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• Mardi 8 octobre 2024 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des prés), salle H401 / Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  VANNOORENBERGHE Gonzague (UCLouvain) : Globalization and the urban-rural divide in France

  F. Mayneris and D. Verdini

  Résumé

  This paper investigates whether globalization has led to an economic decoupling between urban and rural areas in France. Specifically, we examine whether local labor markets in large urban areas have become more globally connected while weakening their domestic economic ties. To address this question, we calibrate a structural model using extensive administrative data from 1995 to 2015, capturing key linkages across French local labor markets. These linkages arise through competition in goods and labor markets, input-output relationships, and firms' ownership networks. Contrary to popular concerns, our findings reveal no evidence of urban-rural economic decoupling over the period, nor any significant impact of globalization on this relationship.

• Mardi 22 octobre 2024 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), salle H401 / Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  MRAZOVA Monika (U. Geneva) : *

• Mardi 12 novembre 2024 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), salle H401 / Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  GRANT Matt (Dartmouth) : *

• Mardi 26 novembre 2024 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), salle H401 / Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  MACEDONI Luca (Aarhus ) : *

• Mardi 10 décembre 2024 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), salle H401 / Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  BOEHM Johannes (IHEID) : *

• Mardi 11 février 2025 14:00-15:15

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  ORNELAS Emmanuel : *

• Mardi 4 mars 2025 14:00-15:15

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  FLACH LISANDRA Lisandra (LMU) : *

• Mardi 18 mars 2025 14:00-15:15

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  CHOR Davin (Dartmouth) : *

• Mardi 1er avril 2025 14:00-15:15

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  SIMONOVSKA INA Ina (UC Davis) : *

• Mardi 29 avril 2025 14:00-15:15

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  THOMAS Catherine (London School of Economics) : *

• Mardi 13 mai 2025 14:00-15:15

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  ANCA Cristea (U. of Oregon) : *

• Mardi 27 mai 2025 14:00-15:15

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  FERRARI Alessandro (UPF) : *

Archives

• Mardi 24 septembre 2024 15:15-16:30

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des prés), salle H401 / Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  BLANCHARD Emily (Dartmouth) : Justice for Sale: Explaining the Rise in Investor-State Dispute Settlement

  Monika Sztajerowska (PSE and IMF)

  Résumé

  We build a novel database linking the universe of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) cases with detailed financial, ownership, and operating data for the foreign investors ini- tiating these disputes, from 2000-2020. We document a sharp and sustained increase in the number of ISDS cases that is not explained by changes in the scope of international investment treaties or the expansion of multinational firms’ global operations. This in- crease in case initiation corresponds instead to a fundamental change in the composition of ISDS-suing firms, with significantly more small and credit-constrained firms pursuing litigation against sovereign states after the mid 2000s. Guided by theory, and augmenting our database with hand-collected information on case(-investor) specific choice of litigation technology, we find evidence that the advent and expansion of third-party funding (TPF) can explain a significant share of the observed increase in ISDS cases over the past two decades. Further analysis suggests that third party funding may also increase firms’ odds of winning, which could induce additional disputes in the years to come.

• Mardi 21 mai 2024 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  JUHASZ Reka (UBC) : The Who, What, When, and How of Industrial Policy: A Text-Based Approach

  Nathan Lane, Emily Oehlsen and Verónica C. Pérez

  Résumé

  Since the 18th century, policymakers have debated the merits of industrial policy (IP). Yet, economists lack basic facts about its use. This study sheds light on industrial policy by measuring and studying global policy practice for the first time. We first create an automated classification algorithm for categorizing industrial policy practice from text. We then apply it to a global database of commercial policy descriptions and quantify policy use at the country, industry, and year levels (2009-2020). These data allow us to study fundamental policy patterns across the world. We highlight four findings. First, IP is common (25% of policies in our database) and has expanded since 2010. Second, instead of blunt tariffs, IP is granular and technocratic. Countries tend to use subsidies and export promotion measures, often targeted at individual firms. Third, the countries engaged most in IP tend to be wealthier (top income quintile) liberal democracies. In our data, IP is rarer among the poorest nations (bottom quintile). Fourth, IP is targeted toward a subset of industries and is highly correlated with an industry’s revealed comparative advantage. We show that industrial policy is a prominent feature of the global economy and a far cry from industrial policies of the past.

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• Mardi 7 mai 2024 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  GUIGUE Etienne (ENSAE) : Markups and Markdowns in the French Dairy Market

  Rémi Avignon

  Résumé

  Separately measuring firm buyer and seller power is important for policy-making, but chal- lenging. In this paper, we suggest a new methodology to do so and apply it to French dairy processors. These firms exert buyer power when purchasing raw milk, and seller power when marketing dairy products. The analysis is based on plant-level data on dairy firms, with obser- vations on prices and quantities of raw-milk input by origin and output by product from 2003 to 2018. We rely on a production function approach to estimate total margins. The existence of a commodity, (i) substitutable as an input or as an output, and (ii) exchanged on global markets where firms are price-takers, allows us to separately estimate firm-origin markdowns and firm-product markups. We show this methodology can also be useful in other contexts, with more limited data. Markdown estimates imply that dairy firms on average purchase raw milk at a price 16% below its marginal contribution to their profits, while markup estimates indicate that firms sell dairy products at a price exceeding their marginal costs by 41%. Our re- sults show substantial variations in buyer and seller power exploitation across firms, products, and time. We analyze how shocks to local farmer costs and international commodity prices pass through the supply chain. Processors partially absorb such shocks by adjusting markups and markdowns, thus smoothing variations in farmer revenues. It further implies that 65% of subsidies are currently diverted from farmers due to processor buyer power. A price floor on raw milk could be an alternative welfare-improving policy.

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• Mardi 23 avril 2024 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  MAGLI Martina (LMU) : Should we stay or should we go? Firms' adjustment to trade shocks

  Holger Breilnich

  Résumé

  Services account for one-third of global trade, yet little is known about the impact of trade restrictions on services trade. To make progress in this area, it is crucial to understand through which Modes services are traded (cross-border, movement of people, foreign investment or consumption abroad) and how firms substitute among these Modes. We provide novel micro-level evidence on firms' Mode choices, combining detailed data on UK firms' trade and affiliates' sales. We also estimate the substitution between trade Modes using Brexit as an exogenous shock, finding that UK firms increasingly relied on local affiliate sales to serve the EU market after 2016. This shift protected firm-level services exports from expected higher trade barriers after Brexit, but at the cost of lower domestic employment.

• Mardi 26 mars 2024 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  CONCONI Paola (Oxford) : A Political Disconnect? Evidence From Votes on EU Trade Agreements?

  Florin Cucu, Federico Gallina, and Mattia Nardotto

  Résumé

  It has been argued that public engagement in democracies has declined in the last decades due to a growing disconnect between citizens and their representatives. The European Union is a case in point, if not the most prominent example of an institution seen as suffering from a “democratic deficit”. Even the directly elected members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are often accused of being disconnected from the interests of European citizens. However, little is actually known about whether European legislators respond to their voters’ interests when making critical policy choices. We address this question by studying the determinants of MEPs’ votes on the approval of EU trade agreements. Against widespread Eurosceptic arguments, we find that these votes reflect the trade policy interests of MEPs’ constituencies. The results are robust to controlling for a rich set of variables and fixed effects to account for potential confounding factors, and using different sets of votes and econometric methodologies. An instrumental variable approach supports a causal interpretation of our findings.

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• Mardi 12 mars 2024 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  RAUCH Ferdinand (Heidelberg) : Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports

  R. Hornbeck and G. Michaels

  Résumé

  We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated by endogenous city formation, however, and a "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of ancient Mediterranean ports, which seeded modern cities, to estimate shadows cast on nearby areas. These patterns extend to modern city locations, more generally, and illustrate how encouraging growth in particular places can discourage growth of nearby areas.

• Mardi 27 février 2024 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  DHINGRA Swati (LSE) : Citizen Training and the Urban Waste Footprint

  Fjolla Kondirolli and Stephen Machin

  Résumé

  Waste management is key to the Sustainable Development Goal of making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Untreated waste contributes to methane emissions, groundwater pollution, marine litter and public health and safety hazards, and is a growing problem in cities in developing countries. Segregation of waste at the source of generation has been proposed as a low-cost solution for reducing the amount of waste that needs to be landfilled. This paper examines the potential of segregation and recycling at source in improving waste management in the city of Patna in India. Citizen training in circular economy principles of segregation at source and reduction, reuse and recycling of waste was implemented. The intervention was staggered over time to clusters of urban residences on routes covered by municipal waste trucks, in collaboration with the city administration. Waste observations were undertaken to examine the impacts of the training programme on waste practices. Segregation rates increased substantially among households that received the intervention, based on pre-post differences and staggered difference-in-differences estimates. The findings suggest that decentralised waste management can provide a low-cost solution for developing countries to reduce their waste footprint.

• Mardi 5 décembre 2023 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  DEMIR PAKEL Banu (Oxford) : Plastic Turkey: International Leakages of China's Waste Contamination Policy

  Deniz Atalar and Swati Dhingra

  Résumé

  Global trade in plastic waste has increased by over 700 percent since the 1990s. Exports of plastic waste have flowed primarily from developed economies to emerging markets, raising concerns over the environmental and public health consequences of less stringent regulations in importing countries. Following domestic concerns, China tightened restrictions on contamination levels of plastic waste imports in 2017. Being the world's major importer of plastic waste, China's policy led to a dramatic diversion of trade. This paper shows that Turkey emerged as a major importer of plastic waste from more advanced economies. Importers in Turkey got access to cheaper foreign plastic waste and reduced their domestic purchases. Using a unique dataset on waste disposal by domestic firms, we show that firms in Turkey that generated plastic waste became more likely to mismanage it, including through burning or dumping in water bodies. Emissions from waste management increased in Turkish regions that were more specialised in production of the waste products banned by China. We model this channel of environmental degradation in a gravity model of trade and the environment to quantify the global spillovers of environmental externalities through trade and to examine the welfare impacts of the policy.

• Mardi 21 novembre 2023 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  TIAN Lin (INSEAD) : Field of Study, Career Choice, and Globalization

  Valerie Smeets and Sharon Traiberman

  Résumé

  This paper highlights the importance of modeling students' field of study choices in understanding the labor market consequences of globalization shocks. We develop a dynamic general equilibrium framework that incorporates both a labor market where workers of different fields of study supply heterogeneous skills and an education technology that allows for students to choose their skills in anticipation of future skill demands. Leveraging the uniquely rich Danish administrative data and their colleague application system, we develop a new methodology to estimate students' field preferences, together with key labor market parameters. Our preliminary results indicate that accounting for field choices increases the switching elasticity with respect to wage shocks by over threefold.

• Mardi 7 novembre 2023 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  BOLER Esther Ann (Imperial AC) : Strapped for cash: the role of financial constraints for innovating firms

  Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

  Résumé

  This paper makes use of a reform that allowed firms to use patents as stand-alone collateral, to estimate the magnitude of collateral constraints and to quantify the aggregate impact of these constraints on misallocation and productivity. Using detailed firm- and matched firm-bank data for Norway, we find that bank borrowing increased for firms affected by the reform relative to the control group. We also find an increase in the capital stock, employment and innovation as well as equity funding. We interpret the results through the lens of a model of monopolistic competition with potentially collateral constrained heterogeneous firms. Parameterizing the model using well-identified moments from the reduced form exercise, we find quantitatively large gains in output per worker in the sectors in the economy dominated by constrained (and intangible-intensive) firms. The gains are primarily driven by capital deepening, whereas within-industry misallocation plays a smaller role.

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• Mardi 17 octobre 2023 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  TASCHEREAU-DUMOUCHEL Mathieu (Cornell) : Endogenous Production Networks under Supply Chain Uncertainty

  Alexandr Kopytov, Bineet Mishra and Kristoffer Nimark

  Résumé

  Supply chain disturbances can lead to substantial increases in production costs. To mitigate these risks, firms may take steps to reduce their reliance on volatile suppliers. We construct a model of endogenous network formation to investigate how these decisions affect the structure of the production network and the level and volatility of macroeconomic aggregates. When uncertainty increases in the model, producers prefer to purchase from more stable suppliers, even though they might sell at higher prices. The resulting reorganization of the network leads to less macroeconomic volatility, but at the cost of a decline in aggregate output. The model also predicts that more productive and stable firms have higher Domar weights—a measure of their importance as suppliers—in the equilibrium network. We calibrate the model to U.S. data and find that the mechanism can account for a sizable decline in expected GDP during periods of high uncertainty like the Great Recession.

