2024 Program
Eleventh Annual West Coast Trade Workshop
Hosted by UC Berkeley
March 15-16, 2024
Hosted by UC Berkeley
March 15-16, 2024
Friday, March 15th
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch at the Faculty Club (meet in the Lewis Latimer Room where we will distribute tickets)
1:15 – 1:30 Walk to Chou Hall, Room N540-544 (Haas School of Business)
1:30 – 2:30 Keith Head (UBC): Industrial Policies for Global Value Chains: The Battle for Batteries
2:30 – 3:30 Monica Morlacco (USC): Concentration and Markups in International Trade
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 – 5:00 Max Dvorkin (Fed St Louis): Heterogeneous Agents Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium
5:00 – 6:00 Ariel Burstein (UCLA): A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Measuring Forward Looking Welfare
6:15 – Dinner
Saturday, March 16th
8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast (Chou Hall, Room N540-544)
8:30 – 9:30 Torsten Jaccard (UBC): The Trade-Creating Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from Detailed Purchase Data
9:30 – 10:30 Amir Kermani (UC Berkeley): Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Gueyon Kim (UCSC): Offshoring and Segregation by Skill: Theory and Evidence
12:00 – 1:00 Winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper:
Philip Economides (University of Oregon): Unconventional Protectionism in Containerized Shipping
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch at the Faculty Club (meet in the Lewis Latimer Room where we will distribute tickets)
1:15 – 1:30 Walk to Chou Hall, Room N540-544 (Haas School of Business)
1:30 – 2:30 Keith Head (UBC): Industrial Policies for Global Value Chains: The Battle for Batteries
2:30 – 3:30 Monica Morlacco (USC): Concentration and Markups in International Trade
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 – 5:00 Max Dvorkin (Fed St Louis): Heterogeneous Agents Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium
5:00 – 6:00 Ariel Burstein (UCLA): A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Measuring Forward Looking Welfare
6:15 – Dinner
Saturday, March 16th
8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast (Chou Hall, Room N540-544)
8:30 – 9:30 Torsten Jaccard (UBC): The Trade-Creating Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from Detailed Purchase Data
9:30 – 10:30 Amir Kermani (UC Berkeley): Return Migration and Human Capital Flows
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Gueyon Kim (UCSC): Offshoring and Segregation by Skill: Theory and Evidence
12:00 – 1:00 Winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper:
Philip Economides (University of Oregon): Unconventional Protectionism in Containerized Shipping
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch