Princeton IES 2026 Summer Trade Workshop

8:00 am - 8:30am

Breakfast

8:30am - 9:30am

Paper: Tariffs and Production Relocation in a Multiproduct Oligopoly
Authors: Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Jin Liu, Eduardo Morales, and Alejandro Sabal
Presenter: Jin Liu

9:30am - 9:40am

Discussant: Marc Melitz

9:40am – 9:50am

Discussant: Ezra Oberfield

9:50am - 10:00am

General Discussion

10:00am - 10:30am

Break

10:30am - 11:30am

Paper: Strategic Avoidance and the Welfare Impacts of U.S. Solar Panel Tariffs
Authors: Todd Gerarden, Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham, and Daniel Yi Xu
Presenter: Daniel Yi Xu

11:30am - 11:40am

Discussant: Benny Kleinman

11:40am - 11:50am

Discussant: Costas Arkolakis

11:50am - 12:00pm

General Discussion

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Paper: Quantifying the Sensitivity of Quantitative Trade Models
Authors: Habib Ansari, Dave Donaldson, and Edward Wiles
Presenter: Dave Donaldson

2:00pm - 2:10pm

Discussant: Jonathan Vogel

2:10pm - 2:20pm

Discussant: David Weinstein

2:20pm - 2:30pm

General Discussion

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Paper: De Minimis as a Constraint on Local Retail Market Power
Author: David Argente, Esteban Méndez, and Diana Van Patten
Presenter: Diana Van Patten

4:00pm - 4:10pm

Discussant: Mary Amiti

4:10pm - 4:20pm

Discussant: David Atkin

4:20pm - 4:30pm

General Discussion

4:30pm - 4:45pm

Short Break

4:45pm - 5:45pm

Paper: A Deep Case for Shallow Integration
Authors: John Sturm Becko and Arnaud Costinot
Presenter: John Sturm Becko

5:45pm - 5:55pm

Discussant: Thomas Sampson

5:55pm - 6:05pm

Discussant: Giovanni Maggi

6:05pm - 6:15pm

General Discussion

7:00pm

Cocktails and Dinner at Palmer House

8:15am – 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am – 10:00am

Paper: Strategic Trade Infrastructure: Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Authors: Pablo Fajgelbaum, Amit Khandelwal, Theodore Naff, and Edouard Schaal
Presenter: Pablo Fajgelbaum

10:00am – 10:10am

Discussant: Yuhei Miyauchi

10:10am – 10:20am

Discussant: Treb Allen

10:20am - 10:30am

General Discussion

10:30am – 11:00am

Break

11:00am – 12:00pm

Paper: Grafting Plants: A Market of Selection
Authors: Ezra Oberfield, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Nicholas Trachter, Derek Wenning, and Chen Yeh
Presenter: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

12:00pm – 12:10pm

Discussant: Samuel Kortum

12:10pm – 12:20pm

Discussant: Stephen Yeaple

12:20pm – 12:30pm

General Discussion

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

2:15pm

Meet at the Princeton Art Museum

4:00pm – 6:30pm

Break (World Cup?)

6:30pm

Dinner at Gene Grossman’s Residence

8:15am - 9:00am

Breakfast

9:00am - 10:00am

Paper: The Distorting Effects of Rules of Origin: A Firm-Level Analysis
Authors: Paola Conconi, Federico Gallina, Thierry Mayer, and Gianluca Orefice
Presenter: Paola Conconi

10:00am - 10:10am

Discussant: Amit Khandelwal

10:10am - 10:20am

Discussant: Cecile Gaubert

10:20am - 10:30am

General Discussion

10:30am - 10:45am

Short Break

10:45am - 11:45am

Paper: Optimal Tariffs with Trade Dynamics
Authors: George Alessandria, Jiaxiaomei Ding, Shafaat Yar Khan, and Carter Mix
Presenter: George Alessandria

11:45am - 11:55am

Discussant: Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

11:55am - 12:05pm

Discussant: Lorenzo Caliendo

12:05pm - 12:15pm

General Discussion

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

1:15pm

Adjourn