Trade Policy Research Seminar Series

The INT Trade Policy Research Seminar Series aims to create a forum to discuss trade policy issues relevant for Latin American and Caribbean countries based on rigorous empirical research that informs the design of policies and help understand their determinants and economic impacts. Presenters are primarily guest researchers. Participation is open to all interested parties.

If you have questions on this seminar series, please contact its technical coordinator, Christian Volpe Martincus. If you would like to attend one of these seminars, please write an email to María Víquez.

All Seminar Editions

2025

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
06/10	Roman David Zarate	World Bank	The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions \| REGISTER HERE If you are interested in attending in person, please contact Angela Dorantes [email protected] noon to receive further instructions.
05/21	Maggie Chen	George Washington University	Automation without Borders: The Impacts of Generative AI on International Service Outsourcing (this webinar has been postponed).
04/21-22	Yoto V. Yotov	Drexel University	Gravitational Models Workshop
03/27	Sharat Ganapati	Georgetown University	Is Tourism Good for Locals? Evidence from Barcelona
02/26	Keith Head	The University of British Columbia	Professor Keith Head presented a paper on how the production and trade patterns of the car industry could change in response to the evolving international conditions.
01/22	Giulia Brancaccio	New York University	Investment in Infrastructure and Trade: The Case of Ports (This webinar has been postponed).

2024

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
12/10	Pamela Medina Quispe	University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management	Trade in Appliances, Household Production, and Labor Force Participation
11/08	Amit Khandelwal	Yale University	The Value of De Minimis Imports
10/22	Hâle Utar	Grinell College	Trade War and Relocation of Global Value Chains
10/08	Andrei Levchenko	University of Michigan	Superstars or Supervillains? Large Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan
08/15-16			Productive Development Policies and Internationalization in the New Global Scenario
06/20	Alejandro Graziano	University of Nottingham	Trade Disruptions along Supply Chains
06/17	Daniel Trefler	University of Toronto	The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services: A Large Language Model
05/22-23			14th Annual Conference of the LACEA Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN)
04/14	Andrea Laßmann	Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Decomposing the Margins of Transfer Pricing
03/14	Ryan Monarch	Syracuse University	Switching Costs and Export Promotion
02/22	Andrei Levchenko	University of Michigan	Superstars or Supervillains? Large Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle This webinar was rescheduled for 10/31.
01/25	Devaki Ghose	World Bank	Fertilizer Import Bans, Agricultural Exports, and Welfare: Evidence from Sri Lanka

2023

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
12/07	David Atkin	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?
11/15	Costas Arkolakis	Yale University	Clean Growth
10/26	Fernando Leibovici	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	Navigating the Waves of Global Shipping: Drivers and Aggregate Implications
09/07	Sebastián Sotelo	University of Michigan	Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective
08/31	Trang T. Hoang	Federal Reserve Board	Export Market Expansion, Labor-Market Power, and Labor Shares: Evidence from a Small Open Economy
07/20	Cristina Tello-Trillo	U.S. Census Bureau	Trade Liberalization and Labor-Market Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. Matched Employer-Employee Data
06/22	Fariha Kamal	U.S. Census Bureau	The U.S. Multinational Advantage during the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis: The Role of Services Trade
05/11	Natalia Ramondo	Boston University	The Carbon Footprint of Multinational Production
04/20	Felix Tintelnot	The University of Chicago	Foreign Demand Shocks to Production Networks: Firm Responses and Worker Impacts
03/09	Daniel Yi Xu	Duke University	Two-Sided Search in International Markets
02/23	Robert W. Staiger	Dartmouth College	Does Digital Trade Change the Purpose of a Trade Agreement
01/27	Martina Magli	Ludwig Maximilians Universität München	Modes of Trade in Services: A Firm-Level Analysis

2022

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
01/27	Martina Magli	Ludwig Maximilians Universität München	Modes of Trade in Services: A Firm-Level Analysis
12/02	Paola Conconi	University of Oxford	Multinational Ownership and Trade Participation
11/18	Pol Antràs	Harvard University	Global Sourcing and Multinational Activity: A Unified Approach
10/28	Kerem Cosar	Unversity of Virginia	Regional, Sectoral and Aggregate Implications of Transportation Costs
09/23	Ariel Weinberger	George Washington University	Quality Misallocation, Trade, and Regulations
08/29	Peter Egger	ETH Zürich	Backward Versus Forward Integration of Firms in Global Value Chains
07/29	Feodora Teti	Ludwig-Maximilians University	30 Years of Trade Policy: Evidence from 5.7 Billion Tariffs
06/17	Réka Juhász	Columbia University	All aboard: The effects of port development
05/13	Isabela Manelici	London School of Economics	Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica
04/15	Teresa Fort	Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College	Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States
03/11	Zuzana Studnicka	University College Dublin	Gravity and trade in video on demand services
02/18	Anne-Celia Disdier	Paris School of Economics	Do Standards Improve the Quality of Traded Products?
01/21	Karen-Helene Ulltveit-Moe	University of Oslo	Trade From Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks

