NUS Trade (and Spatial) seminar


In Academic Year 2024/25, trade seminar usually takes place on Wednesday, 4 pm to 5:30 pm (in person).

29 Apr. 2025 Pierre-Daniel Sarte (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

23 Apr. 2025 Barthélémy Bonadio (NYU Abu Dhabi) “Checkpoints and Local Economic Development

6 Mar. 2025 David Dorn (Zurich) “Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap

26 Feb. 2025 Phillip McCalman (Melbourne) “Empirics of Air Services Agreements: A Structural Model of Network Formation"

22 Jan. 2025 Arnaud Costinot (MIT) “A World Trading System For Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs

13 Nov. 2024 Haishi Li (HKU) “Robots, Tools, and Jobs: Evidence from Brazilian Labor Markets

6 Nov. 2024 Marti Mastieri (IAE-CSIC) “Jobless Industrialization

30 Oct. 2024 Thierry Mayer (Science Po) ”The Fragmentation Paradox: De-risking Trade and Global Safety

4 Sep. 2024 Chang Sun (Hong Kong U) “Firm Entry and Market Interdependence: Evidence from anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese exports

20 Aug. 2024 Nancy Chau (Cornell) “On Migration Gravity with Status Quo Bias and Job Search Friction

8 Aug. 2024 Wolfgang Keller (Colorado at Boulder) “Colocation of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States

5 Aug. 2024 Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke) “Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality

24 Apr. 2024 Thibault Fally (UC Berkeley) “Consumer Demand with Price Aggregators

17 Apr. 2024 Pao-Li Chang (SMU) “Estimating Firm-Level Production Functions with Spatial Dependence

27 Mar. 2024 Woan Foong Wong (U Oregon) “Multimodal Transport Networks

20 Mar. 2024 Daisuke Adachi (Aarhus) “When Work is Threatened: Lifelong Education and Occupation Choice

6 Mar. 2024 Chris Albert (Collegio Carlo Alberto) “The Trade-Creating Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from Household
Purchase Data

28 Feb. 2024 Joan Monras (San Francisco FED) “Floating Population: Migration With(Out) Family and the Spatial Distribution of
Economic Activity

6 Dec. 2023 Konstantin Kucheryavyy (U Tokyo) “The Quantitative New Trade Model: Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis

22 Nov. 2023 Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale) “Reciprocity and the China Shock

18 Oct. 2023 Shengyu Li (UNSW Sydney) “Productivity and Quality of Multi-product Firms

14 Aug. 2023 Liugang Sheng (Chinese U Hong Kong) “How did Chinese exporters manage the trade war?

2 May. 2023 Kirill Borusyak (UCL) “Understanding Migration Responses to Local Shocks

26 Apr. 2023 Gordon Hanson (Harvard, Kennedy School) “Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and
Policies

21 Apr. 2023 Daniel Trefler (Toronto) “AI and Digital Service Trade

4 Apr. 2023 Loren Brandt (Toronto) “Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China

21 Mar. 2023 Ferdinand Rauch (Oxford, Heidelberg University) “Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from
Ancient Ports

7 Mar. 2023 Anders Humlum (Chicago, Booth) “Technological Stickiness: Long Transition from Water to Steam Power

6 Dec. 2022 Andreas Moxnes (Oslo) “Trade From Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks

22 Nov. 2022 Fernando Parro (Penn State) “Mechanics of Spatial Growth

8 Nov. 2022 Charly Porcher (Georgetown) “Remote Work and City Structure

25 Oct. 2022 Jee-Hyeong Park (Seoul National University) “Hybrid Vertical FDI