OPENING DAY
XXXI CYCLO DELLA FORMAZIONE DOTTORALE
Keynote Lecture
Trade, Competition and Productivity
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
London School of Economics and University of Bologna
Abtract. In the last couple of decades the field of international trade has become increasingly quantitative. This is due to two major developments driven by easier accessibility of individual datasets and higher computing power. First, econometric works that study ex post the implications of firms’ and workers’ heterogeneity for the sources, the patterns and the gains from trade in terms of the reallocation of productive resources from less to more productive firms. Second, calibration and simulation of statistical models that investigate ex ante the (welfare) implications of counterfactual scenarios for which data are necessarily unavailable (e.g. Brexit). Building on these developments, the lecture discusses whether and how the details of micro reallocations change our understanding of the aggregate gains from trade in this age of increasing globalisation.
h. 15.00: Welcome Coffee
h. 15.20: Institutional Grettings
Giuseppe Di Battista – Prorector for Research, Roma Tre University
Silvia Terzi – Director, Department of Economics, Roma Tre University
h. 15.40: Introduction
Anna Giunta – Department of Economics and Rossi-Doria Centre, Roma Tre University
h. 16.00: Keynote Lecture
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano – London School of Economics and University of Bologna
h. 17.00: Discussion
Chair:
Luca Salvatici – Coordinator, Ph.D. in Economics
Thursday 18 February 2016, h. 15.00-18.00
Sala delle Lauree
Scuola di Economia e Studi Aziendali “Federico Caffè”
Università degli Studi Roma Tre – Via Silvio D’Amico 77
00145 Roma
Further information: barbara.cafini@uniroma3.it – 06/57335654