| # | Date/Time | Location | Title | Papers |
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| 1 | November 10, 2017
14:15-15:45 | Room 303 |
1-A | 3 |
| 2 | November 10, 2017
14:15-15:45 | Room 241 |
1-B | 3 |
| 3 | November 10, 2017
16:15-17:45 | Room 303 |
2-A | 3 |
| 4 | November 10, 2017
16:15-17:45 | Room 241 |
2-B | 3 |
| 5 | November 11, 2017
9:00-10:30 | Room 303 |
3-A | 3 |
| 6 | November 11, 2017
9:00-10:30 | Room 241 |
3-B | 3 |
| 7 | November 11, 2017
9:00-10:30 | Room 244 |
3-C | 3 |
| 8 | November 11, 2017
11:00-12:30 | Room 303 |
4-A | 3 |
| 9 | November 11, 2017
11:00-12:30 | Room 241 |
4-B | 3 |
| 10 | November 11, 2017
11:00-12:30 | Room 244 |
4-C | 3 |
| 11 | November 11, 2017
14:15-15:45 | Room 241 |
5 | 3 |
| 12 | November 11, 2017
16:15-17:45 | Room 241 |
6 | 3 |
| 13 | November 12, 2017
9:00-10:30 | Room 303 |
7-A | 3 |
| 14 | November 12, 2017
9:00-10:30 | Room 241 |
7-B | 3 |
| 15 | November 12, 2017
11:00-12:30 | Room 303 |
8-A | 3 |
| 16 | November 12, 2017
11:00-12:30 | Room 241 |
8-B | 3 |
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Session 1: 1-A
November 10, 2017 14:15 to 15:45
Room 303 |
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| Session Chair:
Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa |
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| Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence |
| presented by: Klaus Desmet, SMU |
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| Firm Export Survival: Micro-Evidence from the Philippines |
| presented by: Jean-Marie Viaene, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus Uni |
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| Structural Change and Global Trade |
| presented by: Michael Sposi, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
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Session 2: 1-B
November 10, 2017 14:15 to 15:45
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
Yoshinori Kurokawa, University of Tsukuba |
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| Polarization of American Workers: The Big Squeeze from Occupational Exposure to Value-added Imports |
| presented by: Leilei Shen, Kansas State University |
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| Can RTA Labor Provisions Prevent the Deterioration of Domestic Labor Standards?: the Cases of Statutory Minimum Wages and Employment Protection Regulations |
| presented by: Isao Kamata, Kobe University |
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| Imperfect Factor Substitutability and International Trade |
| presented by: Peter Morrow, University of Toronto |
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Session 3: 2-A
November 10, 2017 16:15 to 17:45
Room 303 |
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| Session Chair:
Raymond Riezman, University of Iowa |
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| The Welfare Effects of International Regulatory Protectionism |
| presented by: Ariel Weinberger, University of Oklahoma |
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| Preferential Trade Agreements and Rules of the Multilateral Trading System |
| presented by: Halis Yildiz, Ryerson University |
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| Preferential Trade Agreements and Antidumping Protection |
| presented by: Maurizio Zanardi, Lancaster University Management School |
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Session 4: 2-B
November 10, 2017 16:15 to 17:45
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
Yoshinori Kurokawa, University of Tsukuba |
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| The Geography of Consumption |
| presented by: Ferdinando Monte, Georgetown University |
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| Riding on the New Silk Road: Quantifying the Welfare Gains from High-Speed Railway |
| presented by: Mingzhi Xu, UC Davis |
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| Does Yuan Appreciation Weaken the Increase in Exporters due to Trade Liberalization? Evidence from Chinese Firm-Product Data |
| presented by: Yoshinori Kurokawa, University of Tsukuba |
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Session 5: 3-A
November 11, 2017 9:00 to 10:30
Room 303 |
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| Session Chair:
Thomas Osang, SMU |
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| Domestic Taxes and Export Composition: Evidence from VAT Adoption Worldwide |
| presented by: Rishi Sharma, Colgate University |
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| Import Tariffs and Export Subsidies in the WTO: A Small-Country Approach |
| [slides] |
| presented by: Wisarut Suwanprasert, Middle Tennessee State University |
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| Retaliatory Antidumping by China: A Fresh Look at the Evidence |
| presented by: Jaden Warren, |
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Session 6: 3-B
November 11, 2017 9:00 to 10:30
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
Michael Sposi, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
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| IMPACT OF NON TARIFF BARRIER ON TRADE LIBERALIZATION: CASE OF SOUTH ASIA |
| presented by: Raghu Bista, Tribhuvan Univeristy |
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| Capital Controls on Short-term Capital Flows and the Response of Direct Investment |
| presented by: Richard Nugent III, CUNY Graduate Center |
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| The Global Trade Slowdown: Trade and growth, cause and effect |
| presented by: Carter Mix, University of Rochester |
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Session 7: 3-C
November 11, 2017 9:00 to 10:30
Room 244 |
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| Session Chair:
Ariel Weinberger, University of Oklahoma |
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| The Impact of Financial Development on Innovation-Based Exports: Do All Firms Benefit Equally? |
| presented by: ByeongHwa Choi, National Taiwan University |
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| The Impact of Climatic Disasters on Trade: Evidence from Hurricanes and U.S. Ports |
| presented by: Tobias Sytsma, University of Oregon |
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| The welfare effects of a partial tariff reduction under domestic distortion in Japan |
| presented by: Michiru Kosaka, Sophia University |
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Session 8: 4-A
November 11, 2017 11:00 to 12:30
Room 303 |
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| Session Chair:
Thomas Osang, SMU |
