2020 Conference on Firms, Trade and Development
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The International Growth Centre (IGC) and the Stanford King Center on Global Development will be hosting a two-day virtual conference on November 5 and 6 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), Imran Rasul (UCL), Meredith Startz (Dartmouth), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia), and Chris Woodruff (Oxford).
Zoom registration was open to students and researchers working in the field, and a livestream was available on this page during the conference.
Watch the recording of each session on this YouTube playlist.
Schedule
Thursday, November 5, 2020
-Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India
Lucie Gadenne (University of Warwick), Tushar K. Nandi, Roland Rathelot
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Tax Administration vs. Tax Rates: Evidence from Corporate Taxation in Indonesia
M. Chatib Basri, Mayara Felix, Rema Hanna, Ben Olken (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Panel Discussion: Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Historical Perspectives and New Thinking
Doug Irwin (Dartmouth College), Beata Javorcik (EBRD and Oxford University), Dani Rodrik (Harvard University)
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Big Push in Distorted Economics
Francisco Buera (Washington University in St. Louis), Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA), Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis), Nicholas Trachter (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
Friday, November 6, 2020
-Direct and Indirect Effects of Financial Access on SMEs
Jing Cai (University of Maryland), Adam Szeidl (Central European University)
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O-Ring Production Networks
Banu Demir (Bilkent University), Ana Cec´ılia Fieler (Yale University), Daniel Yi Xu (Duke University), Kelly Kaili Yang (Duke University)
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Break
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Take the Goods and Run: Contracting Frictions and Market Power in the Ecuadorian Supply Chain
Felipe Brugues (Brown University)
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Concrete Thinking About Development
Keelan Beirne (Princeton University), Martina Kirchberger (Trinity College Dublin)
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