Yale Department of Economics

Workshop in International Trade, 2007-2011

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"