Program
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Wednesday 25th January
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14:00 onwards |
Arrival in Villars-sur-Ollon |
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Young Economist Session I 15:00 – 17:15 |
Session chair: Julia Cajal-Grossi (IHEID) Political Distortion in Spatial Development: Evidence from South Korea. Sang Park (IHEID) Co-Exportation of Products by Multi-Product Firms Corinne Jones (EPFL) Skill-based quality upgrading and trade: Country differences in innovation capacity matter Stefani Stefanova (ETHZ) Niccolo Cannarsa (University of Neuchâtel) |
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17:15 – 17:30 |
Coffee break |
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Young Economist Session II 17:30 – 19:15 |
Session chair: Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (UNIGE) The joint location choice of biotech startups and venture capital firms Vincent Lohmann (ETHZ) The effects of corporate subsidies along the value chain Elisa Navarra (ULB and UNCTAD) Market versus Optimum Diversity in Open Economies: Theory and Quantitative Evidence from China Ruobing Huang (ETHZ) |
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20:00 |
Dinner |
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Thursday 26th January
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7:00 – 8:00 |
Breakfast |
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8:15 – 10:30 |
Session chair: Rickard Forslid (University of Stockholm) The Pro-competitive Effects of Trade Agreements Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge) Frictions and adjustments in firm-to-firm trade Isabelle Méjean (Sciences-Po Paris) Multinational Ownership and Trade Participation Paola Conconi (University of Oxford) |
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10:30– 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 – 12:30 |
Session chair: Victor Stolzenburg (WTO) Globalization, Trade Imbalances and Labor Market Adjustment Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University) Winners and losers of the 2015 Swiss exchange rate shock: Unveiling heterogeneous worker responses Peter Egger (ETHZ) |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch time - free |
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13:30 – 16:00 |
Collaboration time |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 – 18:00 |
Session chair: Ankai Xu (WTO) Poor Substitutes? Counterfactual methods in IO and Trade compared (slides) Thierry Mayer (Sciences-Po Paris) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bocconi) |
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18:00 – 19:30 |
Session chair / Moderator : Richard Baldwin (IHEID) Panel discussion: Challenges for the next Ministerial Conference (MC13) Caroline Freund (UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy), Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge), Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford and EBRD) and Ralph Ossa (WTO and UZH |
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20:00 |
Dinner |
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Friday 27th January
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7:00 – 8:00 |
Breakfast |
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8:15 – 10:30 |
Session chair: Michael Blanga-Gubbey (UZH) Technical Standards and Sourcing Decisions Camille Reverdy (IHEID) Reshaping of Global Supply Chains Caroline Freund (UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy) Trade effects of carbon pricing policies Stela Rubinova (WTO) |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 – 12:30 |
Session chair: Simon Lepot (UZH) How Uncertainty shapes the Spatial Economy
David Suverato (ETHZ) Olivier Krebs (ETHZ) |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch time - free |
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13:30 – 16:00 |
Collaboration time |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 – 19:30 |
Session chair: Marco Fugazza (UNCTAD) Did the 2018 Trade War Improve Job Opportunities for US Workers? Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford and EBRD) Growth, Trade and Patenting: A Quantitative Evaluation of TRIPS David Hemous (UZH) Protection for Sale without Aggregation Bias Jean-Marc Solleder (UNIGE) The impact of geopolitical conflicts on trade, growth and innovation Eddy Bekkers (WTO) |
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20:00 |
Dinner |
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