Trade and Trade Policy in the 21st Century.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER conference on Trade and Trade Policy in the 21st Century took place April 8-9 in Cambridge and online. Research Associates Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University and Robert W. Staiger of Dartmouth College organized the meeting, which was supported by Smith Richardson Foundation grant #2018-1811. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Organization, delivered a keynote address. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Lu Han, University of Liverpool, and Meredith Crowley and Thomas Prayer, University of Cambridge, "The Pro-competitive Effects of Trade Agreements"

* David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER; Joaquin Blaum, Boston University; Pablo Fajgelbaum, Princeton University and NBER; and Augusto Ospital, University of California, Los Angeles, "Protectionism Unchained: Determinants and Consequences of Discretionary Trade Policy in Argentina"

* Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER, and Bingjing Li, The University of Hong Kong, "Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy" (NBER Working Paper 29349)

* Sharon Traiberman, New York University and NBER, and Martin Rotemberg, New York University, "Precautionary Protectionism"

* Emanuel Ornelas, Sao Paulo School of Economics, and John Turner, University of Georgia, "The Costs and Benefits of Rules of Origin in Modern Free Trade Agreements"

* T. Renee Bowen and Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San...