International Seminar on Trade (ISoT) Inaugural Edition

Time

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Opening Remarks

Deon Filmer (Director of Research, World Bank)
Costas Arkolakis (Editor, Journal of International Economics)

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Session #1 – Chair: Daria Taglioni (World Bank)

Paper 1: "Supply Chain Disruptions, Pass-Through, and Firm Heterogeneity"
Authors: Salomé Baslandze (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta & CEPR), joint with Simon Fuch
Discussant: Davin Chor (Dartmouth College)

Paper 2: "Trade Liberalization, Wage Rigidity, and Labor Market Dynamics with Heterogeneous Firms"
Authors: Ekatarina Gurkova (UCLA), joint with Elhanan Helpman & Oleg Itskhoki
Discussant: TBD

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch & Coffee

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Session #2 – Chair: TBA

Paper 1: "The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services"
Authors: Ruiqi Sun (University of Toronto), joint with Daniel Trefler
Discussant: TBD

Paper 2: "Equity Financing and Exports: Evidence from IPO Approvals in China"
Authors: Robin Kaiji Gong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), joint with Yao Amber Li, Stephen Teng & Shang-Jin Wei
Discussant: Jaebin Ahn (International Monetary Fund)

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Session #3 – Chair: Juan Carluccio (Banque de France)

Paper 1: "The Local-Area Incidence of Exporting"
Authors: Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (University of Texas), joint with Christoph E. Boehm, Aaron Flaaen & Jan Schlupp
Discussant: Devaki Ghose (World Bank)

Paper 2: "Rules of Origin and the Use of NAFTA"
Authors: Jose Ramon Moran (Banco de Mexico & University of Michigan), joint with Carlos Alfonso Cebreros Zurita
Discussant: Manuel Garcia Santana (World Bank & CEPR)

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Dinner (by invitation only)

Time

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Session #4 – Chair: TBA

Paper 1: "Love for Variety"
Authors: Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University & CEPR), joint with Philip Ushchev
Discussant: TBD

Paper 2: "Trade Models, Trade Elasticities, and the Gains from Trade"
Authors: Ina Simonovska (UC Davis & CEPR), joint with Michael Waugh
Discussant: Hiau Looi Kee (World Bank)

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Keynote Lecture

Speaker: TBC

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Session #5 – Chair: Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)

Paper 1: "Offshoring and Voting Patterns in the US"
Authors: Lindsay Oldenski (Georgetown University), joint with Anna Maria Mayda & Walter Steingress
Discussant: TBD

Paper 2: "Oligopolies in Trade and Transportation: Implications for the Gains from Trade"
Authors: Enrico Cristoforoni (Boston College), joint with Marco Errico, Federico Rodari & Edoardo Tolva
Discussant: TBD

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Concluding Remarks

Speaker:  Juan Carluccio (Banque de France)