9th Mid-Atlantic Trade Workshop
March 20-21, 2026
Conference website:
https://midatlantictradeworkshop.weebly.com/
Venue:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Monroe Hall room 120
Format:
50 minutes presentation, 10 minutes open discussion
Friday, March 20, 2026
11:30 am – 12:30 pm (Upon arrival) Lunch
Session 1, Chair: James Harrigan
12:30 – 1:30 pm Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade
1:30 – 2:30 pm Can Industrial Policy Overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence
2:30 – 2:45 pm Break
Session 2, Chair: Kerem Coşar
2:45 – 3:45 pm The Distributional Effects of Trade across Local Labor Markets and Heterogeneous Consumers
3:45 – 4:45 pm International Access, Structural Change and The Distributional Effects of Trade Liberalization
4:45 – 5 pm Break
5 – 6 pm The Impact of Infrastructure on Services Trade: Evidence from the Oresund Bridge
6:30 pm Dinner @ Café Frank (317 E. Main Street) -- by invitation
Saturday, March 21, 2026
8 – 8:30 am Breakfast
Session 3, Chair: John McLaren
8:30-9:30 am CTRL+EXP+DEL: The Domestic Costs of U.S. Export Controls
9:30-10:30 am The Pro-Competitive Gains and Losses from Trade Around the World
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
Session 4, Chair: Devaki Ghose
10:45 – 11:45 am A Quantitative Model of Foreign Investment and Trade
11:45am – 12:45 pm Rounding up the Effect of Tariffs on Financial Markets
12:45 pm -- Lunch and Adjourn
March 20-21, 2026
Conference website:
https://midatlantictradeworkshop.weebly.com/
Venue:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Monroe Hall room 120
Format:
50 minutes presentation, 10 minutes open discussion
Friday, March 20, 2026
11:30 am – 12:30 pm (Upon arrival) Lunch
Session 1, Chair: James Harrigan
12:30 – 1:30 pm Quality Regulation Creates and Reallocates Trade
- Presenter: Lucas Zavala (World Bank)
1:30 – 2:30 pm Can Industrial Policy Overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence
- Presenter: Tishara Garg (Princeton --> Stanford U.)
2:30 – 2:45 pm Break
Session 2, Chair: Kerem Coşar
2:45 – 3:45 pm The Distributional Effects of Trade across Local Labor Markets and Heterogeneous Consumers
- Presenter: Shamil Sharapudinov (PennState --> U. of Toronto)
3:45 – 4:45 pm International Access, Structural Change and The Distributional Effects of Trade Liberalization
- Presenter: Anmol Agarwal and Aishwarya Kekre (U. of Virginia)
4:45 – 5 pm Break
5 – 6 pm The Impact of Infrastructure on Services Trade: Evidence from the Oresund Bridge
- Presenter: Devaki Ghose (World Bank)
6:30 pm Dinner @ Café Frank (317 E. Main Street) -- by invitation
Saturday, March 21, 2026
8 – 8:30 am Breakfast
Session 3, Chair: John McLaren
8:30-9:30 am CTRL+EXP+DEL: The Domestic Costs of U.S. Export Controls
- Presenter: Fariha Kamal (Federal Reserve Board)
9:30-10:30 am The Pro-Competitive Gains and Losses from Trade Around the World
- Presenter: Hamid Firooz (NC State)
10:30 – 10:45 am Break
Session 4, Chair: Devaki Ghose
10:45 – 11:45 am A Quantitative Model of Foreign Investment and Trade
- Presenter: Xiang Ding (Georgetown U.)
11:45am – 12:45 pm Rounding up the Effect of Tariffs on Financial Markets
- Presenter: Felipe Benguria (U. of Kentucky)
12:45 pm -- Lunch and Adjourn
