Spatial Macro International Labor Economics 

In the SMILE reading group at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, we discuss frontier papers in spatial trade theory and its quantitative analysis. This page will be regularly updated with our schedule and notes. Anyone who is interested is welcome to join. Seminars will be held every week Thursday from 14:30 to 16:30.

Location
236, MEGA424, Chemin Du Viaduc, Aix-en-Provence, 13080.

Researchers 



Trade/ Geography

       Ricardo Guzman (Ph.D. student)

Lorenzo Rotunno (Professor) 

Federico Trionfetti (Professor) 

Ernesto Ugolini (Ph.D. student)      

Priyam Verma (Postdoc)         






Spatial/Labor

Despoina Balouktsi (Postdoc) 

Laura Contreras (Ph.D. student)            

  Next Meeting                   

Paper: TBA

Author:  TBA

Date: March 21, 2024

Spring 2024

Past Presentations

Fall 2023


Spring 2023

Fall 2022


Spring 2022

Trade and Topography of the Spatial Economy - Treb Allen and Costas Arkolakis (QJE, 2014)  Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7

Fast Marching Method - Sethian (Proceedings of National Academy of Science, 1996) Week 1  

Trade and Geography - Stephen Redding (Handbook of International Economics, 2021) Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

Trade and Labor Market Dynamics: General Equilibrium Analysis of China Trade Shock - Lorenzo Caliendo, Maximiliano Dvorkin, Fernando Parro (Econometrica, 2019) Week 1, Week 2 

Skill-biased Technical Change and Regional Convergence  - Elisa Giannnone (WP 2021) Week 1, Week 2-3 

Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity  - Donald Davis and David Weinstein (AER) Week 1 



Practice Codes