Economic Consequences of Trade.

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An NBER conference on Economic Consequences of Trade took place April 5-6 in Cambridge. Research Associate Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Ryan Kim, Johns Hopkins University, and Jonathan Vogel, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, "Trade and Inequality across Local Labor Markets: The Margins of Adjustment"

* Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University and NBER, and Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University and NBER, "Identity Politics and Trade Policy" (NBER Working Paper No. 25348)

* Paula Bustos, CEMFI; Joan Monras, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University; and Juan Manuel Castro Vincenzi, Princeton University, "Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth"

* Alonso de Gortari, Princeton University, "Disentangling Global Value Chains"

* Kevin Lim, University of Toronto; Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto and NBER; and Miaojie Yu, Peking University, "Trade and Innovation: The Role of Scale and Competition Effects"

* Kirill Borusyak, Princeton University, and Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics, "The Distributional Effects of Trade: Theory and Evidence from the United...

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