ERWIT Programme & Papers 2015

European Research Workshop in International Trade
(ERWIT)

Hosted and Sponsored by
Sciences Po, Paris

Supported by the European Research Council[1]

Paris, 3-5 June 2015
Location: Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris
Room: Amphi CAQUOT

08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-10:00	Migrants, Trade and Investment Thomas Chaney, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR (with Tarek Hassan and Konrad Burchardi)
10:00-11:00	How Research Can Advance Trade Policy: Insights from the Front Line Pascal Lamy, President emeritus, Jacques Delors Institute and former Director-General of the World Trade Organization
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-12:30	Betting on Exports: Trade and Endogenous Heterogeneity Gino Gancia, CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR (with Alessandra Bonfiglioli and Rosario Crinò)
12:30-13:30	Export Big Hits: Growing by Leaps and Bounds Olivier Cadot, Université de Lausanne and CEPR (with Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann, Anne-Celia Disdier and Melise Jaud)
13:30-14:30	Lunch
14:30-15:30	Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Bank Lending Veronica Rappoport, London School of Economics (with Daniel Paravisini and Philipp Schnabl)
15:30-16:30	International Shocks and Domestic Prices: How Large Are Strategic Complementarities? Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and CEPR (with Oleg Itshkoki and Jozef Konings)
Thursday 4 June
09:00-10:00	The Rents From Trade and Coercive Institutions: Removing the Sugar Coating Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto (with Christian Dippel and Avner Greif)
10:00-11:00	Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Napoleonic Blockade Réka Juhász, London School of Economics
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-12:30	Information Frictions and the Law of One Price: When the States and the Kingdom became United Claudia Steinwender, Princeton University
12:30-13:30	The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University and CEPR (with Klaus Desmet and David Nagy)
13:30-14:30	Lunch
14:30-15:30	State Taxes and Spatial Misallocation Eduardo Morales, Princeton University (with Pablo Fajgelbaum, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato and Owen Zidar)
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.00	Retail Globalization and Household Welfare Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley (with David Atkin and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro)
17.00-18.00	The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms: an Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms Francesc Ortega, CUNY (with Anirban Ghosh and Anna Maria Mayda)

Friday 5 June
09:00-10:00	Brands in Motion: How Frictions Shape Multinational Production Keith Head, University of British Columbia and CEPR (with Thierry Mayer)
10:00-11:00	Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis Pol Antràs, Harvard University and CEPR (with Laura Alfaro, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi)
11:00-11:30	Break
11:30-12:30	Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade Swati Dhingra, London School of Economics and CEPR (with Andrew Bernard)
12:30-13:30	Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade Holger Breinlich, University of Essex and CEPR (with Volker Nocke and Nicolas Schutz)
13:30-14:30	Lunch

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