SPRING, 2016 SCHEDULE
International Trade Seminar
DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION
February 18
David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial”
February 25
Thibault Fally, University of California-Berkeley
“Firm Heterogeneity in Consumption Baskets: Evidence from Home and Store Scanner Data”
March 3
Robert Johnson, Dartmouth College
“Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy”
March 10
Michael Peters, Yale University
“Cheap Workers and Local Industrialization: Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Transfer”
March 17
No Seminar, Spring Break
March 24
Dave Donaldson, Stanford University
“The More We Die the More We Sell: A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect”
March 31
Phillip McCalman, University of Melbourne (IES Kenen Fellow 2015-2016)
“International Trade, Income Distribution and Welfare”
April 7
***The Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture***
Pascal Lamy, former European Commissioner for Trade and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
“The Changing Landscape of International Trade”
April 14
Joaquin Blaum, Brown University (IES Kenen Fellow 2015-2016)
“The Gains from Input Trade in Firm-based Models of Importing”
April 21
Gilles Duranton, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
“Factor Misallocation in India”
April 28
Gianmarco Ottaviano, London School of Economics
“The Buyer Margins of Firms’ Exports”
May 5
Pol Antras, Harvard University
“On the Geography of Global Value Chains”
May 12
Klaus Desmet, Southern Methodist University
“Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence”
**This seminar will take place from 2:30-4:00 p.m.**
***This seminar will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, Bowl A17***
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.