Wednesday, 30 March |
8:45 AM - 9.00 AM | Registration and Breakfast Welcome Address ANABEL GONZALEZ, Senior Director, Trade & Competitiveness, WORLD BANK GROUP |
9:00 - 10:00 AM | Views from Policy Makers and the Private Sector Policy Determinants of Upgrading in GVCs DARIA TAGLIONI, Lead Trade Economist & Global Value Chains Global Solution Lead, WORLD BANK GROUP Digital Globalization: A New Era of Global Flows SREE RAMASWAMY, Senior Fellow, MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE |
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM | Keynote Speech GVCs: Finance, Quality, and Management KALINA MANOVA, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD |
| 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM | Coffee Break |
11:20 AM - 12:10 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Swimming Upstream: Input-Output Linkages and the Direction of Product Adoption SWATI DHINGRA, Lecturer in Economics, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS |
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM | Keynote Speech The Evolution of a Production Network ANDREW BERNARD, Jack Byrne Professor of International Economics, Tuck School of Business, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE |
| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch |
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy EMILY J. BLANCHARD, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE |
2:50 PM - 3:40 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion From Final Goods to Inputs: The Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin MANUEL J. GARCIA-SANTANA, Assistant Professor of Economics, UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA |
| 3:40 PM - 4:10 PM | Coffee Break |
4:10 PM - 5:00 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing EMANUEL ORNELAS, Professor, São Paulo School of Economics, FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS |
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Panel Discussion Will Mega-Regionals Affect the Geography and Functioning of GVCs? Chair ANABEL GONZALEZ, Senior Director, Trade & Competitiveness, WORLD BANK GROUP Panelists ADAM HEMPHILL, Director of Federal Government Relations, WAL-MART BERNARD HOEKMAN, Professor and Director of Global Economics in the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE MICHAEL FERRANTINO, Lead Economist, Trade & Competitiveness, WORLD BANK GROUP RALPH CARTER, Managing Director, Legal & International Affairs, FEDEX EXPRESS RODNEY D. LUDEMA, Chief Economist, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT |
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Thursday, 31 March |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills AMEET MORJARIA, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY |
9:50 AM - 10:40 AM | Keynote Speech Offshoring, Relationship-Specificity, and Domestic Production Networks HEIWAI TANG, Assistant Professor of International Economics, School of Advanced International Studies, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY |
| 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM | Coffee Break |
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Input Specificity and the Propagation of Idiosyncratic Shocks in Production Networks JEAN-NOËL BARROT, Sloan School of Management, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | Keynote Speech On the Geography of GVCs POL ANTRÀS, Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics, HARVARD UNIVERSITY |
| 12:50 PM - 1:50 PM | Lunch |
1:50 PM - 2:40 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Income Differences and Input-Output Structure HARALD FADINGER, Associate Professor of International Economics, UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM |
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | Keynote Speech Internalizing GVCs: A Firm-Level Analysis LAURA ALFARO, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Coffee Break |
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion GVC Participation and Current Account Imbalances FABIAN TROTTNER, PhD student in Economics, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY |
4:50 PM - 5:50 PM | Panel Discussion What Do GVCs Mean for Macro Policies? Chair BILL MALONEY, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, WORLD BANK GROUP Panelists DAVID DOLLAR, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION FABIO GHIRONI, Paul F. Glaser Professor of Economics, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON M. AYHAN KOSE, Director, Development Prospects Group, WORLD BANK GROUP MARTIN D. KAUFMAN, Advisor at the Strategy, Policy and Review Department, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND |
5:50 PM - 6:00 PM | Closing Remarks DARIA TAGLIONI, Lead Trade Economist & Global Value Chains Global Solution Lead, WORLD BANK GROUP PAOLA CONCONI, Professor of Economics, UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES |
