Conference on International Economics

Friday, October 20
Houston Branch of the Dallas Fed, San Jacinto Room
8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Welcome Remarks
	Daron Peschel, Senior VP, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
8:45 a.m.	Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity
	Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Yan Bai, University of Rochester; and Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University Discussant: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland
9:50 a.m.	Break
10:05 a.m.	Dynamic Geography of the Population and Economic Response to Sea Level Rise
	Klaus Desmet, SMU; Robert Kopp, Rutgers University; David Nagy, CREI; Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University; and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University Discussant: Francisco Buera, Washington University
11:10 a.m.	Break
11:25 a.m.	International Currencies and Capital Allocation
	Matteo Maggiori, Harvard University; Brent Neiman, University of Chicago; and Jesse Schreger, Harvard University Discussant: Eric van Wincoop, University of Virginia
12:30 p.m.	Lunch: Brazos Room
	Moderated discussion with Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan
2:00 p.m.	Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting
	Pablo Fajgelbaum, UCLA and Cecile Gaubert, UC-Berkeley Discussant: Arnaud Costinot, MIT
3:05 p.m.	Break
3:20 p.m.	Consumption-led Growth
	Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University; Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, UC-Berkeley; and Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University Discussant: Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
4:25 p.m.	Break
4:40 p.m.	Tradability and the Labor-Market Impact of Immigration: Theory and Evidence
	Ariel Burstein, UCLA; Gordon Hanson, UC-San Diego; Lin Tian, Columbia University; and Jonathan Vogel, UCLA Discussant: David Atkin, MIT
5:45 p.m.	Adjourn
6:30 p.m.	Dinner
Saturday, October 21
UH; Bauer Business School, Melcher 140
8:00 a.m.	Breakfast
8:30 a.m.	Sector Level Economies of Scale: Estimation Using Trade Data
	Dominick Bartelme, University of Michigan; Arnaud Costinot, MIT; Dave Donaldson, Stanford University; and Andres Rodriguez-Clare, UC-Berkeley Discussant: Susanto Basu, Boston College
9:35 a.m.	Break
9:50 a.m.	Banking, Trade, and the Making of a Dominant Currency
	Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and Jeremy Stein, Harvard University Discussant: Andres Drenik, Columbia University
10:55 a.m.	Adjourn
11:30 a.m.	Box Lunch

Organizers

• Kei-Mu Yi
• Mike Sposi
• Mark Wynne