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Past Semesters

Summer Term 2023

Apr 20 David Atkin (MIT)

Apr 24 Marc Mündler (UC San Diego)

Apr 27 Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto)

May 4 Lin Tian (INSEAD)

May 25 Gabriel Ulyssea (University College London)

Jun 1 Eduardo Morales (Princeton University)

Jun 15 Clare Balboni (MIT)

Jun 19 Matilde Bombardini (Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley)

Jun 20 Chad Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics)

Jun 29 Wolfgang Dauth (IAB & University of Bamberg)

Jul 6 Veronica Rappoport (LSE)

Jul 20 Shogo Sakabe (Columbia University)

Winter Term 2022/23

Oct 20 Rafael Dix Carneiro (Duke University)

Oct 27 Alessandro Sforza (University of Bologna)

Nov 17 Bruno Conte Leite (University of Bologna)

Dec 1 Ron Davies (University College Dublin)

Dec 8 Tommaso Sonno (University of Bologna)

Summer Term 2022

Apr 28 Harald Fadinger (University of Mannheim)

Apr 29 Andreas Moxnes (University of Oslo)

May 5 Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)

May 12 Teresa Fort (Dartmouth College)

May 19 Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon)

Jun 2  John Morrow Kings (College London)

Jun 30 Katharina Erhardt (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and DICE)

Jul 7 Kirill Borusyak (University College London)

Jul 21 Chenzi Xu (Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business)

Winter Term 2021/22

Nov 4 Paula Bustos (CEMFI)

Dec 2 Andreas Moxnes (Oslo University)

Dec 9 Daniel Xu (Duke University)

Dec 16 Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)

Summer Term 2021
 

Apr 15 Daniel Bernhofen (American University Washington)

Apr 22 Isabela Manelici (Princeton University and LSE)

Apr 29 Michele Ruta (World Bank)

May 6 Andrew Bernard Tuck (Dartmouth)

May 20 Paola Conconi (Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles and ECARES)

May 27 Julien Martin (ESG-UQAM)

Jun 17 Ana Fernandes (World Bank)

Jun 24 Vanessa Alviarez (Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia)

Jul 1 Ralph Ossa (UZH)

Winter Term 2020/21


Nov 11 Gianluca Orefice (University of Paris- Dauphine-PSL)

Nov 26 John Spray (IMF)

Dec 10 Isabelle Majean (CREST – Ecole Polytechnique)

Jan 14 Kerem Cosar (University of Virginia)

Winter Term 2019/20


Oct 10 Emily Blanchard (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College)

"Unequal Gains, Prolonged Pain: A Model of Protectionist Overshooting and Escalation"

 

Oct 17 Vera Sommer (LMU)

"Product Customization and International Trade"

 

Oct 24 Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado Boulder)

"Multinationals, Markets, and Mark-ups"

 

Oct 28 Luca Opromolla (Banco de Portugal)

"Dream Jobs"

 

Dec 5 Lionel Fontagne (Paris School of Economics)

"Product-level trade elasticities"

 

Dec 12 Mina Taniguchi (LMU)

"Estimating wage effects of labor supply shocks with a random-coefficient discrete choice model"

 

Jan 9 Martina Magli (LMU)

"The effects of services offshoring at home"

 

Summer Term 2019

May 9 Antonella Nocco (University of Salento)

"Geography, Competition, and Optimal Multilateral Trade Policy"
 

May 16 Marc Muendler (UCSD)

"Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy"
 

May 23 Woan Foong Wong (Oregon)

"Entrepôt"
 

June 4 Julia Cajal Grossi (Graduate Institute)

"International Buyers' Sourcing and Suppliers' Markups in Bangladeshi Garments"
 

June 24 Ina Jäkel (Aarhus)

"An Empirical Investigation of Strategic Interactions in the Danish Export Markets"
 

July 4 Italo Colantone (Bocconi University)

"We were the robots: automation and voting behavior in Western Europe"
 

July 9 Feodora Teti (ifo)

"Who Benefits from Trade Liberalizations? Evidence from the Exporter Dynamics Database"
 

July 11 Alessandro Sforza (Aarhus and Bologna)

"Shocks and the Organization of the Firm: Who Pays the Bill?"
 

