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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 2025 workshop will take place from June 16 to June 18.

 

Agenda

Monday, June 16

8:00am - 8:45am

Breakfast

8:45am - 9:45am

Paper: “Capital Services in Global Value Chains”

Authors: Xiang Ding

Presenter: Xiang Ding

9:45am - 9:55am

Discussant: David Baqaee

9:55am - 10:05am

Discussant: Ezra Oberfield

10:05am - 10:15am

General Discussion

10:15am - 10:45 am

Coffee Break

10:45am - 11:45am

Paper: “Trade Shocks in Distorted Economies”

Authors: Rodrigo Adão, Ana Fernandes, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Jose M. Quintero

Presenter:  Rodrigo Adão

11:45am - 11:55am

Discussant: Monika Mrázová

11:55am - 12:05pm

Discussant: Pol Antràs

12:05pm - 12:15pm

General Discussion

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm - 3:30pm

Panel on Tariffs and Deficits

1:15pm – 1:45pm  Arnaud Costinot, “How Tariffs Affect Trade Deficits”

1:45pm – 2:15pm  Oleg Itskhoki, “The Optimal Macro Tariff”

2:15pm – 2:45pm Lorenzo Caliendo, “Tariffs and Trade Deficits”

2:45pm – 3:00pm Discussant: Andrés Rodríguez Clare

3:00pm – 3:15pm Discussant: Mark Aguiar

3:15pm – 3:30pm  General Discussion

 

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Paper: “Multinational Firms and Global Innovation”

Author: Anna Gumpert, Kalina Manova, Christina Rujan and Monika Schnitzer

Presenter: Kalina Manova

5:00pm - 5:10pm

Discussant: Paola Conconi

5:10pm - 5:20pm

Discussant: Teresa Fort

5:20pm - 5:30pm

General Discussion

6:45pm - 10:00pm

Cocktails and dinner at Palmer House

Tuesday, June 17

8:00am - 8:45am

Breakfast

8:45am - 9:45am

Paper: “Optimal Tariffs with Geopolitical Alignment”

Authors: Gene Grossman, Elhanan Helpman and John Sturm Becko

Presenter: Gene Grossman

9:45am - 9:55am

Discussant: Robert Staiger

9:55am - 10:05am

Discussant: Thierry Mayer

10:05am - 10:15am

General Discussion

10:15am - 10:30am

Short Coffee Break

10:30am - 12:45pm

Panel on Combinatorial Discrete Choice Problems

10:30am – 11:00am Marc Melitz “Industrial Policies for Multi-Stage Production”

11:00am – 11:30am Alejandro Sabal “Market Entry and Plant Location in Multi-Product Firms”

11:30am – 12:00 p.m. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, “Firms and Plants in Space”

12:00pm – 12:15pm. Discussant: Jin Liu

12:15pm – 12:30 pm. Discussant: Pablo Fajgelbaum

12:30pm – 12:45 pm. General Discussion

12:45pm - 1:45pm

Lunch

2:30pm - 4:45pm

Guided Walking Tour of the Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood, provided by the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and Cultural Society, meet at Hinds Plaza

6:30pm - 9:30pm

Cocktails and dinner at Mistral

Wednesday, June 18

8:15am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Paper: “The Labor Supply Curve is Upward Sloping: The Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks”

Authors: Sigurd Galaasen, Andreas Kostol, Joan Monras and Jonathan Vogel

Presenter: Jonathan Vogel

10:00am - 10:10am

Discussant: Agostina Brinatti

10:10am - 10:20am

Discussant: Adrian Bilal

10:20am - 10:30am

General Discussion

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee Break

11:00am - 12:00pm

Paper: “Did the Rise of the South Deindustrialize the North?”

Authors: Gordon Hanson and René Livas

Presenter: Gordon Hanson

12:00pm - 12:10pm

Discussant: Mayara Felix

12:10pm - 12:20pm

Discussant: Cecile Gaubert

12:20pm - 12:30pm

General Discussion

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm

Adjourn