Firms, Networks, and Trade.

• Position: Conferences

A conference on "Firms, Networks, and Trade" took place in Cambridge on March 15. Research Associates Laura Alfaro and Pol Antras, both of Harvard University, and International Trade and Investment Program Director Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Alonso Alfaro-Urena, Central Bank of Costa Rica, and Isabela Manelici and Jose P. Vasquez, University of California, Berkeley, "The Productivity Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages"

* Johannes Boehm, Sciences Po, Paris, and Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University and NBER, "Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production"

* Yimei Zou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, "Endogenous Production Networks and Gains from Trade"

* Ernest Liu...