FIW-Workshop: Gravity at Sixty

Dates: December 9th – December 10th, 2022 Venue: Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Arsenal Objekt 20, A-1030 Vienna
Funded by:Austrian Institute of Economic Research, AustriaETH Zürich, SwitzerlandFIW, AustriaLeBow College of Business, Drexel University, USAUniversity of Innsbruck, Department of Economics, Austria,
Organizers:Peter EggerAlexander HudetzHarald OberhoferMichael PfaffermayrFarid ToubalYoto V. Yotov
The European Economic Review is publishing a special issue on ‘Gravity at Sixty: Theory, Estimation, Applications, and Policy Implication’All information and details how to submit can be found at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-economic-review/call-for-papers/gravity-at-sixty-theory-estimation-applications-and-policy-implications
The call is open to all interested authors and not restricted to participants of the “Gravity at Sixty” Workshop in Vienna. Submission window: 1st December 2022 – 3rd January 2023
Program:
December 9th, 2022
Session I: 1.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Mario Larch: Estimating the Effects of Trade Agreements: Lessons From 60 Years of Methods and DataTom Zylkin: The Effects of Free Trade Agreements on Product-level TradeFeodora Teti: The Trade Creating Effects of NTBs: Heterogeneities and Complementarities
Break: 3:00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Session II: 3.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.Amrei Stammann: Latent Structures in Cross-Section Gravity ModelsMichael Pfaffermayr: Bonus-Vetus-OLS for Gravity Models and Its Approximation ErrorScott Baier: Gravity with trade shocks
Break: 5.30 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Keynote lecture I: 6.00 p.m. – 7.00 p.m. James Anderson: Back to the Future: Gravity at Sixty
December 10th, 2022
Session III: 9.00 a.m. – 10.20 a.m.Peter Egger: Decomposing China’s Bilateral Export Growth: A Firm-transaction Structural Gravity ApproachInga Heiland: Frictions to intranational investment
Break: 10:20 a.m. – 10.50 a.m.
Session IV: 10.50 a.m. – 12.50 a.m.Joschka Wanner: The Consequences of Unilateral Withdrawals from the Paris AgreementJeffrey Bergstrand: Increasing Marginal Costs, Firm Heterogeneity, and the Gains from “Deep”International Trade AgreementsLisandra Flach: Quantifying the Effect of NTBs on trade flows: Evidence from BrexitLunch: 12.00 p.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Keynote lecture II: 2.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.Arnaud Costinot: “Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: Evidence from the Trump Tariffs”
Adjourn