IATRC

IATRC - International Track Session

AAEA Annual Meetings, Milwaukee, WI, July 26-28, 2009

 

"Paul Krugman:  His Contributions to Trade and Economic Geography"

 

The International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) led an International Track Session at the 2009 meeting of the AAEA, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, WI. The session was titled, "Paul Krugman:  His Contributions to Trade Analysis and Economic Geography," and was organized by Ian Sheldon, Ohio State University. 

The overall theme of this track session was to provide an assessment of Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman’s contribution to analysis of increasing returns in models of international trade and economic geography.  In this context, the specific focus of the session was twofold:  first, to outline and review Krugman’s key analytical contributions and how they have affected international and regional economic analysis: and second, to critically assess how these contributions have been applied by members of the agricultural economics profession in empirical work focusing on the effects of trade liberalization in the presence of increasing returns, as well as tests of the "death of distance hypothesis" in regional economic analysis.

 

Chair of Session - Tom Wahl (North Dakota State University)

 

Presentations:

 

1. Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University): "Increasing Returns and International Trade"

 

2. Tom Hertel (Purdue University): "Krugman's Influence on Quantitative Analysis of Trade Policies"

 

3. Mauricio Ramirez-Grajeda (University of Guadalajara): "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography"

 

4. Munisamy Gopinath (Oregon State University): "Empirical Contributions to New Economic Geography"

 

Discussant - Jeff Reimer (Oregon State University)