Past Trade Brown Bag Seminars

Spring 2011 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
Jan 4	Ann Harrison, World Bank	Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers? The Implications of China's "Special Characteristics"	MC4-100
Jan 18	Koen J.M. van der Veer, De Nederlandsche Bank	Private Credit Insurance Effect on Trade	MC5-100
Feb 2	Ariell Reshef, University of Virginia	Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms: Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium Redux	MC6-100
Feb 8	Masahiro Kawai and Ganeshan Wignaraja, Asian Development Bank Institute	Asian Free Trade Agreements: Trends, Challenges and Prospects	MC6-100
Feb 15	Marcelo Olarreaga, University of Geneva	Weak Governments and Trade Agreements	MC4-100
Mar 2	Giovanni Perri, University of California, Davis	The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration	MC4-100
Mar 15	James Harrigan, University of Virginia and NBER	Export Prices of U.S. Firms	MC7-100
Mar 16	Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University	Are Trade Liberalizations a Source of Global Current Account Imbalances?	MC6-100
Mar 29	Megha Mukim, London School of Economics	Does Exporting Increase Productivity? Evidence from India	MC4-100
Apr 5	Peter K. Schott, Yale School of Management and NBER	When Institutional Reform is Embedded in Trade Liberalization: Evidence from Chinese Exporters	MC10-100
Apr 19	Quy-Toan Do and Claudio E. Raddatz, World Bank	Engendering Trade	MC8-100
Apr 26	Ingo Brochert and Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank	Landlocked or Policy Locked? How Services Trade Protection Deepens Economic Isolation	MC4-100
May 3	Mary Lovely, Syracuse University	Does Final Market Demand Elasticity Influence the Location of Export Processing? Evidence from Multinational Decisions in China	MC4-100
May 10	Gnanaraj Chellaraj, World Bank	Foreign Direct Investment in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Augmented Knowledge-Capital Model	MC9-100
May 17	Mauro Guillen, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Is the World Becoming Smaller? Globalization and Convergence Across Countries	MC4-100
May 24	Murat Seker, World Bank	Imported Intermediate Goods and Product Innovation: Evidence from India	MC4-100
May 31	Ed Balistreri, Colorado School of Mines joint with David Tarr, World Bank	Services Liberalization in Preferential Trade Arrangements: The Case of Kenya	MC4-100
Jun 7	James Anderson, Boston College and NBER	Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002	MC4-100
Jun 14	Brian Kenneth Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University	Local Labor Market Effects of Trade Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Liberalization	MC4-100
Jun 21	Ana Margarida Fernandes, The World Bank	Together We Stand? Agglomeration in Indian Manufacturing	MC4-100

Fall 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
Dec 6	Guido Porto, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Nicolas Depetris, Dubai School of Government Marcelo Olarreaga, University of Geneva	Supply Chains in Export Agriculture, Competition, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa	MC4-301
Nov 30	Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University & NBER	Export Destinations and Input Prices: Evidence from Portugal	MC5-100
Nov 16	Doug Irwin, Dartmouth & NBER	The Slide To Protectionism in the Great Depression: Who Succumbed and Why?	MC5-100
Nov 9	Alessandro Nicita, UNCTAD	The Value of Preferential Market Access	MC8-100
Oct 25	Brian McCaig, Australian National University	Exporting Out of Poverty: Provincial Poverty in Vietnam and U.S. Market Access	MC3-101
Oct 22	Rafael Carneiro, Princeton University	Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics	MC3-101
Oct 22	Erhan Artuç, Koç University	Intergenerational Effects of Trade Liberalization	MC3-101
Oct 21	Amalavoyal Chari, Cornell University	Identifying the Aggregate Productivity Effects of Entry and Size Restrictions: An Empirical Analysis of License Reform in India	MC6-500
Oct 20	Joana Silva, World Bank	International Competition, Returns to Skill and Labour Market Adjustment	MC4-500
Oct 18	Prachi Mishra, IMF	Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions	H 5-290
Oct 19	Markus Brueckner, Pompeu Fabra University	On the Simultaneity Problem in the Aid and Growth Debate	MC2-436
Oct 18	Leonardo Iacovone, World Bank	Getting Ready: Preparation for Exporting	H 5-290
Oct 15	Maggie Chen, George Washington University	The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms	H2-480
Oct 15	Mariano Bosch, University of Alicante	Trade Liberalization, Labor Reforms and Formal-Informal Employment Dynamics	H2-480
Oct 5	Prachi Mishra, IMF	Do Crises Have Lasting Effects on Trade?	MC5-500
Sep 28	Will Martin, World Bank	Measuring the Benefits of Global Trade Reform with Optimal Aggregators of Distortions	MC10-100
Sep 21	Jennifer Poole, University of California, Santa Cruz	Trade Liberalization, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data	MC10-100
Sep 7	Amit K. Khandelwal, Columbia Business School & NBER	The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade	MC7-100

