2025 Program
June 25, 2025, Time 9:00 AEST (11:00AM NZT) James Markusen (UC, Boulder)
Title: Exploiting complementarity in applied general-equilibrium models: endogenizing zeros, firm and mode types, capacity constraints.
June 11, 2025, Time 10: 30 AEST (12:30PM NZT): Brian Kovak (Carnegie Mellon)
Title: Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers
May 28, 2025, Time 10 AM AEST (12PM NZT): James Lake (University of Tennessee)
May 14, 2025, Time 10 AM AEST (12PM NZT): Cecile Gaubert (UC Berkeley)
Title: Land Use and Climate Change: Evidence from France (1950-2020)
April 23, 2025, Time 10 AM AEST (12PM NZT): Robert Staiger (Dartmouth College)
Title: Geopolitics and the World Trading Systems
April 9, 2025, Time 10 AM AEST (12PM NZT): Cong S. Pham (Deakin University)
Title: Chip Trade in a Chip War
March 17, 2025, Time 11 AM AEDT (1PM NZT): Joel Rodrigue (Vanderbilt University).
Title: Policy Relevant Information Spillovers in Export Markets
March 12, 2025, Time 10 AM AEDT (12 PM NZT): Ben Faber (UC Berkeley).
Title: Rural-Urban Migration and Market Integration
February 26, 2025, Time 10 AM AEST: Maria Ptashkina, University of Melbourne
Title: Negotiating Efficient Bilateral Trade Agreements
2024 Program
November 27, 2024, Time 9 AM AEST: Ana Margarida Fernandes, World Bank
Title: "Adjusting to Transitory Shocks: Worker Impact, Firm Channels, and (Lack of) Income Support " with Joana Silva (World Bank, Universidade Catolica Lisbon, CEPR)
November 20, 2024, Time 9 AM AEST: Prof. Emanuel Ornelas (Sao Paulo School of Economics)
Title: "Equilibrium Trade Regimes: Power- vs. Rules-Based"
November 13, 2024, Time 11 AM AEST: Prof. Teresa Fort (Dartmouth)
Title: "Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States"
October 16, 2024, Time 11 AM AEST: Prof. Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (University of California - Santa Cruz)
Title: "Measuring and Estimating Retail Productivity "
October 9, 2024, Time 12:30 PM AEST: Prof. Hiau Looi Kee (World Bank)
Title: "Nickel, Steel and Cars: Export Ban and Domestic Value Added in Indonesia "
September 25, 2024, Time 9 AM AEST: Prof. Kyle Handley (University of California - San Diego)
Title: "Does Offshoring Increase Innovation? New Evidence from U.S. Census Microdata "
August 14, 2024, Time 11 AM AEST: Prof. Amit Khandelwal (Yale University)
Title: "The Value of De Minimis Imports "
July 24, 2024, Time 9 AM AEST: Prof. Sizhong Sun (James Cook University)
Title: "Trade Liberalization, Export and Product Innovation"
June 26, 2024, Time 10 AM AEST: Prof. Mine Senses John Hoppkins University
Title: "Immigration, Local Public Finances and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the U.S. "
June 19, 2024, Time 9 AM AEST: Prof. Sergey Nigai, University of Colorado Boulder
Title: "International Transmission of Inequality through Trade"
May 22nd, 2024, Time 9 AM AEST: Prof. Tom Zylkin, University of Richmond
Title: "Bootstrap for Gravity Models"
May 8th, 2024, Time 9 AM AEST: Prof. Treb Allen, Dartmouth
Title: "The Topography of Nations."
May 1st, 2024, Time 4.30 PM AEST: Prof. Phillip McCalman, University of Melbourne
Title: “FDI screening by host governments: Who bears the cost?"
April 17th, 2024, Time 4 PM AEST: Prof. Monika Mrazova (University of Geneva)
Title: “Strategic Yet Not Demanding: The Empirical Reach of Oligopoly with CES Preferences”.joint with J. Peter Neary.
April 10th, 2024, Time 9 AM AEDT, 11 AM NZDT: Prof. Mostafa Beshkar, Indiana University--Bloomington
Title: “The Balance of Concessions in Trade Agreements” joint with Pao-Li Chang and Shenxi Song.
