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Minnesota Applied Micro Workshop

May 1-2, 2009 
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Program PDF
Friday, May 1, 2009     River Room
Moderator Tom Holmes, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
1:00—2:00

“Markups and Firm-Level Export Status” [Slides] 

Speaker: Jan De Loecker (Princeton) and
Fredric Warzynski (Aarhus Business School) 

Discussant: Timothy Kehoe (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota) [Slides]
2:00—2:15 Break
2:15—3:15

“Does Foreign Competition Spur Productivity? Evidence from Post WWII U. S. Cement Manufacturing” [Slides] 

Speaker: Tim Dunne (University of Oklahoma and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland),
Shawn Klimek (US Census Bureau), and 
James Schmitz (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Discussant: Chad Syverson (University of Chicago GSB) [Slides]
3:15—3:30 Break
3:30—4:30

“Market size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporter” [Slides] 

Speaker: Marc Melitz (Princeton) 
and Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bologna)
Thierry Mayer (Paris School of Economics)

Discussant: Stephen Redding (Yale) [Slides]
4:30—4:45 Break
4:45—5:45

“Trade Induced Technical Change: The Impact of Chinese Imports on IT and Innovation" [Slides] 

Speaker: Nick Bloom (Stanford), Mirko Draca and 
John Van Reenen (London School of Economics) 

Discussant: Allan Collard-Wexler (NYU) [Slides]
7:00 Dinner at Sapor (invitation only)


Saturday, May 2, 2009    River Room

Moderator

 Minjung Park, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota
8:30—9:00

Continental Breakfast
9:00—10:00

“Railroads and the Raj: Estimating the Economic Impact of Transportation Infrastructure” 

Speaker: Dave Donaldson [Slides] 
(London School of Economics) 

Discussant: Sam Kortum (University of Chicago) [Slides]
10:00—10:15 Break
   
10:15—11:15

“The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations
and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic” [Slides] 

Speaker: Amil Petrin (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and University of Minnesota) and
T. Kirk White (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Jerome P. Reiter (Duke University)

Discussant: John Fernald [Slides] 
(Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
11:15—11:30 Break
11:30—12:30

“A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics” 

Speaker: Jonathan Eaton (NYU), [Slides] 
Marcela Eslava (Universidad de Los Andes), 
C. J. Krizan (U. S. Census Bureau),
Maurice Kugler (Harvard), and 
James Tybout (Penn State University) 

Discussant: Costas Arkolakis (Yale) [Slides]
12:30—1:15 Lunch
 
1:15—2:15 “The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Columbia”

Speaker: Maurice Kugler (Harvard) and
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia) [Slides] 

Discussant: Michael Waugh [Slides] 
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NYU)
2:15—2:30

Break
2:30—3:30 “Do Falling Iceberg Costs Account for Recent US Export Growth?” [Slides] 

Speaker: George Alessandria 
(Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), and 
Horag Choi (University of Auckland) 

Discussant: Kim Ruhl (NYU) [Slides]