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
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”
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”
