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.
The recording of the workshop is available here for day 1 and here for day 2. Timestamps for each presentation can be found in the description of the videos.
Programme:
Day 1 - Monday 19 September
14:00 Welcoming remarks
Session 1: Spatial Equilibrium - moderated by Michael Peters (Yale University)
14:05 Spatial Spillovers and Labor Market Dynamics: Village Financial Interventions in Thailand - Daniel Ehrlich (University of Chicago) and Robert M Townsend (MIT)
14:45 Educational Investment in Spatial Equilibrium: Evidence from Indonesia - Allan Hsiao (Princeton University) Paper
15:25 Break
Session 2: Climate Change - moderated by Andrés Rodríguez-Clare (University of California, Berkeley)
15:45 The Real Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad - Roman Zarate (World Bank)
16:25 Break
16:45 On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes - Bruno Conte (University of Bologna), Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (University of Chicago)
17:25 Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change? - Farid Farrokhi (Purdue University) and Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University) Paper
18:05 Workshop ends
Day 2 - Tuesday 20 September
14:00 Welcoming remarks
Session 3: Technology Adoption in Agriculture - moderated by Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto)
14:05 Tillers of Prosperity: Land Ownership, Reallocation, and Structural Transformation - Shuhei Kitamura (Osaka University) Paper
14:45 Appropriability of the Returns to Training as a Barrier to Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Burundi - Luisa Cefala (University of California, Berkeley), Michel Ndayikeza (Université Clermont Auvergne), Pedro Naso (Swedish University of Agricultural Science and Nicholas Swanson (University of California, Berkeley)
15:25 Break
Session 4: The Location of Economic Activity - moderated by Victor Couture (University of British Columbia)
15:45 Rural marketplaces and the emergence of a market economy - Tillmann Von Carnap (Stockholm University) Slides
16:25 How do Establishments Choose their Location? Taxes, Monopsony, and Productivity - Catherine van der List (University of British Columbia)
17:05 Break
Session 5: Networks - moderated by Vasco Carvalho (University of Cambridge)
17:25 Production Networks and War: Evidence from Ukraine - Vasily Korovkin (CERGE-EI) and Alexey Makarin (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)
18:05 Cultural Proximity and Production Networks - Brian Cevallos Fujiy (University of Michigan), Gaurav Khanna (UCSD) and Hiroshi Toma (University of Michigan) Slides
18:45 Closing Remarks
18:45 Workshop ends
