Conference Program: Firms, Trade, and Development 2024

Program Schedule

Thursday, October 24

9:30 - 9:45 a.m. EDT: Welcome

9:45 - 10:45 a.m. EDT: The Incidence of Distortions

  • Federico Huneeus (Duke University and Central Bank of Chile), David Atkin (MIT and NBER), Baptiste Bernadac (UCLA), Dave Donaldson (MIT and NBER), Tishara Garg (MIT)

10:45 - 11:00 a.m. EDT: Break

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EDT: Slack and Economic Development

  • Tilman Graff (Harvard University), Dennis Egger (University of Oxford), Edward Miguel UC Berkeley), Felix Samy Soliman (University of Zurich), Nachiket Shah (UC Berkeley), Michael Walker (UC Berkeley)

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. EDT: Lunch Keynote

1:30 - 2:00 p.m. EDT: Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation

  • S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan (London Business School), Rebecca De Simone (London Business School), Kunal Sachdeva (University of Michigan)

2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. EDT: No Blood in My Mobile: Regulating Foreign Suppliers

2:30 - 2:45 p.m. EDT: Break

2:45 - 3:15 p.m. EDT: Labor Productivity Impacts of Air Purifiers

  • Maulik Jagnani (Tufts University), Teevrat Garg (UC San Diego), Nancy Lozano-Gracia (World Bank)

3:15 - 4:15 p.m. EDT: Melitz Meets Lewis: The Impacts of Roads on Structural Transformation and Businesses

  • Wei Qian (Haverford College), Joseph P. Kaboski (University of Notre Dame), Will Jianyu Lu (Central Bank of Chile), Lixia Ren (University of Notre Dame)

4:15 - 4:45 p.m. EDT: Trademarks and Gains from Variety: The Role of Multinational Enterprise

Friday, October 25

8:30 - 8:45 a.m. EDT: Welcome

8:45 - 9:45 a.m. EDT: Habit Formation in Labor Supply

  • Yogita Shamdasani (National University of Singapore), Luisa Cefala (UC Berkeley) Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley), Heather Schofield (Cornell University)

10:00 - 11:00 a.m. EDT: To Follow the Crowd? Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks

11:00 - 11:30 a.m. EDT: The Effect of Immigration Enforcement Abroad on Immigrants’ Home-Country Firms

  • Daniel Osuna-Gomez (Central Bank of Mexico), Eduardo Medina-Cortina (Cornerstone Research)

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT: Lunch and Panel Discussion - From Research to Action: Shaping Policy through Evidence

  • Ijaz Nabi (Country Director, Pakistan - IGC), Nii Sowa (Country Director, Ghana - IGC), Discussant (TBA)

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. EDT: Asymmetric Information and Digital Technology Adoption: Evidence from Senegal

2:00 - 2:30 p.m. EDT: Break

2:30 - 3:00 p.m. EDT: Measuring and Estimating Retail Productivity

  • Ajay Shenoy (UC Santa Cruz), Brenda Samaniego de la Parra (UC Santa Cruz)

3:00 - 3:30 p.m. EDT: Returns to Capital for Whom? Experimental Evidence from Small Firm Owners and Workers in Ghana

  • Jiayue Zhang (Brown University), Morgan Hardy (NYU Abu Dhabi), Jamie McCasland (University of British Columbia)