| 2011 |
Wednesday,
2:30-3:50, 28 Hillhouse, Room B8 |
| February 16 |
Swati Dhingra, Princeton University, "Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands" |
| February 23 |
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University, "Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International
Trade" (with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Gene M. Grossman) |
| March 2 |
Pravin Krishna, Johns Hopkins University,
TBD |
| March 30 |
Doireann Fitzgerald, Stanford University,
"Exporters and Exchange Rates" |
| April 6 |
Antoine Gervais, University of Notre Dame,
"Product Quality, Firm Heterogeneity and
International Trade" |
| April 13 |
Michael Waugh, New York University, "Specialization, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity
Differences" (with David Lagakos) |
| April 20 |
Andrés Rodriguez-Clare, Pennsylvania State
University, "Proximity vs Comparative Advantage: A Quantitative Theory of Trade and
Multinational Production" |
| April 27 |
Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon,
"Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal?
Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas"
(with Benjamin H. Liebman, Wesley W. Wilson) |
| September 8 |
David Autor, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, "The China Syndrome: Local
Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States" (with David Dorn
and Gordon Hanson) |
| September 21 |
Gilles Duranton,
University of Toronto, "Roads and Trade: Evidence from the U.S." (with Peter
Morrow and Matthew Turner) |
| September 28 |
Josh Ederington,
University of Kentucky, "Domestic Policies,
Hidden Protection and the GATT/WTO" |
| October 5 |
David Donaldson,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "How Large are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and
Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-2001" (with A. Costinot) |
| October 13 |
Jan DeLoecker, Princeton
University, "Firm Performance and Trade Liberalization" (with Industrial Organization Seminar) |
| October 19 |
Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt
University, "Equilibrium Parallel Import Policies and International Market
Structure" (with Santanu Roy) |
| October 26 |
Fernando Parro, Board of
Governors of Federal Reserve System, "Capital-Skill
Complementarity and the Skill Premium in a Quantitative Model of Trade" |
| November 2 |
Olga Timoshenko, Yale
University, Product switching in a model of learning, |
| November 9 |
Kei Mu Yi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, "How Much of South Korea's Growth Miracle Can be Explained by
Trade Policy?" (with Kelly Connolly) |
| November 16 |
Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "A Theory of Capital Controls as Dynamic Terms of Trade
Manipulation" |
| November 23 |
Break |
| November 30 |
Dan Lu, Princeton University, "Exceptional Exporter Performance? Evidence from Chinese
Manufacturing Firms" |
| 2010 |
|
| February 3 |
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo, "The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and
Implications for Intra-Industry Reallocation" (with Alfonso Irarrazabal and Luca
David Opromolla) |
| February 10 |
David Atkin, Yale University, "Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in
Mexico" |
| February 24 |
Alberto Salvo, Northwestern University
(Visiting Yale), "The Tip of
the Iceberg: Actual Trade Flows Understate the Extent of Globalization" |
| March 24 |
Beata Javorcik, University of Oxford,
"Shipping the Good Tequila Out: Investment,
domestic unit values and entry of multi-product plants into export markets" (with
Leonardo Iacovone) |
| April 7 |
Rebecca Hellerstein, Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, "A Framework for Identifying the
Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability with an Empirical Application" (with
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg) |
| April 14 |
David Weinstein, Columbia University,
"Globalization, Markups, and the U.S. Price Level"
(with Robert Feenstra) |
| April 21 |
James Tybout, Penn State University,
"A Search and Learning Model of Export Markets"
(with Jonathan Eaton, Marcela Eslava, C.J. Krizan, and Maurice Kugler) |
| April 28 |
Eric Bond, Vanderbilt University,
"Product Safety in International Trade" (with Makoto Yano) |
| May 5 |
Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi
University, "Immigration, Offshoring and American
Jobs" (with Giovanni Peri and Greg C. Wright) |
| September 8 |
John Sutton, London School of Economics,
"Capabilities,
Wealth and the Export-Mix" (with Daniel Trefler) |
| September 15 |
Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego, "Exporting
Christianity: Governance and Doctrine in the Globalization of US Denominations"
(with Chong Xiang) |
| September 29 |
Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University,
"Regional Labor
Market Effects of Trade Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Liberalization" |
| October 6 |
Ananth Ramanarayanan, Dallas Fed and
University of Western Ontario, "International
Trade Dynamics with Intermediate Inputs" |
| October 20 |
Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago,
"The Network
Structure of International Trade" |
| October 27 |
Lorenzo Caliendo, Princeton University,
"On the Dynamics of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theory" |
| November 3 |
Kerem Cosar, University of Chicago Booth
School of Business, "Adjusting
to Trade Liberalization: Reallocation and Labor Market Policies" |
| November 10 |
Ann Harrison, UC Berkeley, "Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers? The
Implications of China’s 'Special Characteristics'" (with Du and
Jefferson) |
| November 17 |
Rod Ludema, Georgetown University, "Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff
Suspensions" (with Anna Maria Mayda and Prachi Mishra) |
| December 1 |
Juan Carlos Hallak, Universidad de San
Andres, "Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiaed Goods
Across the Development Divide" (with Alejandro Artopoulos and Daniel Friel) |
| 2009 |
|
| February 18 |
Stefania Garetto, Princeton University,
"Input Sourcing and Multinational Production" |
| March 4 |