July 18 Rodrigo Adao (Chicago)

" Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations"
 

July 25 Yoto Yotov (Drexel and ifo)

"A Structural Trade Openess Index"

Winter Term 2018/2019

September 17 Ana Margarida Fernandes (World Bank)

"Exporter Dynamics Database"


October 22 Monica Morlacco (Yale)

"Market Power in Input Markets: Theory and Evidence from French Manufacturing"


October 29 Gianluca Orefice (CEPII)

"Firms' Exports, Volatility and Skills: Evidence from France"


November 02 Gene Grossman (Princeton University)

"Identity Politics and Trade Policy"


December 03 Hartmut Egger (Bayreuth University)

"The Role of Nonhomothetic Preferences and Rent Sharing for Trade Structure and Welfare in an Open Economy"


December 17 Farid Toubal (ENS, CREST, and CEPII)

"Firms and Profit Shifting: Evidence from Aggregate Data"


January 07 Hylke Vandenbussche (Leuven University)

"Global Value Chains, Trade shocks and Jobs. An application to Brexit"


January 11 Meredith Crowley (Cambridge)

"Invoicing and Pricing to Market: A Study of Price and Markup Elasticities of UK Exports"

Summer Term 2018

April 23 Dany Bahar (Brookings Institution)

"Diasporas, return migration and comparative advantage: a natural experiment of Yugoslavian refugees in Germany"

April 30 Stefanie Haller (UCD)

"How Exporters Grow"

May 07 Andy Bernard (Dartmouth)

"Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization"

May 14 Veronica Rappoport (LSE)

"The Birth of a Multinational, Innovation and Foreign Acquisitions"

May 28 James Lake (Southern Methodist University)

"Contesting an International Trade Agreement"

June 04 Mathieu Parenti (ULB)

"A theory of new trade agreements"

June 11 Chang Sun (Hong Kong)

"Uncertainty, Imperfect Information and Learning in the International Market"

June 18 Sharat Ganapati (Dartmouth-Georgetown)

"Global Sourcing, Domestic Distribution, and Scale Economies: The Modern Wholesaler"

July 02 Constantinos Syropoulos (Drexel University)

"On Trade and the Stability of (Armed) Peace"

July 09 Marcel Smolka (Aarhus)

"Productivity and Firm Boundaries"

Winter Term 2017/2018

Nov 27 Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

"A theory of trade in a global production network"

Jan 08 Alejandro Cunat, joint with R. Zymek (University of Vienna)

"International value-added linkages in development accounting"

Summer Term 2017

April 24 Lionel Fontagne (Paris School of Economics- University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

"The International Elasticity Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think"

May 15 Andrew Bernard (Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College)

"The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach"

May 29 Julien Martin (Université du Québec à Montréal)

"Volatility in the small and in the large: The lack of diversification in international trade"

June 12 Eric Strobl (Aix au Marseille/ University of Birmingham)

"The Price Impact of Extreme Weather in Developing Countries"

June 19 Michael Peters (Yale University)

"Spatial Structural Change"

July 3 Davide Suverato (LMU)

"Skill Scarcity, Wages and Export Intensity"

July 10 Jens Wrona (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, DICE)

"Offshoring and Job Polarisation between Firms"

Winter Term 2016/2017

Oct 31 Sebastian Krautheim (University of Passau)

"Towards a Theory of the Internationalization of Production with Credence Goods"

Nov 14 Mark Sanders (University of Utrecht)

"Natural Disaster Impacts and Institutions: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis"

Dec 12 Wilhelm Kohler (University of Tübingen)

"The Economics of Investor Protection"

Dec 19 Kalina Manova (University of Oxford)

"Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US"

Jan 10 Fabian Waldinger (University of Warwick)

"Frontier Knowledge and the Creation of Ideas: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science in the Wake of World War I"

Jan 16 Robert Gold (IFW Kiel)

"Globalization and its (dis)content: Trade shocks and voting behavior"

Jan 23 Joel Stiebale (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)

"Acquisitions, Markups, Efficiency, and Product Quality: Evidence from India"

Jan 30 Hale Utar (Bielefeld University)

"Marriage, Divorce and Fertility: Life in the Face of Import Competition"

Feb 06 Esther Boler (Imperial College and CEP London)

"Technology-skill complementarity in a globalized world"

Summer Term 2016

April 11 Hale Utar (University of Bielefeld)

"Workers beneath the Floodgates: The Impact of Low-Wage Import Competition and Workers' Adjustment"

May 9 Harald Fadinger (University of Mannheim)

"Offshoring and Skill-Uprading in French Manufacturing: A Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz View"

June 6 Eduardo Morales (Princeton University)

"The Impact of Innovation in the Multinational Firm"

June 13 Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)

"Grin and Bear It: Producer-financed Exports from an Emerging Market"

June 20 Manuel Garcia-Santana (UPF and Barcelona GSE)

"From Final Goods to Inputs: the Protectionist Effect of Rules of Origin"

July 4 Swati Dhingra (London School of Economics)

"Importers, Exporters and the Division of the Gains from Trade"

July 11 Kristian Behrens (Université du Québec à Montréal)

