The Global Economy Theory in Practice Conference: In Honor of David Weinstein

The Global Economy Theory in Practice Conference

The Program for Economic Research (PER) at Columbia University and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB) at Columbia Business School are pleased to present The Global Economy in Theory and Practice: In Honor of David Weinstein to celebrate Professor David E. Weinstein’s contribution to the field of Economics. 

Date: April 24, 2026

Preliminary Schedule:

8:30 Breakfast
8:50 Welcome Comments, Jonathan Dingel (Columbia University)

9:00 – 10:30 Spatial Economics
Chair: Don Davis (Columbia University)
Presentation Title Forthcoming — Jessie Handbury (University of Pennsylvania)
Presentation Title Forthcoming — Jonathan E. Vogel (University of California, Los Angeles)
Presentation Title Forthcoming — David Atkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:30 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30 Macroeconomics and Finance
Chair: Ryan Kim (Seoul National University)
“Propagation of shocks in networks: identification and applications” (with Gabriel Chodorow-Reich and Davide Viviano) — Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University)
“The Commoditization of Labor” (with Masao Fukui and Jon Steinsson) — Emi Nakamura (University of California, Berkeley)
“Housing Is the Financial Cycle: Evidence from 100 Years of Local Building Permits” (with Gustavo Cortes) — Cameron LaPoint (Yale School of Management)

12:30 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch Policy Panel – Topic: “The Future of Globalization”
Moderator: Yishay Yafeh (School of Business Administration, Hebrew University)
Anil Kashyap (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Christian Broda (Duquesne Capital)
Prachi Mishra (Ashoka University)
Dennis Novy (University of Warwick )

2:30 – 4:00 Macroeconomics and Trade
Chair: Jón Steinsson (University of California, Berkeley)
“Global R&D Networks as Innovation Engines:  Evidence from Leading U.S. Multinationals” — Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College)
Presentation Title Forthcoming — Yoon Joo Jo (Texas A&M University)
“The Exports Costs of National (In)security” — Nuno Limao (Georgetown University)

4:00 – 4:30 Break

4:30 – 6:00 International Trade
Chair: Peter Debaere (University of Virginia)
“Carbon Taxes in the Global Economy: A Quantitative Analysis” — Andrés Rodríguez-Clare (University of California, Berkeley) 
“Field Choice, Skill Specificity, and Labor Market Disruptions” (with Valerie Smeets and Sharon Traiberman) — Lin Tian (INSEAD)
“Economic Analysis of Recent U.S. Tariffs” — Amit Khandelwal (Yale University) 

Please note that attendance to this event is by invitation only.

Thank you to our Faculty Organizers: Jonathan Dingel, Jessie Handbury, Yoon Joo Jo, and Ryan Kim