The Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development is being co-sponsored by the International Growth Centre, a research consortium based at the London School of Economics and Oxford University, the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP) at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School.

This conference is by invitation only.

Program

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Friday Oct. 27

10:00 - 10:30 am — Registration/Check-in

10:30 - 11:20 am — Johannes Boehm and Ezra Oberfield, “Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production”

11:40 - 12:30 pm — Jie Bai, Ludovica Gazze and Yukun Wang, “Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry”

12:30 - 1:30 pm — Lunch

1:30 - 2:20 pm — Martin Rotemberg and T. Kirk White, “Measuring Cross-Country Differences in Misallocation”

2:40 - 3:30 pm — Ajay Shenoy, “Estimating the Production Function When Firms Are Constrained”

3:50 - 4:40 pm — Pamela Medina, “Import Competition, Quality Upgrading and Exporting: Evidence from the Peruvian Apparel Industry”

5:00 - 5:50 pm — Victor Couture, Benjamin Faber, Yizhen Gu and Lizhi Liu, “E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China”

6:30 pm — Dinner: Pisticci, 125 LaSalle St., New York, NY (by invitation only)

Saturday, Oct. 28

8:00 - 9:00 am — Breakfast

9:00 - 9:50 am — Lauren Falcao Bergquist, “Pass-through, Competition, and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya”

9:50 - 10:40 am — Swati Dhingra and Silvana Tenreyro, “Piggy-Back Exporting, Intermediation, and the Gains to Small Farmers in Developing Countries”

11:10 am-12:00 pm — Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo, “Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics”

12:00 - 12:50 pm — Stephen Redding and David Weinstein, “Aggregating from Micro to Macro Patterns of Trade”

12:50 - 2:00 pm — Lunch