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• Mardi 3 octobre 2023 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  EGGER Peter (ETHZ) : How Uncertainty shapes the Spatial Economy

  Katharina Erhardt, Davide Suverato

  Résumé

  We develop a dynamic general equilibrium trade model in which the economy is a collection of spatially separated competitive markets and agents (workers/consumers) choose optimally where to locate and seeking for a job. Agents are heterogeneous based on (i) their pre-determined choice of a region, sector and occupation and, also, on (ii) a non-insurable risk of aging, that implies a lower option value when changing region and job characteristics. By solving for the resulting dynamic spatial quantitative model with labor mobility under uncertainty we show that rational households behave differently compared to a setting with perfect foresight (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2019). In particular, adjustment to shocks slows down, with more people being stuck in poorer regions and higher inequality across regions and sectors in the long run. Furthermore, greater volatility in the productivity of a job (holding constant the mean) results in a strong decline in the attractiveness of those jobs. Using detailed administrative French data, we quantify the productivity-loss-equivalent of a rise in uncertainty and we document that the impact on the individual lifetime welfare of an increase in uncertainty is comparable to the one of a medium-large negative productivity shock.

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• Mardi 19 septembre 2023 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  NAGY David (CREI - UPF) : The Death and Life of Great British Cities

  S. Heblich, A. Trew and Y. Zylberberg

  Résumé

  This paper studies how cities’ industrial structure shapes their life and death. Our analysis exploits the large heterogeneity in the early composition of English and Welsh cities. We extract built-up clusters from early historical maps, identify settlements at the onset of the nineteenth century, and isolate exogenous variation in the nature of their rise during the transformation of the economy by the end of the nineteenth century. We then estimate the causal impact of cities’ population and industrial specialization on their later dynamics. We find that cities specializ- ing in a small number of industries decline in the long run. We develop a dynamic spatial model of cities to isolate the forces which govern their life and death. Intratemporally, the model captures the role of amenities, land, local productivity and trade in explaining the distribution of economic activity across industries and cities. Intertemporally, the model can disentangle the role of aggregate industry dynamics from city-specific externalities. We find that the long-run dynamics of English and Welsh cities is explained to a large extent by such dynamic externalities à la Jacobs.

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• Mardi 27 juin 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  MORROW John (Kings College London) : Firms in Product Space: Adoption, Growth, and Competition

  Luca Macedoni and Vlad Tyazhelnikov

  Résumé

  Which products are produced together or potentially produced? Can any firm eventually supply any new demand? Standard product classifications contain answers to these questions by representing an inherent product space firms operate in, but in practice they represent multiple organizational relationships. Taking a production based approach using multi-product production patterns within and across firms, we recover a continuous cost based distance between pairs of products and firms. Product distance implies a product adoption path, with each rank of product distance decreasing adoption frequency by .7 percent relative to base and the 5 percent of closest products explain 14 per cent of adoptions. When export demand for unproduced products induces domestic adoption, closer firms supply them. Having a nearby product increases sales and scope growth, as does being further away from the average firm. Having a nearby firm increases focus on core products and the likelihood of merging.

• Mardi 13 juin 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-15

  BESEDES Tibor (Georgia Institute of Technology) : Trade Integration and the Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics

  J. Moreno-Cruz and V. Nitsch

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• Mardi 6 juin 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  SIMONOVSKA Ina (U. California, Davis) : Cancelled

• Mardi 23 mai 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, Amphitheater

  XU Daniel (Duke) : Regulating conglomerates in China : Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program

  Résumé

  This seminar is part of the conference ‘PSE Global issues Conference “Re/De/Globalization”, 22-24 May 2023.

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• Mardi 9 mai 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  SFORZA Alessandro (U. Bologna) : Credit shocks and firms’ organization

  E. Acabbi

  Résumé

  What happens to firms' organizational structure when they are hit by a negative credit shock? By matching employer-employee data with firm loans and bank balance sheets, we study firms' reactions to a credit shock–the global financial crisis—using a combination of event study design and instrumental variable. We evaluate the impact of a credit shortage on the organization of labor within the firm: when hit by a credit supply shock, firms reduce employment of team leaders more than lower-skilled production workers, while no adjustment is found at the top of the organizational hierarchy. We show that working capital impacts the re-organization of the firms' labor structure via the financing of machines: firms that invested in machines before the financial crisis are more exposed to the credit shock and re-organize by reducing employment of workers that are complementary with machines. The results provide novel evidence of heterogenous complementarities between working capital and skills along the hierarchy of the firm.

• Mardi 11 avril 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  THEODORAKOPOULOS Angelos (Aston Business school) : Intangibles within Firm Boundaries

  Bruno Merlevede (Ghent University)

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• Mardi 28 mars 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  BORUSYAK Kirill (university College London) : Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks: Theory and Evidence from the United States

  R. Dix-Carneiro and B. Kovak

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• Mardi 14 mars 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  SANTAMARIA Marta (U. Warwick) : Community Networks and Trade

  Johannes Boken, Lucie Gadenne and Tushar Nandi

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• Mardi 14 février 2023 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  ZAGO Angelo (U. Verona) : Quality, Collective Reputation and International Trade in Wines

  P. Bontems, D. Lubian

  Résumé

  We introduce a model of heterogenous firms with endogenous product quality and collective reputation and develop an empirical strategy to test the models’ predictions. We find that our model better matches the data at hand, based on wine production and export data at firm level. In Melitz (Ecmtca, 2003), most productive firms can serve foreign markets. If quality is endogenous, however, things may differ. We extend this literature with a model in which quality is endogenous and considering collective reputation, as is the case of many manufacturing sectors of developed countries, e.g., Swiss Made watches, German cars, French wine, etc. Crozet et al. (RES, 2012) propose a quality-sorting version of Melitz (2003) and test it with firm level data. They propose (probably) the first empirical attempt to test the quality interpretation of Melitz (2003), combining firm-level data that directly measures quality (from Juhlin, a Champagne Wines guidebook) and trade (from export data) for Champagne makers. Building on Melitz & Ottaviano (RES, 2008) and Antoniades (JIE, 2015), we start from a monopolistic competition model, in which firms are heterogenous in innate quality. In addition, firms can improve quality by exerting quality development effort; moreover, production exhibits constant returns to scale, with marginal cost increasing in innate quality and final quality. On the other hand, demand is influenced by perceived quality, expressed as a weighted average of true firm quality (individual reputation) and average quality in the market, i.e., “collective reputation”, in the sense of Fleckinger (wp, 2007). In the theoretical analysis we show, among other things, that the exported quality and the range of exporting firms depend on the degree of expertise of the destination market’s consumers, that is their ability to distinguish individual vs. collective reputations. Using micro-data at the firm’s level, we test whether quality, collective reputation (CR) and consumer expertise in the destination countries have an effect on the extensive and intensive margins of trade. We construct a set of quality indicators based on the major wine guides associated to firms. We use data on wine firms located in the Verona province, an interesting setting per se, since it has both red and white wines. In addition, for red wines in particular, it has experienced a significant increase in worldwide reputation (especially for Amarone wines) and demand. To obtain a proxy of consumer expertise in each destination market, we use Google searches in different countries by retrieving data from Google Trends. Therefore, we estimate an otherwise ‘standard’ gravity equation where - among other explanatory variables such as distance, GDP, population, etc. - we have proxies for collective reputation, quality and the degree of consumers’ expertise in the destination markets. Using cross-sectional data, we find that quality, collective reputation and consumer expertise are indeed important in making exporting more likely (extensive margins), in exporting different products, and (to some extent) also in exporting more (intensive margins). Overall, we fail to reject the null hypothesis that the degree of expertise in destination markets do not have an effect on the firms that export and the product they do export. This seems to suggest that the endogenous quality model we propose better fits the data at hand.

• Mardi 13 décembre 2022 14:45-16:15

  SANTAMARIA Marta (U. Warwick) : CANCELLED - Understanding Home Bias in Procurement: Evidence from National and Subnational Governments

  Manuel García-Santana (World Bank)

  Résumé

  Are governments locally biased when buying goods and services from private firms? And if so, to what extent can this home bias explain the lack of integration in procurement markets across regions and countries? Using more than one million public procurement contracts awarded by 30,000 government agencies in French and Spanish regions, we explore the hypothesis that a government’s home bias depends on the geographical level at which the government operates. To test our hypothesis, we classify agencies into national agencies (i.e., the central or federal administration) and subnational agencies (i.e., an individual region or territory within the country). We then identify the relative home bias across governments with a novel identification strategy that relies on observing the same establishment selling the same product to national and subnational governments located in the same destination, controlling for firm and origin-destination characteristics. Our results show that the government’s home bias, especially that of subnational agencies, explains a big part of the high levels of local concentration in government procurement across regions and countries. Our findings point towards significant inefficiencies in the allocation of government procurement expenditure across firms, regions, and countries within the European Union.

• Mardi 29 novembre 2022 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  KOZENIAUSKAS Nicholas (Bank of Portugal) : Demand Learning, Customer Capital, and Exporter Dynamics,

  S. Lyon

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• Mardi 15 novembre 2022 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  OSSA Ralph (U. Zurich) : Trade, Growth, and Patenting: A Quantitative Evaluation of TRIPS

  D. Hémous, T. Sampson, and J. Schärer

• Mardi 18 octobre 2022 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  RUZIC Dimitrije (INSEAD) : Factor-Biased Outsourcing: Implications for Capital-Labor Substitution

• Mardi 4 octobre 2022 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  MANELICI Isabela (LSE) : Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica.

  A. Alfaro-Ureña, B. Faber, C. Gaubert, and J. P. Vasquez

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• Mardi 20 septembre 2022 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  MIYAUCHI Yuhei (Boston U.) : Spatial Production Networks

  Costas Arkolakis and Federico Huneeus

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• Mardi 28 juin 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21

  STEINWENDER Claudia (LMU, CEPR and NBER) : Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era

  L. Alfaro, C. Bao, M.X. Chen, and J. Hong

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• Mardi 14 juin 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-14

  SMEETS Valerie (Aarhus University and CEPR) : High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics

  Eunhee Lee and Jingting Fan

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• Mardi 31 mai 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-09

  GANAPATI Sharat (Georgetown) : Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona

  T. Allen, S. Fuchs, A. Graziano, R. Madera, and J. Montoriol-Garriga

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• Mardi 17 mai 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21

  BLANCHARD Emily (Dartmouth) : ANNULE/CANCELLED

• Mardi 19 avril 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21

  MION Giordano (ESSEC and CEPR) : Dream Jobs in a Globalized Economy: Wage Dynamics and International Experience

  Luca David Opromolla and Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

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• Mardi 5 avril 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21

  CHEN Kevin (SIEPR) : Markups, Quality, and Trade Costs

  Luciana Juvenal

• Mardi 15 mars 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21

  DORN David (U. Zurich and CEPR) : No Help for the Heartland? The US Employment Effects of the Trump Tariffs

  D. Autor, A. Beck and G. Hanson

• Mardi 8 mars 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21

  BAKKER Jan (Bocconi University) : Cities, Heterogenous Firms and Trade

  A. Garcia-Marin, A. Potlogea, N. Voigtländer, Y. Yang

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 8 février 2022 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-09

  LEVCHENKO Andrei (Michigan) : The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy

  J. Choi

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 14 décembre 2021 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R1-15

  BAKKER Jan (Bocconi University, CEP and IFS) : Cancelled Cities, Heterogenous Firms and Trade

  A. Garcia-Marin, A. Potlogea, N. Voigtländer, Y. Yang

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 30 novembre 2021 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  ARIU Andrea (U. of Milan - CEPR) : On the Mystery of the Missing Trade in Services

• Mardi 16 novembre 2021 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  DEMIR PAKEL Banu (Oxford) : O-Ring Production Networks

  C. Fieler, D. Xu, and K. Yang

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 octobre 2021 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  CARLUCCIO Juan (Banque de France) : From Macro to Micro : Heterogeneous Exporters in the Pandemic

