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1 Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Balmes Building – Balmes 132, Barcelona FIRMS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY June 10-11, 2015 JUNE 10 Session 1. Trade and Firm Performance 09:00-10:00 GIANMARCO OTTAVIANO (London School of Economics, U. Bologna, CEP and CEPR) “Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition” (with Thierry Mayer and Marc J. Melitz) 10:00-11:00 JONATHAN EATON (Brown University) “Firm-to-Firm Trade” (with Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz) 11:00-11:40 Coffee Break* Session 2. Production networks 11:40-12:30 ANDREAS MOXNES (University of Oslo) “Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance” (with Andrew Bernard and Yukiko Saito) 12:30-13:20 HEIWAI TANG (Johns Hopkins University) “Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Evidence from China” (with Hiau Looi Ke) 13:20-14:40 Lunch* Session 3. International Transmission of Shocks 14:40-15:30 JAVIER CRAVINO (University of Michigan) “Multinational Firms and International Business Cycle Transmission” (with Andrei Levchenko) 15:30-16:20 NITYA NAYAR (University of Michigan) “Input Linkages and the Transmission of Shocks: Firm Level Evidence from the 2011 Tōhoku Event” (with Christoph Boehm and Aaron Flaaen) 16:20-17:00 Coffee Break*
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Barcelona GSE Summer Forum Balmes Building – Balmes 132, Barcelona
FIRMS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY June 10-11, 2015
JUNE 10 Session 1. Trade and Firm Performance 09:00-10:00
GIANMARCO OTTAVIANO (London School of Economics, U. Bologna, CEP and CEPR) “Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition” (with Thierry Mayer and Marc J. Melitz)
10:00-11:00
JONATHAN EATON (Brown University) “Firm-to-Firm Trade” (with Samuel Kortum and Francis Kramarz)
11:00-11:40 Coffee Break*
Session 2. Production networks 11:40-12:30 ANDREAS MOXNES (University of Oslo)
“Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance” (with Andrew Bernard and Yukiko Saito)
12:30-13:20 HEIWAI TANG (Johns Hopkins University) “Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Evidence from China” (with Hiau Looi Ke)
13:20-14:40 Lunch*
Session 3. International Transmission of Shocks 14:40-15:30 JAVIER CRAVINO (University of Michigan)
“Multinational Firms and International Business Cycle Transmission” (with Andrei Levchenko)
15:30-16:20 NITYA NAYAR (University of Michigan) “Input Linkages and the Transmission of Shocks: Firm Level Evidence from the 2011 Tōhoku Event” (with Christoph Boehm and Aaron Flaaen)
16:20-17:00 Coffee Break*
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JUNE 11 Session 4. Competition and Innovation 09:00-10:00
FILIPPO DI MAURO (European Central Bank) “Assessing European Competitiveness”
10:00-11:00 MANUEL GARCIA-SANTANA (Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES) “Distortions and the Size Distribution of Plants: Evidence from Cross-Country Data” (with Roberto Ramos)
11:00-11:40 Coffee Break*
Session 5. Firm Organization Within and Across Borders 11:40-12:30 PAOLA CONCONI (Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES)
“Integration vs Outsourcing along Global Production” (with Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, and Davin Chor)
12:30-13:20 DALIA MARIN (University of Munich) “Trade in Tasks and the Organization of Firms” (with Jan Schymik and Alexander Tarasov)
13:20-14:40 Lunch*
Session 6. Distribution of Firm Size 14:40-15:30 FRANCOIS GEEROLF (UCLA)
“A Static and Microfounded Theory of Zipf’s Law for Firms and of the Top Labor Income Distribution”
15:30-16:20 PEDRO GOMES (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) “Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms” (with Zoë Kuehn)
16:20-17:00 Coffee Break* Organizers Julian di Giovanni (UPF and Barcelona GSE) Christian Fons-Rosen (UPF and Barcelona GSE) Carolina Villegas-Sánchez (ESADE Business School) The organizers gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, through the “Severo Ochoa” Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D” (SEV-2011-0075) The workshop “Firms In The Global Economy” is supported also by the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IIF (Grant Agreement 622959) and ESADE Business School and AGAUR (grant agreement 2014 SGR 1079). * Meals are provided by the organization
