Week 1: January 19

Alireza Naghavi (Bologna)

The Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence
(with Stelios Michalopoulos and Giovanni Prarolo)

Week 2: January 26

Emanuel Ornelas (LSE)

Sequential Exporting
(with Facundo Albornoz, Hector Calvo-Pardo and Gregory Corcos)

Week 3: February 2

Adrian Wood (Oxford)

Softening Comparative Advantage: How Trade Costs Damp and Distort Specialisation

Week 4: February 9

Paula Bustos (CREI) (joint with OxIGED)

The impact of trade on technology and skill upgrading: Evidence from Argentina

Week 5: February 16

Holger Breinlich (Essex)

Empirical Evaluations of Heterogeneous Firm Models: An Event Study Approach

Week 6: February 23

Karin Olofsdotter (Lund) (joint with the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation)

Tax Differences and Foreign Direct Investment in the EU27
(with Asa Hansson)

Week 7: March 2

Dennis Novy (Warwick)

International Trade and Monopolistic Competition without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity

Week 8: March 9

Lionel Fontagné (Paris I)

Firms and the Global Crisis: French Exports in the Turmoil
(with Jean-Charles Bricongne, Guillaume Gaulier, Daria Taglioni and Vincent Vicard)

Week 1: April 27

Jim Markusen (Colorado and UCDublin)
(joint with OxIGED)

Putting Per-Capita Income back into Trade Theory

Week 2: May 4

Keith Head (UBC; visiting Oxford)

Import Sources of Chinese Cities: Order versus Randomness (joint with Ran Jing and John Ries)

Week 3: May 11

Andy Bernard (Dartmouth)
(joint with OxIGED)

Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization (with Stephen J. Redding and Peter K. Schott)

Week 4: May 18

Kala Krishna (Penn State)

Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments (with Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova and Hiau Looi Kee)

Week 5: May 25

NO SEMINAR

Week 6: June 1

SEMINAR CANCELLED

Week 7: June 8

Ana Cecilia Fieler (Pennsylvania)
(joint with OxIGED)
NOTE CHANGE OF TIME: 3 p.m.

Non-Homotheticity and Bilateral Trade: Evidence and a Quantitative Explanation