March 13th, 2024, Time 9 am AEDT, 11 am NZDT: Prof. Arnaud Costinot, MIT
Title: “Why Is Trade Not Free? A Revealed Preference” joint R. Adao, D. Donaldson, and J. Sturm Becko
2023 Program
November 22, 2023, Time 2.00pm AEDT, 4.00pm NZDT: Dr. Chenying Yang, Singapore Management University
Title: Location Choices of Multi-plant Oligopolists: Theory and Evidence from the Cement Industry
Cancelled: November 8, 2023, Time 11.00am AEDT, 1.00pm NZDT: Assoc. Prof. Teresa Fort, Dartmouth College
Title: Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity: Theory and Evidence from the United States (joint with Pol Antràs, Evgenii Fadeev, and Felix Tintelnot)
October 25, 2023, Time 6.00pm AEDT, 8.00pm NZDT: Assoc. Prof. Catherine Thomas, London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: Incomplete Contracts in Commodities Trade: Evidence from LNG (joint with Swati Dhingra, Ning Jia, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and Thomas Sampson)
October 11, 2023, Time 11.00am AEDT, 1.00pm NZDT: Assoc. Prof. Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Duke University
Title: Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks (joint with Kirill Borusyak and Brian Kovak)
September 27, 2023, Time 10.00am AEDT, 12.00pm NZDT: Assoc. Prof. Ahmad Lashkaripour, Indiana University at Bloomington
Title: Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change? (joint with with Farid Farrokhi)
August 30, 2023: Prof. John McLaren, University of Virginia
Title: Foreign Direct Investment, Global Value Chains, and Labor Rights: No Race-To-The-Bottom? (joint with Hyejoon Im)
August 16, 2023: Dr. Lin Ma, Singapore Management University
Title: The Long and Short-Run Spatial Impacts of Trade
June 14, 2023: Prof. Gordon Hanson, Harvard Kennedy School
Title: Did the Rise in the US North Deindustrialize the US South?
May 24, 2023: Prof. Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia
Title: Aggregate, Regional and Sectoral Implications of Transportation Costs (joint with Sophie Osotimehin and Latchezar Popov)
May 17, 2023: Prof. Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia Business School
Title: The Cost of Capital Market Distortions: The Case of Chinese Overseas IPOs
May 10, 2023: Prof. David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?
April 26, 2023: Prof. Daniel Yi Xu, Duke University
Title: Market Congestion and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms
April 17, 2023: Prof. Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology (Cancelled)
Title: Fly the Unfriendly Skies: the Role of Transport Costs in Gravity Models of Trade
March 8, 2023, Time 4pm AEDT, 6pm NZDT: Sebastian Schmidt, University of Göttingen
Title: Real Iceberg Transport Costs: The Distance Effect of the North Atlantic Iceberg Drift on Trade
2022 Program
November 23, 2022, Time 11am AEDT, 1pm NZDT: Assoc. Prof. Reshad Ahsan (University of Melbourne)
Title: Import Competition, Knowledge Access, and Innovation
November 9, 2022, Time 6pm AEDT, 8pm NZDT: Professor Ralph Ossa (University of Zurich)
Title: Growth, Trade and Patents: A Quantitative Evaluation of TRIPS (joint with D. Hémous, T. Sampson, and J. Schärer)
October 26, 2022, Time 9am AEDT, 11am NZDT: Professor Steve Redding (Princeton University)
Title: The distributional consequences of trade: Evidence from the repeal of the corn laws
October 12, 2022, Time 9am AEDT, 11am NZDT: Reginald Jones Senior Fellow Chad Bown (PIE)
Title: COVID-19 vaccine supply chains: Open questions and lessons so far
September 28, 2022, Time 12pm AEDT, 2pm NZDT: Assoc. Prof. Pao-Li Chang (Singapore Management University)
Title: Labor Market Implications of Taiwan’s Accession to the WTO: A Dynamic Quantitative Analysis
September 14, 2022, 4.30pm AEST, 6.30pm NZST: Professor Yoto Yotov (Drexel University)
Title: Quantifying the Extensive Margin(s) of Trade: The Case of Uneven European Integration
August 24, 2022, Time 4.30pm AEST, 6.30pm NZST: Prof. Andreas Moxnes (University of Oslo)
Title: Trade From Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks
August 3, 2022, Time 11am AEST, 1pm NZST: Prof. Oleg Itshkoki (UCLA)
Title: Optimal Exchange Rate Policy
June 6, 2022, Time 9am AEST, 11am NZST: Prof. Pol Antràs, Harvard University
Title: Trade Policy and Global Sourcing: A Rationale for Tariff Escalation
May 25, 2022, Time 2pm AEST, 4pm NZST: Dr. Laura Puzzello, Monash University
Title: FDI and Investment Screening Policy
May 11, 2022, Time 9am AEST, 11am NZST: Assoc. Prof. Kadee Russ University of California-Davis
Title: Trade Shocks and the Shifting Landscape of US Manufacturing
April 6, 2022, Time 11am AEST, 1pm NZST: Prof. Keith Head, University of British Columbia
Title: The gravity of cross-border payments and the future of dominant currencies
March 23, 2022, Time 5pm AEDT, 7pm NZDT: Prof. Jakob Roland Munch, University of Copenhagen
Title: The Impact of Offshoring and Import Competition on Firm-level Carbon Emissions
March 9, 2022, Time 2pm AEDT, 4pm NZDT: Assoc. Prof. James Lake, Southern Methodist University
Title: Local labor market effects of the 2002 Bush steel tariffs
February 23, 2022, Time 9am AEDT, 11am NZDT: Prof. Maggie X. Chen, George Washington University
Title: Omnia Juncta In Uno: Foreign Powers, Institutions, and Firms in Shanghai's Concession Era