Macro-Trade-Development Workshop | Sep 22 & 23, 2022

Agenda

Day 1: Thursday, September 22, 2022 (U of T – St. George Campus)

9:00-9:30am

Breakfast

9:30-9:35am

Opening Remarks

Bernardo Blum (Rotman School of Management)

9:35-10:35am

Growth and the Fragmentation of Production

Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University)

Discussant: Murat Celic (University of Toronto)

10:35-10:45am

Break

10:45-11:45am

Labour Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Pamela Medina Quispe (University of Toronto)

Discussant: Matias Cortes (York University)

11:45am-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:15pm

Spatial Structural Change

Michael Peters (Yale University)

Discussant: Tasso Adamopoulus (York University)

2:15-2:30pm Break
2:30-3:30pm

Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions

Ana Maria Santacreu (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

Discussant: Dan Trefler (University of Toronto)

3:30-3:45pm

Break

3:45-4:45pm

Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and in the Aggregate Economy

Danial Lashkari (Boston College)

Discussant: Eugene Tam (University of Toronto)

 

Day 2: Friday, September 23, 2022 (U of T – Scarborough Campus)

9:00-9:30am

Breakfast

9:30-10:30am

Heterogeneous Agents Trade

Michael Waugh (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Discussant: Joe Steinberg (University of Toronto)

10:30-10:45am

Break

10:45-11:45am

The Aggregate Effects of Supply-Chain Delays

Kim Ruhl (University of Wisconsin)

Discussant: Fernando Leibovici (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

11:50am-12:50pm

Keynote Lecture

Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago)

Moderator: Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)

1:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:45pm

Adjourn