Videos

Julia Parzen, speaking on Sustainability:  A Framework for Solving Complex Urban Problems. Julia Parzen is a social entrepreneur who cofounded Working Assets, one of the first socially responsible mutual funds; the Urban Sustainability Directors Ne...

Taking Jonathan Z. Smith’s much quoted line seriously: “there is nothing that must be taught, there is nothing that cannot be left out,” this workshop with Russell McCutcheon (University of Alabama) focuses on the choices an instructor makes in...

In this presentation, Andy B. Bernard examined what determines buyer-supplier connections and the consequences for firm performance. After reviewing facts about Japanese production work, the model of producers and domestic sourcing, and natural experim...

Samuel Kortum presented a general equilibrium model on product trade through random meetings, which generates predictions for imports, exports, and the share of labor in production at the firm level, as well as firm-to-firm trade and labor’s share of...

Pol Antràs discusses preliminary research on how global sourcing decisions impact firm performance, employment, and welfare. During his presentation, he solicits feedback from researchers on the proposal of a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model ...

Mitsuru Igami discusses a novel pattern of offshoring and market structure in a high-tech industry–the production of hard drives–and proposes a simple oligopoly model to explain it.

Using new panel data across twelve European countries from 1996-2007, John Van Reenen presented work examining the impact of Chinese import competition on broad measures of technical change, including patenting, IT and TFP.

Drawing on a new and unique collection of Mexican microdata, Ben Faber presents work in which he and his coauthors estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare and its underlying channels.

Ezra Oberfield presented a theory of innovation and diffusion of technologies to explore the role of international trade and foreign direct investment. This framework allows him to quantify the dynamic gains from trade in the short and long run.

How can the US government protect our national security and advance our foreign policy while also respecting our commitment to privacy and civil liberties? After the leaks by Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning and Edward Snowden, that’s the question Pres...