Discussant: Fernando Parro

12:05pm - 12:15pm

General Discussion

12:15pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:45pm

Bus Pickup at Nassau Inn for Outdoor Activity

4:30pm

Return Bus to Nassau Inn

6:30pm

Bus from Nassau Inn to Gene Grossman’s house

6:45pm

Nomad Pizza Truck at Gene Grossman’s house

Thursday, June 22

8:15am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Paper: Combinatorial Discrete Choice: A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decision
Authors: Costas Arkolakis, Fabian Eckert and Rowan Shi
Presenter: Costas Arkolakis

10:00am - 10:10am

Discussant: Pablo Fajgelbaum

10:10am - 10:20am

Discussant: Eduardo Morales

10:20am - 10:30am

General Discussion

10:30am - 10:45am

Short Break

10:45am - 11:45am

Paper: Frictions and Adjustments in Firm-to-Firm Trade
Authors: François Fontaine, Julien Martin and Isabelle Mejean
Presenter: Isabelle Mejean

11:45am - 11:55am

Discussant: Adrien Bilal

11:55am - 12:05pm

Discussant: Daniel Xu

12:05pm - 12:15pm

General Discussion

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm

Adjourn

Past Summer Trade Workshops

Past Agendas

Previous Summer Trade Workshops can be found here. Please note that the 2020 and 2021 Summer Trade Workshops were canceled due to the pandemic.