Event – CESifo Area Conference

CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy 2021

Keynote Speakers: Swati Dhingra (LSE), Benjamin Faber (UC, Berkeley)
13 – 14 May 2021


Online
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Scientific organizer: Professor Peter Egger

This years conference was held as an online event and welcomed Swati Dhingra (LSE) and Benjamin Faber (UC, Berkeley) as the keynote lecturers. Professor Dinghra's keynote was titled Real Wage Stagnation and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation, and Professor Faber gave a talk on Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence.

CESifo gratefully acknowledges support from the Review of International Economics in sponsoring the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate award, which will be awarded to the best paper presented by a young author at the conference.

Program

Thursday, 13 May 2021

12:45- 13:00 Welcome and Introduction
PETER EGGER (ETH Zurich)
  Keynote I - Plenary Session
Chair: Peter Egger
13:00 - 13:45 Real Wage Stagnation and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation
Rui Costa, SWATI DHINGRA (London School of Economics and Political Science), and Stephen Machin
13:45 - 14:00 Break
  Parallel Session 2a
Trade Imbalances and Networks
Chair: Beata Javorcik
14:00 - 14:25 Bilateral Trade Imbalances
ALEJANDRO CUÑAT  (University of Vienna) and Robert Zymek
14:25 - 14:50 Sparse Production Networks
Yuan Zi and ANDREW B. BERNARD (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth)
  Parallel Session 2b
Services
Chair: Frank Stähler
14:00- 14:25 Service Offshoring and Export Experience
Giuseppe Berlingieri, Luca Marcolin, and EMANUEL ORNELAS (Sao Paulo School of Economics)
14:25- 14:50 On the Mystery of the Missing Trade in Services
ANDREA ARIÙ (University of Milan)
14:50 - 15:05 Break
  Parallel Session 3a
History
Chair: Marc-Andreas Muendler
15:05 - 15:30 The Economic Consequences of the Opium War
WOLFGANG KELLER (University Colorado) and Carol H. Shiue
15:30 - 15:55 The Political Economy of Italian Railway Expansion, 1879-1890
ROBERTO BONFATTI (University of Padua), Giovanni Facchini, Alexander Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi, and Cecilia Testa
  Parallel Session 3b
Firms in the Global Economy
Chair: Jennifer Poole
15:05 - 15:30 Corporate Social Responsibility along the Global Value Chain
Philipp Herkenhoff, SEBASTIAN KRAUTHEIM (University of Passau), Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich
15:30 - 15:55 Heterogeneous impacts of SPS and TBT regulations: Firm-Level Evidence from Deep Trade Agreements
ANA MARGARIDA FERNANDES (The World Bank), Kevin Lefebvre, and Nadia Rocha
15:55 - 16:10 Break

 
Session 4
Distinguished RIE – CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
Prize sponsored by The Review of International Economics (RIE)
Chair: Hillel Rapoport
16:10 - 16:35 Unfolding Trade Effect in Two Margins of Informality: The Peruvian Case
CAMILA CISNEROS – ACEVEDO (University of Tübingen)
16:35 - 17:00 Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India's IT Boom?
DEVAKI GHOSE (The World Bank)
17:00 - 17:25 Endogenous Spatial Production Networks: Quantitative Implications for Trade and Productivity
PIYUSH PANIGRAHI (University of California, Berkeley)
17:25 - 17:40 Break
17:40 - 18:05 Trade, Misallocation, and Capital Market Integration
LASZLO TETENYI (Banco de Portugal)
18:05 - 18:30 State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Extensive Margin of Trade
Julian Hinz, Amrei Stammann, and JOSCHKA WANNER (University of Potsdam)
18:30 Networking

Friday, 14 May 2021

  Parallel Session 5a
Migration and the Informal Sector
Chair: Klaus Wälde
13:00 - 13:25 The Effect of Migrants on Trade: A Reassessment and New Evidence
BENJAMIN JUNG (University of Hohenheim)
13:25 - 13:50 Migration and Cultural Change
HILLEL RAPOPORT (Paris School of Economics), Sulin Sardoschau, and Arthur Silve
13:50 - 14:15 Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality
Rita K. Almeida, Lourenço S. Paz, and JENNIFER P. POOLE (American University)

