Hosted by: 
Andres Rodriguez-Clare
University of California, Berkeley
&
Eric Verhoogen
Columbia

November 22nd and 23rd, 2013

 

Sponsors

International Growth Centre

and

Center for International and Development Economics Research

 


Friday, Nov 22nd – Men's Faculty Club,  UC Berkeley

MAP

SEABORG ROOM

12:00-1:00PM – Lunch


1:00-2:00PM - Ben Faber, UCB - " Trade Integration, Market Size, and Industrialization: Evidence from China's National Trunk Highway System"

Discussion leader: Marcel Fafchamps


2:00-2:15PM Break


2:15-3:15PM - Beata Javorcik, Oxford - “FDI Promotion Policy and Comparative Advantage” (with Torfinn Harding and Daniela Maggioni)

Discussant leader: Felix Tintelnot


3:15-3:45PM Break


3:45-4:45PM - Rodrigo Wagner, Tufts  “New Exporters from Emerging Markets: Do Followers Benefit from Pioneers?”  (with Andrés Zahler)

Discussant leader: Rocco Macchiavello


4:45-5:00PM Break


5:00-6:00PM - Chris Woodruff, Warwick -  "Trade meets Insider Econometrics: Assessing Management Training Programs in the Bangladeshi RMG Sector" (with Rocco Macchiavello)

 

 

Saturday, Nov 23rd  – Hotel Shattuck Plaza

 

BOILER ROOM

8:30-9:00 - Breakfast


9:00-10:00 - Garth Frazer,  University of Toronto  “Imports, Import Sources and Skill Utilization”

Discussant leader: Swati Dhingra


10:00-10:15 Break


10:15-11:15  - Pablo Fajgelbaum, UCLA “Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade” (with Amit Khandelwal)

Discussant leader: Juan Carlos Hallak


11:15-11:45 Break


11:45-12:45 - Emanuel Ornelas (LSE), “Trade Liberalization and Third Market Effects” (with Fabrice Defever)

Discussant leader: Treb Allen


12:45-2 Lunch

2:00-3:00 - Christian Volpe Martinicus (IADB) “Routes, Exports, and Employment in Developing Countries: Following the Trade of the Inca Roads” (with Jerónimo Carballo and Ana Cusolito)

Discussant leader: Kalina Manova

 

There are 40 minutes per presentation followed by 20 minutes discussion.