Economics 3530hf: The International Economics Workshop

Full Year 2014-2015

Outside speakers and faculty present research papers in all aspects of international economics, including theory, econometrics, and policy.

Wednesday 4:00pm - 6:00pm unless otherwise noted

Littauer Center M-15 unless otherwise noted

 

SPRING 2015

 

January 28

 No Workshop

 

RESCHEDULED due to storm to:

Tuesday, February 3

Littauer Center M-16

(Same time: 4:00-5:30 PM)

Christina Romer and David Romer (Berkeley)

New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries

February 11

Jonathan Eaton (Brown)

 Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market

February 18

   

MONDAY
February 23
Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy

David Atkin (UCLA)

Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico

March 4

Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth School of Business)

The Determinants of Quality Specialization

MONDAY
March 9
Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford) A Model of the Reserve Asset

March 18

Spring Recess

 

March 25

Department Seminar

 Rescheduled to Tuesday, April 28

April 1

Alan Spearot (University of California at Santa Cruz)

Unpacking the Long Run Effects of Tariffs Shocks: New Structural Implications from Firm Heterogeneity Models

April 8

Andy Bernard (Dartmouth Tuck)

Production Networks, Geography, and Firm Performance

April 15

Marc Melitz (Harvard)

Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition

MONDAY
April 20
Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy

Diego Perez (Stanford)

Sovereign Debt, Domestic Banks and the Provision of Public Liquidity
April 29

Last Day of Classes

 

 

 

FALL 2014

September 3

David Weinstein (Columbia)

What Is 'Firm Heterogeneity' in Trade Models?: The Role of Quality, Scope, Markups and Cost

September 10

Eduardo Morales (Princeton)

Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality

MONDAY, September 15
(Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy)

Hanson-Mason Room (3rd floor lounge)

Bob Lucas (University of Chicago)

Idea Flows, Economic Growth, and Trade

MONDAY, September 22
(Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy)

Alberto Martin (CREI)

Managing Credit Bubbles

MONDAY, September 29
(Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy)

Luigi Bocola
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and Northwestern University)

The Pass-Through of Sovereign Risk

October 8

Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley)

Firm Sorting and Agglomeration

FRIDAY, October 17, Littauer M-16, 2:00-3:30 PM
(Joint with History)

Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth)

Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930

MONDAY, October 20
(Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy)

Luigi Zingales
(Chicago, visiting Harvard)
Monnet's Error

October 29

Gene Grossman (Princeton)

Growth, Trade and Inequality

MONDAY, November 3
(Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy)

Yuriy Gorodnichenko (Berkeley)

Are Sticky Prices Costly? Evidence from the Stock Market

November 12

Week of Department Seminar

 

November 19

Jesse Schreger

Sovereign Risk, Currency Risk, and Corporate Balance Sheets

November 26

Thanksgiving Recess

 

MONDAY, December 1
(Joint with Monetary and Fiscal Policy)

Loukas Karabarbounis (Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Productivity and Capital Allocation in Europe

December 3

Oren Ziv (Harvard)

Productivity, Density, and Sorting

 

 Workshop Coordinator:  Jane Trahan, jtrahan@harvard.edu, Littauer Center 211, 617-496-0062

 

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