First Conference on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development
Description
The production of most goods is increasingly organized along global value chains, in which different stages of the production process are fragmented across countries. Recently, the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) established a research network on Global Value Chains, Trade and Development, with the goal of stimulating research on the important and timely questions raised by the emergence of global value chains. In line with its global strategy for trade and competitiveness, the World Bank Group (WBG) supports developing countries’ efforts to connect to GVCs to produce more and better jobs, greater opportunities for domestic suppliers, increased exports, and higher productivity. Together, the CEPR and the WBG have joined forces to foster debate and collaborations in this area among researchers in both academic and policy institutions.
Informations
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Thursday, 31 March |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
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9:00 AM - 9:50 AM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills AMEET MORJARIA, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY |
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9:50 AM - 10:40 AM | Keynote Speech Offshoring, Relationship-Specificity, and Domestic Production Networks HEIWAI TANG, Assistant Professor of International Economics, School of Advanced International Studies, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY |
| 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM | Coffee Break |
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11:10 AM - 12:00 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Input Specificity and the Propagation of Idiosyncratic Shocks in Production Networks JEAN-NOËL BARROT, Sloan School of Management, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY |
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12:00 PM - 12:50 PM | Keynote Speech On the Geography of GVCs POL ANTRÀS, Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics, HARVARD UNIVERSITY |
| 12:50 PM - 1:50 PM | Lunch |
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1:50 PM - 2:40 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion Income Differences and Input-Output Structure HARALD FADINGER, Associate Professor of International Economics, UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM |
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2:40 PM - 3:30 PM | Keynote Speech Internalizing GVCs: A Firm-Level Analysis LAURA ALFARO, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Coffee Break |
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4:00 PM - 4:50 PM | Paper Presentation and Discussion GVC Participation and Current Account Imbalances FABIAN TROTTNER, PhD student in Economics, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY |
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4:50 PM - 5:50 PM | Panel Discussion What Do GVCs Mean for Macro Policies? Chair BILL MALONEY, Chief Economist, Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions, WORLD BANK GROUP Panelists DAVID DOLLAR, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION FABIO GHIRONI, Paul F. Glaser Professor of Economics, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON M. AYHAN KOSE, Director, Development Prospects Group, WORLD BANK GROUP MARTIN D. KAUFMAN, Advisor at the Strategy, Policy and Review Department, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND |
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5:50 PM - 6:00 PM | Closing Remarks DARIA TAGLIONI, Lead Trade Economist & Global Value Chains Global Solution Lead, WORLD BANK GROUP PAOLA CONCONI, Professor of Economics, UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES |
