Program

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 Wednesday 25th January 

14:00 onwards

Arrival in Villars-sur-Ollon

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)

Imports, Human Capital and Productivity

Niccolo Cannarsa (University of Neuchâtel)

17:15 – 17:30

Coffee break

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)

20:00  

Dinner

 

Thursday 26th January

 

7:00 – 8:00

Breakfast 

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)

10:30– 11:00

Coffee break

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)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch time - free 

13:30 – 16:00

Collaboration time 

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break 

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)

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

20:00

Dinner 

 

Friday 27th January

7:00 – 8:00

Breakfast 

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)

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break 

10:30 – 12:30

Session chair: Simon Lepot (UZH)

How Uncertainty shapes the Spatial Economy

David Suverato (ETHZ) 

Single and Attractive: Uniqueness and Stability of Economic Equilibria under Monotonicity Assumptions 

Olivier Krebs (ETHZ)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch time - free 

13:30 – 16:00

Collaboration time 

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break 

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)

20:00

Dinner