Fall 2010 Seminars

Fall, 2010 SCHEDULE

International Trade Seminar

Spring 2010

DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION

September 23
Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago
“The Network Structure of International Trade”

September 30
Tony Venables, Oxford University 
“Relocating the Value Chain: Off-Shoring and Agglomeration in the Global Economy”

October 7
Emanuel Ornelas, London School of Economics
“Sequential Exporting”

October 14
Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics (IES Fellow 2010-2011)
“Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands”

October 21
Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University
“International Trade Patterns, the Skill Premium, and Heterogeneous Firms”

October 28
No seminar – Department-Wide Seminar

November 4
No seminar – Fall Break

November 11
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University
“Endogenous Ranking and Equilibrium Lorenz Curve Across (ex-ante) Identical Countries”

November 18 (Joint with Industrial Relations)
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Princeton University
“Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics”

November 25
No seminar – Thanksgiving

December 1*** (Note date and time change)
Zhanar Akhmetova, Princeton University 
“Firm Experimentation in New Markets”
“Structural Estimation of the Model of Firm Experimentation”

December 2
Shlomi Kramer, Princeton University
“International Reserves Accumulation and Endogenous Growth”

December 9
No Seminar

December 16
Pablo Fajgelbaum, Princeton University
“Labor Market Frictions, Firm Growth and International Trade”

***This seminar will take place on Wednesday, 12/1 from 12:15 to 1:45 P.M. in 200 Fisher Hall

ALL SEMINARS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAYS FROM 4:15 TO 5:45 P.M. IN 200 FISHER HALL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. 

For further information, contact Sharon Ernst at sernst@princeton.edu or 258-5715.