 
Parallel Session 5b
Spatial Economics
Chair: Christian Volpe Martinicus
13:00 - 13:25 Cities and the Sea Level
Yatang Lin, Thomas K.J. McDermott, and GUY MICHAELS (London School of Economics and Political Science)
13:25 - 13:50 Quality of Life in a Dynamic Spatial Model
Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth, and TOBIAS SEIDEL (University of Duisburg-Essen)
13:50 - 14:15 How Uncertainty Shapes the Spatial Economy
Peter Egger, Katharina Erhardt, and DAVIDE SUVERATO (University of Zürich)
14:15- 14:45 Break
  Parallel Session 6a
Empirical Studies of Trade
Chair: Alejandro Cuñat
14:45 - 15:10 Exporting Costs and Multi-Product Shipments
David Gomtsyan and ALEXANDER TARASOV (HSE University)
15:10 - 15:35 Unravelling Deep Integration: Local Labour Market Effects of the Brexit Vote
BEATA JAVORCIK (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Ben Kett, Katherine Stapleton, and Layla O’Kane
  Parallel Session 6b
Theory
Chair: Davide Suverato
14:45 - 15:10 Structural Gravity and the Gains from Trade under Imperfect Competition
FRANK STÄHLER (University of Tübingen) und Benedikt Heid
15:10 - 15:35 The Dynamics of Pareto Distributed Wealth in a Small Open Economy
Matthias Birkner, Niklas Scheuer, and KLAUS WÄLDE (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
15:35 - 16:00 Break
  Parallel Session 7a
Multinational Firms
Chair: Tobias Seidel
16:00 - 16:25 Multinational Firms and Global Innovation
ANNA GUMPERT (LMU Munich), Kalina Manova, Cristina Rujan, and Monika Schnitzer
16:25 - 16:50 Linkages with Multinationals: The Effects on Domestic Firms' Exports
Jerónimo Carballo, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, and CHRISTIAN VOLPE MARTINCUS (Inter-American Development Bank)
16:50 - 17:15 Where Are Multinationals on the Job Ladder?
Ragnhild Balsvik, Doireann Fitzgerald, and STEFANIE HALLER (University College Dublin)
  Parallel Session 7b
Globalization
Chair: Sebastian Krautheim
16:00 - 16:25 U.S. Market Concentration and Import Competition
Mary Amiti and SEBASTIAN HEISE (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
16:25 - 16:50 The Causal Effect of the Dollar on Trade
Sai Ma, TIM SCHMIDT-EISENLOHR (Federal Reserve Board), and Shaojun Zhang
16:50 - 17:15 The World Trade Organization and U.S. Domestic Politics
T. Renee Bowen, J. Lawrence Broz, and MARC-ANDREAS MUENDLER (University of California, San Diego)
  Keynote II - Plenary Session
Chair: Peter Egger
17:30 - 18:15 Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence
BENJAMIN FABER (University of California, Berkeley), Alonso Alfaro, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici, and Jose Pablo Vasquez
18:15 - 18:30 Announcement of prize winner and farewell
18:30 End of Conference

Program

  • Thursday, 13 May 2021
    • 12:45- 13:00 Welcome and Introduction
      PETER EGGER (ETH Zurich)
        Keynote I - Plenary Session
      Chair: Peter Egger
      13:00 - 13:45 Real Wage Stagnation and the Brexit Exchange Rate Depreciation
      Rui Costa, SWATI DHINGRA (London School of Economics and Political Science), and Stephen Machin
      13:45 - 14:00 Break
        Parallel Session 2a
      Trade Imbalances and Networks
      Chair: Beata Javorcik
      14:00 - 14:25 Bilateral Trade Imbalances
      ALEJANDRO CUÑAT  (University of Vienna) and Robert Zymek
      14:25 - 14:50 Sparse Production Networks
      Yuan Zi and ANDREW B. BERNARD (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth)
        Parallel Session 2b
      Services
      Chair: Frank Stähler
      14:00- 14:25 Service Offshoring and Export Experience
      Giuseppe Berlingieri, Luca Marcolin, and EMANUEL ORNELAS (Sao Paulo School of Economics)
      14:25- 14:50 On the Mystery of the Missing Trade in Services
      ANDREA ARIÙ (University of Milan)
      14:50 - 15:05 Break
        Parallel Session 3a
      History
      Chair: Marc-Andreas Muendler
      15:05 - 15:30 The Economic Consequences of the Opium War
      WOLFGANG KELLER (University Colorado) and Carol H. Shiue
      15:30 - 15:55 The Political Economy of Italian Railway Expansion, 1879-1890
      ROBERTO BONFATTI (University of Padua), Giovanni Facchini, Alexander Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi, and Cecilia Testa
        Parallel Session 3b
      Firms in the Global Economy
      Chair: Jennifer Poole
      15:05 - 15:30 Corporate Social Responsibility along the Global Value Chain
      Philipp Herkenhoff, SEBASTIAN KRAUTHEIM (University of Passau), Finn Ole Semrau, and Frauke Steglich
      15:30 - 15:55 Heterogeneous impacts of SPS and TBT regulations: Firm-Level Evidence from Deep Trade Agreements
      ANA MARGARIDA FERNANDES (The World Bank), Kevin Lefebvre, and Nadia Rocha
      15:55 - 16:10 Break

