It’s that time of year again. As I’ve done since 2010, I’ve gathered a list of trade-related job-market papers. New this year is a small collection of spatial economics papers that aren’t about trade per se. If I’ve missed someone, please contribute to the list in the comments.
- Abiy Teshome (Virginia) – How goods move across borders – Evidence from Colombian exports
- Alessandro Sforza (LSE) – Shocks and the organization of the firm: who pays the bill?
- Alexander Rohlf (Mannheim) – Did Globalization help Germany become cleaner? – The effect of increasing Import/Export Exposure on local air pollution at the German county level
- Alonso de Gortari (Harvard) – Disentangling Global Value Chains
- Benjamin Hyman (Wharton) – Can Displaced Labor Be Retrained? Evidence from Quasi-Random Assignment to Trade Adjustment Assistance
- Bohdan Kukharskyy (University of Tübingen) – A Tale of Two Property Rights: Knowledge, Physical Assets, and Multinational Firm Boundaries
- Chen Liu (UC San Diego) – Quantifying the Impacts of a Skill-based US Immigration Reform
- Ekaterina Kazakova (Mannheim) – Serving Abroad: Export, M&A, and Greenfield Investment
- Francesco Paolo Conteduca (Mannheim) – The Structure of Multinational Sales under Demand Risk
- Guillaume Sublet (Minnesota) – Tariff vs Non-Tariff Measures: Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity
- Guzman Ourens (Université catholique de Louvain) – Uneven growth in the extensive margin: Explaining the lag of agricultural economies
- Hanwei Huang (LSE) – Germs, Roads, and Trade: Resilience of Globally Sourcing Firms in the Face of the SARS Epidemic
- Jaerim Choi (UC Davis) – Offshoring, Matching, and Income Inequality: Theory and Empirics
- Jianpeng Deng (Penn State) – Processing Trade and Global Diffusion of Ideas
- José Pulido (UBC) – Intra and inter-industry misallocation and comparative advantage
- Junhui Zeng (Wisconsin) – Bargaining delay in multilateral trade negotiations
- Ken Kikkawa (Chicago) – Imperfect Competition and the Transmission of Shocks: The Network Matters
- Kirill Borusyak (Harvard) – The Distributional Effects of Trade: Theory and Evidence from the United States
- Konstantin Egorov (Penn State) – The Effect of Trade on Workers’ Earnings: Role of Unemployment
- Laurien Gilbert (Michigan) – Gains from Product Variety and the Local Business Cycle
- Lezhen Wu (Yale) – The Interaction Between Trade and FDI Policies
- Linyi Zhang (Kellogg) – Escaping Chinese Import Competition? Evidence from U.S. Firm Innovation
- Lorenzo Trimarchi (ECARES) – Trade Policy and The China Syndrome
- Lucas Costa-Scottini (Brown) – Firm-Level Distortions, Trade, and International Productivity Differences
- Michael Klein (Indiana) – Foreign Direct Investment and Collective Intellectual Property Protection in Developing Countries
- Monica Morlacco (Yale) – Market Power in Input Markets: Theory and Evidence from French Manufacturing
- Niveditha Prabakaran (Virginia) – Do Property Rights Solve the Tragedy of Commons under Free Trade? Evidence from Brazil
- Oleg Firsin (Cornell) – The Interactive Effect of Immigration and Offshoring on U.S. Wages
- Parisa Kamali (Minnesota) – Indirect Exporter Dynamics and the Impacts on Trade Liberalization
- Patricia Mueller (Wisconsin) – How Domestic Political-Economy Pressure Effects Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Theory and Evidence for Monopolistically Competitive Industries
- Peter Eppinger (University of Tübingen) – Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance: Theory and Evidence from China’s FDI Liberalization
- Penglong Zhang (Boston College) – Home-Biased Gravity: The Role of Migrant Tastes in International Trade
- Ruoying Wang (UBC) – Import Competition and Innovation: Evidence from China
- Ryan Lee (Indiana) – The Effect of Trade Agreements on Trade Margins: Firm-Level Evidence from Colombia
- Scott Orr (Toronto) – Productivity Dispersion, Import Competition, and Specialization in Multi-product Plants
- Sen Ma (UIUC) – Can Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? Identifying FDI Spillovers from Borders of Chinese Dialect Zones
- Sergii Meleshchuk (Berkeley) – Price Discrimination in International Trade: Empirical Evidence and Theory
- Shibi He (Indiana) – Firm’s Entry into Foreign Markets: A Network Centrality Analysis
- Simon Fuchs (Toulouse) – The Spoils of War: Evidence on the Impact of Trade Shocks from World War I
- Tommaso Sonno (LSE) – Globalization and conflicts: the good, the bad and the ugly of corporations in Africa
- Wentao Xiong (Harvard) – Geographic Distribution of Firm Productivity and Production: A “Market Access” Approach
- Will Johnson (Boston) – Economic Growth and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage in an Occupation-Based Network of Industries
- Yang Liang (Syracuse) – Job creation and job diversion: The effect of trade shocks on US manufacturing employment
- Yang Shen (Brown) – Corporate Income Taxation and Multinational Production
- Yuan Mei (Chicago) – Regulatory Protection and the Role of International Cooperation
- Yuan Tian (UCLA) – International Trade Liberalization and Domestic Institutional Reform: Effects of WTO Accession on Chinese Internal Migration Policy
