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​2017 Program


Sixth Annual West Coast Trade Workshop
Hosted by UBC Sauder School of Business
and the Vancouver School of Economics

February 24-25, 2017




Friday, Feb 24 – Iona Building 533

12-1          Lunch (Iona 533)

1-2            Pablo Fajgelbaum and Edouard Schaal, "Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium"

2-2:15       Coffee break

2:15-3:15  Nick Bloom, Kalina Manova, John Van Reenen, Stephen Sun and Zhihong Yu, “Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US”

3:15-3:30  Coffee break

3:30-4:30  Alan Spearot “Product Variety and Adjustment Costs”  
 
4:30-4:45  Coffee break

4:45-5:45  Christoph E. Boehm, Aaron Flaaen and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, “Multinationals, Offshoring, and the Decline of U.S. Manufacturing”

7                Dinner by invitation


Saturday, Feb 25 – Iona 533

8-8.30        Breakfast, Iona 533

8.30-9:30   Benjamin Faber and Thibault Fally “Firm Heterogeneity in Consumption Baskets: Evidence from Home and Store Scanner Data”

9:30-9:45   Coffee break

9:45-10:45  Wolfgang Keller and William W. Olney “Globalization and Executive Compensation”

10.45-11     Coffee break

11-12          Dominick Bartelme, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson and Andres Rodriguez-Clare “Estimating Industry-Level Scale Economies”

12               Lunch, Iona 633




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