This joint workshop with Theme 3 & Theme 4 focused on how market integration – both internal and global -- shapes the structural transformation process in developing countries.
If you missed the workshop you can watch the recording from day one here and day two here.
Programme:
Day 1 - Thursday 16 September
14:00 Welcoming remarks
Capital and development chaired by Laura Alfaro (CEPR & Harvard)
14:05 Structural Change, Inequality, and Capital Flows - Florian Trouvain (University of Michigan)
14:45 Forgone Investment: Civil Conflict and Agricultural Credit in Colombia - Luis Martinez (University of Chicago) & Nicolás de Roux (Universidad de Los Andes) Presentation Slides
15:25 Break
Firms: domestic, export and input markets chaired by Stefania Garetto (BU)
15:35 Spatial Production Networks Costas Arkolakis (Yale), Federico Huneeus (Yale University, Central Bank of Chile) & Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University) Presentation Slides
16:15 FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms: Adjustments to New Export Opportunities - Brian McCaig (Wilfrid Laurier University), Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth, BREAD, CEPR, IZA, NBER) Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregan)
16:55 Break
Agricultural Productivity and Structural Change chaired by Meredith Startz (Dartmouth)
17:05 The Long-run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India - Sam Asher (University of Oxford, Johns Hopkins University), Alison Campion (Development Data Lab) Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford, CEPR) & Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College) Presentation Slides
17:45 Uneven Product Diversification and Declining Expenditure Shares on Agricultural Products - Guzman Ourens (Tilburg University) Presentation Slides
18:25 Closing Remarks
18:30 Workshop Close
Day 2 - Friday 17 September
14:00 Welcoming remarks
Agriculture and Trade chaired by Cecilia Fieler (Yale)
14:05 The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of Corn Laws- Stephan Heblich (University of Toronto), Stephen Redding (Princeton University & CEPR), Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol) Presentation Slides
14:45 Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity - Farid Farrokhi (Purdue Krannert School of Management) & Heitor Pellegrina (NYU Abu Dhabi)
15:25 Break
Information Technology chaired by Paul Gaggl (UNC Charlotte)
15:35 Access to Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity: Large-Scale Evidence from Agriculture in India - Aproov Gupta (Dartmouth), Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University & CEPR) & Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University London & CEPR)
16:15 The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream - Gaurav Khanna (University of California, San Diego) & Nicolas Morales (Richmond Fed) Presentation Slides
16:55 Break
Spatial frictions, migration and trade chaired by Melanie Morten (CEPR & Stanford)
17:05 Migration, Trade, and Structural Change - Tomas Budi-Ors (CEMFI) & Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI & CEPR)
17:45 Perpetual Motion: Human Mobility and Spatial Frictions in Three African Countries - Paul Blanchard (Trinity College Dublin), Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford, CEPR) & Martina Kirchberger (Trinity College Dublin)
18:25 Closing Remarks
18:30 Workshop Close
If you missed the workshop you can watch the recording from day one here and day two here.
