IMF Conference

Thursday, November 6, 2014

INTRODUCTORY VIDEO REMARKS

IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde
WTO Director General, Roberto Azevêdo

Session 1: Services Trade

Chair: Tamim Bayoumi

• How foreign banks facilitate trade in tranquil and in crisis times: Finance or information?
  Stijn Claessens (IMF), Omar Hassib (Maastricht University) and Neeltje van Horen (De Nederlandsche Bank)
  Paper 
• Modeling services trade, trade costs and output
  James E. Anderson (Boston College), Ingo Borchert (University of Sussex), Aaditya Mattoo (WB) and Yoto V. Yotov (Drexel University)

COFFEE BREAK

Session 2: Exporting Firms

Chair: Nigel Chalk

• Export quality in advanced and developing economies: Evidence from a new dataset
  Christian Henn (WTO), Chris Papageorgiou (IMF) and Nikola Spatafora (WB)
  Paper 
• The life cycle of exporting firms
  Paulo Bastos (WB) and Daniel Dias (University of Illinois)
• Evidence on productivity, comparative advantage, and networks in the export performance of firms
  Luca A. Ricci (IMF) and Federico Trionfetti (Aix-Marseille University)
  Paper 

LUNCH

Session 3: Trade, Growth and Business Cycles

Chair: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

• Global trade slowdown: Cyclical or structural?
  Cristina Constantinescu (IMF), Aaditya Mattoo (WB) and Michele Ruta (IMF)
  Paper 
• Trade integration and business cycle synchronization: Trade in value-added is what matters
  Romain Duval (IMF), Richa Saraf (University of Albany) and Dulani Seneviratne (IMF)
  Paper 
  

Session 4: Global Supply Chains

Chair: Aaditya Mattoo

• Knowledge spillovers through international supply chains
  Roberta Piermartini (WTO) and Stela Rubínová (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
  Paper 
• Global supply chains and trade policy
  Emily Blanchard (Dartmouth College), Chad Bown (WB) and Rob Johnson (Dartmouth College)

COFFEE BREAK

PANEL DISCUSSION: The Future of Trade

Chair: Siddharth Tiwari

Panelists:

• David Lipton (IMF)
• Anabel Gonzalez (WB)
• Robert Koopman (WTO)

DINNER

TBD (by invitation only)

Friday, November 7, 2014

Session 5: Trade Finance

Chair: Michaela Erbenova

• The impact of Basel III on trade finance: The potential unintended consequences of the leverage ratio
  Marc Auboin (WTO) and Isabella Blengini (University of Lausanne)
  Paper 
• Understanding trade finance: Theory and evidence from transaction-level data
  JaeBin Ahn (IMF)
  Paper 

COFFEE BREAK

Session 6: Trade and Policy I

Chair: Hiau Looi Kee

• Trade policy uncertainty as a barrier to trade
  Alberto Osnago (WB), Nadia Rocha (WTO) and Roberta Piermartini (WTO)
• Customs reform and trade growth: Evidence from Albania
  Ana M. Fernandes (WB), Russell Hillberry (WB) and Alejandra Mendoza (WB)

Session 7: Trade and Policy II

Chair: Martin Kaufman

• All in the family: State capture in Tunisia
  Caroline Freund (Peterson Institute), Antonio Nucifora (WB) and Bob Rijkers (WB)
  Paper 
• Trade policy substitution: Theory and evidence from specific trade concerns
  Cosimo Beverelli (WTO), Mauro Boffa (University of Geneva) and Alexander Keck (WTO)
  Paper