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| International Trade Liberalization and Domestic Institutional Reform: Effects of WTO Accession on Chinese Internal Migration Policy |
| presented by: Yuan Tian, UCLA |
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| Exporting and Pollution Abatement Expenditure: Evidence from Firm-Level Data |
| presented by: Jayjit Roy, Appalachian State University |
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| Foreign Retail Entry Under Domestic Rivals |
| [slides] |
| presented by: Kyung-In Hwang, University of Nottingham |
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Session 9: 4-B
November 11, 2017 11:00 to 12:30
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
Michael Sposi, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
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| Earnings Inequality and the Global Division of Labor: Evidence from the Executive Labor Market |
| presented by: Jan Schymik, LMU Munich |
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| A Model of Occupational Choice, Offshoring and Immigration |
| presented by: Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University |
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| Offshoring and the Demand for Skills |
| presented by: Philip Luck, University of Colorado Denver |
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Session 10: 4-C
November 11, 2017 11:00 to 12:30
Room 244 |
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| Session Chair:
Ariel Weinberger, University of Oklahoma |
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| Kazakhstan’s Integration in the Eurasian Economic Union: Evidence from Regional Trade Data |
| presented by: Kiril Tochkov, Texas Christian University |
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| The Effect of Airports on Exports |
| presented by: Danny McGowan, Nottingham University |
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| he Emergence of Renminbi as an International Invoicing Currency and The Spillover |
| presented by: Yuan Yuan, Temple University |
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Session 11: 5
November 11, 2017 14:15 to 15:45
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
Andrey Stoyanov, York University |
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| Foreign Ownership and Skill-biased Technological Change |
| presented by: Marcel Smolka, Aarhus University |
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| Uncertainty and Trade Elasticities |
| presented by: Olga Timoshenko, The George Washington University |
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| Trade and Investment in the Global Economy |
| presented by: Yoto Yotov, Drexel University |
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Session 12: 6
November 11, 2017 16:15 to 17:45
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
Andrey Stoyanov, York University |
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| The Effect of Multi-Lateral Environmental Agreements on Bilateral Trade Flows |
| presented by: Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| Free Trade Agreements, Customs Unions in Disguise? |
| presented by: Feodora Teti, Ifo Institute |
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| The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation |
| presented by: Peri da Silva, Kansas State University |
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Session 13: 7-A
November 12, 2017 9:00 to 10:30
Room 303 |
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| Session Chair:
Olga Timoshenko, The George Washington University |
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| Import Exposure and Skill Content: Plant-Level Evidence from the US |
| presented by: Mina Kim, U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics |
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| Trade, Agglomeration Effects, and Labor Markets: Theory and Evidence |
| presented by: Federico Esposito, Tufts University |
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| Offshoring and non-linear employment effects across industries |
| presented by: Michael Irlacher, University of Munich |
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Session 14: 7-B
November 12, 2017 9:00 to 10:30
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
James Lake, Southern Methodist University |
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| FDI in Cultural Space: Cultural Interconnectedness & FDI Expansion – A Spatial Approach |
| presented by: M. C. Sunny Wong, University of Houston |
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| Foreign Direct Investment, Product Sophistication and the Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor in Chilean Manufacturing |
| presented by: Wei Jia, Brandeis University |
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| How do trade and communication costs shape the spatial organization of firms? |
| presented by: Sergey Kichko, National Research University Higher School of Economics |
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Session 15: 8-A
November 12, 2017 11:00 to 12:30
Room 303 |
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| Session Chair:
Olga Timoshenko, The George Washington University |
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| Trade, Technological Change, and Wage Inequality: The Case of Mexico |
| presented by: Andrea Waddle, University of Richmond |
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| Demand Uncertainty and the Joint Dynamics of Exporters and Multinational Firms |
| [slides] |
| presented by: cheng chen, HKU |
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| Diasporas, return migration and comparative advantage: a natural experiment of Yugoslavian refugees in Germany |
| presented by: Dany Bahar, The Brookings Institution |
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Session 16: 8-B
November 12, 2017 11:00 to 12:30
Room 241 |
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| Session Chair:
James Lake, Southern Methodist University |
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| False Friends? Empirical Evidence on Trade Policy Substitution in Regional Trade Agreements |
| presented by: Magdalene Silberberger, University Witten/Herdecke |
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| Domestic vs. International Welfare Gains from Trade |
| presented by: Hakan Yilmazkuday, Florida International University |
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| International effects of national regulations: external reference pricing and price controls |
| presented by: Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt University |