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4th Atlanta Workshop on International Economics

DateDecember 11–12, 2015

VenueNew York University

Co-sponsored by New York University’s Stern School of Business and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The archival source preserves the program sequence but not session times.

Program

Two-sided Search in International Buyer Seller Networks

Presenter: Daniel Xu, Duke University
Discussant: Lukasz Drozd, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania–Wharton

Trade and Labor Market Dynamics

Presenter: Lorenzo Caliendo, Yale School of Management
Discussant: Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University

Optimal City Structure

Presenter: Costas Arkolakis, Yale University
Discussant: Stephen Redding, Princeton University

Distributional Incentives in an Equilibrium Model of Domestic Sovereign Default

Presenter: Enrique Mendoza, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Martin Uribe, Columbia University

Reverse Speculative Attacks

Presenter: Fabrizio Perri, University of Minnesota
Discussant: Christopher Tonetti, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Pareto Weights as Wedges in Two-Country Models

Presenter: Dave Backus, New York University

The Global Diffusion of Ideas

Presenter: Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University
Discussant: Jeff Thurk, University of Notre Dame

Financial Frictions and Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations

Presenter: Fernando Leibovici, York University
Discussant: Vivian Yue, Emory University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Obstfeld and Rogoff’s International Macro Puzzles: A Quantitative Assessment

Presenter: Sam Kortum, Yale University
Discussant: Michael Waugh, New York University