SPRING, 2017 SCHEDULE
International Trade Seminar
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.