Empirical Investigations In
International Trade

25th Annual Conference:

Silver Jubilee Celebration

Purdue University

October 26-28, 2018

Organized by

Anson Soderbery, Purdue University
Tibor Besedeš, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jon Haveman, FREIT

Sponsored by


Charles L. Shor Foundation

 
Next fall, the Economics Department at Purdue University will host the 25th Annual Empirical Investigations in International Trade conference. At this conference, economists specializing in empirical international trade will present their current research. The goal of this conference is to promote the awareness of ongoing research in the area. It is also our hope that by bringing together people of similar interests, increased communication of ideas and future directions for the general research area will be promoted.

Previous editions of the conference have included researchers at many different stages in their careers. The atmosphere is informal and lively, characterized by significant audience participation. We do not intend to publish the papers.

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.

Format:

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

  • 2017: Lucas Costa-Scottini
    • Brown University
    • Currently at
  • 2016: Heitor Pellegrina
    • Brown University
    • Currently at New York University Abu Dhabi
  • 2015: Farid Farrokhi & Rodrigo Adao
    • Farrokhi: Graduate of Pennsylvania State University, now on the faculty at Purdue University
    • Adao: Graduate of MIT, currently research scholar at the Becker-Friedman Institute
  • 2014: Reka Juhasz
    • Graduate of London School of Economics
    • currently on the faculty of Columbia University
  • Gabriel Smagghue & Paul Piveteau
    • Smagghue: Graduate of Sciences Po Paris, now on the faculty at University Carlos III of Madrid
    • Piveteau: Graduate of Columbia University, now on the faculty of Jonhs Hopkins University's SAIS
  • 2012: Samuel Bazzi
    • Graduate of University of California, San Diego
    • On the faculty at Boston University
  • 2011: Treb Allen
    • Graduate of Yale University
    • On the faculty at Dartmouth College
  • 2010: Anson Soderberry
    • Graduate of the University of California-Davis
    • Currently on the faculty at Purdue University
  • 2009: Zhiyuan Li
    • University of California-Davis
    • Currently on the faculty at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
  • 2008: Benjamin Mandel
    • Graduate of the University of California-Davis
    • Currently an economist in Multi-Asset Solutions at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in New York
  • 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
  • 2002: Ricardo Lopez
    • Graduate of UCLA
    • Currently on the faculty at Brandeis University
  • 2001: Sebastian Claro
    • Graduate of UCLA
    • Currently on the faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago and Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Chile
  • 1999: Mika Saito
    • Graduate of Cornell University
    • Currently at the IMF Institute
  • 1998: Chad Bown
    • Graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Currently Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
  • 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