Opening Day XXXI Cycle Ph.D 18/02/2016
admin2021-01-14T12:17:53+01:00OPENING 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 [...]