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​2018 Program

​Seventh Annual West Coast Trade Workshop
Hosted by the School of Social Sciences of
the University of California, Irvine, with
​support of the Kay Family Foundation

March 2-3, 2018


Friday, March 2 – Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1517

12-1           Lunch

1-2             Marc-Andreas Muendler and James E. Rauch (UCSD), “Do Employee Spinoffs Learn Markets From Their Parents? Evidence From International Trade”

2-2:15        Coffee break

2:15-3:15   Jaerim Choi (UC Davis), “Offshoring, Matching, and Income Inequality: Theory and Empirics”

3:15-3:30   Coffee break

3:30-4:30   Victor Couturey, Benjamin Faber (UC Berkeley), Yizhen Gu and Lizhi Liu, “E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China”

4:30-4:45  Coffee break

4:45-5:45   Lorenz Kueng, Nicholas Li and Mu-Jeung Yang (U of Washington), “The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy: Evidence from Canada”

7                Dinner at Sol Mexican Cocina, 251 Pacific Coast Hwy, Newport Beach (by invitation)


Saturday, March 3 – SBSG 1517

8-8:30           Breakfast

8:30-10:30    Dan Liu and Christopher M. Meissner (UC Davis), “Geography, Income, and Trade in the 21st Century”

                     Woan Foong Wong (Oregon), “The Round Trip Effect: Endogenous Transport Costs and International Trade”

10:30-10:45  Coffee break

10:45-12:45  Robert Dekle (USC), Atsushi Kawakami, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, and Tsutomu Miyagawa,  “Product Dynamics and Aggregate Shocks: Evidence from Japanese Product and Firm Level Data”

                    Sergii Meleshchuk (UC Berkeley), “Price Discrimination in International Trade: Empirical Evidence and Theory”

12:45-1:45   Lunch

1:45-2:45    Matilde Bombardini (UBC), Bingjing Li and Ruoying Wang , “Import Competition and Innovation: Evidence from China”

                    

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