9th Institutions, Trade and Economic Development (InsTED) Workshop
Advances in the Theory and Empirics of Institutions, Trade & Economic Development

September 20-21, 2025 | 5-40 School of Business | University of Alberta, Canada

Saturday, September 20st, 2025
8:00 am - 8:45 am Arrival/Registration – Coffee and continental breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am Opening Remarks – Ben Zissimos and Beyza Ural Marchand
 

Session 1: International Trade Credit and Finance

Chair: Jiatong Zhong (University of Alberta)		  
9:10 am - 9:50 am “Trade Credit and Relationships”
Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (Federal Reserve Board of Governors); Felipe Benguria (University of Kentucky); Alvaro Garcia-Marin (Universidad de los Andes, Chile)
9:50 am - 10:30 am “International Trade Finance and Learning Dynamics”
Michal Szkup (University of British Columbia); David Kohn (Central Bank of Chile); Emiliano Luttini (World Bank); Shengxing Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University
10:30 am - 10:45 am

Coffee Break

 

Session 2: International Trade, Firms, and Labor Markets

Chair: Eugene Beaulieu (University of Calgary)
10:45 am - 11:25 am “The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Power: Firm-level Evidence from Vietnam”
Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University); Trang Hoang (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System); Hoang Pham (Oregon State University)
11:25 am-12:05 pm “Growing Together and Apart: Scale Economies and Specialization”
Chong Xiang (Purdue University); Bjorn Thor Arnarson (University of Copenhagen); Magnus Tolum Buus (University of Copenhagen); Andreas Moxnes (BI Norwegian Business School & CEPR); Jakob Munch (University of Copenhagen)
12:05 pm - 1:20 pm

Lunch Break

 

Session 3: Institutions, Gender and Fertility

Chair: Pinar Gunes (University of Alberta)
1:20 pm - 2:00 pm “The Purdah Meets the Factory: Exposure to Female Employment and Son Preference”
Reshad N. Ahsan (University of Melbourne); Diana Contreras Suarez (University of Melbourne); Md. Moniruzzaman (University of Dhaka)
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm “Foreign Direct Investment, Geography, and Welfare”
Jose Asturias (U.S. Census Bureau); Marco Sanfilippo (University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto); Asha Sundaram (University of Auckland)
2:40 pm - 2:55 pm

Coffee Break

 

Session 4: Trade Shocks, Household Welfare and Demographics

Chair: Jay Hyun (University of Alberta)
2:55 pm - 3:35 pm “Protectionism, Evasion and Household Welfare Evidence from Nigeria’s Import Bans”
Bob Rijkers (World Bank); Erhan Artuc (World Bank); Guillermo Falcone (World Bank); Guido Porto (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
3:35 pm - 4:15 pm “Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Households”
Gizem Kutlu (University of Bristol)
4:15 pm – 4:55 pm

“Family and Demographic Effects in Worker Response to Trade Shocks: Results from the Matched CPS”
Danielle Parks (University of Colorado, Boulder); John McLaren (University of Virginia)

 

Keynote Address:

Host: Runjuan Liu (University of Alberta)
4:55 pm - 5:55 pm Prof. Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Title: "Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political Differences"
6.00 pm – 7:00 pm Break
7:00 pm

Conference dinner (by invitation)

 

Sunday, September 21st, 2025
 

Session 5: Export Markets and Subsidies

Chair: Martin Alfaro (University of Alberta)
8:30 am – 9:00 am Arrival, coffee and continental breakfast
9:00 am - 9:40 am “Policy Relevant Information Spillovers in Export Markets”
Joel Rodrigue (Vanderbilt University); Magnus T. Buus (University of Copenhagen); Jakob R. Munch (University of Copenhagen); Georg Schaur (University of Tennessee)
9:40 am -10:20 am “What Do Market-Access Subsidies Do? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia”
Giacomo De Giorgi (University of Geneva); Nadia Ali (Columbia University); Aminur Rahman (Asian Development Bank); Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
10:20 am -11:00 am “Promoting Exports”
João Pessoa (University of Geneva); Nicolas Depetris-Chauvin (HES-SO/HEG-Geneve); Paulo Mencacci (Sao Paulo School of Economics); Emanuel Ornelas (Sao Paulo School of Economics); Cristine Pinto (Insper - Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa); Vladimir Ponczek (Sao Paulo School of Economics)
11:00 am -11:15 am

Coffee Break

 

Keynote Address:

Host: Beyza Ural Marchand (University of Alberta)
11:15 am-12:15 pm Prof. Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto)
Title: “The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services”
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch Break
 

Session 6: Labor Markets Effects of Offshoring

Chair: Tianran Dai (University of Alberta)
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm “Offshoring, Matching, and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence”
Gueyon Kim (University of California - Santa Cruz); Dohyeon Lee (Amazon); Dario Pozzoli (Copenhagen Department of Economics)
2:10 pm - 2:50 pm “Foreign Manufacturing Jobs and Women: Impacts on Work, Marriage, and Childbirth”
Brian McCaig (Wilfrid Laurier University); Natalia Drozdoff (Wilfrid Laurier University); Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College)
2:50 pm – 3:05 pm

Coffee Break

 

Session 7: Global Supply Chains and Multinational Production

Chair: Ben Zissimos (University of Exeter)
3:05 pm - 3:45 pm “Relational Frictions Along the Supply Chain: Evidence from Senegalese Traders”
Edward Wiles (Harvard University); Deivy Houeix (MIT)
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm “Elsewhere in the Americas: How U.S. Tariffs on China Boosted Mexico's Manufacturing Employment and Output”
Hâle Utar (Grinnell College, IZA and CESifo)
4:25 pm – 5:05 pm “Multinational Production and Trade Policy”
Sebastian Heise (Federal Reserve Bank New York); Agustín Gutiérrez (University of Wisconsin - Madison); Nicolo Rizzotti  (University of Chicago); Felix Tintelnot (Duke University)
5:05 pm – 5:15 pm Closing Remarks – Runjuan Liu