       
      Session 4
      Distinguished RIE – CESifo Affiliate Award Candidates
      Prize sponsored by The Review of International Economics (RIE)
      Chair: Hillel Rapoport
      16:10 - 16:35 Unfolding Trade Effect in Two Margins of Informality: The Peruvian Case
      CAMILA CISNEROS – ACEVEDO (University of Tübingen)
      16:35 - 17:00 Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India's IT Boom?
      DEVAKI GHOSE (The World Bank)
      17:00 - 17:25 Endogenous Spatial Production Networks: Quantitative Implications for Trade and Productivity
      PIYUSH PANIGRAHI (University of California, Berkeley)
      17:25 - 17:40 Break
      17:40 - 18:05 Trade, Misallocation, and Capital Market Integration
      LASZLO TETENYI (Banco de Portugal)
      18:05 - 18:30 State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Extensive Margin of Trade
      Julian Hinz, Amrei Stammann, and JOSCHKA WANNER (University of Potsdam)
      18:30 Networking
  • Friday, 14 May 2021
    •   Parallel Session 5a
      Migration and the Informal Sector
      Chair: Klaus Wälde
      13:00 - 13:25 The Effect of Migrants on Trade: A Reassessment and New Evidence
      BENJAMIN JUNG (University of Hohenheim)
      13:25 - 13:50 Migration and Cultural Change
      HILLEL RAPOPORT (Paris School of Economics), Sulin Sardoschau, and Arthur Silve
      13:50 - 14:15 Precarization or Protection? The Role of Trade and Labour Policies on Informality
      Rita K. Almeida, Lourenço S. Paz, and JENNIFER P. POOLE (American University)

       
      Parallel Session 5b
      Spatial Economics
      Chair: Christian Volpe Martinicus
      13:00 - 13:25 Cities and the Sea Level
      Yatang Lin, Thomas K.J. McDermott, and GUY MICHAELS (London School of Economics and Political Science)
      13:25 - 13:50 Quality of Life in a Dynamic Spatial Model
      Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth, and TOBIAS SEIDEL (University of Duisburg-Essen)
      13:50 - 14:15 How Uncertainty Shapes the Spatial Economy
      Peter Egger, Katharina Erhardt, and DAVIDE SUVERATO (University of Zürich)
      14:15- 14:45 Break
        Parallel Session 6a
      Empirical Studies of Trade
      Chair: Alejandro Cuñat
      14:45 - 15:10 Exporting Costs and Multi-Product Shipments
      David Gomtsyan and ALEXANDER TARASOV (HSE University)
      15:10 - 15:35 Unravelling Deep Integration: Local Labour Market Effects of the Brexit Vote
      BEATA JAVORCIK (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Ben Kett, Katherine Stapleton, and Layla O’Kane
        Parallel Session 6b
      Theory
      Chair: Davide Suverato
      14:45 - 15:10 Structural Gravity and the Gains from Trade under Imperfect Competition
      FRANK STÄHLER (University of Tübingen) und Benedikt Heid
      15:10 - 15:35 The Dynamics of Pareto Distributed Wealth in a Small Open Economy
      Matthias Birkner, Niklas Scheuer, and KLAUS WÄLDE (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
      15:35 - 16:00 Break
        Parallel Session 7a
      Multinational Firms
      Chair: Tobias Seidel
      16:00 - 16:25 Multinational Firms and Global Innovation
      ANNA GUMPERT (LMU Munich), Kalina Manova, Cristina Rujan, and Monika Schnitzer
      16:25 - 16:50 Linkages with Multinationals: The Effects on Domestic Firms' Exports
      Jerónimo Carballo, Ignacio Marra de Artiñano, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, and CHRISTIAN VOLPE MARTINCUS (Inter-American Development Bank)
      16:50 - 17:15 Where Are Multinationals on the Job Ladder?
      Ragnhild Balsvik, Doireann Fitzgerald, and STEFANIE HALLER (University College Dublin)
        Parallel Session 7b
      Globalization
      Chair: Sebastian Krautheim
      16:00 - 16:25 U.S. Market Concentration and Import Competition
      Mary Amiti and SEBASTIAN HEISE (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
      16:25 - 16:50 The Causal Effect of the Dollar on Trade
      Sai Ma, TIM SCHMIDT-EISENLOHR (Federal Reserve Board), and Shaojun Zhang
      16:50 - 17:15 The World Trade Organization and U.S. Domestic Politics
      T. Renee Bowen, J. Lawrence Broz, and MARC-ANDREAS MUENDLER (University of California, San Diego)
        Keynote II - Plenary Session
      Chair: Peter Egger
      17:30 - 18:15 Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence
      BENJAMIN FABER (University of California, Berkeley), Alonso Alfaro, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici, and Jose Pablo Vasquez
      18:15 - 18:30 Announcement of prize winner and farewell
      18:30 End of Conference
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