  Jean-Charles Bricongne, Sebastian Stumpner, Lionel Fontagné, and Guillaume Gaulier

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 5 octobre 2021 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  MÉJEAN Isabelle (Science Po) : Supply shocks in supply chains: Evidence from the early lockdown in China

  Raphaël Lafrogne-Joussier et Julien Martin

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 21 septembre 2021 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 405

  GRASSI Basile (Bocconi University - CEPR) : The Hitchhiker's Guide to Markup Estimation

  Maarten De Ridder and Giovanni Morzenti

  Résumé

  How do estimates of firm-level markups that rely on production function estimations depend on common data limitations? With a tractable analytical framework, simulation from a quantitative model, and firm-level administrative production and pricing data, we study biases due to the use of revenue instead of quantity, and due to production function misspecification. Estimates from revenue mismeasure the level of markups, but do contain useful information about true markups. Conversely, misspecified production functions have little effect on the estimated average markup but reduce their information content. Finally, revenue and quantity markups display similar correlations with variables such as profitability and market share in our data.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 22 juin 2021 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - Amphi

  EGGER Peter (ETHZ) : Empirical Productivity Distributions and International Trade

  K. Erhardt (DICE) and S. Nigai (CU Boulder)

  Résumé

  tba

• Mardi 8 juin 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  BOSKER Maarten (Erasmus University Rotterdam) : Desarrollo alternativo: the sensitivity of Colombian coca production to legal commodity price shocks

  Sophie de Vries Robbé

  Résumé

  Colombia is the world's major producer of coca leaves. An important pillar of Colombia's efforts to curb the production of this illicit crop is to induce farmers to substitute coca for a viable legal alternative. In this paper we identify the extent to which farmers respond to variation in the price of five of the most promising legal alternatives when deciding how much coca to plant – coffee, palm oil, cocoa, sugar, and banana. We do this using a rich, spatially very detailed dataset that contains yearly information on the amount of coca grown in each of over 31,000 villages (veredas) in Colombia over the period 2001-2018. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in legal commodity prices, in combination with detailed information about the soil and climatic suitability of each village for growing the five alternative crops that we consider. We find that farmers in villages more suitable for growing coffee and banana respond to price increases of these particular legal alternatives by planting less coca. We discuss why we find this effect for these two crops only, and not for cocoa, sugar, or palm oil. Moreover, the response to price shocks is strongest in villages with better market access.

• Mardi 1er juin 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  CHANEY Thomas (Sciences Po) : The Immigrant Next Door: Exposure, Generosity, and Prejudice

  Leonardo Bursztyn (U. of Chicago and NBER), Tarek Hassan (Boston U., NBER, and CEPR), and Aakaash Rao (Harvard U.)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 25 mai 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  CONCONI Paola (Oxford) : Trade Protection Along Supply Chains

  C. Bown (Peterson Institute and CEPR), A. Erbahar (Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Tinbergen Institute), L. Trimarchi (Université de Namur)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 11 mai 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  BONFIGLIONI Alessandra (Queen Mary University of London) : Robots, Offshoring and Welfare

  Rosario Crino, Gino Gancia and Ioannis Papadakis

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 27 avril 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  MARTIN Jamie : Buyer-seller networks and price dynamics in international trade

  François Fontaine (PSE) and Isabelle Mejean (CREST-Ecole Polytechnique and CEPR)

• Mardi 13 avril 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  EECKHOUT Jan (UPF Barcelona) : Market Power and Wage Inequality

  Shubhdeep Deb, Aseem Patel and Lawrence Warren

• Mardi 30 mars 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  OTTAVIANO Gianmarco (Bocconi University & CEPR) : The Backlash Against Globalization

  Italo Colantone, Piero Stanig

• Mardi 16 mars 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  COSTINOT Arnaud (MIT) : International Trade and Earnings Inequality: A New Factor Content Approach

  R. Adao (Chicago Booth), P. Carrillo (GWU)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 2 mars 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  PETERS Dominik (Dauphine) : European Immigrants and the United States' Rise to the Technological Frontier

  Costas Arkolakis and Sun Kyoung Lee

• Mardi 16 février 2021 14:30-16:00

  Using Zoom

  MARTIN Philippe (Sciences Po) : Trade Imbalances and the Rise of Protectionism

  Samuel Delpeuch et Etienne Fize

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 8 décembre 2020 14:45-16:15

  Using Zoom

  ALBORNOZ Facundo (Nottingham) : Firm Export Responses to Tariff Hikes

  Irene Brambilla and Emanuel Ornelas

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 24 novembre 2020 14:45-16:15

  Using Zoom

  GUADALUPE Maria (INSEAD) : The Perfect Match: Assortative Matching in Mergers and Acquisitions

  Veronica Rappoport, Bernard Salanié and Catherine Thomas

• Mardi 10 novembre 2020 14:45-16:15

  Using Zoom

  GAUBERT Cécile (Berkeley, visiting à Science Po) : Place-Based Redistribution

  Pat Kline and Danny Yagan

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 13 octobre 2020 14:45-16:15

  Using zoom

  SUVERATO Davide (ETH Zurich) : Market Power and Wage Inequality in the Global Economy

  Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)

• Mardi 29 septembre 2020 14:45-16:15

  Using Zoom

  FLACH Lisandra (Munich) : Corporate Taxes and Multi-Product Exporters: Theory and Evidence from Trade Dynamics

  Michael Irlacher and Florian Unger

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 septembre 2020 14:45-16:15

  Using Zoom

  BREINLICH Holger (Surrey) : Gravity with Granularity

  Harald Fadinger, Nicolas Schutz and Volker Nocke; all at Mannheim university

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 23 juin 2020 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Using ZOOM

  BESEDES Tibor (Georgia Institute of Technology) : Unfriendly Skies: The Impact of Increases in Distance on Bilateral Trade

  Jing Chu and Antu Panini Murshid (both University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 9 juin 2020 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-01

  BLANCHARD Emily (Dartmouth) : POSPONED

• Mardi 26 mai 2020 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  DI GIOVANNI Julian (NY Fed) : POSTPONED

• Mardi 26 mai 2020 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Using Zoom

  FADINGER Harald (Mannheim) : Using ZOOM

• Mardi 12 mai 2020 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  HANDLEY Kyle (Michigan) : POSTPONED

• Mardi 31 mars 2020 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  GUADALUPE Maria (INSEAD) : POSTPONED

• Mardi 17 mars 2020 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  GANAPATI Sharat (Georgetown) : POSTPONED

  Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon) and Oren Ziv (Michigan State University)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 3 mars 2020 14:30-16:30

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  EGGER Peter (ETH Zurich) : Decomposing the Economic Effects of Transport Infrastructure

• Mardi 4 février 2020 14:30-16:30

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  GIORDANI Paolo (Rome) : Unintended consequences: can the rise of the educated class explain the revival of protectionism?

  Fabio Mariani

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 17 décembre 2019 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 402

  BEKKERS Eddy (WTO) : The welfare effects of trade policy experiments in quantitative trade models: the role of solution methods and baseline calibration

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 3 décembre 2019 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 402

  MRAZOVA Monika (U. Geneva) : IO for Export(s)

  J. Peter Neary

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 novembre 2019 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés) SALLE H 402

  FABER Ben (PSE) : Scaling Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda

  Lauren Bergquist, Thibault Fally, Matthias Hoelzlein, Edward Miguel and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 5 novembre 2019 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris (M° Saint Germain des Prés), SALLE H 402

  KELLER Wolfgang (Colorado) : Globalization, Gender, and the Family

  Hâle Utarz, Bielefeld University and CESifo

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 22 octobre 2019 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 1, 106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital, 75013 Paris (M° Campo-Formio), salle du 6ème

  VILLEGAS SANCHEZ Carolina (ESADE, Barcelone) : Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity: Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects

  Christian Fons-Rosen, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Bent E. Sorensen, Vadym Volosovych

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 octobre 2019 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 1, 106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital, 75013 Paris (M° Campo-Formio), salle du 6ème

  GROSSMAN Gene (Princeton) : The 'New' Economics of Trade Agreements: From Trade Liberalization to Regulatory Convergence?

  Phillip McCalman, and Robert W. Staiger

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 8 octobre 2019 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 1, 106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital, 75013 Paris (M° Campo-Formio), salle du 6ème

  BUSTOS Paula (CEMFI) : Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation

  G. Garber and J. Ponticelli

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 24 septembre 2019 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, Université Paris 1, 106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital, 75013 Paris (M° Campo-Formio), salle du 6ème

  MEDINA QUISPE Pamela (Toronto) : Capital-Reallocation Frictions and Trade Shocks

  Andrea Lanteri, Eugene Tan

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 25 juin 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-01

  BOMBARDINI Matilde (UBC) : Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China

  Bingjing Li (National University of Singapore)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 11 juin 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  M. PARENTI Mathieu (ULB) : A simple theory of deep trade integration

  Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (Louvain)

• Mardi 28 mai 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  NAGY David (CREI - UPF) : All aboard: The aggregate effects of port development

  César Ducruet (CNRS), Réka Juhász (Columbia University), Claudia Steinwender (MIT Sloan)

• Mardi 14 mai 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  RODRIGUEZ CLARE Andres (Berkeley) : The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: A Quantitative Exploration.

  Dominick Bartelme, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 16 avril 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  CHATTERJEE Kalyan (Penn State) : Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 2 avril 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  IMPULLITTI Giammario (Nottingham) : Innovation and Trade Policy in a Globalized World

  U. Akcigit and S. Ates

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 mars 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  BUSTOS Paula (CEMFI) : Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation

  Jacopo Ponticelli and Gabriel Garber

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 février 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  SAMPSON Thomas (LSE) : Technology Gaps, Trade and Income

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 5 février 2019 14:30-16:00

  PSE, Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014, Paris - salle R2-21

  WACZIARG Romain ((UCLA) ) : Economic Integration and Structural Change

  Jean Imbs (PSE, CEPR) and Claudio Montenegro (The World Bank)

• Mardi 22 janvier 2019 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po - 28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris, 4ème étage, salle H 405

  MUENDLER Marc (UC San Diego) : Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy

  Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick, CEPR and CESifo), Hartmut Egger (University of Bayreuth and CESifo), Michael Kochk (University of Bayreuth)

• Mardi 18 décembre 2018 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris, 4ème étage, salle H 401

  YOTOV Yoto (Drexel) : The Effectiveness of Sanctions: New Evidence Based on Structural Gravity and a New Database

  G. Felbermayr, C. Syropoulos, E. Yalcin

• Lundi 10 décembre 2018 12:00-13:00

  PSE, campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan - 75014 Paris, salle R1-13

  TAYLOR Scott (University of Calgary) : Is Free Trade Good for Resources (Labellisé par les Assises de la recherche de l'Université Paris 1)

  Jevan Cherniwchan (Alberta Business School)

  Résumé

  This paper develops a simple and tractable model of international trade and renewable resource use to facilitate an empirical assessment of international trade's impact on natural resource stocks. We do so by generalizing earlier theoretical work, within a small open economy framework, to derive a simple estimating equation linking changes in resource stocks to country characteristics and trade barriers. An empirical application studying deforestation in Indonesia is presented to provide a proof of principle test for the new method.

