Programme for RIEF Doctoral Meetings 2023

22TH DOCTORAL MEETINGS INT. TRADE / INT. MACROECONOMICS / URBAN ECON. ! Organised by the network Research in International Economics and Finance – RIEF Brussels, 16-17 March 2023 Conference venue: ECARES – Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management Av. F.D. Roosevelt 42 (a.k.a. the “green building”), 1050 Bruxelles – Tram 8 (stop: Cambre-Etoile) Rules for presentation: 35 minutes are assigned to each paper: 20-25 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for the discussant, 5-10 minutes for discussion with the floor. Contacts: Anne-Célia Disdier ([email protected]) Mathieu Parenti ([email protected]) Conference programme: Thursday, 16 March 2023 (Room 2.103 – Wifi: Eduroam) 9:20 – 9:45!Registration & welcome Session 1: Commodities Chair: Pamina Koenig 9:50 – 10:25 Next time is on me: signaling through risk sharing contracts in Chilean food exporting Presenter: Christian Abele (Paris School of Economics) Discussant: Clément Nédoncelle (INRAE) 10:25 – 11:00 Due Diligence and Legal Opacity: Conflict Mineral Exports in Africa’s Great Lake Region Presenter: Ninon Moreau-Kastler (Université Paris-Saclay) Discussant: Pamina Koenig (University of Rouen) 11:00 – 11:35 The Input Channels of Structural Changes: How a Hicks-neutral Agricultural Productivity Shock Triggers Industrial Growth Presenter: Guohao Yang (University of Namur) Discussant: Daniel Mirza (University of Tours) 22TH DOCTORAL MEETINGS INT. TRADE / INT. MACROECONOMICS / URBAN ECON. ! 11:35 – 12:00 Coffee Break Session 2: Macro I Chair: Hélène Latzer 12:00 – 12:35 Inequality, middle class and current account imbalances Presenter: Océane Blomme (University of Lille) Discussant: Lise Patureau (University of Paris-Dauphine) 12:35 – 13:10 Safe Assets in Emerging Market Economies Presenter: Cristian Cuevas (Georgetown University) Discussant: Hélène Latzer (Saint Louis Bruxelles) 13:10 – 14:15 Lunch at ULB Keynote Lecture 14:15 – 15:15 Productivity, Innovation and International Technology Transfer Carolina Villegas-Sanchez (ESADE Business School and CEPR) Session 3: International trade Chair: Vincent Vicard 15:15 – 15:50! Tax Evasion, Competition, and Export Performance: Evidence from China Presenter: Jiancong Liu (Bocconi University) Discussant: Farid Toubal (University of Paris-Dauphine and CEPR) 15:50 – 16:25!Vote for (trade) protection: a way to revolt in democracies? Presenter: Ernesto Ugolini (Aix-Marseille University) Discussant: Vincent Vicard (CEPII) 16:25 – 16:45 Coffee Break Session 4: Migration, segregation Chair: Benoît Schmutz 16:45 – 17:20 The Aggregate Effects of the Great Black Migration Presenter: Motoaki Takahashi (Penn State University) Discussant: Glenn Magerman (Université Libre de Bruxelles and CEPR) 22TH DOCTORAL MEETINGS INT. TRADE / INT. MACROECONOMICS / URBAN ECON. ! 17:20 – 17:55 The (Express)Way to Segregation: Evidence from Chicago Presenter: Sara Bagagli (Harvard University) Discussant: Benoît Schmutz (Ecole Polytechnique, CREST and CEPR) 19.30 Dinner at La Buvette and Best Paper Prize awarded by CEPREMAP Chaussée d'Alsemberg 108, 1060 Bruxelles Friday, 17 March 2023 (Room 2.110 – Wifi: Eduroam) Session 5: Urban economics, mobility Chair: Isabelle Méjean 8:45 – 9:20 Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris Presenter: Léa Bou Sleiman (Ecole Polytechnique and CREST) Discussant: Sandra Poncet (Paris School of Economics) 9:20 – 9:55 Moving Opportunity. Local Connectivity and Spatial Inequality Presenter: Luke Heath Milson (University of Oxford) Discussant: Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (Université Catholique de Louvain) 9:55 – 10:30 Estimating demand for bike-shares with stockouts Presenter: Nathalie Yang (Columbia University) Discussant: Isabelle Méjean (Sciences Po and CEPR) 10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break Session 6: Macro II Chair: Dmitry Mukhin 10:50 – 11:25 The Risk of Inflation Dispersion in the Euro Area Presenter: Aymeric Ortmans (Banque de France) Discussant: Cédric Tille (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies and CEPR) 11:25 – 12:00 Buyer Market Power and Exchange Rate Pass-through Presenter: Leticia Juarez (University of Michigan) Discussant: Dmitry Mukhin (London School of Economics and CEPR) 22TH DOCTORAL MEETINGS INT. TRADE / INT. MACROECONOMICS / URBAN ECON. ! 12:00 – 13:00 Lunch at ULB Keynote Lecture 13:00 – 14:00 Multinational Ownership and Trade Participation Paola Conconi (University of Oxford and CEPR) 14:00 – 14:20 Coffee Break Session 7: Globalization and sectoral implications Chair: Antonin Bergeaud 14:20 – 14:55 Gains from Foreign Employment in Japan: Regional and Sectoral Implications Presenter: Kensuke Suzuki (Penn State University) Discussant: Gabriel Smagghue (Banque de France) 14:55 – 15:30!Does trade liberalization boost innovation? Evidence from French industrial sectors in the 19th-century Presenter: Carla Salvo (Sapienza University of Rome) Discussant: Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris and CEPR) Session 8: Labor market power Chair: Felix Montag 15:30 – 16:05 Demographics, Labor Market Power and the Spatial Equilibrium Presenter: Nina Furbach (TU Dormund University) Discussant: Rahul Mukerjee (University of Nottingham) 16:05 – 16:40 Labor Market Power Across Cities Presenter: Claudio Luccioletti (CEMFI) Discussant: Felix Montag (Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College) 16:45 End of Conference