Programme

Registration and Coffee

Accounting for Micro and Macro Patterns of Trade​
David E. Weinstein, Columbia University (with Stephen J. Redding)

When Britain Turned Inward: Protection and the shift towards Empire in interwar Britain
Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke, Oxford University and CEPR (with Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Markus Lampe)
Slides

Coffee Break

Choked by Red Tape? The Political Economy of Wasteful Trade Barriers
Monika Mrázová, University of Geneva and CEPR (with Giovanni Maggi and J. Peter Neary)

The International Elasticity Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think
Philippe Martin, Sciences Po and CEPR (with Lionel Fontagne and Gianluca Orefice)

Lunch

How Did China’s WTO Entry Benefit U.S. Consumers?
Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (with Mi Dai, Robert C. Feenstra and John Romalis)

Efficiency loss from misallocating government contracts
Miklós Koren, Central European University and CEPR (with Adam Szeidl, Ferenc Szucs and Balazs Vedres)

The Gravity of Unit Values​
Jonathan Eaton, Pennsylvania State University (with Cecilia Fieler)

Opening the Floodgates: Immigration and Structural Change
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo and CEPR (with Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, Oddbjorn Raaum and Bernt Bratsberg)

Coffee Break

Trade Policy and the Structure of Supply Chains
Peter K. Schott, Yale School of Management (with Sebastian Heise, Justin R. Pierce and Georg Schaur)

Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
Cheng Chen, The University of Hong Kong (with Claudia Steinwender)
Slides

Lunch

Shipping inside the Box: Containerization and Trade
Banu Demir, Bilkent University and CEPR (with Kerem Cosar)

Ice(berg) Transport Costs​
Maarten Bosker, Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University and CEPR (with Eltjo Buringh)

Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents
David Dorn, Universität Zurich and CEPR (with David Autor, Gordon Hanson, Gary Pisano, Pian Shu)

The Gains from Input Trade with Heterogeneous Importers
Claire Lelarge, Banque de France and CEPR (with Joaquin Blaum and Michael Peters)

Coffee Break

Fuzzy truncation in trade models with heterogeneous firms: Implications for welfare and estimation
Thierry Mayer, Sciences Po and CEPR (with Keith Head and Mathias Thoenig

Trade, Finance and Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity
Rosario Crinò, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and CEPR (with Alessandra Bonfiglioli and Gino Gancia)