• Mardi 4 décembre 2018 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris, 1er étage, salle A 13

  BERNARD Andrew (PSE) : Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization

  Teresa Fort, Valerie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 20 novembre 2018 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume 75007 Paris, 1er étage, salle A 13

  JARAVEL Xavier (LSE) : What are the Price Effects of Trade? Evidence from the U.S. and Implications for Quantitative Trade Models

  E. Sager

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 6 novembre 2018 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume 75007 Paris, 1er étage, salle A 13

  HALLER Stefanie (UCD) : How exporters grow

  Doireann Fitzgerald and Yaniv Yedid-Levi.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 23 octobre 2018 14:30-16:00

  MSE - 106 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris - Room 6th floor

  FELBERMAYR Gabriel (Munich) : Rules of Origin and the Profitability of Trade Deflection

  Feodora Teti and Erdal Yalcin

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 9 octobre 2018 14:30-16:00

  MSE - 106 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris - Room 6th floor

  WEI Shang-Jin (Columbia Graduate School of Business) : Re-examining the Effect of Trading with China on US Local Labor Markets: A Supply Chain Perspective

  Z. Wang, X. Yu, K. Zhu

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 25 septembre 2018 14:30-16:00

  MSE - 106 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris - Room 6th floor

  HARRIGAN James (Virginia) : Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity: Firm Level Evidence from France

  Ariell Reshef, Farid Toubal

• Mardi 26 juin 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R1-09

  MEJEAN I. (Polytechnique) : Search Frictions in International Good Markets

  Clémence Lenoir (CREST-ENSAE) et Julien Martin (UQAM)

  Résumé

  We develop and estimate a model of search frictions in international good markets and study its implications for individual and aggregate trade flows. The mdoel introduces random meeting of buyers in an otherwise standard Eaton and Kortum (2002) framework. We show that search frictions impede aggregate exports but have a non-trivial impact on individual firms' trade. A reduction in these frictions increases sellers' exposure to foreign buyers but also reduces their chance to be the lowest cost supplier because of more competition among sellers. We build on this model to structurally estimate search frictions faced by French exporters using a generalized method of moments and firm-to-firm French export data. We document the magnitude of these frictions across sectors and destinations and show that their presence help; i) reconcile the EK framework with heterogeneity in firm-level export behaviours; and ii) quantify the relative role of search frictions and productivity heterogeneity in the selection of firms into export.

• Mardi 12 juin 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21

  REDDING S. (Princeton) : Accounting for Trade Patterns

  David E. Weinstein Columbia University and NBER

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 29 mai 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21

  OSSA R. (Zurich) : Accounting for the New Gains from Trade Liberalization

  Chang-Tai Hsieh University of Chicago and NBER, Nicholas Li University of Toronto, Mu-Jeung Yang University of Washington, Seattle

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 mai 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21

  DIX-CARNEIRO R. (Duke) : Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions,

  P. Goldberg, C. Meghir and G. Ulyssea

• Mardi 3 avril 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R1-13

  KRAUTHEIM S. (U. Passau) : The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void

  Philipp Herkenhoff

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 20 mars 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21

  DORN David (U. Zurich and CEPR) : Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents.

  David Autor, Gordon Hanson, Gary Pisano and Pian Shu.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 12 mars 2018 12:00-14:00

  La séance a été annulée.

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, Salle R1-13

  TAYLOR Scott (Calgary) : *

  Résumé

  Joint with PSE Regulation and Environment Seminar

• Mardi 6 mars 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21

  BAHAR Dany (Brookings) : Diasporas, return migration and comparative advantage: a natural experiment of Yugoslavian refugees in Germany

  Andreas Hauptmann, Cem Ozguzel and Hillel Rapoport

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 6 février 2018 14:30-16:00

  PSE, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris - salle R2-21

  ECKEL C. (Munich) : TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING? EXPORTERS, MULTIPRODUCT FIRMS AND LABOR MARKET IMPERFECTIONS

  Stephen R. Yeaple

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 23 janvier 2018 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  VAN BIESEBROECK Johannes (KU) : *Comparative advantage in routine production

  Liza Archanskaia and Gerald Willmann

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 9 janvier 2018 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  RAPPOPORT Daniel (Chicago Booth) : *The Birth of a Multinational: Innovation and Foreign Acquisitions

  J. Goldman, M. Guadalupe

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 décembre 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  NOVY Dennis (Warwick) : Currency Unions, Trade, and Heterogeneity

  Natalie Chen (Warwick)

• Mardi 5 décembre 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  WILLMANN Gerald (Bielefeld) : *Unequal Gains, Prolonged Pain: A Model of Protectionist Overshooting

  Emily Blanchard (Dartmouth)

• Mardi 21 novembre 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  MANOVA Kalina (Oxford) : *The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach

  A. Bernard (Dartmouth Tuck), E. Dhyne (NBB), A. Moxnes (Oslo), and G. Magerman (ECARES).

  Résumé

  This paper quantifies the origins of firm size heterogeneity when firms are interconnected in a production network. We document new stylized facts about the universe of buyer-supplier relationships among all firms in Belgium during 2002-2014. These facts motivate a model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers and sell to downstream buyers and final demand. Firms can be large not only because they have high production capability (i.e. productivity or product quality), but also because they interact with more, better and larger buyers and suppliers, and because they are better matched to their buyers and suppliers. The model delivers an exact decomposition of firm size into supply an demand margins with firm, buyer/supplier and match components. We establish three empirical results. First, demand factors explain 81% of firm size heterogeneity, while supply factors only 19%. Second, nearly all the variation on the demand side (99%) is driven by sales to other firms rather than final demand. By contrast, 88% of the variation on the supply side reflects heterogeneity in own production capability and 12% comes from input suppliers. Third, the extensive margin of the production network dominates the intensive margin. Most of the variance in the network demand and network supply components of firm size is determined by the number of customers and suppliers, rather than their size or capability. Second most important is that firms transact more with partners that are simultaneously more capable and better bilateral matches.

• Mardi 7 novembre 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  O'ROURKE Kevin (Oxford) : * Empire, distance, and British exports 1700-1900

• Mardi 17 octobre 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  ANDERSON Chris (LSE) : *Short Run Gravity

  Y. Yotov

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 10 octobre 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  LARCH Mario (Bayreuth) : *Trade and Investment in the Global Economy

  James E. Anderson and Yoto V. Yotov

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 26 septembre 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405

  TREFLER DAN (Toronto) : *Trade and Innovation: The Role of Scale and Competition Effects

  Kevin Lim & Miaojie Yu

• Mardi 27 juin 2017 14:30-16:00

  Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-20

  HARMUT Egger (U. of Bayreuth) : *Offshoring and Job Polarisation between Firms

  Udo Kreickemeier (Dresden)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 13 juin 2017 14:30-16:00

  Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  ATKIN David (MIT) : *Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intranational Trade Costs

  Dave Donaldson (Stanford)

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• Mardi 6 juin 2017 14:30-16:00

  Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris, salle R1-14

  LASHKARI D. (Harvard) : *Innovation, Knowledge Diffusion, and Selection

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• Mardi 30 mai 2017 14:30-16:00

  Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  MORROW Peter (U. of Toronto) : * Endowments, Factor Prices, and Skill-Biased Technology: Importing Development Accounting into HOV

  Daniel Trefler (Toronto)

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• Mardi 16 mai 2017 14:30-16:00

  Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-01

  DONALDSON Dave (MIT & CEPR) : *“Sector-Level Economies of Scale: Estimation Using Trade Data”.

  D. Bartelme (Michigan), A. Costinot (MIT) and A. Rodriguez-Clare (Berkeley)

• Mardi 2 mai 2017 14:30-16:00

  MSE(106, Blv de l'Hôpital, salle du 6ème étage) 75013 Paris

  BOSKER Maarten (Erasmus University Rotterdam) : Iceberg transport costs in the Frozen Water Trade

  Eltjo Buringh

  Résumé

  Iceberg transport costs are one of the main ingredients of modern trade and economic geography models: transport costs are modelled by assuming that a fraction of the goods shipped "melts in transit''. In this paper, we investigate whether the iceberg assumption applies to the costs of transporting the only good that literally melts in transit: ice. Using detailed information on Boston's worldwide nineteenth-century Frozen Water Trade, we show that iceberg transport costs in practice were a combination of a true ad-valorem (iceberg) cost: melt in transit, and per unit freight and (off)loading costs. The physics of the melt process and the practice of insulating the ice in transit imply an immediate violation of the iceberg assumption: shipping ice is subject to economies scale.

• Mardi 18 avril 2017 14:30-16:00

  MSE - 106, Blv de l'Hôpital,75013 Paris - salle 115

  BOLER Esther Ann (Imperial AC) : *Technology-skill complementarity in a globalized world

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• Mardi 21 mars 2017 14:30-16:00

  Campus Jourdan, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21

  CROWLEY Meredith (U. of Cambridge) : Decomposing Exchange Rate Pass Through: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

  Lu Han and Huasheng Song

• Mardi 7 mars 2017 14:30-16:00

  MSE,106, Blv de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, salle du 6ème étage

  CHANEY Thomas (Sciences Po) : Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age

  Gojko Barjamovic, Kerem Cosar, Ali Hortacsu

• Mardi 21 février 2017 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, 106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, salle du 6ème étage

  JAVORCIK Beata (U. of Oxford) : When a Policy Backfires: The Unintended Consequences of Taxing Import Financing

  Banu Demir (Bilkent University)

• Mardi 24 janvier 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 56, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : GOGUEL

  ANTRAS P. (Harvard) : *Globalization, Inequality and Welfare

  Alonso de Gortari and Oleg Itskhoki.

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• Mardi 10 janvier 2017 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : H402

  COSTINOT A. (MIT) : *Micro to Macro: Optimal Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity

  A. Rodriguez-Clare and I. Werning

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 13 décembre 2016 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 28, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : H402

  MARTIN Philippe (ScPo) : *The International Elasticity Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think

  Lionel Fontagné (Paris School of Economics - Université Paris I and CEPII), Gianluca Orefice (CEPII)

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• Mardi 29 novembre 2016 14:45-16:15

  ScPo, 56, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : 404

  ROMALIS J. (Sydney) : Tariff Reductions, Entry, and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades

  Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University and NBER), Robert C. Feenstra (UC Davis and NBER) and Alan M. Taylor (UC Davis, NBER, and CEPR)

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• Mardi 15 novembre 2016 14:45-16:45

  ScPo, 56, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : GOGUEL

  ALBORNOZ F. (Nottingham) : *Importing after Exporting

  Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman (UC-Berkeley)

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• Mardi 18 octobre 2016 14:45-16:45

  ScPo, 56, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : GOGUEL

  VANDENBUSSCHE Hylke (KU Leuven) : *INPUT REALLOCATION WITHIN FIRMS

  C. Viegelahn

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• Mardi 4 octobre 2016 14:45-16:45

  ScPo, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume Salle : 33

  OTTAVIANO Gianmarco (Bocconi University & CEPR) : *The Buyer Margins of Firms' Exports

  Jeronimo Carballo, U Colorado Boulder, and Christian Volpe Martincus, Inter-American Development Bank

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• Mardi 20 septembre 2016 14:45-16:45

  ScPo, 56, rue des Saints-Pères Salle : GOGUEL

  MOXNES A. (OSLO) : *Better, Faster, Stronger: Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization

• Mardi 21 juin 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle 114 (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris)

  MONTE F. : *Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities

  S. Redding, E. Rossi-Hansberg

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• Mardi 7 juin 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  TINTELNOT F. : *The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

  Pol Antràs (Harvard University) - Teresa C. Fort (Tuck School at Dartmouth)

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• Mardi 24 mai 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, salle 114 (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  ALLEN T. (Dartmouth College) : Volatility and the Gains from Trade

  D. Atkin

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• Mardi 10 mai 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  MCLAREN J. : *Are Immigrants a Shot in the Arm to the Local Economy? http://www.nber.org/papers/w21123.

  Gihoon Hong (Pusan National University)

• Mardi 12 avril 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  M. Parenti (Ecares) : *Providing Services to Boost Goods Exports: Theory and Evidence

  A. Ariu et F. Mayneris

• Mardi 29 mars 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  COUTTENIER Mathieu (ENS Lyon) : *This mine is mine! How minerals fuel conflicts in Africa

  N. Berman, D. Rohner and M. Thoenig

• Mardi 15 mars 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  FUGAZZA M. : *The Bilateral Impact of Non-Tariff Measures: insights from firm level evidence

• Mardi 16 février 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  D. Marin (Munich) : Trade in Tasks and the Organization of Firms

  A. Aubry, M. Burzynski

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• Mardi 2 février 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Siences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  A. Resheff (PSE) : Capital Imports Composition, Complementarities, and the Skill Premium in Developing Countries

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• Mardi 12 janvier 2016 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Siences économiques, salle du 6ème étage (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  DOCQUIER Frédéric (LISER) : The Welfare Impact of Global Migration in OECD Countries

  A. Aubry & M. Burzynski

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• Mardi 8 décembre 2015 15:00-16:30

  Maison des Sciences économiques, salle 114, 1er étage.

