FALL, 2017 SCHEDULE
International Trade Seminar
DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION
September 21
Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego
“Tasks, Occupations and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy”
September 28
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo
“The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach”
October 5*
Meredith Startz, Stanford University, IES Fellow 2017-2018 (Joint with CHW and RPDS)
“The Value of Face-to-Face: Search and Contracting Problems in Nigerian Trade”
October 12
Jonathan Eaton, Penn State University
“The Gravity of Unit Values”
October 19
Gilles Duranton, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
“Urban Growth and Its Aggregate Implications”
October 26
Giovanni Maggi, Yale University
“Choked by Red Tape? The Political Economy of Wasteful Trade Barriers”
November 2
No Seminar – Fall break
November 9
No Seminar – Department-wide seminar this week
November 16
Clara Santamaria, Princeton University
“Small Teams in Big Cities: Inequality, City Size, and the Organization of Production”
November 23
No Seminar – Thanksgiving
November 30
Kyle Bagwell, Stanford University
“Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Party Tariff Negotiations”
December 7
Shoumitro Chatterjee, Princeton University (Joint with CHW and RPDS)
“Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India”
December 14
Matthew Grant, Stanford University, IES Fellow 2017-2018
“Why Special Economic Zones? Using Trade Policy to Discriminate Across Importers”
*Please note change of location to Bowl A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building
ALL SEMINARS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAYS FROM 4:15 TO 5:45 P.M. AT THE JULIS ROMO RABINOWITZ BUILDING, ROOM 217 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
For further information, contact Sharon Ernst at sernst@princeton.edu or 258-5715.