Fall 2012 Seminars

FALL, 2012 SCHEDULE

International Trade Seminar

Spring 2012

DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION

September 20
Davin Chor, Singapore Management University (IES Kenen Fellow 2012-2013)
“Organizing the Global Value Chain”

September 27
Ralph Ossa, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data”

October 4 – (Joint seminar with CEE at 12:15 p.m. in Engineering Quad, Room E219)
Dave Donaldson, MIT
“Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change in Agricultural Markets: Evidence from a 9 Million-Field Partition of the Earth”

“Can Openness to Trade Reduce Income Volatility? Evidence from Colonial India’s Famine Era”

October 4 – 200 Fisher Hall at 4:15 p.m.
Hyun Shin, Princeton University
“Working Capital, Inventories, and Optimal Offshoring”

October 11
Cecilia Fieler, University of Pennsylvania
“Trade, Competition and Quality-Upgrading: A Theory with Evidence from Colombia”

October 18
Gordon Hanson, University of California, San Diego
“Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence”

October 25 – No IES seminar (Department-Wide Seminar with Mark Aguiar on October 22)

November 1 – No seminar (Fall Break)

November 8 
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University
“Geography of the World Economy”

November 15
Tomasz Święcki, Princeton University
“Intersectoral Distortions, Structural Change and the Welfare Gains from Trade”

November 22 – No seminar (Thanksgiving)

November 29
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles
“Market Access and Regional Specialization in a Ricardian World”

December 6
Karyne CharbonneauPrinceton University
“Multiple Fixed Effects in Nonlinear Panel Data Models – Theory and Evidence”

December 13 
David Atkin, Yale University
“Who’s Getting Globalized: The Size and Nature of Intranational Trade Costs”

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.