20th Annual Conference on:

University of Virginia

October 18-20, 2013

Organized by
Sponsored by
Ariell Reshef
University of Virginia
Peter Debaere
University of Virginia,
Darden School of Business

James Harrigan
University of Virginia
John McLaren
University of Virginia
and
Jon Haveman
FREIT

Graduate Student Competition

To encourage the presence/participation of graduate students we are holding a special competition limited to graduate students. From the papers submitted by graduate students, we will select at least one paper and include it on the program. Please note that due to declining budgets, we may not be able to reimburse travel expenses for the graduate student competition winner as we have done in past years.

The papers submitted but not selected through this competition will be added to the stack of general submissions.

Submission deadline:  The deadline for submission is the same as for general conference submissions..

Eligibility:  The author or authors must all be graduate students at the time of the conference.  Joint work with faculty members is not eligible for the graduate student competition, but is of course welcome under general submissions.

General participation:  We have been very pleased with the response in previous years and hope to duplicate it this year. This is a very friendly atmosphere at which you will be exposed to the ongoing work of the most energetic researchers in the area of empirical international trade.  Graduate students whose papers are not selected will have the option of participating as discussants, and are of course free to attend even if they are not on the program. 

Please pass this information on to other graduate students who might be interested.


Previous Winners

  • 2011: Treb Allen
    • Graduate of Yale University
    • Current and IES Fellow at Princeton University
    • Will join the Northwestern University faculty
  • 2010: Anson Soderberry
    • Graduate of the University of California-Davis
    • Currently on the faculty at Purdue University
  • 2009: Zhihuan Li
    • University of California-Davis
  • 2008: Benjamin Mandel
    • Graduate of the University of California-Davis
    • Currently employed at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, DC
  • 2007: Joel Rodrigue
    • Graduate of Queen's University
    • Currently on the faculty at Vanderilt University
  • 2006: Alan Spearot
    • Graduate of the University of Wisconsin
    • Currently on the faculty at the University of California - Santa Cruz
  • 2005: Amit Khandelwal
    • Graduate of Yale
    • Currently on the faculty at the Columbia Business School
  • 2004: Matilda Bombardini
    • Graduate of MIT
    • Currently on the faculty of the University of British Columbia
  • 2003: Rubiana Chamarbagwala
    • Graduate of the University of Maryland - College Park
    • Currently on faculty at Indiana University
  • 2002: Ricardo Lopez
    • Graduate of UCLA
    • Currently on the faculty at Indiana University
  • 2001: Sebastian Claro
    • Graduate of UCLA
    • Currently on the faculty of the Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago
  • 2000: Eileen Brooks
  • 1999: Mika Saito
    • Graduate of Cornell University
    • Currently at the IMF Institute
  • 1998: Chad Bown
    • Graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Currently on the faculty at Brandeis University
  • 1997: Peter Schott
    • Graduate of the Univerity of California - Los Angeles
    • Currently on the faculty at Yale University
  • 1996: Dorsati Madani
    • Graduate of the University of California -- Davis
    • Currently employed at the World Bank
  • 1995: David Hummels
    • Graduate of the University of Michigan
    • Currently on the faculty at Purdue University