Research Events

Conference on International Economics

October 18 – 19, 2024

Dallas

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the University of Houston and the Banco de México hosted the Ninth Annual Conference on International Economics, Oct. 18–19, 2024, at the Dallas Fed.

Agenda

Friday, October 18
8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
8:45 a.m.	Opening remarks Karel Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
9:00 a.m.	Aggregate Implications of Firm Heterogeneity: A Nonparametric Analysis of Monopolistic Competition Trade Models
	Costas Arkolakis, Yale University; with Rodrigo Adao and Sharat Ganapati Discussant: Federico Huneeus, Duke University
10:05 a.m.	Break
10:25 a.m.	Weathering the Storm: Supply Chains and Climate Risk
	Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin; with Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Gaurav Khanna and Nicolas Morales Discussant: Galina Hale, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:30 a.m.	Break
11:50 a.m.	Quantifying Carbon Emissions in the Global Economy
	Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley; with Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman, Natalia Ramondo and Joe Shapiro Discussant: Stefania Garetto, Boston University
12:55 p.m.	Lunch
2:30 p.m.	A World Trading System for Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs
	Arnaud Costinot, Massachusets Institute of Technology; with Rodrigo Adao, John Sturm Becko and Dave Donaldson Discussant: Robert Staiger, Dartmouth College
3:35 p.m.	Break
3:55 p.m.	Exchange Controls as a Fiscal Instrument
	Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University; with Martin Uribe Discussant: Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia
5:00 p.m.	Reception
6:00 p.m.	Dinner
Saturday, October 19
7:45 a.m.	Breakfast
8:15 a.m.	Beware the Side Effects: Capital Controls, Trade, Misallocation and Welfare
	Enrique Mendoza, University of Pennsylvania; with Eugenia Andreasen, Sofia Bauducco and Evangelina Dardati Discussant: Ezra Oberfield, Cornell University
9:20 a.m.	Break
9:40 a.m.	Buy American Restrictions on Government Purchases: Implications for U.S. Manufacturing
	Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin; with Miguel Acosta Discussant: Conor Walsh, Columbia University
10:45 a.m.	Break
11:05 a.m.	The Exchange Rate as an Industrial Policy
	Pablo Ottonello, University of Maryland; with Diego Perez and William Witheridge Discussant: Yan Bai, University of Rochester
12:10 p.m.	Adjourn