Event Details:
The International Growth Centre (IGC) and the Stanford King Center on Global Development will host a two-day hybrid conference on November 4 and 5 on the theme of “Firms, Trade and Development.”
The event is organized by David Atkin (MIT), Matilde Bombardini (Berkeley), Dave Donaldson (MIT), Pete Klenow (Stanford), Imran Rasul (UCL), Meredith Startz (Dartmouth), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia), and Chris Woodruff (Oxford).
We anticipate this conference to be a hybrid conference with in-person attendees at Stanford University. The conference is open to academics in the related fields. Please register on Zoom to attend online. If you are interested in attending in-person, please contact Leslie Murray.
If you have any questions, please contact Leslie Murray.
Schedule
Thursday, November 4, 2021
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Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation
Matthew Grant (Dartmouth), Meredith Startz (Dartmouth)
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Coffee Break
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Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship
Gaurav Chiplunkar (University of Virginia), Pinelopi K. Goldberg (Yale University)
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Coffee Break
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Lunch
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Keynote: Misallocation and Development
Pete Klenow (Stanford University)
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Coffee Break
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The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
Christoph Albert (CEMFI), Paula Bustos (CEMFI), Jacopo Ponticelli (Northwestern University)
Friday, November 5, 2021
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Can service-sector growth move Africa out of poverty?
A Conversation with Kosi Antwiwaa Yankey-Ayeh, Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Enterprises Agency (GEA) and Patricia Ojangole, Managing Director, Uganda Development Bank Limited. Moderated by Maggie McMillan (Tufts University)
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Coffee Break
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Trade and Labor Market Institutions: A Tale of Two Liberalizations
Alessandro Ruggieri (University of Nottingham)
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Coffee Break
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Propagation and Insurance in Village Networks
Cynthia Kinnan (Tufts University), Krislert Samphantharak (UC San Diego), Robert Townsend (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Diego Vera-Cossio (Inter-American Development Bank)
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Lunch
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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Brazil
Samuel Bazzi (UC San Diego), Raquel de Freitas Oliveira (Central Bank of Brazil), Marc Muendler (UC San Diego), James Rauch, (UC San Diego)
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Coffee Break
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Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era
Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School), Cathy Ge Bao (University of International Business and Economics), Maggie Chen (George Washington University), Junjie Hong (University of International Business and Economics), Claudia Steinwender (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)