Trade, Development, and Political Economy Workshop (ECN)

Venue: Zoom
Day: Monday
Time: 3:45--5:15 p.m.

Note: Any change to the venue, day, or time will be indicated with the date of the event.

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
March 21st	John McLaren (University of Virginia)	"Family and demographic effects in worker response to trade shocks: Results from the matched CPS"
March 28th	Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)	“U.S. Market Concentration and Import Competition”
April 4th	Karthik Muralidharan (University of California San Diego)	“General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India”
April 18th	Sharat Ganapati (Georgetown University)	“Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona”
April 25th	Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University)	TBA
May 2nd	Bai Xue (Brock University)	TBA

Fall 2021

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
September 27th	Priyaranjan Jha (UC-Irvine)	"Monopsonistic Labor Markets and International Trade"
October 4th	Meredith Startz (Dartmouth)	"Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation"
October 11th	Peter Morrow (University of Toronto)	"Long Run Labo(u)r Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement"
October 21st THURSDAY	Walter Steingress (Bank of Canada)	The impact of immigration on local tax revenues and public expenditures in the United States
November 1st	Amit Khandelwal (Columbia University)	"Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers"
November 15th	Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University)	TBA
November 29th	Jie Bai (Harvard Kennedy School)	"Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress"
December 6th	Swapnika Rachapali (University of British Columbia - visiting Princeton)	TBA

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
February 19	Gene Grossman (with Elhana Helpman, Harvard) (Princeton)	"When Tariffs Disrupt Supply Chains"
March 8	Francesco Trebbi (with Nathan Canen and Chad Kendall) (UC Berkeley)	"Political Parties as Drivers of Polarization: 1927-2018"
April 12	Nitya Pandalai Nayar (University of Texas-Austin)
April 26	Hale Utar (Grinnell College)
May 3	Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia)
May 10	Meredith Startz (Dartmouth College)

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
September 21	Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University-Bloomington)
October 26	Paola Conconi (ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
November 2	David Kuenzel (Wesleyan University)
November 9	Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
November 13	Gene Grossman (Princeton University)
November 16	Giovanni Maggi (Yale University)
November 23	Mostafa Beshkar (Indiana University-Bloomington)

Spring 2020

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

February 24

Brian McCaig

(Wilfrid Laurier University)

"Export Markets and Long-Run Industry Adjustment: State, Private and Foreign Firms in Vietnam"

March 2

Svetlana Demidova

(McMaster University)

March 9

Beyza Ural-Marchand

(University of Alberta)

"Employment Adjustments to Increased Imports: Evidence from a Developing Country"

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
September 16	Halis Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University)	"Tariff Bindings and the Dynamic Formation of Preferential Trade Agreements "
September 30	Andrey Stoyanov (York University)	"China’s One Child Policy and International Trade: The Effect of Distorted Sex Ratios on Comparative Advantage"
October 21	Rishi Sharma (Colgate University)	"Exempted Sectors in Free Trade Agreements"
October 28	Nathan Canen (University of Houston)	"How Campaign Ads Stimulate Political Interest"
November 11	Ozlem Tonguc (SUNY-Binghamton)	"Buying Access to Influence"

Spring 2019

Date

Speaker and Institution

Title

March 4

Peter Morrow

(University of Toronto)

"Is Processing Good?: Theory & Evidence from China"

(joint with Loren Brandt and Bingjing Li)

April 1

Costas Arkolakis

(Yale University)

"European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier”

(joint with Sun Lee and Michael Peters)

April 8

Pian Shu

(Georgia Tech)

“Talent Allocation and Long-Term Innovation: Evidence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
September 24	Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)	“Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change”
October 8	Yoto Yotov (Drexel University)
November 12	Michael Gechter (Pennsylvania State University)	“The Welfare Consequences of Formalizing Developing Country Cities: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment" (joint with Nick Tsivanidis)
November 26	James Lake (Southern Methodist University)
December 3	George Alessandria (University of Rochester)

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
February 26	David Chor (National University of Singapore)	"Just Do Your Job": Obedience, Routine Tasks, and the Pattern of Specialization (co-authored with Filipe R. Campante)
March 5	Ibrahim Gunay (SUNY Albany)	"International Trade and Political Independence: Evidence from Catalonia"
April 9	Matilde Bombardini (University of British Columbia)	TBA
April 23	Pravin Krishna (Johns Hopkins University)	TBA
April 30	Dave Donaldson (MIT)	TBA

Fall 2017

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
October 23 112 Eggers Hall	Yang Liang (Syracuse University)	“Job Creation and Job Destruction: The Effect of Trade Shocks on U.S. Manufacturing Employment”
October 30	Dan Lu (University of Rochester)	“Do Financial Frictions Explain Chinese Firms’ Saving and Misallocation?”
November 6	Erhan Artuc (World Bank)	“Patterns of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade Shocks with Imperfect Capital Mobility” (co-authored with Irene Brambilla and Guido Porto)
November 27	Kevin Lim (University of Toronto)	“Escaping the Competition: The Impact of China's Exports on Chinese and Global Innovation” (co-authored with Daniel Trefler and Miaojie Yu)

Spring 2017

Date	Speaker and Institution	Title
January 30	Cheryl Long (Xiamen University, China & Colgate University)	“China's Patent Promotion Policies and their Quality Implications.”
March 6 Strasser Legacy Room, 220 Eggers Hall 4:30-6:00 p.m.	Matthew Kahn (University of Southern California)	“Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment”
April 3	John McLaren (University of Virginia)	“A Swing-State Theorem, with Evidence.”
April 10	Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)	“Land Markets, Resource Allocation, and Agricultural Productivity” (co-authored with Chaoran Chen and Raul Santaeulalia-LLopis)
April 17	Hong Ma (Tsinghua University, China)	“Trade Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Firm Level Evidence from China's WTO Accession” (co-authored with Qing Liu)