The international trade group of the Erasmus School of Economics organizes a monthly workshop in international economics. We welcome speakers in international trade, international macroeonomics and urban and development economics.

Schedule Spring 2012:

January 10th

• 14.30 - 15.30 "The 'emulator effect' of the Uruguay round on US regionalism", Marco Fugazza, UNCTAD
• 15.45 - 16.45 "Trade and redistribution with imperfectly mobile labor", Gonzague Vannoorenberghe, Tilburg University

March 13th

• 14.30 - 15.30 "Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their Implications for Romania" Beata Javorcik, Oxford University

• 15.45 - 16.45 "Revolution and the Stolper-Samueslon Theorem." Ben Zissimos, University of Bath

May 22^nd

• 14.30 - 15.30 "Trade Liberalization and the Wage Skill Premium: Evidence from Indonesia", Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing import tariffs on intermediate inputs and final goods on the wage skill premium within firms in Indonesia – a country with a high share of unskilled workers. We present a new finding that reducing input tariffs reduces the wage skill premium within firms that import their intermediate inputs. However, we do not find significant effects from reducing tariffs on final goods on the wage skill premium within firms.
• http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/economists/amiti/amiti_cameron_v54.pdf

 

• 15.45 - 16.45  "Urban Accounting and Welfare", Klaus Desmet, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Abstract: This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities but also to greater frictions through congestion and other negative effects of agglomeration. Using data on MSAs in the United States, we parameterize the model and empirically estimate efficiency, amenities and frictions. Counterfactual exercises show that all three characteristics are important in that eliminating any of them leads to large population reallocations, though the welfare effects from these reallocations are modest. When we introduce externalities, we find similar results but now eliminating differences in any of the city characteristics causes many cities to exit. We apply the same methodology to Chinese cities and find welfare effects that are many times larger than those in the United States.
• http://www.eco.uc3m.es/~desmet/papers/urbanaccounting.pdf

 

June 12^th

• Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan
• Sebastian Krautheim, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

 

September 25^th

• Manuel Oechselin, Tilburg University
• Johannes Voget, University of Mannheim 

 

October 23^rd

• Thomas Chaney, University of Chicago
• Florian Mayneris, Université Catholique de Louvain

 

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