The International Growth Centre (IGC) and the Stanford King Center on Global Development hosted a one-day conference at Stanford on December 5 on the theme of “Firms, Trade and Development.”
The event was organized by David Atkin (MIT), Dave Donaldson (MIT), Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley), Pete Klenow (Stanford), Meredith Startz (Stanford), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia) and Chris Woodruff (Oxford).
Admission: by invitation only
Schedule
Thursday, December 5, 2019
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Registration and breakfast
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Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda
Lauren Bergquist (University of Michigan), Benjamin Faber (UC Berkeley), Thibault Fally (UC Berkeley), Matthias Hoelzlein (UC Berkeley), Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley), Andres Rodriguez-Clare (UC Berkeley)
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Session break/ Coffee & Tea
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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke), Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale), Costas Meghir (Yale), Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford)
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Session break / Coffee &Tea
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The Long-Run Productivity Effects of Technology Adoption: Evidence from France
Réka Juhász (Columbia), Mara P. Squicciarini (Bocconi), Nico Voigtländer (UCLA)
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Lunch break
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Keynote: The World Bank World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains
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Session break / Coffee & Tea
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Achieving Scale Collectively: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in Urban Uganda
Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California), Raffaella Muoio (BRAC), Tommaso Porzio (Columbia Business School and CEPR), Ritwika Sen (Northwestern Kellogg), Esau Tugume (BRAC)
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Session break / Coffee & Tea
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Access to Credit and Productivity: Evidence from Thai Villages
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Emily Breza (Harvard), Robert Townsend (MIT), Diego Vera-Cossio (IADB)
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Session break / Coffee & Tea
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Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence from India
Natalie Bau (UCLA), Adrien Matray (Princeton)
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Session break / Coffee & Tea
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Buyer-Driven Quality Upgrading in GVCs: The Sustainable Quality Program in Colombia
Rocco Macchiavello (LSE), Josepa Miquel-Florensa (Toulouse School of Economics)
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Faculty and Presenter Dinner
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