  THOENIG M. (U of Lausanne ) : Imported Violence : Post-Conflict Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crimes and Public Policy in Switzerland

• Mardi 24 novembre 2015 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po(56, rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris-Salle Goguel

  KRAUTHEIM S. (U. Passau) : Offshoring with Endogenous NGO Activism

  T. Verdier (PSE)

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• Mardi 10 novembre 2015 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po( 56 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris, salle Goguel )

  DE LOECKER : Estimating Market Power. Evidence from the US Beer Industry

  P. Scott (Toulouse)

• Mardi 13 octobre 2015 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po(56 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris, salle Goguel )

  VOGEL J. : *

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• Mardi 29 septembre 2015 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po(28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405)

  FABER B. (University of Berkeley) : *

• Mardi 29 septembre 2015 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po(28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405)

  FABER Ben (PSE) : *

• Mardi 22 septembre 2015 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po(28 rue des Saints-Pères, 75007 Paris, salle H405 )

  GROSSMANN B. : Growth, Trade, and Inequality

  Co-author: E. Helpman

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• Mardi 20 janvier 2015 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 56 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room Gog

  BOEHM Johannes (SciencesPo) : The Impact of Contract Enforcement Costs on Outsourcing and Aggregate Productivity

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• Mardi 6 janvier 2015 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 28 rue des Saints Pères 75007 Paris - Amphi CAQ

  MUENDLER Marc-Andreas (UC San Diego) : The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage

  Co-authors: Gordon H. Hanson & Nelson Lind

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• Mardi 9 décembre 2014 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Père

  LIMAO Nuno (Maryland) : Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China and the U.S.

  Co-author: Kyle Handley

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 2 décembre 2014 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, CERI, 56 rue Jacob, 75007 Paris - Room Jean Mon

  COSAR Kerem ((Chicago)) : Taste Heterogeneity, Trade Costs, and Global Market Outcomes in the Automobile Industry

  Co-authors: Paul Grieco, Shengyu Li & Felix Tintelnot

• Mardi 25 novembre 2014 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 56 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room Gog

  RANJAN Priya (UC Irvine) : Globalization, Jobs, and Welfare: The Roles of Social Protection and Redistribution

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• Mardi 4 novembre 2014 12:00-13:30

  Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Pari

  PASCALI Luigi (University of Warwick, CAGE, Pompeu Fabra University and Barcelona GSE) : The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development

  Exceptionally at 12.00

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• Mardi 28 octobre 2014 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 56 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room Gog

  PARENTI Mathieu (UCL Core) : Toward a theory of monopolistic competition

  Co-authors : Philip Ushchev, Jacques-François Thisse

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• Mardi 14 octobre 2014 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 56 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room Gog

  FELBERMAYR Gabriel (CESifo) : Trade and the Spatial Distribution of Transport Infrastructure

  Co-author : Alexander Tarasovz (University of Munich)

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• Mardi 30 septembre 2014 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 56 rue Jacob, 75007 Paris - Room Jean Monnet

  DHINGRA Swati (LSE) : Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity

  Co-author : John Morrow ( CEP, London School of Economics )

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• Mardi 16 septembre 2014 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po, 56 rue des Saints Pères, 75007 Paris - Room Gog

  VOLPE MARTINCUS Christian (IADB) : Transit Trade

  Co-authors : Jerónimo Carballo (University of Maryland), Alejandro Graziano (Inter-American Development Bank), Georg Schaur (University of Tennessee)

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• Mardi 17 juin 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE – Salle 6ème (106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital – 75013 Par

  BESEDES Tibor (Georgia Institute of Technology) : The Effects of Airspace Closures on Trade in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull

  Co-author : Antu Panini Murshid

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• Mardi 3 juin 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE – Salle 6ème (106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital – 75013 Par

  BEHRENS Kristian (UQAM) : Distorted Monopolistic Competition

  Co-auteurs : G. Mion, Y. Murata & J. Südekum

• Mardi 20 mai 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE – Salle 6ème (106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital – 75013 Par

  ORNELAS Emanuel (LSE) : Institutions and Export Dynamics

  Co-author(s): Luis Araujo & Giordano Mion

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• Mardi 13 mai 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE – Salle 6ème (106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital – 75013 Par

  WARZYNSKI Frédéric (Aarhus) : Offshoring and the Shortening of the Quality Ladder: Evidence from Danish Apparel

  Co-author(s): Valérie Smeets(Aarhus University)& Sharon Traiberman (Princeton University)

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• Mardi 29 avril 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE – Salle 6ème (106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital – 75013 Par

  BERNARD Andrew (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, CEPR & NBER) : Two-sided Heterogeneity and Trade

  Co-author(s): Andreas Moxnesz (Dartmouth College & NBER) & Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moex (University of Oslo & CEPR)

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• Mardi 1er avril 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE – Salle 6ème (106-112 boulevard de l’hôpital – 75013 Par

  DHINGRA Swati (LSE) : Contracting and the Division of the Gains from Trade

  Co-auteur: A. Bernard

• Mardi 18 mars 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  EGGER Peter (ETH Zurich) : The Causal Impact of Common Native Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design

  Co-author(s) : Andrea Lassmann

  Résumé

  This paper studies the causal effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland is a multilingual country that hosts four official language groups of which three are major (French, German, and Italian). These groups of native language speakers are geographically separated, with the corresponding regions bordering countries which share a majority of speakers of the same native language. All of the three main languages are understood and spoken by most Swiss citizens, especially the ones residing close to internal language borders in Switzerland. This unique setting allows for an assessment of the impact of common native (rather than spoken) language as a cultural aspect of language on trade from within country-pairs. We do so by exploiting the discontinuity in various international bilateral trade outcomes based on Swiss transaction-level data at historical language borders within Switzerland. The effect on various margins of imports is positive and significant. The results suggest that, on average, common native language between regions biases the regional structure of the value of international imports towards them by 18 percentage points and that of the number of import transactions by 20 percentage points. In addition, regions import 102 additional products from a neighboring country sharing a common native language compared to a different native language exporter. This effect is considerably lower than the overall estimate (using aggregate bilateral trade and no regression discontinuity design) of common official language on Swiss international imports in the same sample. The latter subsumes both the effect of common spoken language as a communication factor and of confounding economic and institutional factors and is quantitatively well in line with the common official (spoken or native) language coefficient in many gravity model estimates of international trade.

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• Mardi 4 mars 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE (106-112 boulevard de l'hôpital, 75013 Paris)

  JAVORCIK Beata (University of Oxford and CEPR) : Grin and Bear It : Producer-Financed Exports from an Emerging Market

  Co-author(s):Banu Demir (Bilkent University)

  Résumé

  This study uses a unique dataset to provide the first comprehensive empirical test of the theory of financing terms in international trade. The dataset covers the universe of Turkey’s exports disaggregated by product, destination, and financing terms for the period 2004-2012. The results conform with the main prediction of the theory: the prevalence of exporter-financed exports (relative to importer or bank-financed exports) increases with the institutional quality in the importing country. The data also support a simple theoretical extension predicting that product differentiation reinforces the positive effect of the institutional quality on exporter-financed exports. A one-standard-deviation increase in the importer’s institutional quality is associated with a 14 percent increase in exporter-financed trade for non-differentiated products, and a 21 percent increase for differentiated goods. Finally, the results suggest that importer and bank-financed exports fell relative to exporter-financed exports during the Great Recession, with the gap widening with the severity of the crisis in the destination country.

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• Mardi 4 février 2014 14:30-16:00

  MSE (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, Salle du 6ème étage - 7

  DUTT Pushan (INSEAD) : The Gravity of Experience

  Co-authors : Ana Maria Santacreu (INSEAD)& Daniel Traca (NOVA Economics and Management)

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• Mardi 14 janvier 2014 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po – Salle H101 (28 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007 Pa

  MARTIMORT David (PSE) : Informational Asymmetries as a Motive for Trade, Trade Policies, and Inefficient Trade Agreements

  Co-auteurs: A. Bouët, D. Laborde

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• Mardi 10 décembre 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  PERI Giovanni (University of California, Davis) : Immigrants and Native Workers New Analysis Using Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data

  Co-author : Mette Foged (University of Copenhagen)

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• Mardi 3 décembre 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  ANDERSON James (Boston College) : Intra-national Trade Costs: Canadian Border Puzzles

  Co-author(s) : Delina E. Agnosteva & Yoto V. Yotov

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• Mardi 19 novembre 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  MURAKÖZY Balázs (CERS-HAS) : Shipment frequency of exporters and demand uncertainty

  Co-auteurs: G. Békés, L. Fontagné, V. Vicard

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 5 novembre 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  NOCKE Volker (Mannheim) : Cross-Border Price Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: A Framework for Competition Policy

  Co-auteurs : H. Breinlic and N. Schutz

• Mardi 22 octobre 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po. - Salle Caquot (28, rue des Saints-Pères – 7500

  KOREN Miklos (Central European University) : Lumpy Trade and the Welfare Effects of Administrative Barriers

  Co-auteur: C. Hornok

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• Mardi 15 octobre 2013 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po – Salle H202A (28 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007 P

  COSTINOT Arnaud (MIT) : Optimal Trade Taxes and Comparative Advantage

  Co-auteurs: D. Donaldson, J. Vogel, and I. Werning

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• Mardi 8 octobre 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  ALBOUY David (Michigan) : Urban Population and Amenities

  Co-auteur: B. Stuart

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• Mardi 24 septembre 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  SIMONOVSKA Ina (Davis) : Different TradeModels, Different Trade Elasticities

  Co-auteur: M.E.. Waugh

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• Mardi 9 juillet 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Caquot (28 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  CALIENDO Lorenzo (Yale) : The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies

  Co-auteurs: F. Monte et E. Rossi-Hansberg

• Mardi 25 juin 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  MORETTI Enrico (Berkeley) : Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies and the Big Push: 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority

  Co-auteur: P. Kline

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• Mardi 11 juin 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Caquot (28 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  GUADALUPE Maria (INSEAD) : The Perfect Match: Assortative Matching in International Acquisitions

  Co-auteurs: V. Rappoport, B. Salanie and C. Thomas

• Mardi 28 mai 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  HALLAK Juan-Carlos (U. San Andrés) : Survival in Export Markets

  Co-auteurs: F. Albornoz, P. S. Fanelli

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• Mardi 14 mai 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  MELITZ Marc (Harvard University) : Firm Heterogeneity and Aggregate Welfare

  Co-auteur: S. Redding (Princeton University)

  Résumé

  We examine how firm heterogeneity influences aggregate welfare through endogenous firm selection. We consider a homogeneous firm model that is a special case of a heterogeneous firm model with a degenerate productivity distribution. Keeping all structural parameters besides the productivity distribution the same, we show that the two models have different aggregate welfare implications, with larger welfare gains from reductions in trade costs in the heterogeneous firm model. Calibrating parameters to key U.S. aggregate and firm statistics, we find these differences in aggregate welfare to be quantitatively important (up to a few percentage points of GDP). Under the assumption of a Pareto productivity distribution, the two models can be calibrated to the same observed trade share, trade elasticity with respect to variable trade costs, and hence welfare gains from trade (as shown by Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare, 2012); but this requires assuming different elasticities of substitution between varieties and different fixed and variable trade costs across the two models.

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• Mardi 16 avril 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  SLY Nicholas (U. Oregon) : A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition

  co-auteur : Carl Davidson

• Mardi 2 avril 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  HEMOUS David (INSEAD) : Trade Dynamics with Sector-Specific Human Capital

  Co-auteurs: A. Guren, M. Olsen

  Résumé

  In explicating the dynamics and welfare implications of gradual labor market adjustment to trade, this paper develops a dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model with sector-specfic human capital and overlapping generations. Our model is tractable enough to yield sharp analytic results, that complement and clarify an emerging empirical literature on labor market adjustment to trade. Existing generations that have accumulated specfic human capital in one sector can switch sectors when the economy is hit by a trade shock. Yet, we show that the shock actually induces few workers to switch, instead there is a protracted adjustment that operates through the entry of new generations. This results into wages being tied to the sector of employment in the short-run but to the skill type in the long-run. The welfare and policy implications are surprising: relative to a world with general human capital, welfare is improved for the skill group whose type-intensive sector shrinks, and policies intended to aid trade adjustment for a§ected workers may be counterproductive.