- Yubo Liu (Virginia) – Importing Migration? The Effects of Import Competition on Internal Migration Patterns in the United States
- Zhimin Li (Berkeley ARE) – The ‘China Shock’ on China: Trade, Structural Transformation, and Real Exchange Rate Dynamics
Spatial Economics
- Clara Santamaria (Princeton) – Small Teams in Big Cities: Inequality, City Size, and the Organization of Production
- Federico Curci (Carlos III) – Flight from urban blight: lead poisoning, crime and suburbanization
- John Firth (MIT) – I’ve Been Waiting on the Railroad: The Effects of Congestion on Firm Production
- Jorge Pérez Pérez (Brown) – City Minimum Wages
- Juan Pablo Chauvin (Harvard) – Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and the Effects of Local Demand Shocks
- Lin Tian (Columbia) – Division of Labor and Extent of Market: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
- Lindsay Renihan (UPenn) – Is Online Retail Killing Coffee Shops? Estimating the Winners and Losers of Online Retail using Customer Transaction Microdata
- Mike Zabek (Michigan) – Local Ties in Spatial Equilibrium
- Mingzhi Xu (UC Davis) – Riding on the New Silk Road: Quantifying the Welfare Gains from High-Speed Railways
- Nick Tsivanidis (Chicago Booth) – The Aggregate And Distributional Effects Of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence From Bogotá’s TransMilenio
- Shoumitro Chatterjee (Princeton) – Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India
- Yuhei Miyauchi (MIT) – Matching and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from Japanese Firm-to-Firm Trade
Trade Diversion 
Jose Pulido (http://josepulido.net) “Intra- and inter-industry misallocation and comparative advantage” and Ruoying Wang (http://wangruoying.com) “Import Competition and Innovation: Evidence from China”, both from UBC.
Here are three spatial economics job market papers from the Urban Economics Association meetings:
Juan Pablo Chauvin: (Harvard) – Gender-Segmented Labor Markets and the Effects of Local Demand Shocks – https://scholar.harvard.edu/chauvin/jmp
Jorge Pérez Pérez (Brown) – City Minimum Wages – http://jorgeperezperez.com/research/2017-10-10-city-minimum-wages
Lindsay Renihan (UPenn) – Is Online Retail Killing Coffee Shops? Estimating the Winners and Losers of Online Retail using Customer Transaction Microdata https://bepp.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/lrelihan/#research
Yang Liang (Syracuse). Job creation and job diversion: The effect of trade shocks on US manufacturing employment.
Yuan Tian (UCLA) — “International Trade Liberalization and Domestic Institutional Reform: Effects of WTO Accession on Chinese Internal Migration Policy” http://www.tianyuanecon.com/research.html
Parisa Kamali (Minnesota) “Indirect Exporter Dynamics and the Impacts on Trade Lineralization.” -https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/parisa-kamali/home
I am just curious, more generally, from which database do you compile your original list? Ie, where do you find out about them all?
Also for addition, Lorenzo Trimarchi (ECARES) “Trade Policy and The China Syndrome” https://ltrimarchi.wixsite.com/site
I just check a lot of schools’ websites and look for trade candidates. This is imperfect, so I appreciate everyone contributing to the list in the comments.
3 candidates from Indiana (Michael Klein, Shibi He, Ryan Lee )
https://economics.indiana.edu/home/graduate-program/job-market-candidates/
1 candidate from Boston College (Penglong Zhang)
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/economics/graduate/phd-candidates.html
Sen Ma (UIUC)
Can Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? Identifying FDI Spillovers from Borders of Chinese Dialect Zones
Click to access masen-jmp.pdf
1 candidate from Cornell University (https://olegfirsin.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/OFirsin_JMP_draftNovember.pdf)
Linyi Zhang (Northwestern) Escaping Chinese Import Competition? Evidence from U.S. Firm Innovation
http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/linyi-zhang/index.htm#do_not_bookmark
There are also three JM candidates from the University of Mannheim:
Francesco Paolo Conteduca: The Structure of Multinational Sales under Demand Risk (https://fpconteduca.com/)
Ekaterina Kazakova: Serving Abroad: Export, M&A, and Greenfield Investment (https://ekaterinakazakova.com/)
Alexander Rohlf: Did Globalization help Germany become cleaner? – The effect of increasing Import/Export Exposure on local air pollution at the German county level (https://sites.google.com/site/alexrohlf/home)
Guzman Ourens (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium): Uneven growth in the extensive margin: explaining the lag of agricultural economies (https://guzmanourens.com/)
Two candidates from the University of Tübingen:
Peter Eppinger (petereppinger.com) – “Optimal Ownership and Firm Performance: Theory and Evidence from China’s FDI Liberalization” and
Bohdan Kukharskyy (kukharskyy.com) – “A Tale of Two Property Rights: Knowledge, Physical Assets, and Multinational Firm Boundaries”