Spring 2017 Seminars

SPRING, 2017 SCHEDULE

International Trade Seminar

Fall, 2016

DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION

February 9
**Natalia Ramondo, University of California, San Diego**
“Exporters’and Multinational Firms’ Life-Cycle Dynamics”

February 16
Jorge Balat, Johns Hopkins University (Joint with Industrial Organization)
“Heterogeneous Firms: Skilled-Labor Productivity and the Destination of Exports”

February 23
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago
“Information Frictions, Broadband Internet and the Relationship between Distance and Trade”

March 2
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles
“Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium”

March 9
Javier Cravino, University of Michigan (IES Kenen Fellow 2016-2017)
“Trade-Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium”

March 16

Marc Melitz, Harvard University
“The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence”

March 23
No seminar – Spring break

March 30
No seminar

April 6
No Seminar- Department-Wide Seminar

April 13
Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago
“Trade and Domestic Production Networks”

April 20
Francis Kramarz, CREST-ENSAE 
“Volatility in the Small and in the Large: The Lack of Diversification in International Trade”

April 27
***The Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture***
Jaume Ventura, CREI
“Globalization and Governments”

May 4
Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan
‘TFP, News, and “Sentiments:” The International Transmission of Business Cycles’

May 11
Rodrigo Adão, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (IES Fellow 2016-2017) 
“Trade Openness, Agglomeration Effects, and Endogenous Labor Supply”

**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.