"The determinants of coagglomeration: Evidence from functional employment patterns"

Winter Term 2015/2016

October 12 Stefania Garetto (Boston University)

"Multinational Banks" (joint with Jose L. Fillat and Martin Götz)

October 26 Gregory Corcos (Paris Polytechnique)

"Trade Liberalization and the Link Between Services and Goods Trade at the Firm Level" (joint with A. Ariu, H. Breinlich and G. Mion)

November 23 Jens Südekum (DICE)

"Adjusting to Globalization: Evidence from Heterogeneous Worker-Establishment Matches in Germany"

November 30 Udo Kreickemeier (TU Dresden)

"The Exporter Wage Premium When Firms and Workers are Heterogeneous" (joint with Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger and Christoph Moser)

December 14 Ron Davies (UC Dublin)

"Greenfield versus Merger & Acquisition FDI: Same Wine, Different Bottles?" (joint with R. Desbordes und A. Ray)

December 21 Swati Dhingra (London School of Economics)

"Swimming Upstream: Input-Output Linkages and the Direction of Product Adoption" (joint with J. Boehm und J. Morrow)

January 18 Roberto Bonfatti (University of Nottingham)

"From Mine to Coast: Transport Infrastructure and the Direction of Trade in Developing Countries" (joint with S. Poelhekke)

January 25 James Markusen (University Colorado)

"Inter-city specialization and trade in functions versus sectors" (joint with with A. Gervais and A. Venables)

February 1 Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez (UC Irvine)

"Liquidity and International Trade"

Summer Term 2015

April 13 Johannes Böhm (Sciences Po.)

"The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Outsourcing and Aggregate Productivity"

April 20 Dennis Novy (University of Warwick)

"Asymmetric Trade Costs: Evidence from Sailing and Steamships" (joint with Natalie Chen and Luigi Pascali)

April 27 Ian Wooton (University of Strathclyde)

"Testing Tax Competition" (with Céline Azemar and Rodolphe Desbordes)

May 26 Eduardo Morales (Princeton University)

"What do Exporters Know?" (with Michael Dickstein)

June 1 Luigi Pascali (University of Warwick)

"The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development"

June 22 Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University)

"The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics" (joint with Maximiliano Dvorkin and Fernando Parro)

June 29 Natalia Ramondo (UC San Diego)

"Trade, Domestic Frictions and Scale Effects"(with Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Milagro Saborio-Rodriguez)

July 6 Jakob Munch (University of Copenhagen)

"The Effect of Export Promotion on Firm-Level Performance" (with Georg Schaur)

Winter Term 2014/15

Oct. 27 Yoto Yotov (Drexel University)

"Growth and Trade: A Structural Estimation Framework" (with Anderson and Larch)

Nov. 03 Holger Görg (Christian-Albrechts-Universtiät/IfW Kiel)

"Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms"

Nov. 10 Philippe Martin (Sciences Po)

"Inspecting the Mechanism: Leverage and the Great Recession in the Eurozone"

Nov. 24 Carol Shiue (University of Colorado at Boulder)

"Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans Before Modern Growth"

Dec. 08 Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado at Boulder)

"The Contributions of Institutions and Market Integration to Economic Development: Evidence from 19th Century Germany" (with Carol H Shiue)

Dec. 22 Christoph Moser (University of Salzburg)

"Winners and Losers from Trade Liberalization - A Global Perspective"

Jan. 12 Andreas Moxnes (University of Oslo)

"Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance"

Jan. 19 Ferdinand Rauch (University of Oxford)

"Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012"

Jan. 26 Catherine Thomas (LSE)

"Learning about the market: Information frictions due to inexperience"

Summer Term 2014

April 14 A. Kerem Cosar (U. Chicago)

"International Geography, International Trade, and Regional Specialization" (joint with Pablo D. Fajgelbaum)

May 5 Paola Conconi (ULB)

"Do Prices Determine Firm Boundaries?" (joint with Laura Alfaro, Harald Fadinger and Andrew Newman)

May 12 Banu Pakel (Bilkent University)

"Trading Intermediates and Quality"

May 19 Thomas Sampson (LSE)

"Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade and Growth"

May 26 Claudia Steinwender (LSE)

"Information Frictions and the Law of One Price: When the States and the Kingdom became United"

June 2 Holger Breinlich (U. Essex)

"Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade" (with Volker Nocke and Nicolas Schutz)

June 25 Carol McAusland (UBC)

"Carbon Footprint Taxes and the WTO"

June 30 Katja Kaufmann (Boconi)

"The Longrun Effects of Elite Higher Education: Evidence from Chile"

July 7 Gabriel Felbermayr (ifo)

"Macroeconomic potentials of transatlantic free trade"