Conference: Assessing the Impacts of Trade on Development

Friday, April 29 & Saturday, April 30

Hesburgh Center for International Studies

Over the past eight years, there has been a renewed interest in international trade, its determinants, and its potential benefits. Methodological advances by Eaton and Kortum (2002) and Melitz (2003) combined with the new availability of microdata and interest in firm export decisions and dynamics has led to an explosion of new research, much of which is directly linked to questions of development. What is needed now is to aggregate and assess these advances more holistically, integrating macroeconomic development research with the more recent microeconomic research.

The conference will explore:

Schedule

Friday, April 29

1:30 pm
Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
David Atkin
Yale University
Discussant
Michael Waugh
New York University

2:45 pm
Refreshment Break

3:00 pm
Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion, and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries
Rick Bond
Vanderbilt University
Discussant
Yongseok Shin
Washington University in St. Louis

4:15 pm
Refreshment Break

4:30 pm
Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time
Robert Lucas
1995 Nobel Laureate, University of Chicago
Discussant
Gene Grossman
Princeton University

Saturday, April 30

9:30 am
Amplified Gains from Trade and Institutional Reforms: Evidence from China
Amit Khandelwal
Columbia University
Discussant
Yi Daniel Xu
New York University

10:45 am
Refreshment Break

11:00 am
Product Quality Differentiation and the Impact of International Trade
Antoine Gervais and Jeff Thurk
University of Notre Dame
Discussant
Rob Johnson
Dartmouth College

12:15 pm
Lunch Break

1:30 pm
Establishment Heterogeneity, Exporter Dynamics, and the Effects of Trade Liberalization
George Alessandria
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Discussant
Kim Ruhl
New York University

2:45 pm
Refreshment Break

3:00pm
The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
Princeton University
Discussant
Francisco Buera
University of California at Los Angeles

4:15 pm
Refreshment Break

4:30 pm
An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains
Arnaud Costinot
MIT
Discussant
Ina Simonovska
University of California, Davis

Conference Organizer
Joseph Kaboski
University of Notre Dame

Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame