G65 Celebration

October 7, 2022
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Princeton University

Coffee : 8.30am

Welcome Comments : 8:50am

Mark Aguiar, Princeton University

Session 1 : 9-10.30am, Trade Policy and Political Economy

Chair: Avinash Dixit, Princeton University

Arnaud Costinot, MIT
Why is Trade not Free? A Nonparametric Analysis of the Political Determinants of Trade Protection (joint with R. Adao and D. Donaldson)

Pablo Fajgelbaum, UCLA
Political Preferences and the Spatial Distribution of Transport Investments (joint with Cecile Gaubert, Nicole Gorton, Eduardo Morales and Edouard Schaal)

Giovanni Maggi, Yale University
Harmonization… What Else? The Role for International Regulatory Agreements (joint with Monika Mrazova)

Break : 10.30-11.00am

Session 2 : 11.00am-12.30pm, Global Value Chains (GVCs) and Trade in Tasks

Chair: Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago

Pol Antràs, Harvard University
An ‘Austrian’ Model of Global Value Chains

Jonathan Eaton, Penn State University
Global Matching (joint with Sam Kortum and Francis Kramarz)

Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University
Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote Diversification or Reshoring? (joint with Gene Grossman and Hugo Lhuillier)

A-1 Bus from Prospect Avenue to Nassau Club

Lunch : 12.30-2.30pm, Nassau Club
Lunch Panel

Future of Globalization (10 mins each)

Chair: Stephen Redding, Princeton University

Kala Krishna, Penn State University
Paul Krugman, CUNY Graduate Center
Jim Levinsohn, Yale University
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University

A-1 Bus Return from Nassau Club to Prospect Avenue

Session 3 : 2.30-4.00pm, Trade and Growth

Chair: Eduardo Morales, Princeton University

Marc Melitz, Harvard University
Domestic Content Protection (joint with Keith Head and Thierry Mayer)

Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University
Inequality and Measured Growth

Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago
Anticipating Climate Change Risk Across the US (joint with Adrien Bilal)

Break : 4-4.30pm

Session 4 : 4.30-6.00pm, Labor Markets and Inequality

Chair: Pablo Fajgelbaum, UCLA

David Atkin, MIT
The Incidence of Distortions (joint with Dave Donaldson, Tishara Garg and Federico Huneeus)

Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College
FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms: Adjustments to New Export Opportunities (joint with Brian McCaig and Woan Foong Wong)

Jonathan Vogel, UCLA
Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy

Cocktails : 6.15-7.30pm, Prospect House

Cocktail toast : Stephen Redding, Princeton University

Dinner : 7.30pm, Prospect House

Videos from absent friends

Scheduled Speakers

Avinash Dixit, Princeton University
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University
Eduardo Morales, Princeton University
Bob Staiger, Dartmouth College
Sharon Ernst, Princeton University

Personal Comments
Jean Grossman, Princeton University

Open Microphone