Event Recap

In recent years, trade economists have ventured into new territory, applying trade theory to study questions outside the traditional boundaries of international trade. This expansion of the applications of trade theory has been made possible only through the original use of unconventional data.

This conference brought together new frontier research in international trade that makes use of such unconventional data. Leading trade economists discussed methods for collecting and using these new data, and how to overcome empirical and theoretical challenges associated with their use.

Agenda

Friday, May 19, 2017

Indivisibilities in Distribution

Thomas Holmes, The University of Minnesota

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Accounting for Micro and Macro Patterns of Trade

Stephen Redding, Princeton University

Urban Revival in America, 2000 to 2010

Victor Couture, University of California, Berkeley

Co-author: Jessie Handbury, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Trade, Merchants and Lost Cities of the Bronze Age

Thomas Chaney, Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, Paris, Toulouse School of Economics

Gojko Barjamovic, Harvard University

Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia

Ali Hortaçsu, Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Economics, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Brands in Motion: How Frictions Shape Multinational Production

Keith Head, University of British Columbia

Co-author: Theirry Mayer, Sciences Po, Banque de France, CEPII, and CEPR

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Trade and Domestic Production Networks

Felix Tintelnot, Associate Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

Ken Kikkawa, University of Chicago

Magne Mogstad, The Gary S. Becker Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Director of BFI Ronzetti Initiative for the Study of Labor Markets

Emmaneul Dhyne, National Bank of Belgium

Capital Accumulation and Dynamic Gains from Trade

B. Ravikumar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Michael J. Sposi, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

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