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• Mardi 26 mars 2013 14:30-16:00

  Sciences Po – Salle Goguel (56 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  EGGER Hartmut (Bayreuth) : Offshoring Domestic Jobs

  Co-auteurs: U. Kreickemeier, J. Wrona

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• Mardi 5 février 2013 14:45-16:15

  Sciences Po – Salle Caquot (28 rue des Saints-Pères – 75007

  FACCHINI Giovanni (Nottingham) : The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration

  Co-auteur : C. Testa

  Résumé

  Despite restrictive migration policies, large numbers of undocumented migrants reside in many destination countries. If official migration targets are not enforced, why are they devised? To address this puzzle, we develop a political agency model with uncertainty about the supply of migrants, where an elected official can either have preferences congruent with the majority of his electorate, or desire a larger number of migrants. In the latter scenario we show that the incumbent might find it optimal to set a binding migration quota to be re-elected, and strategically relax its enforcement, or choose an ineffective instrument like border control.

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• Mardi 29 janvier 2013 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques - 6ème étage (106, boulevard

  RAPOPORT Hillel (Bar Ilan) : Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

  Co-auteurs : A. Alesina, J. Harnossz

  Résumé

  The diversity of people has economic costs and benefits. Using recent immigration data from 195 countries, we propose an index of diversity based on people’s birthplaces. This new index is decomposed in a “size” (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 and for the overall as well as for the high (workers with college education) and low-skill fractions of the workforce. We show that birthplace diversity is largely uncorrelated with ethnic and linguistic fractionalization and that—unlike fractionalization—it is positively related to economic development even after controlling for education, institutions, ethnic and linguistic fractionalization, trade openness, geography, market size and origin-effects. This positive association appears particularly strong for the diversity of skilled immigrants in richer countries. We make progress towards addressing endogeneity by specifying a gravity model to predict the diversity of immigration based on exogenous bilateral variables. The results are robust across various OLS and 2SLS specifications.

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• Mardi 27 novembre 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques - 6ème étage (106, boulevard

  STURM Daniel (LSE) : The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

  Co-auteurs: G. Ahlfeldt, S. Redding, N. Wolf

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 13 novembre 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques - 6ème étage (106, boulevard

  STRAUSS-KAHN Vanessa (ESCP Europe) : Export Dynamics: Raising Export survival through Experience.

  Co-auteur: C. Carrère

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 23 octobre 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques - 6ème étage (106, boulevard

  MEISSNER Christopher (U. California, Davis) : Market Potential and Economic Performance in the Early 20th Century

  Co-auteur : D. Liu

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 9 octobre 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques - 6ème étage (106, boulevard

  FELBERMAYR Gabriel (U. of Munich) : "New Trade Models, Same Old Optimal Policies?"

  Co-auteur(s): B. Jung, M. Larch

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 25 septembre 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques - 6ème étage (106, boulevard

  HARRIGAN James (U. of Virginia) : Export Prices of U.S. Firms

  Co-auteurs: X. Ma, V. Shlychkov

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 26 juin 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel)

  MION Giordano (LSE) : Managers’ Mobility, Trade Status and Wages

  Co-auteurs: L. Opromolla

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 juin 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel)

  ROBERT-NICOUD Frédéric (Genève) : Productive cities: Sorting, selection, and agglomeration

  Co-auteurs: K Behrens et G Duranton

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 12 juin 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel .

  MORALES Eduardo (Columbia University) : Gravity and Extended Gravity: Estimating a Structural Model of Export Entry

  Co-auteurs: G. Sheu, A. Zahler

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 5 juin 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel)

  ZILIBOTTI Fabrizio (Zurich) : Offshoring and Directed Technical Change

  Co-auteurs : D. Acemoglu, G. Gancia

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 4 juin 2012 12:00-13:15

  ROBERTS Michael (North Carolina) : Commodity Price Adjustment in a Competitive Storage Modelwith an Application to the Biofuel Mandate

  Co-auteur: Nam A. Tran Ce séminaire aura lieu exceptionnellement un lundi de 12h00 à 13h15.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 29 mai 2012 16:30-18:00

  Sciences-Po - 28, rue des Saints Pères – 4ème étage, salle H

  KHANDELWAL Amit (Columbia University) : Prices, Markups and Trade Reform

  J. De Loecker, P. Goldberg, N. Pavcnik http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/akhandelwal/papers/india_86.pdf) Attention, le séminaire aura exceptionnellement lieu de 16h30 à 18h00

• Mardi 22 mai 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel)

  OTTAVIANO Gianmarco (LSE) : Agglomeration, Trade and Selection

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 mai 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel)

  MENDOZA Enrique (University of Maryland) : Macro-prudential Policy in a Fisherian Model of Financial Innovation

  Co-author(s): Javier Bianchi & Emine Boz Seminar exceptionally joint with Macroéconomies Seminar

  Résumé

  The interaction between credit frictions, financial innovation, and a switch from optimistic to pessimistic beliefs played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis. This paper develops a quantitative general equilibrium framework in which this interaction drives the financial amplification mechanism to study the effects of macro-prudential policy. Financial innovation enhances the ability of agents to collateralize assets into debt, but the riskiness of this new regime can only be learned over time. Beliefs about transition probabilities across states with high and low ability to borrow change as agents learn from observed realizations of financial conditions. At the same time, the collateral constraint introduces a pecuniary externality, because agents fail to internalize the effect of their borrowing decisions on asset prices. Quantitative analysis shows that the effectiveness of macro-prudential policy in this environment depends on the government's information set, the tightness of credit constraints and the pace at which optimism surges in the early stages of financial innovation. The policy is least effective when the government is as uninformed as private agents, credit constraints are tight, and optimism builds quickly. Keywords: Financial crises, financial innovation, macro-prudential regulation, Bayesian learning JEL Codes: D62, D82, E32, E44, F32, F41

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Jeudi 3 mai 2012 16:30-18:00

  Université Paris Descartes – 45 rue des Saints-Pères – Bâtim

  TAYLOR Scott (Calgary) : Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies

  Juan Moreno Cruz Ce séminaire joint avec le Paris Environmental and Energy Economics Seminar aura lieu exceptionnellement un jeudi

• Mardi 10 avril 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 28, rue des Saints Pères – 4ème étage, salle H

  GRETHER Jean-Marie (Neuchâtel) : Measuring the Pollution Terms of Trade with Technique Effects

  Co-author(s) : N.A. Mathys

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 3 avril 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 28 rue des saints pères - 4ème étage, salle H

  OLARREAGA Marcelo (Université de Genève) : There goes gravity: How eBay reduces trade costs

  Co-author(s): A. Lendle, S. Schropp, P.-L. Vezina

• Mardi 27 mars 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel)

  GROSSMAN Gene (Princeton University) : A Linder Hypothesis for Foreign Direct Investment

  Co-autor(s): P. Fajgelbaum, E. Helpman

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 20 mars 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 28, rue des saints Pères – 4ème étage, Salle H

  TESAR Linda (University of Michigan) : The Impact of Foreign Liabilities on small firms: Firm-Level Evidence from the Korean Crisis

  Co-author(s): Y.J. Kim et J. Zhang

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Jeudi 15 mars 2012 16:30-18:00

  MSE Campus (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris), 6t

  LEVCHENKO Andrei (University of Michigan) : The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and Welfare Implications

  Co-author(s): Jing Zhang Seminaire joint avec le Macroeconomics seminar

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 6 mars 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel)

  OSSA Ralph (The University of Chicago) : Trade Wars and Trade Talks with Data

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 7 février 2012 14:30-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 28 rue des saints Pères – 4ème étage, Salle H4

  BEKES Gabor (HAS) : Temporary trade and heterogeneous …firms

  Co-author(s): Balázs Muraközy

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 31 janvier 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-6ème étage (106, boulevard d

  EPIFANI Paolo (Bocconi - Milano) : Productivity, Quality and Export Behavior

  Co-auteur: R. Crino

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 17 janvier 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-6ème étage (106, boulevard d

  TOUBAL Farid (PSE) : Native language, spoken language, translation and trade

• Mardi 10 janvier 2012 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-6ème étage (106, boulevard d

  CADOT Olivier (Lausanne) : An Evaluation of Tunisia’s Export Promotion Program

  Co-auteurs: A.M. Fernández, J. Gourdon, A. Mattoo

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 13 décembre 2011 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-Salle S/17 (106, boulevard d

  EATON Jonathan (Penn State) : A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics

  Co-auteurs: M. Eslava, D. Jinkins, C.J. Krizan, M. Kugler, J. Tybout

• Mardi 6 décembre 2011 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Économiques (MSE), S/ 17 (106 - 112 boul

  ROMALIS John (Chicago) : International Prices and Endogenous Quality

  Co-auteur: R. Feenstra

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 29 novembre 2011 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-6ème (106, boulevard de l'Hô

  GORG Holger (KIEL) : Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

  Co-auteurs:D. Baumgarten, I. Geishecker

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 22 novembre 2011 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Room S.2(106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris

  NOVY Dennis (Warwick University) : International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 novembre 2011 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-6ème (106, boulevard de l'Hô

  EGGER Peter (Zurich) : Trade Preferences and Bilateral Trade in Goods and Services: A Structural Approach

  Co-auteurs: M. Larch, K. Staub

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 8 novembre 2011 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques, 6ème étage(106, boulevard d

  THISSE Jacques (CORE) : Monopolistic competition in general equilibrium: Beyond the CES

  Co-auteurs: E. Zhelobodko, S. Kokovin, M. Parenti

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Jeudi 3 novembre 2011 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Économiques (MSE), - (106 - 112 boulevar

  BOERI Tito (Bocconi) : Moving to Segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian cities

  Co-auteurs : Marta De Philippis, Eleonora Patacchini, Michele Pellizzari Attention ce séminaire aura lieu exceptionnellement un jeudi

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 25 octobre 2011 14:30-16:00

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-6ème étage(106, boulevard de

  MARKUSEN James (Boulder) : Putting per-capita income back into trade theory

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 24 octobre 2011 12:00-13:00

  Maison des Sciences Économiques (MSE), - (106 - 112 boulevar

  NILES RUSS Katheryn (UC Davis) : Understanding Markups in the Open Economy under Bertrand Competition

  Attention ce séminaire aura lieu exceptionnellement un lundi de 12:00 à 13:00

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 11 octobre 2011 14:30-16:00

  La séance a été annulée.

  Maison des Sciences Economiques-Université Paris I(106, boul

  SCHOTT Peter (Yale) : *

• Mardi 4 octobre 2011 14:30-16:00

  MSE-PARIS 1(106, boulevard de l'Hôpital - 75013 Paris

  ANDERSON James (Boston College) : Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002

  co-auteur: Yoto Yotov

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 21 juin 2011 14:00-15:30

  MSE - Salle 114 - 106 boulevard de l'Hôpital 75013 Paris

  DAVIES Ronald (University College Dublin) : Royale with Cheese: The Effect of Globalization on the Variety of Goods

  Co-auteur(s) : Matthew T. Cole

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 14 juin 2011 14:00-15:30

  MAYDA Anne-Maria (Georgetown University) : Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions

  Co-auteur(s) : Rodney D. Ludema & Prachi Mishra

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 7 juin 2011 14:00-15:30

  La séance a été annulée.

  NOVY Dennis (University of Warwick) : *

• Mardi 31 mai 2011 14:00-15:30

  La séance a été annulée.

  CHANEY Thomas (University of Chicago) : The Gravity Equations in International Trade: an Explanation

• Mardi 24 mai 2011 14:00-15:30

  LAI Edwin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) : A Model of Trade with Ricardian Comparative Advantage and Intra-sectoral Firm Heterogeneity

  Co-auteur(s) : Haichao FAN & and Han (Steffan) QI

  Résumé

  In this paper, we merge the heterogenous firm model of Melitz (2003) with the Ricardian model of Dornbusch, Fisher and Samuelson (DFS 1977) to explain how the pattern of international specialization and trade is determined by the interaction of comparative advantage, economies of scale, country sizes and trade barriers. The model is able to capture the existence of inter-industry trade and intra-industry trade in a single unified framework. It explains how trade openness affects the pattern of international specialization and trade. It generalizes Melitz’s firm selection effect in the face of trade liberalization to a setting where the patterns of inter-industry trade and intra-industry are endogenous. Although trade openness is proved to be unambiguously welfare-improving in both countries, trade liberalization can lead to an anti- Melitz effect in the larger country if it is sufficiently uncompetitive in the sectors in which it has the strongest comparative disadvantage but in which it still produces. In this case, the operating productivity cutoff is lowered while the exporting cutoff increases in the face of trade liberalization. This is because the DFS effect dominates the Melitz effect in these sectors. Consequently, the larger country can lose from trade liberalization.

