IGC Trade Research Network, Spring 2011 Meeting
April 15 - 16th at the Penn Stater Conference Center - The Pennsylvania State University
IGC Trade Research Network, Spring 2011 Meeting
Friday, April 15, 2011
11:30am -12:30pm - Lunch in the Garden's Restaurant in the Penn Stater
12:30 – 3:00pm
Discussion of IGC-funded projects (30 minutes each)
David Atkin (Yale University) and Dave Donaldson (MIT), “Intra-National Trade Costs”
Kalina Manova (Stanford), “Product Quality and Export Success”
Marc Muendler (UC San Diego) and Jim Rauch (UC San Diego), “Employee Spinoffs, Agglomeration, Formation of Teams, and Small Startups: The Case of Brazil”
Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee (BU), Maximo Torero, Sujata Visaria, “Middleman Margins and Informational Asymmetry: Outcomes of a Field Experiment with West Bengal Potato Farmers”
Bee-Yan Roberts, Jonathan Eaton, Kala Krishna, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, and James Tybout, “Searching for Exporting and FDI Spillovers in Bangladesh”
3:00 – 3:30pm coffee break
3:30 – 5:00pm
Invited Papers
Facundo Albornoz, Hector Calvo-Pardo, and Emanuel Ornelas (LSE), “Sequential Exporting”
John Sutton (LSE) and Daniel Trefler (U. Toronto), “Deductions from the Export Basket: Capabilities, Wealth and Trade”
5:00pm coffee break
5:30pm
Keynote speaker, Andres Rodriguez-Clare (The Pennsylvania State University)
7:00pm Dinner at the Gamble Mill in Bellefonte, PA - Penn State Blue Bus will leave from the main lobby of the Penn Stater at 6:30pm
Saturday, April 16, 2011
8:30 – 10:00am
Contributed Papers
Alejandro Artopoulos, Daniel Frei, Juan Carlos Hallak (Universidad de San Andres), “Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide”
Rocco Macchiavello (Warwick University) “Development Uncorked: Reputation Acquisition in the New Market for Chilean Wines in the UK”
10:00 - 10:30am coffee break
10:30am - 12:00pm
Panel on Export Promotion in LDCs
Omotunde Johnson (IGC, Sierra Leone), Patrick Caulker (Chief Executive Officer of the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency), Marcelo Olarreaga (University of Geneva)
12:00 – 1:30pm
Lunch, with Keynote Speaker Jim Tybout (The Pennsylvania State University)
1:30 – 4:00pm
Contributed Papers
Doug Gollin (Williams College), David Lagakos (Arizona State University), Michael Waugh (New York University), ”Why Don't Developing Countries Import More Food?”
Amit K. Khandelwal (Columbia University), Peter K. Schott (Yale University) and Shan-Jin Wei (Columbia University), “Trade Liberalization When Institutions Misallocate Resources: Evidence from Chinese Textile Exporters”
Hiau Looi Kee, “Local Intermediate Inputs, Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of Domestic Firms: When Firms Share Common Local Input Suppliers”