Spring 2012 Seminars

SPRING, 2012 SCHEDULE

International Trade Seminar

Fall 2011

DATE / SPEAKER / PRESENTATION

February 16
Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University
“Trade and Inequality: From Theory to Estimation”

February 23
Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics
“Diversification through Trade”

March 1
James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University
“A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics”
*See Sharon Ernst for a hard copy of this paper*

March 8
Katheryn Russ, University of California, Davis
“Understanding Markups in the Open Economy under Bertrand Competition”

March 29
Kerem Cosar, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
“Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry”

April 5
The Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture***(Note change of time and location)***
Anthony Venables, University of Oxford
” ‘New’ Economic Geography: 15 Years On”

April 12
Thomas Sampson, London School of Economics
“Selection into Trade and Wage Inequality”

April 19
Luis Garicano, London School of Economics
“Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France”

April 26
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University (IES Kenen Fellow 2011-2012)
“Prices, Markups and Trade Reform”

May 3
Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis (IES Kenen Fellow 2011-2012)
“Different Trade Models, Different Trade Elasticities?”

***The Frank D. Graham Memorial Lecture will be held in Bowl 16, Robertson Hall at 4:30 P.M. on Thursday, April 5, 2012.***

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.