Yale Department of Economics

Workshop in International Trade, 2007-2009

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 15 No Meeting
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"
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 8 No meeting
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 12 No meeting
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"