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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Speaker Geoff Barrows - Quantifying Climate Damages When Regions Trade: A Structural Gravity Approach

Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor: ACE (Dept of Agricultural and Consumer Economics)
Location: 428 Mumford Hall
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Date: Oct 10, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Speaker: Dr. Geoff Barrows, Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique, France
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Originating Calendar: ACE Seminars; Abstract
This paper presents a method for estimating treatment effects of local climate shocks when regions trade with each other. Because of spillovers induced by trade flows, comparing the evolution of outcomes between pre-shock and post-shock periods in regions exposed versus unexposed to local shocks leads to a biased estimate of treatment effect. We model these across-region dependencies using standard assumptions from international trade theory. We use our model-consistent estimation strategy to revisit the literature on the evaluation of impacts from climate change onto country-level gross output using year-to-year variation in temperature.

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