Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University

Papers:

"Taxes, Welfare, and Migration of the American Poor"
Hui-chen Wang, The University of Mississippi (Contact Author)

"Coming to America: Does Home Country's Economic Status Matter for Self-Employment in the U.S.?"
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)
Willie Belton, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Immigrant Homeownership in the U.S. Through Recent Housing Boom and Bust"
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University (Contact Author)

"FDI, Agglomeration Economies, and Labor Poaching: Evidence from China"
Fariha Kamal, Syracuse University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Catherine S. Norman, Johns Hopkins University
Pia M. Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College
Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Organizers:

Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session Chairs:

Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers:

"Non Linear Costs Link Demand Volatility Across Markets"
Dan Nguyen, University of Copenhagen
Georg Schaur, The University of Tennessee (Contact Author)

"Trade Exposure and Volatility at the Plant Level"
Christopher J. Kurz, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Mine Senses, Johns Hopkins University (Contact Author)

"Export Growth and Credit Constraints"
Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology
Byung-Cheol Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Joel Rodrigue, Vanderbilt University
Georg Schaur, The University of Tennessee
Christopher J. Kurz, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Organizers:

Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session Chairs:

Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers:

"Free Trade Agreements and External Tariffs"
Baybars Karacaovali, Fordham University (Contact Author)

"Reasons for Dumping, Import Demand Elasticity, and Exporter Responses to Antidumping Duties"
Dmitri Nizovtsev, Washburn University
Alexandre Skiba, University of Wyoming (Contact Author)

"Trade Liberalization and Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data"
Pravin Krishna, John Hopkins University
Jennifer Pamela Poole, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mine Senses, Johns Hopkins University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Mine Senses, Johns Hopkins University
Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University
Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Organizers:

Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session Chairs:

Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers:

"Does Trade Stimulate Innovation? Evidence from Firm-Product Data"
Ana Margarida Fernandes, World Bank (Contact Author)
Caroline Paunov, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

"Pollution Abatement and Export Dynamics"
Joel Rodrigue, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)
Omolola Soumonni, Vanderbilt University

"Trade Liberalization, Firm Heterogeneity, and Layoffs: An Empirical Investigation"
Pinar Uysal, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University

Discussants:

Baybars Karacaovali, Fordham University
Ana Margarida Fernandes, World Bank
Alexandre Skiba, University of Wyoming

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