2021

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
12/10	Beata Javorcik	University of Oxford	Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge in the Multinational Firm
11/23	Jennifer Poole	American University	The International Transmission of Gender Equality through Foreign Direct Investment
10/15	Lionel Fontagné	Bank of France, CEPII and PSE	EU in Search of a WTO - Compatible Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
09/24	Farid Farrokhi	Purdue University	Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change?
08/27	Cecilia Fieler	Yale University	O-Ring Production Network
07/02	Woan Foong Wong	University of Oregon	"Entrepôt: Hubs, Scale, and Trade Cost"
06/11	Rocco Macchiavello	London School of Economics	Buyer-Driven Upgrading in GVCs: Evidence from Colombia
05/07	Andrea Ariu	University of Milan	Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Microdata
04/16	Esteban Rossi Hansberg	Princeton University	The Economic Geography of Global Warming
03/05	Maggie Chen	George Washington University	Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms
02/04	Amit Khandelwal	Columbia University	Language Barriers in MNCs and Knowledge Transfers
01/21	Andrew Bernard	Dartmouth College	Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization

2020

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
12/04	Aaron Flaaen	Federal Reserve Board of Governors	The Geography of Trade in Services: New Evidence from Credit Card Transactions
10/30	Masha Brussevich	International Monetary Fund	Foreign Sourcing and Missing FDI Spillovers
02/14	Fariha Kamal	U.S. Census Bureau	Rising import tariffs, falling export growth: when modern supply chains meet old-style protectionism

2019

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
05/10	Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr	Federal Reserve Board of Governors	Trade Credit and Markups
03/04	Emanuel Ornelas	FGV-SP	The Impact of Tariff Hikes on Firm Exports

2018

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
11/30	Wolfgang Keller	University of Colorado-Boulder	International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer: Evidence from China
11/16	Claudia Steinwender	MIT Sloan	Spinning the web: The impact of ICT on trade in intermediates and technology diffusion
10/05	Natalia Ramondo	UCSD	The life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational firms
09/21	Felix Tintelnot	University of Chicago	Trade and Domestic Production Networks
06/29	Eva Van Leemput	Federal Reserve System	A Passage to India: Quantifying Internal and External Barriers to Trade
05/11	Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan	University of Maryland	Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity: Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects
04/27	8th Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS)	Download the agenda here
03/23	Benjamin Faber	UC Berkeley	E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China
02/16	Laura Alfaro	Harvard Business School	On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks
01/12	Ben Hyman	University of Pennsylvania	Can Displaced Labor be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance

2017

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
12/08	Amit Khandelwal	Columbia University	Measuring Spillovers from a Special Economic Zone: Evidence from Myanmar
11/21	Nathan Nunn	Harvard University	The Effects of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence From Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
10/27	Anna Maria Mayda	Georgetown University	China's "Great Migration": The impact of reduction in trade policy uncertainty
09/22	Kala Krishna	Penn State University	Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
08/25	Tibor Besedes	Georgia Tech	Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull
06/16	Kerem Cosar	University of Virginia	Shipping inside the Box: Containerization and Trade
05/26	Keith Maskus	U.S. State Department	Intellectual Property-Related Preferential Trade Agreements and the Composition of Trade
04/14	Stephen Yeaple	Penn State University	On the Relationship Between Quality and Productivity: Evidence from China's Accession to the WTO
03/31	Stefania Garetto	Boston University	Life-Cycle Dynamics and the Expansion Strategies of U.S. Multinational Firms
02/24	Brian Kovak	Carnegie Mellon University	Margins of Trade Adjustment in a Developing Country
01/13	Pol Antras	Harvard University	The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from US Firms

2016

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
12/16	Kala Krishna	Penn State University	Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and a Natural Experiment
11/11	Nina Pavcnik	Dartmouth College	The Effects of Trade Policy
10/07	Roberto Álvarez	Universidad de Chile	Natural Resources Exports and Education: Evidence from Chile
09/23	Ferdinando Monte	Georgetown University	The Local Incidence of Trade Shocks
08/26	Olga Timoshenko	George Washington University	Firm Learning and Growth
07/29	Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr	Federal Reserve Board	International Transfer Pricing and Tax Avoidance: Evidence from the linked Tax-Trade Statistics in the UK
06/17	Justin R. Pierce	Federal Reserve Board	Trade Policy and the Structure of Supply Chains
05/06	Luca David Opromolla	Banco de Portugal	Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms
04/15	Heiwai Tang	Johns Hopkins University and CESIfo	Do Multinational Firms Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China
03/18	Ricardo López	International Business School, Brandeis University	Export Subsidies and Female Employment: Evidence from Plant-Level Data
02/19	Luciana Juvenal	International Monetary Fund	Quality and the Great Trade Collapse
01/29	Maria C. Latorre	Universidad Computense de Madrid	An Innovative CGE Assessment of the Impact of the TTIP Including Foreign Direct Investment

2015

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
12/11	Nikolas Zolas	U.S. Census Bureau	How do Patents Shape Global Value Chains? International Patenting, Value-Added Trade and Production Stages
11/20	Maggie Chen	George Washington University	Reputation in Trade: Evidence from Alibaba
10/09	Georg Schaur	University of Tennessee	The Effect of Export Promotion on Firm-Level Performance
08/25	Mine Z. Senses	Johns Hopkins University	Importing, Exporting, and Firm-Level Employment Volatility
07/06	Fernando Parro	Federal Reserve Board	The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics
06/20	Rodrigo Wagner	University of Chile, Tufts University and CID Harvard	Bad Neighbors: Bordering Institutions Matter for Comparative (Dis)Advantage
05/05	Gisela Rua	Federal Reserve Board	Diffusion of Containerization
04/17	Oliver Cadot	Université de Lausanne	Big Hits in Exports: Growing by Leaps and Bounds

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