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• Lundi 23 mai 2011 13:00-14:15

  BAIER Scott (Clemson University) : Gravity, Economic Geography and Income Innovations

• Mardi 17 mai 2011 14:00-15:30

  COSTINOT Arnaud (MIT) : Vertical Specialization and the Interdependence of Nations

• Mardi 5 avril 2011 14:00-15:30

  MSE - 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hôpital, Métro Campo Formio, Gr

  MELITZ Marc (Harvard University) : Trade Liberalization and Firm Dynamics

  Co-auteur(s) : Ariel Burstein Avec l'assistance de DIMECO Ile de France

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 29 mars 2011 14:00-15:30

  LEDERMAN Daniel (World bank) : Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills

  Co-auteur(s) : Irene Brambilla & Guido Porto

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 22 mars 2011 14:00-15:30

  La séance a été annulée.

  BENASSY-QUERE Agnès (CEPII) : *

• Mardi 8 mars 2011 14:00-15:30

  TOUBAL Farid (Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) : Productivity, Relationship-Specific Inputs and the Sourcing Modes of Multinational Firms

  Co-auteur(s) : Fabrice Defever

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 1er mars 2011 14:00-15:30

  DISDIER Anne-Célia (INRA) : North-South Standards Harmonization and International Trade

  co-auteur(s) : Lionel Fontagné & Olivier Cadot

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 22 février 2011 14:00-15:30

  MANOVA Kalina (Stanford University) : Firm Exports and Multinational Activity under Credit Constraints

  Co-auteur(s) : Shang-Jin Wei & Zhiwei Zhang

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 8 février 2011 14:00-15:30

  ECKEL Carsten (University of Bamberg) : International Trade and Retailing

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 1er février 2011 14:00-15:30

  DI GIOVANNI Julian (IMF) : Country Size, International Trade and Aggregate Fluctuations in Granular Economy

  Co-auteur(s) : Andrei A. Levchenko

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 14 décembre 2010 14:00-15:30

  La séance a été annulée.

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel

  DAVIES Ronald (University College Dublin) : Royale with Cheese: The Effect of Globalization on the Variety of Goods

  Co-auteur(s) : Matthew T. Cole

• Mardi 30 novembre 2010 15:00-16:00

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel

  RESHEF Ariell (University of Virginia) : Skill biased heterogeneous firms: trade liberalization and the skill premium redux

• Mardi 23 novembre 2010 14:00-15:30

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel .

  RAPOPORT Hillel (Harvard University) : Tradable Immigration Quotas

  Co-auteur(s) : Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 16 novembre 2010 14:00-15:30

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel

  GOLDBERG Linda (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) : Micro, Macro and Strategic Forces in Invoicing International Trade

  co-auteur(s) : Cédric Tille

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 2 novembre 2010 14:00-15:30

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel

  NEARY Peter (University of Oxford) : Firm selection into export-platform foreign direct investment

  Co-auteur(s) : Monika Mrazova

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 octobre 2010 14:00-15:30

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel

  SCHOTT Peter K. (Yale School of Management) : Misallocation of Quota Licenses: Evidence from Chinese Textile and Clothing Exporters

  Co-auteur(s) : Amit Khandelwal & Shang-Jin Wei

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 12 octobre 2010 14:00-15:30

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel

  IMPULLITTI Ginamario (University of Cambridge) : Trade, ?rm selection, and innovation: the competition channel

  Co-auteur(s) : Omar Licandro

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 28 septembre 2010 14:00-15:30

  Sciences-Po - 56 rue des saints Pères – 7ème (Salle Goguel .

  ALLESSANDRIA George (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) : Establishment Heterogeneity, Exporter Dynamics, and the Effects of Trade Liberalization

  Co-auteur(s) : Horag Choi

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Lundi 20 septembre 2010 12:00-13:00

  La séance a été annulée.

  MSE-Paris 1 - Room B2.1

  OLARREAGA Marcelo (Univ. Geneva) : Weak Governments and Trade Agreements

  co-écrit avec Jean-Louis Arcand, Laura Zoratto

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 juin 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  ROSSI-HANSBERG Esteban (Princeton) : Cette séance est annulée

• Lundi 7 juin 2010 12:00-13:00

  MSE salle 114

  FIELER Cecilia (University of Pennsylvania) : seance exceptionnelle, jointe avec le Graduate Student in International Economics Seminar (GSIE)

• Mardi 1er juin 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  SCHOTT Peter (Yale) : SEANCE ANNULEE

• Mardi 25 mai 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  BLONIGEN Bruce (University of Oregon ) : Measuring the Benefits for Foreign Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 18 mai 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  MAYDA Anna-Maria (Georgetown) : SEANCE ANNULEE

• Mardi 11 mai 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-Paris I

  MARKUSEN James (University of Colorado, Boulder) : Putting Per-Capita Income back into Trade Theory

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 4 mai 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  MARIN Dalia (Munich) : DO MULTINATIONALS TRANSPLANT THEIR BUSINESS MODEL?

  Résumé

  ecent literature on international trade has established that the most productive firms become multinationals. But our data reveal a startling variation in productivity levels of subsidiaries across countries of the same parent firms suggesting that not all multinationals transplant their home productivity advantage to other countries. One candidate for this startling difference in productivity levels among subsidiaries is the ability of multinationals to transport their business model abroad. This paper examines the conditions under which multinationals transplant their business culture to other countries. We collect original and unique matched parent and affiliate data on the internal organisation of 660 German and Austrian parent firms and 2200 of their subsidiaries in Eastern Europe. Based on these data we ask two questions: First, what favours decentralization in Foreign Affiliates of Multinationals? Second, what determines whether or not multinationals transplant theirs business model to foreign affiliates? We find that the ability of multinationals to transplant their business model to foreign affiliates is determined by the organisation of the multinational organization on the one hand and the market environment affiliate firms face in host countries on the other hand.

• Mardi 13 avril 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  STRANGE William (University of Toronto) : Entrepreneurs and Cities: Complexity, Thickness and Balance

  Co-auteur(s) : Bob Helsley

• Mardi 23 mars 2010 14:00

  DAVIS Donald ( Columbia University)

  SEANCE ANNULEE

• Mardi 16 mars 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  WEINSTEIN David (Columbia) : Exports and Financial Shocks

  Résumé

  A striking feature of many financial crises is the collapse of exports relative to output. In the 2008 financial crisis, real world exports plunged 17 percent while GDP fell 5 percent. This paper examines whether the drying up of trade finance can help explain the large drops in exports relative to output. This paper is the first to establish a causal link between the health of banks providing trade finance and growth in a firm’s exports relative to its domestic sales. We overcome measurement and endogeneity issues by using a unique data set, covering the Japanese financial crises of the 1990s, which enables us to match exporters with the main bank that provides them with trade finance. Our point estimates are economically and statistically significant, suggesting that trade finance accounts for about one-third of the decline in Japanese exports in the financial crises of the 1990s.

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 23 février 2010 14:00-15:30

  MSE-PARIS 1, salle du 6e étage

  VOGEL Jonathan (Columbia University) : Matching and Inequality in the World Economy

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 26 janvier 2010 14:00-15:30

  FURUSAWA Taiji (Hitotsubashi University) : Firm Heterogeneity under Financial Imperfection: Impacts of Trade and Capital Movement

  with NoriyukiYanagawa

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 15 décembre 2009 14:00-15:30

  COSTINOT Arnaud (MIT) : Intermediated Trade

  Co écrit avec Pol Antras

• Mardi 10 novembre 2009 14:00-15:30

  KELLER Wolfgang (University of Colorado, CEPR, and NBER) : Gravity in the Weightless Economy

  joint with Stephen R. Yeaple

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 3 novembre 2009 14:00-15:30

  GROSSMAN Gene (Princeton) : "Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade"

  (joint with Pablo Fajgelbaum and Elhanan Helpman)

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 20 octobre 2009 14:00-15:30

  CONCONI Paola (Ecares/ULB) : "Policymakers' Horizon and Economic Reforms"

  joint with Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 20 octobre 2009 14:00-15:30

  CONCONI Paola (Ecares/ULB) : "Policymakers' Horizon and Economic Reforms"

  joint with Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 16 juin 2009 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, 6e étage

  TYBOUT J. (Penn State University) : *

• Mardi 16 juin 2009 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, 6e étage

  TYBOUT J. (Penn State University) : *

• Mardi 16 juin 2009 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, 6e étage

  TYBOUT J. (Penn State University) : *

• Vendredi 29 mai 2009 14:30-16:00

  HARRIGAN J. (University of Virginia) : Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence

  ATTENTION : séminaire exceptionnellement un vendredi

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 19 mai 2009 14:30-16:00

  La séance a été annulée.

  MARIN Dalia (Univ. de Munich) : The Battle for Talent: Globalization and the Rise of Pay

• Mardi 5 mai 2009 14:30-16:00

  ROMALIS John (University of Chicago) : The Welfare implications of Rising Price Dispersion

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 28 avril 2009 14:30-16:00

  OVERMAN Henry (London School of Economics) : The causal effects of an industrial policy

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 7 avril 2009 14:30-16:00

  MSE-PARIS I - Salle de Thèses

  CROZET Matthieu (CEPII et Université de Reims) : Quality sorting and trade: Firm-level evidence for French wine

  Co-auteurs : Keith Head, Thierry Mayer

• Mardi 31 mars 2009 14:30-16:00

  DURANTON Gilles (University of Toronto) : The Fundamental Law of Highway Congestion: Evidence from the US

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 17 mars 2009 14:30-16:00

  MSE-PARIS I - Salle de Thèses

  RAFF Horst (University of Kiel) : Tax Rate and Tax Base Competition for Foreign Direct Investment

  with Peter Egger

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 3 mars 2009 14:30-16:00

  MSE Paris 1, 6e étage

  EKHOLM Karolina (Stockholm University) : Offshoring and the Onshore composition of tasks and skills

  Co-auteurs: S.O Becjer, Stirling University & M.A. Muendler, USCD,Princeton University

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 17 février 2009 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, 6e étage

  VANDENBUSSCHE Hylke (Université catholique de Louvain) : Firm-level Trade Protection and the Productivity of Exporters

• Mardi 3 février 2009

  Pas de seance pour cause de 'Job Seminars'

• Mardi 20 janvier 2009

  Pas de seance pour cause de 'Job Seminars'

• Mardi 16 décembre 2008 14:30-16:00

  BRULHART Marius (Université de Lausanne) : Decomposing Agglomeration Effects: How Wages and Employment Adjust to Improved Market Access

• Mardi 9 décembre 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, 6e étage

  VERHOOGEN Eric (Columbia University) : The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

  Co-auteur: Maurice Kugler

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 2 décembre 2008 14:30-16:00

  OLARREAGA Marcelo (Université Genève) : Export Promotion Agencies : What Works and What Doesn't

  Texte intégral [pdf]

• Mardi 25 novembre 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE Paris 1, 6e étage

  EATON Jonathan (New York University) : An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms... returns with new results

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• Mardi 18 novembre 2008 14:30-16:00

  La séance a été annulée.

  MARIN D. (Université Munich) : *

• Lundi 10 novembre 2008 12:00-13:00

  MSE Paris 1, 6e étage

  ANDERSON J. (Boston College) : Globalization and Income Distribution: A Specific Factors Continuum Approach

• Mardi 28 octobre 2008 14:30-16:00

  La séance a été annulée.

  MSE-Paris 1, 6e étage

  BUSTOS Paula (Univesité Pompeu Fabra) : Multilateral Trade liberalization, exports and technology upgrading : evidence on the impact of Mercosur on Argentinean Firms

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• Mardi 14 octobre 2008 14:30-16:00

  VAN YPERSELE T. (GREQAM) : The nuisance power of lobbies

  Co-auteur : D. Laussel

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• Vendredi 3 octobre 2008 10:00-18:00

  Campus Paris-Jourdan

  Workshop Trade and Development

  Dans le cadre du Séminaire de commerce international Paris Jourdan/Paris 1 est organisé le Workshop Trade and Development qui a lieu ce vendredi 3 octobre de 10h à 18h sur le Campus Paris-Jourdan (48 bd Jourdan - 75014 Paris). Si vous êtes intéressé, veuillez envoyer un courriel de confirmation à Mme Béatrice Havet (beatrice.havet@ens.fr).

