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
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
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
