FEBRUARY 13-14, 2020
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
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UC Berkeley’s Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and the Peterson Institute for International Economics will hold the Conference on Macroeconomic Implications of Trade Policies and Trade Shocks at the University of California, Berkeley, on February 13-14, 2020.
This conference aims to update the analytical framework for analyzing trade policies and trade shocks to encompass modern developments in macro modeling and in trade theory. The goal is to encourage research incorporating the most recent advances in both the trade and macro literatures and allow economists to provide quantitative answers to questions about the short- and long-run impacts of trade policies and shocks on the trade balance, employment, real wages, income distribution, growth, and welfare.
The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical policy solutions. The Institute is committed to rigorous, intellectually open, and in depth study and discussion. It attempts to anticipate emerging issues and present ideas in useful, accessible formats, to inform and shape public debate. Its audience includes government officials and legislators, business and labor leaders, management and staff at international organizations, university-based scholars and their students, experts at other research institutions and nongovernmental organizations, the media, and the public at large.
Please visit our website for information about our senior fellows, their current research, and our outreach programs.
List of participants can be found here.
PROGRAM
Thursday, February 13
| 8:30am-9:00am | Registration & Breakfast |
| 9:00am-9:15am | Welcome Remarks Ann Harrison, Dean, Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley |
| 9:15am-10:15am | “The Impact of the 2018-19 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare” Stephen Redding (Princeton University)Click here for Slides |
| 10:15am-10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am-11:45am | “Does Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect Global Economic Activity?” Presenter: Andrea Raffo (Federal Reserve Board) Click here for Slides Discussant: Jan Groen (Federal Reserve Bank, New York) Click here for Slides Authors: Dario Caldara (Federal Reserve Board), Matteo Iacoviello (Federal Reserve Board), Patrick Molligo (Federal Reserve Board), Andrea Prestipino (Federal Reserve Board), Andrea Raffo (Federal Reserve Board)
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| 11:45am-12:45pm | “The Impact of Brexit on UK Firms” Presenter: Scarlet Chen (Stanford University) Click here for Slides Discussant: Thomas Drechsel (University of Maryland) Click here for SlidesAuthors: Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), Philip Bunn (Bank of England), Scarlet Chen (Stanford University), Paul Mizen (University of Nottingham), Pawel Smietanka (Bank of England), Gregory Thwaites (London School of Economics) |
| 12:45pm-2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm-3:00pm | “Trade Shocks and Credit Reallocation“
Presenter: Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy) Authors: Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy), Veronica Rappoport (London School of Economics), Stefano Federico (Bank of Italy) |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30pm-4:30pm | “Modeling Trade Tensions: Different Mechanisms in General Equilibrium“
Presenter: Marika Santoro (International Monetary Fund) Authors: Benjamin Hunt (International Monetary Fund), Rafael Portillo (International Monetary Fund), Susanna Mursula (International Monetary Fund), Marika Santoro (International Monetary Fund) |
| 4:30pm-5:30pm | Practitioners Panel: Speakers: Torsten Slok (Deutsche Bank) Click here for Slides Warwick McKibbin (Australian National University) Robert Koopman (World Trade Organization) Beth Anne Wilson (Federal Reserve Board) |
| 6:00pm | Conference Dinner, Great Hall, Bancroft Hotel 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 |
Friday, February 14
| 9:00am-9:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:30am-10:30am | “Globalization, Trade Imbalances, and Labor Market Adjustment”
Presenter: Sharon Traiberman (New York University) Authors: Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University), João Paulo Pessoa (Sao Paulo School of Economics), Ricardo Reyes-Heroles (Federal Reserve Bank), Sharon Traiberman (New York University) |
| 10:30am-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | “A Global View of Creative Destruction”
Presenter: Ishan Nath (University of Chicago) Authors: Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago), Peter J. Klenow (Stanford University), Ishan Nath (University of Chicago) |
| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-2:30pm | “Tariffs and the Current Account Deficit” Author: Guido Lorenzoni (Northwestern University) Discussant: Ina Simonovska (University of California, Davis) |
| 2:30pm-3:30pm | “Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks”
Presenter: Banu Demir (Bilkent University) Authors: Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford), Banu Demir (Bilkent University), Thomasz K. Michalski (HEC Paris), Evren Ors (HEC Paris) |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00pm-5:00pm | Conference Overview Panel: Speakers: Olivier Blanchard (Peterson Institute for International Economics) Marcus Noland (Peterson Institute for International Economics) Maurice Obstfeld (University of California, Berkeley) |
Venue
All sessions will be held at:
Chou Hall
Spieker Forum (6th Floor)
Cheit Ln, Berkeley, CA 94720
Parking and Transportation
Parking
Parking Passes for participants can be reserved in advance. Contact econevents@berkeley.edu to request a permit.
Transportation
The Hotel Shattuck Plaza is located 1/2 block from the metro BART train (downtown Berkeley station), which is usually the fastest and most convenient transport option from the Oakland and SFO airports.
For additional transportation options, please visit Bart.gov or 511.org
Accommodation
Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Berkeley, CA
Accommodation will be provided for out-of-town attendees. Please indicate if lodging is desired when completing your registration form and a reservation will be made on your behalf. We strongly recommend that attendees register as soon as possible.
Hotel confirmations will be sent out by January 31, 2020.
Contact
Marcus Noland, mnoland@piie.com
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Maurice Obstfeld, obstfeld@berkeley.edu; mobstfeld@piie.com
Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, arc@berkeley.edu
Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
For questions regarding logistics, please contact econevent@berkeley.edu