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• Mercredi 1er octobre 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, 6e étage

  MASKUS K. (University of Colorado) : Foreign PhD students and knowledge creation at U.S. universities: evidence from enrollment fluctuations

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• Mardi 3 juin 2008 14:30-16:00

  ITO K. (Senshu univ.) : The Impact of Outsourcing on the Japanese and South Korean Labor Markets: International Outsourcing of Intermediate Inputs and Assembly in East Asia

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• Mardi 20 mai 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle 117

  BERNARD A. (Tuck School of Business) : Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization

  Co-auteurs : S.Redding (LSE), P. Schott (Yale univ.)

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• Mercredi 16 avril 2008 10:00-12:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle 114

  Séance spéciale : séminaire d'intégration au CES

  JOSE DE SOUSA : How are wages set in Beijing? & PAMELA BOMBARDA : The Spatial Pattern of FDI: Some Testable Hypotheses

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• Mardi 8 avril 2008 14:30-16:00

  ULLVEIT-MOE K.H. (Univ. of Oslo) : Manufacturing Restructuring and the Role of Real Exchange Rate Shocks: A Firm-Level Analysis

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• Mardi 1er avril 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle 114

  NEARY P. (Univ. d'Oxford) : Multi-Product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the Global Economy

  Co-auteur : C. Eckel

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• Mardi 11 mars 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  COMBES P.P. (GREQAM) : The productivity advantages of large markets: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection

  Co-auteurs : Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto), Laurent Gobillon (INSED), Diego Puga (IMDEA and Universitad Carlos III) et Sébastien Roux (CREST-INSEE)

• Vendredi 22 février 2008 10:00-11:30

  TYBOUT J. (Penn State Univ.) : Transactions-level export dynamics

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• Mardi 5 février 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  EKHOLM K. (Stockholm univ.) : Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Occupations, Tasks and Skills

  Co-auteur(s) : S.Becker (LMU Munich) et M.A. Muendler (UC San Diego)

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• Mardi 22 janvier 2008 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  PUGA D. (Univ. Carlos III) : Ruggedness: The blessing of bad geography in Africa

  Co-auteur : N. Nunn

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• Mardi 15 janvier 2008 14:30-16:00

  La séance a été annulée.

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  RAFF H. (Univ. zu Kiel) : Tax Rate and tax base competition for Foreign Direct investment

  Co-auteur : Peter Egger

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• Mardi 18 décembre 2007 13:30-15:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  MELITZ M. (Princeton univ.) : The Dynamics of Firm-Level Adjustment to Trade Liberalization

  Co-auteur : J.A. Costantini

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• Mardi 11 décembre 2007 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  CADOT O. (Univ. de Lausanne) : Anti-dumping sunset review : the uneven reach of WTO disciplines

  Co-auteurs : J.de Melo (Université de Genève), B. Tumurchudur (HEC)

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• Mardi 27 novembre 2007 14:30-16:00

  ORNELAS E. (LSE) : Trust-based trade

  Co-auteur : L. Araujo (Michigan State univ.)

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• Mardi 13 novembre 2007 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  HARRISON A. (Univ. of California) : Offshoring jobs ? Multinationals and US employment

  Co-auteur : M. McMillan (Tufts University)

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• Mercredi 17 octobre 2007 14:30-16:00

  ANDERSON J. (Boston college) : Gravity, Productivity and the Pattern of Production and Trade

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• Mardi 9 octobre 2007 14:30-16:00

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  TRACA D. (Univ. libre de Bruxelles) : Corruption and Bilateral Trade Flows: extortion or evasion ?

  Co-auteur : P. Dutt

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• Mardi 26 juin 2007 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  CHANEY T. (Univ. of Chicago) : *

• Mardi 29 mai 2007 15:00-16:30

  HEAD K. (Univ. of British Columbia) : The erosion of colonial trade linkages after independence

  Co-auteur (s) : T. Mayer et J. Ries

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  High trade between countries with colonial ties may be explained by government policies that establish preferential access or as a consequence of networks formed through social interactions. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2003, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. The severing of formal colonial relations can lead to an immediate reduction in trade as preferential access is eliminated as well as a gradual reduction corresponding to the deterioration of trading networks. Our results reveal that independence reduces colonial trade with its colonizer (metropole), the reduction cumulates over a 30-year period, and the disruption is particularly severe for hostile separations. We also find that overall colonial trade falls subsequent to independence, but to a lesser extent than trade with the metropole.

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• Mardi 15 mai 2007 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  VERDIER T. (PSE) : Competing in Organizations : Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

• Mardi 24 avril 2007 15:00-16:30

  NEARY J. P. (Univ. of Oxford) : Multi-Product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the Global Economy

  Co-auteur (s) : C. Eckel

  Résumé

  We present a new model of multi-product firms (MPFs) and flexible manufacturing and explore its implications in partial and general equilibrium. International trade integration affects the scale and scope of MPFs through a competition effect and a demand effect. We demonstrate how MPFs adjust in the presence of single-product firms and in heterogeneous industries. Our results are in line with recent empirical evidence and suggest that MPFs in conjunction with flexible manufacturing play an important role in the impact of international trade on product diversity. Keywords: Multi-Product Firms, Flexible Manufacturing, General Oligoplistic Equilibrium (GOLE), International Trade, Product Diversity JEL Classification: F12, L13

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• Mercredi 4 avril 2007 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  MARKUSEN J. R. (Univ. of Colorado) : Foreign firms, domestic wages

  Co-auteur (s) : N. Malchow-Moller et B. Schjerning

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  Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both theoretical micro-foundations and empirical evidence for this are limited. We develop a heterogeneous-firm model in which ex-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm’s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign firms have higher wage growth and, with some exceptions, pay higher average wages, but not when compared to similarly large domestic firms. The empirical implications of the model are tested on matched employer-employee data from Denmark. Consistent with the theory, we find considerable evidence of higher wages and wage growth in large and/or foreign-owned firms. These effects survive controlling for individual characteristics, but, as expected, are reduced significantly when controlling for unobservable firm heterogeneity. Furthermore, acquired skills in foreign-owned and large firms appear to be transferable to both subsequent wage work and self-employment.

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• Mardi 20 mars 2007 15:00-16:30

  O'ROURKE K. (Trinity college) : Trade, knowledge and the industrial revolution

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• Mercredi 14 mars 2007 15:00-16:30

  OLARREAGA M. (World bank) : Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices

  Co-auteurs : H.Kee, A.Nicita

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• Mardi 6 mars 2007 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  GROSSMAN G. M. (Princeton univ.) : Trading task : a simple theory of offshoring

  Co-auteur (s) : E. Rossi-Hansberg

• Mardi 6 février 2007 15:00-16:30

  DE MELO J. (Univ. de Genève) : Is trade bad for the environment ? Decomposing world-wide SO2 emissions 1990-2000

  Co-auteurs : Jean-Marie Grether (Université de Neuchatel) et Nicole Mathys (Université de Lausanne)

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• Mardi 30 janvier 2007 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  BERNHOFEN D. M. (Univ. of Nottingham) : Predicting the factor content of trade: Theory and evidence

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  This paper examines the multi-cone specification of the factor proportion theory of international trade. I show that Helpman’s (1984, Economic Journal) bilateral restrictions on the factor of content of trade, which have found recent empirical support by Choi and Krishna (2004, Journal of Political Ecnomy), need to be amended to account for multilateralism. I identify additional restrictions and show that these restrictions form the building block for a multi-lateral specification which extends Alan Deardorff’s (1979, Journal of International Economics) two-country, two-factor, multiple goods chain of comparative advantage prediction to multiple countries and factors. Applying Choi and Krishna’s data set to the multi-lateral specification, I find little empirical support for the prediction of the model.

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• Mardi 23 janvier 2007 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  ROBERT-NICOUD F. (LSE) : Offshoring: general equilibrium effects on wages, production and trade

  Co-auteur (s) : R. Baldwin

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• Mardi 9 janvier 2007 15:00-16:30

  BERTRAND O. (GREMAQ) : Cross-Border Acquisition or Greenfield Investment: Does the Entry Mode of FDI Matter for Affiliate R&D?

  Co-auteur(s) : K. Hakkala & P. J. Norbäck

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• Mardi 19 décembre 2006 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  IMBS J. (HEC) : Risk sharing, finance and institutions in international portfolios

  Co-auteur (s) : M. Fratzscher

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  The paper shows that consumption risk sharing is prevalent even among economies with poor institutions, in particular those with serious expropriation risk, limited enforce- ability of contracts, high corruption and poor property rights. If institutions are poor, however, the country must be open to international markets for risk sharing to be possi- ble. We argue this re‡ects the fact that expropriation and other taxes imposed on foreign capital are particularly costly in open economies, where dynamic retaliation is possible. Thus, even if institutions are such that contract repudiation or con…scation are possible de jure, borrowing economies that are open will rarely practice them de facto. Foreign investors anticipate this, and act to diversify risk. By contrast, the remaining capital ‡ows headed for closed economies with poor institutions are designed and constrained so as to limit the cost incurred in case of expropriation. Diversi…cation motives may still be present, but they take second stage. We con…rm this conjecture showing that all classes of assets, but especially FDI display a strong non-linear relation with the institutional environment. Institutions are crucial in attracting capital for closed economies, but are barely relevant in open ones. Keywords: Risk sharing, Diversi…cation, Portfolio Choice, Financial Integration, Cross-Border Investment, Foreign Direct Investment, Bank Loans, Portfolio Investment. JEL Classification: F21, F30, G15

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• Mardi 5 décembre 2006 15:00-16:30

  HIJZEN A. (OCDE) : The Effects at Home of Initiating Production Abroad: Evidence from Matched French Firms

  Co-auteur : S. Jean, T. Mayer

  Résumé

  In the present paper we attempt to estimate the effects of initiating production abroad through the establishment of a foreign production affiliate. We consider the impact of becoming a multinational on the level of employment, the degree of skill-intensity and productivity performance using data for French firms during the period 1987-1999. In order to solve the problem of the missing counterfactual we adopt matching techniques in combination with a difference-in-difference (DID) estimator. The paper contains two main novelties. First, we separately analyse the effects of becoming a multinational for manufacturing and services firms. Second, we analyse the causal effect of becoming multinational whilst differentiating between horizontal, vertical or complex investment strategies on the basis of the location of investment and the industry affiliation of the investing firm. Our main findings suggest that differentiating between different investment strategies is crucial if one wants to grasp the effects of outward investment in the home country. Manufacturing firms that make market-seeking investments typically see their employment rise by 25% after three years relative to their counterfactual outcome. For manufacturing firms that make factor-seeking investments, on the other hand, the picture is more complex. The visual representation of the results suggests that firms that invest in low income locations experience an immediate drop in employment at the time of investment followed by a larger positive effect after two years. However, these findings are not statistically significant. The results for services are more tentative, but overall similar to those for manufacturing. Keywords: FDI, multinationals, propensity score matching, services, delocalisation JEL Code: F14, F21, F23

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• Mardi 21 novembre 2006 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  TRIONFETTI F. (Univ. d'Aix-Marseille) : A Test of Trade Theories When Expenditure is Home Biased

  Co-auteur (s) : M. Brülhart

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• Mardi 7 novembre 2006 15:00-16:30

  OTTAVIANO G.I.P. (Facoltà di economia) : Immigration and wages

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• Mardi 24 octobre 2006 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle des thèses

  JAVORCIK B. S. (World bank) : Does Services Liberalization Benefit Manufacturing Firms? Evidence from the Czech Republic

  Co-auteur (s) : J. Arnold et A. Mattoo

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• Mardi 17 octobre 2006 15:00-16:30

  DECALUWE B. (Univ. de Laval) : Trade Liberalization and Poverty: Lessons from Asia and Africa

  Co-auteur (s) : J. Cockburn & V. Robichaud

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• Mercredi 27 septembre 2006 15:00-16:30

  MSE-Paris 1, salle 117

  MATALONI R. (Bureau of economic analysis) : Do US Multinationals engage in sequential choice ? Evidence from new manufacturing operations in Europe

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