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Conference on Product Heterogeneity and Quality Heterogeneity in International Trade
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Zurich, 28th - 30th of August 2009
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Venue: Metropol Café
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Day 1: Friday, August 28
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9.00-11.00 Session: Product Mix at Home and Away
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Multi-Product Firms at Home and Away
Carsten Eckel (Bamberg), Leonardo Iacovone (World Bank), Beata Javorcik (Oxford) and
Peter Neary (Oxford)
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Discussion: Sebastian Krautheim (PSE)
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Market size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters
Marc J Melitz (Harvard), Thierry Mayer (PSE), and Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi)
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Discussion: Beata Javorcik (Oxford)
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11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
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11.30-12.30 Session: Exporting and Markups
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Markups and Firm-level Export Status
Jan De Loecker (Princeton) and Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus)
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Discussion: Amil Petrin (Minnesota)
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12.30-14.00: Standing Lunch & Coffee
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14.00-16.00 Session: Heterogeneous Consumers and Aggregate Trade Flows
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Product Heterogeneity, Within-Industry Trade Patterns, and the Home Bias of Consumption
Raphael Auer (SNB)
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Discussion: David Atkin (Princeton)
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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade
Pablo Fajgelbaum (Princeton), Gene M. Grossman (Princeton) and Elhanan Helpman
(Harvard)
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Discussion: Reto Foellmi (Berne)
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16.00-16:30: Coffee Break: Metropol Café
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16.30-17.30 Session: Quality and Export Selection
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Quality Sorting and Trade: Firm-level Evidence for French Wine
Matthieu Crozet (CEPII), Keith Head (Sauder School of Business), and Thierry Mayer
(PSU)
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Discussion: Richard Friberg (Stockholm School)
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Day 2: Saturday, August 29
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9.30-11.30 Session: Quality vs. Productivity in Export Selection
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Quality Competition versus Price Competition Goods: An Empirical Classification
Richard Baldwin (Geneva) and Tadashi Ito (Geneva)
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Discussion: Robert Johnson (Dartmouth) (Stockholm School)
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Export Prices and Heterogeneous Firm Models
Kalina Manova (Stanford) and Zhiwei Zhang (Hong Kong Monetary Authority and IMF)
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Discussion: James Harrigan (Virginia)
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11.30-12.00 Coffee Break
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12.00-13.00 Session: Export Status and Quality
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Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints
Juan Carlos Hallak (San Andres) and Jagadeesh Sivadasan (Michigan)
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Discussion: Stefania Garetto (Boston University)
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13.00-14.30: Standing Lunch & Coffee
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14.30-16.30 Session: Firm Heterogeneity and Pricing
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Spatial Price Discrimination with Heterogeneous Firms
Jonathan Vogel (Columbia)
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Discussion: Thomas Chaney (Chicago)
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Spacial Competition in Quality
Raphael Auer (SNB) and Philip Sauré (SNB)
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Discussion: Juan Carlos Hallak (San Andres)
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Day3: Sunday August 30
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09.30-10.30 Session: Explaining Export Volumes
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Decomposing Firm-Level Sales Variation
Jakob R. Munch (Copenhagen) and Daniel X. Nguyen (Copenhagen)
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Discussion: Kensuke Teshima (Columbia / Kyoto)
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10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
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11.00-13.00 Session: Trade, Heterogeneity, and Development
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Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data
Judith A. Frías (IMSS), David S. Kaplan (World Bank), and Eric A. Verhoogen
(Columbia)
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Discussion: Paula Bustos (CREI/UPF)
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Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India
Penny Goldberg (Princeton), Amit Khandelwal (Columbia), Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth),
Petia Topalova (IMF)
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Discussion: Jagadeesh Sivadasan (Michigan University)
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