Spring 2010 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
Jul 27	Chad Bown, World Bank	Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009	MC4-100
Jun 23	Simon Evenett, University of St Gallen and CEPR	Trade Policy-Related Exit Strategies for the G20: Rolling back "Jumbo" Protectionist Measures	MC3-101
Jun 22	Ana Fernandes, University of Sussex	Determinants of Vertical Integration in Export Processing: Theory and Evidence from China	MC10-100
Jun 17	Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University	Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade	MC3-570
Jun 15	Natasha Xingyuan Che, Georgetown University	Factor Endowment, Structural Change, and Economic Growth	MC6-100
Jun 8	Emily Blanchard, University of Virginia	U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access	MC10-100
Jun 1	Daria Taglioni, European Central Bank	Firms and the Global Crisis: French Exports in the Turmoil	MC6-100
May 25	Benjamin Mandel, Board of Governors	The Dynamics and Differentiation of Latin American Metal Exports	MC6-100
May 18	Philipe Martin, Sciences Po	The Vulnerability of Sub Saharan Africa to the Financial Crisis: the Case of Trade	MC9-100
May 11	David Atkin, Yale University	Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India	MC6-100
May 4	Brent Neiman, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business	Trade and the Global Recession	MC8-100
Apr 27	Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University	A Sexually Unbalanced Model of Current Account Imbalances	MC3-570
Apr 15 Thursday	Robert W. Staiger, Stanford University	International Trade and Domestic Regulation	MC10-100
Apr 13	Gary Jefferson, Brandais University	Assessing FDI Spillovers in China: Why Are the Research Results So Different?	MC4-301
Mar 30	Caglar Ozden, World Bank	Leveling the Playing Field! National Implications of a Global Market for Football Players	MC9-100
Mar 23	Beata Javorcik, Oxford University	Roll out the Red Carpet and They Will Come: Investment Promotion, Information Asymmetries and FDI Inflows	MC7-100
Mar 16	Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology	What drives export survival? An analysis of export duration in Latin America	MC9-100
Mar 9	Jan De Loecker, Princeton University	Markups and Firm-level Export Status	MC8-100
Mar 2	Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University	Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence	MC8-100
Feb 23	Susan Chun Zhu, Michigan State University	Contractual vs. Arm’s Length Trade: Empirical Evidence on the Sorting of Firms and Products	MC7-100
Feb 18 Thursday	Marc Melitz, Harvard University	Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters	MC8-100
Feb 16	Hiau Looi Kee, World Bank	Uncovering Horizontal Spillovers: When Foreign and Domestic Firms Share Common Local Input Suppliers	MC7-100
Feb 2	Maurice Schiff, World Bank	Small-State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade	MC4-800
Jan 26	Dave Donaldson, MIT	Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure VIDEO	MC5-100

Fall 2009 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
Dec 8	Larry Karp, University of California, Berkeley	Cap and Trade with a Safety Valve in the next Climate Agreement	MC3-570
Dec 1	Shanthi Nataraj, University of California, Berkeley	The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Productivity and Firm Size	MC3-570
Nov 24	Ana Fernandes, World Bank	Does Trade Stimulate Innovation? Evidence from Firm-Product Data	MC8-100
Nov 17	Leonardo Iacovone, World Bank	Trade as Engine of Creative Destruction: The Mexican Experience with Chinese Competition	MC8-100
Nov 10	Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University	Unequal Effects of Trade on Workers with Different Abilities	MC8-100
Nov 3	David Weinstein, Columbia University & NBER	Exports and Financial Shocks	MC8-100
Oct 27	Kathryn Dominguez, University of Michigan and NBER	Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States	MC10-100
Oct 26 (Monday)	Aaditya Mattoo, World Bank	What are the Real Costs to Developing Countries of Climate Change Mitigation?	MC10-100
Sep 29	Kalina Manova, Stanford University & NBER	Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models	MC7-100
Sep 21 (Monday)	Gordon Hanson, UC-San Diego & NBER	Birth Rates and Border Crossings: The Demographic Push Behind Emigration in the Americas	MC7-100
Sep 15	Chad P. Bown, World Bank, DECRG	Trade Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards: Evidence from India's Tariff Reform	MC10-100
Sep 14	Ann Harrison, World Bank, DECRG	Industrial Policy and the Role of the State in Promoting Growth	MC13-121
Sep 8	Christopher Parsons, University of Nottingham and World Bank	The Evolution of Global Bilateral Migration 1960-2000	MC7-100

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