Rebecca Hellerstein, Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, "A Framework for Identifying the Sources of Local-Currency Price
Stability with an Empirical Application" (CANCELLED) |
| April 3-4 |
Conference on "The Economics, Law, and Politics of
the WTO", (organized by Giovanni Maggi, Kenneth Scheve, and Joanne Gowa) |
| April 8 |
Timothy Kehoe, University of Minnesota,
"Trade, Growth, and Productivity" |
| April 22 |
Kim Ruhl, New York University, "New Exporter Dynamics" (with Jonathan L. Willis) |
| April 29 |
Emanuel Ornelas, London School of
Economics, "Sequential Exporting" (with
Facundo Albornoz, Héctor F. Calvo Pardo, and Gregory Corcos) |
| May 7 |
Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto,
"Much Ado About Nothing: American Jobs and the Rise
of Service Outsourcing to China and India" (with Runjuan Liu) |
| May 13 |
Ellen McGrattan, Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis, "Transition to FDI Openness" |
| September 16 |
Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, "Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth:
Evidence from India" (with Penny Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, and Petia Topalova) |
| October 7 |
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton
University, "Spatial Development" (with
Klaus Desmet) |
| October 21 |
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University,
"Competition and Quality Upgrading"
(with Mary Amiti) |
| October 28 |
Robert Staiger, Stanford University, "Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements" (with
Pol Antrás ) |
| November 4 |
Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University, "Globalization, Technology, and the Skill Premium"
(with Ariel Burstein) |
| November 11 |
Marc Melitz, Harvard University,
"Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters" (with Thierry Mayer
and Gianmarco Ottaviano) |
| November 18 |
Kalina Manova, Stanford University, "Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models" (with
Zhiwei Zhang) |
| December 2 |
Matilde Bombardini, University of British
Columbia, "Skill Dispersion and Trade Flows"
(with Giovanni Gallipoli and Germán Pupato) |
| 2008 |
|
| February 13 |
Jee-Hyeong Park, Seoul National University,
"Private Trigger Strategies in the Presence of
Concealed Trade Barriers" |
| March 5 |
Taiji Furusawa, Hitotsubashi University,
"A Factor-Proportions Theory of Endogenous Firm
Heterogeneity" (with Hitoshi Sato) |
| March 26 |
Gordon Hanson, University of California-San
Diego, "Income Maximization and the Selection and
Sorting of International Migrants" (with Jeffrey Grogger) |
| April 2 |
John McLaren, University of
Virginia, "Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment:
A Structural Empirical Approach" (with Erhan Artuc and Shubham Chaudhuri) |
| April 16 |
Natalia Ramondo, University of Texas,
"The Role of Multinational Production in
Cross-Country Risk Sharing" (with Veronica Rappoport) |
| April 23 |
Jonathan Eaton, New York University, and
Samuel Kortum, University of Minnesota, "Global
Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment" (with Robert Dekle) |
| April 30 |
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University, "Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports,
Output Prices and Input Prices in Colombia" (with Maurice Kugler) |
| May 7 |
Pol Antràs, Harvard University, "Foreign Influence and Welfare" (with Gerard Padró
i Miquel) |
| September 18 |
Gene Grossman, Princeton University, "Task Trade between Similar Countries" (with
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg) |
| September 24 |
Chad Bown, Brandeis University, "The WTO, Developing Country Exports, and Market Access:
Firm-Level Evidence from an Unlikely Trade Preference Shock" (with Guido Porto) |
| October 1 |
Kim Ruhl,New York University,
"Learning from Exporting" CANCELLED |
| October 15 |
Vani Archana, Indian Council for Research
on International Economic Relations, "India in the
Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms'
Decision to Export" (with T.N. Srinivasan) |
| October 22 |
Peter Schott, Yale University, CANCELLED |
| October 29 |
Gita Gopinath, Harvard University, "Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through"
(with Oleg Itskhoki) |
| November 5 |
Ariel Burstein, UCLA, "Understanding Movements in Aggregate
and Product-Level Real Exchange Rates" (with Nir Jaimovich) |
| November 19 |
Robert C. Johnson, Princeton University and
UC Berkeley, "Trade
and Prices with Heterogeneous Firms" |
| November 26 |
Marc-Andreas Muendler, UC San Diego, "The Extensive Margin of Exporting Goods: A Firm-level
Analysis" (with Costas Arkolakis) |
| December 3 |
Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University, "Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy"
(with Elhanan Helpman and Stephen Redding) |
| December 10 |
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, "Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports
on Innovation and Information Technology" (with Mirko Draca and John Van
Reenen) |
| 2007 |
|
| September 19 |
Shang-Jin Wei, IMF, "Current Account Adjustment: Some New Theory and Evidence"
(with Jiandong Ju) |
| September 26 |
Margaret McMillan, Tufts University, "Offshoring Jobs? Multinationals and US Manufacturing
Employment" (with Ann Harrison) |
| October 10 |
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University,
"Market Access Costs and Trade Dynamics" |
| October 17 |
Arnaud Costinot, University of California,
San Diego, "What Goods Do Countries Trade? New
Ricardian Predictions" (with Ivana Komunjer) |
| October 24 |
Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University,
"Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements and Private Information" |
| October 31 |
Christian Broda, University of Chicago,
"Understanding International Price Differences
UsingBarcode Data" (with David Weinstein) |
| November 7 |
Don Davis, Columbia University, "Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization" (with
James Harrigan) |
| November 14 |
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado,
"Tariffs, Trains, and Trade: The Role of
Institutions versus Technology in the Expansion of Markets" (with Carol H. Shiue) |
| November 28 |
Amalavoyal Chari, Yale University, "License Reform in India: Theory and Evidence" |
