International Trade and Development Workshops
Trade and Development Workshops are held on Tuesdays from 12:30 pm - 2:00 p.m.(unless otherwise noted) in John W. Kendrick Seminar Room, Room 321 at 2115 G Street (unless otherwise noted). For information please contact Prof. Maggie X. Chen at xchen@gwu.edu.
Fall, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 12:30 - 2 p.m.as
Peter Lanjouw, Research Department, World Bank,
“Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and out of Poverty,” with Jill Luoto and David McKenzie
Thursday, September 22, 12:30 to 2 pm
Joachim von Braun, University of Bonn
“Volatility in commodity markets – causes and impacts on the poor,” Co-sponsoring with Institute for International Economic Policy
Note location: 1957 E St., Lindner Commons
Friday, September 23, all day
Fourth Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and US-China Economic Relations
Note location: 1957 E St., Lindner Commons
Co-sponsoring with IIEP.
Special note: 9:15-10:45 AM session on Economic Transformation in China with three research paper presentations:
Hongbin Li, " Tsinghua University - China's Evolving Labor Market”
Lu Ming, Fudan University and Harvard University – “Geography and Politics: Why Economic Transformation is Hard in China”
Xiaobo Zhang, IFPRI - Local Industrial Policy and Cluster Development in China: The Evolution of Anding Potato Cluster”
Friday, September. 30, all day
"Forum on Food Price Increases: Causes, Impacts and Responses," co-sponsoring with IIEP
Note location: 1957 E St., 7th Floor
Paper presenters include: Alain de Janvry (UC-Berkeley), Nora Lustig (Tulane), Keith O. Fuglie (Economic Research Service, US Department of Agriculture), Francisco Ferreira (World Bank), Carlos B Martins-Filho (University of Colorado, Boulder), and Maximo Torero (IFPRI)
Tuesday, November 15, 12:30-2, Monroe 321
Travis J. Lybbert, University of California, Davis (joint with Michael Carter, UC Davis):
“Who Smooths What? Asset Smoothing versus Consumption Smoothing in Burkina Faso"
Tuesday, November 22, 12:30-2, Monroe 321
Eduardo Zambrano, California Polytechnic State University and Cornell University,
"The measurement of human development in theory and in practice."
Tuesday, November 29, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Carmen Pages, IADB
"Does expanding health insurance beyond formal sector workers encourage informality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular" jointly with Mary Hallward and Reyes Aterido
Past Workshops
Spring, 2011
February 28, Monday, 12:30-2:00:
Andrew W. Horowitz, University of Arkansas
"Self Interest, Altruism, and Super-Altruism in Foreign Aid: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test"
Tuesday, March 1, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
David Wheeler, Center for Global Development
"Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change: Implications for Adaption Assistance"
Tuesday, March 8, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Yan Sun, George Washington University
“Magic Transition? Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Rural China from 1988 to 2002”
March 11, FRIDAY
Washington Area International Trade Symposium
Location TBA
Joint with the Institute for International Economic Policy
Tuesday March 29, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
**Note: Change from March 22nd**
Andrew Foster, Brown University
"Is There Surplus Labor in Rural India?"
FRIDAY, April 1, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Rema Hanna, Harvard University
"Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia"
Tuesday April 5, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Ariell Reshef, University of Virginia
"Skill Biased Heterogeneous Firms: Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium Redux"
April 12, Tuesday, 12:30-2:00:
Irina Murtazashvili, University of Pittsburgh
"A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China"
Download paper here
Tuesday April 19, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Luca David Opromolla, Banco de Portugal
"Managers' Mobility, Trade Status, and Wages"
MONDAY, April 25, 12:30-2:00 pm
Mukul Majumdar, Cornell University
"Petty Corruption"
Download paper here
Tuesday, May 3, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Kendrick Seminar Room **Please Note Change**
Joint with the IIEP Climate Change Forum
Steven Suranovic, GWU
"Overcoming Oil Addiction to Prevent Climate Change"
Fall, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Joel Blit, GWU
"International development through multinationals: foreign R&D units and indigenous innovation"
Tuesday, September 28, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Anna Rakhman, GWU
"Export Duration and New Market Entry"
Tuesday, October 5, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Maggie Chen, GWU
"The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms"
Tuesday, October 12, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Jishnu Das, World Bank
"Bad Public Schools are Public Bads: Test-Scores and Civic Values in Public and Private Schools"
THURSDAY, October 14, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. (note special date & time)
Joint with Microeconomics Seminar
Robert Frank, Cornell University
"The Libertarian Welfare State"
Tuesday, October 19, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Asim Khwaja, Harvard University
"Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets"
Tuesday, October 26, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University
"Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data"
Tuesday, November 2, 12:45 - 2:00 p.m.
** NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION: *Room 505*, 1957 E Street, NW.
Santiago Levy, Inter-American Development Bank
"Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico"
Tuesday, November 9, 12:45 - 2:00 p.m.
