Barcelona GSE Summer Forum
Balmes Building – Balmes 132, Barcelona
TRADE, GROWTH AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION
June 8-9, 2015
JUNE 8
Session 1
09:20-11:00
NICO VOIGTLÄNDER (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Imported Inputs, Quality Complementarity, and Skill Demand” (with
Diego Saravia)
POL ANTRÀS (Harvard University)
“Trade, Inequality, and Costly Redistribution” (with Alonso de Gortiari and
Oleg Itskhoki)
11:00-11:40
Coffee break*
Session 2
11:40-13:20
ELHANAN HELPMAN (Harvard University)
“Growth, Trade, and Inequality” (with Gene Grossman)
ALESSANDRA BONFIGLIOLI (UPF and Barcelona GSE)– GINO GANCIA
(CREI-UPF and Barcelona GSE)
“Betting on Exports: Trade and Endogenous Heterogeneity” (with Rosario
Crinò)
13:30-14:40
Lunch*
Session 3
14:40-16:20
THIBAULT FALLY (University of California, Berkeley)
“A Coasian Model of International Production Chains” (with Russell
Hillberry)
SERGI BASCO (University Carlos III Madrid)
“The World Income Distribution: The Effects of International Unbundling
of Production” (with Martí Mestieri)
16:30-17:00
Coffee break*
Session 4
17:00-18:00
PETER MORROW (University of Toronto)
“HOV and the Factor Bias of Technology” (with Daniel Trefler)
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JUNE 9
Session 5
09:20-11:00
HALE UTAR (Bielefeld University )
“Workers beneath the Floodgates: The Impact of removing trade quotas
for China on Danish workers”
ILLENIN KONDO (Federal Reserve Board)
“Trade Reforms, Foreign Competition, and Labor Market Adjustments in
the U.S.”
11:00-11:40
Coffee-break*
Session 6
11:40-13:20
FRANCIS KRAMARZ (CREST-École Polytechnique-ENSAE)
“Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market” (with
Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum)
JAMES HARRIGAN (University of Virginia)
“The March of the Techies: Technology, Trade, and Job Polarization in
France, 1994-2007” (with Ariell Reshef and Farid Toubal)
13:30-14:40
Lunch*
Session 7
14:40-15:30
MANUEL GARCÍA-SANTANA (ECARES)
“Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure:
Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral in India” (with Jose Asturias and
Roberto Ramos)
Organizers
Alessandra Bonfiglioli (UPF and Barcelona GSE)
Gino Gancia (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI, UPF and Barcelona GSE)
The organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Centre de Recerca en Economia
Internacional (CREI), through the BBVA Foundation Grants for Researchers, Innovators and Cultural
Creators, and of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the “Severo Ochoa”
Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2011-0075).
The opinions, comments, and data collected in this project are the property of their respective owners.
The BBVA Foundation and the other sponsors are not responsible for them.
* Meals are provided by the organization
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