13th Tinbergen Institute Conference: International Trade and Development

The 13^th Tinbergen Institute Conference: International Trade and Development was held at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on June 21-23, 2018

Keynote Speakers

Robin Burgess (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
Famine and Trade

and

Dave Donaldson (MIT, United States)
External Economies of Scale and Industrial Policy: A View from Trade

Invited Speakers in alphabetical order

• • Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA, United States)
    Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting
  • Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
    Forensics, Elasticities and Benford’s Law: Detecting Tax Fraud in International Trade
  • Diego Puga (CEMFI, Spain)
    Urban growth and its aggregate implications
  • Meredith Startz (Princeton University, United States)
    The value of face-to-face: Search and contracting problems in Nigerian trade
  • Matthew Turner (Brown University, United States)
    Subways and Urban Air Pollution
  • Christian Volpe Martincus (Inter-American Development Bank, United States)
    Transit Trade

Speakers Parallel sessions in alphabetical order:

• • Jan David Bakker (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
    International Trade and Regional Inequality
  • Quy-Toan Do (World Bank, United States)
    Anti-Globalization Cycles
  • Matteo Fiorini (European University Institute, Italy)
    Input tariffs, Roads and Firm Performance: Evidence from Ethiopia
  • Laura Hering (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
    Looking for the bright side of the China Syndrome: Rising export opportunities and life satisfaction in China
  • Cong Peng (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)
    Colonial legacies: Shaping African cities
  • Bob Rijkers (World Bank, United States)
    Collusion in Customs: Evidence from Madagascar
  • James Sayre (UC Berkeley, United States)
    Commodity Trade Matters
  • Adam Storeygard (Tufts University, United States).
    Mobility and congestion in urban India
  • Marcel Timmer (University of Groningen)
    Development in Task Space: What You Do in Exports Matters
  • Pierre-Louis Vezina (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
    Resource Discoveries and FDI Bonanzas: An Illustration from Mozambique
  • Ariel Weinberger (University of Oklahoma, United States)
    Openness and Factor Shares: Is Globalization Always Bad for Labor?

Organizers

Tinbergen Institute fellows:

Maarten Bosker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Steven Poelhekke (VU Amsterdam)
Peter Lanjouw (VU Amsterdam)

Local support:

Christina Månsson (Tinbergen Institute)