Ben Zissimos, Vanderbilt University
"Pampered Bureaucracy and Trade Liberalization"
FRIDAY, November 19, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., 1957 E St, Suite 505 (note special date, place & time) Joint with Institute for International Economic Policy
Faculty Panel Discussion on the November G20 Meeting
with Mike Moore, Steve Suranovic, Fred Joutz, and Susan Aaronson
Tuesday, November 30, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Chris Kurz, Federal Reserve Board
"Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing: Implications for Productivity and Value Added"
Spring, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Sarah Baird, GWU School of Public Health
"Designing Cost-Effective Cash Transfer Programs to Boost Schooling among Young Women in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Monday, March 1, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Sanjay Jain, University of Cambridge and IZA
“Workers Without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization,” with Sumon Majumdar and Sharun W. Mukand
Tuesday, March 23, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Liz Scroeder, Georgetown University
"The Impact of Microcredit Borrowing on Household Consumption in Bangladesh"
Friday, April 2, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Ani Guerdjikova, Cornell University
"From Cases to Probabilities: Learning from Data Sets with the Best and the Worst in Mind."
Location: Monroe 321
Tuesday, April 6, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Michael Toman, World Bank
"Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes"
Tuesday, April 13, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Robert Mendelsohn, Yale University
"Adapting to climate change in developing countries: What we know and what we don't know"
Location: Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E St. NW, Suite 505
Thursday, May 6, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Thierry Mayer, Sciences-Po, Paris
"How Do Different Exporters React to Exchange Rate Changes? Theory, Empirics, and Aggregate Implications"
Fall, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Chris Barrett, Cornell University
“The Performance Of Index Based Livestock Insurance: Ex Ante Assessment In The Presence Of A Poverty Trap"
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Filipe R. Campante, Harvard University
"A Centered Index of Spatial Concentration: Expected Influence Approach and Application to Population and Capital Cities" with Quoc-Anh Do.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Location: Lindner Commons, 1957 E St., NW
G2 at GW: 2nd Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations
Morning session on development in China, panel includes:
Bruce Reynolds, University of Virginia
Loren Brandt, Univ. of Toronto
John Giles, Michigan State University and World Bank
Dr. Xiaobo Zhang , IFPRI
Lixin Colin Xu, World Bank
Friday, November 13, 2009
Location: ESIA (1957 E ST NW) Suite 501 conference room
Vera Chiodi, Poverty Action Lab J-PAL Europe and Paris School of Economics,
“The Existence of Poverty Traps: Old Question-New Answer. Evidence from Rural Mexico”
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Location: ESIA (1957 E ST NW) Room 505
Segio Margulis, Lead Environmental Economist for Climate Change, World Bank
Urvashi Narain, Senior Environmental Economist
"Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: Methodology"
(Joint with IIEP)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Location: Lindner Commons, Room 602, 1957 E St., NW
International Economic Policy Forum
Phillip Swagel, Georgetown University and former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at Treasury Dept.
"The Financial Crisis: An Inside View"
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
John Ries, University of British Columbia
"The Erosion of Colonial Trade Linkages After Independence"
(with Keith Head and Thierry Mayer)
(Joint with the University Seminar Series: "Regionalism and Global Economic Development")
Friday, November 6, 2009
Location: ESIA (1957 E ST NW) Lindner Commons
Randy Kroszner, University of Chicago Business School (Former Federal Reserve Board Governor)
The "Future of Financial Regulation"
(Joint with IIEP)
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon
"Measuring Benefits of Foreign Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set"
(Joint with Microeconomics Workshop Series and University Seminar Series: "Regionalism and Global Economic Development")
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Gerald C. Nelson, IFPRI
“Climate change and agriculture: Impacts and the costs of adaptation in developing countries”
(Joint with IIEP)
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Wenjie Chen, The George Washington University
"Does the county of origin of the acquiring firm impact performance?"
(Joint with the University Seminar Series: "Regionalism and Global Economic Development")
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Maria Heracleous, American University
"Education Transfers and the Demand for Education in Urban Mexico."
Friday, July 24, 2009
Location: Duques 451 (Minerva)
Thorsten Beck, Tilburg University, “Are Women Better Loan Officers?”
(Joint seminar with IIEP and CIBER).
Spring, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Michael Ferrantino, U.S. International Trade Commission
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Douglas Irwin, Darthmouth and NBER
"Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961"
Joint with the University Seminar on Regionalism and Global Economic Development
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Victor Trindade, University of Missouri
"Openness and Productivity: Theory and some Evidence on International Competition and Firm-Owners' Effort"
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Norbert Schady, World Bank
"School Enrollment, Selection and Test Scores"
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Tony Castleman, The George Washington University
“The Role of Human Recognition in Economic Development: Theory, Measurement and Evidence”
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Dennis Yang, Virginia Tech.
"Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth"
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Alok Bhargava, University of Houston
"Globalization, Literacy Levels and Economic Development"
Friday, January 30, 2009
James Foster, Vanderbilt University
"Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement"
Friday, January 23, 2009
Mark Gersovitz, John Hopkins University
"Further Results on the Economical Control of Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Diseases"