Past Editions
To view the program of editions prior to Fall 2017, please contact us at gtdw@wto.org.
Spring 2020 (Most of the talks in this edition were cancelled due to the outbreak of COVID-19)
18 Feb. 2020
Lionel Fontagné
Paris School of Economics
Product-Level Trade Elasticities
joint with Houssein Guimbard and Gianluca Orefice
10 Mar. 2020
Keith Head
University of British Columbia
Global Giants and Local Stars: How Changes in Brand Ownership Affect Competition
joint with Vanessa Alviarez and Thierry Mayer
Fall 2019
17 Sep. 2019
Giacomo Ponzetto
CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Dracula Effect: Voter Information and Trade Policy
joint with Ruben Enikolopov and Maria Petrova
01 Oct. 2019
Peter Neary
University of Oxford
Gravity Without Apologies: The Science of Elasticities, Distance, and Trade
joint with Céline Carrère and Monika Mrázová
08 Oct. 2019
Christian Fischer
University of Bayreuth
Optimal Payment Contracts in Export Relationships
15 Oct. 2019
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin
HES-SO
Protectionism and Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
joint with Erhan Artuc, Guido Porto and Bob Rijkers
22 Oct. 2019
Jonathan Dingel
University of Chicago Booth
Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
joint with Kyle Meng and Solomon Hsiang
29 Oct. 2019
Tim Schmidt Eisenlhor
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
joint with Alvaro Garcia‑Marin and Santiago Justel
05 Nov. 2019
Giovanni Maggi
Yale University
Are Trade Agreements Good for You?
joint with Ralph Ossa
12 Nov. 2019
Isabelle Mejean
CREST - Ecole Polytechnique, CEPR
Search Frictions in International Good Markets
joint with Clemence Lenoir and Julien Martin
19 Nov. 2019
Pamina Koenig
Université de Rouen, PSE
Reputation and (Un)Fair Trade: Effects on French Importers from the Rana Plaza Collapse
joint with Sandra Poncet
26 Nov. 2019
Giammario Impullitti
University of Nottingham
Innovation Union: Costs and Benefits of Innovation Policy Coordination
joint with Fabrice Defever and Teodora Borota
03 Dec. 2019
Johannes Boehm
Sciences Po
The Comparative Advantage of Firms
joint with Swati Dhingra and John Morrow
17 Dec. 2019
Stefanie Haller
University College Dublin
Multinational Spillovers in a Frictional Labor Market
joint with Ragnhild Balsvik and Doireann Fitzgerald
Spring 2019
19 Feb. 2019
Gianmarco Ottaviano
Bocconi University
Comparative Advantage, Competition, and Firm Heterogeneity
joint with Hanwei Huang
26 Feb. 2019
Marc Andreas Muendler
University of St. Gallen, University of California San Diego
Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy
joint with Sascha Becker, Hartmut Egger, and Michael Koch
12 Mar. 2019
Alejandro Cunat
University of Vienna
The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis
joint with Laura Alfaro, Harald Fadinger and Yanping Liu
19 Mar. 2019
Julia Seiermann
International Trade Centre
The Export Potential of Services
joint with Yvan Decreux, Camille Reverdy and Julia Spies
26 Mar. 2019
Lorenzo Caliendo
Yale University
Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
join with Luca Opromolla, Fernando Parro and Alessandro Sforza
02 Apr. 2019
Douglas Nelson
Tulane University
Rational Trade Wars & Stupid Trade Disputes
joint with Eddy Bekkers, Joseph Francois and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
09 Apr. 2019
Julia Schmidt
Banque de France
No Double Standards: Quantifying the Impact of Standard Harmonization on Trade
joint with Walter Steingress
16 Apr. 2019
Peter Egger
ETH Zürich
Decomposing Economic Transport Infrastructure Effects: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach
joint with Gabriel Loumeau and Nicole Loumeau
30 Apr. 2019
Yuan Zi
University of Oslo
Made in China; Created in China: Super Processors and Two-way Heterogeneity
joint with Zhiyuan Chen and Aksel Erbahar
07 May 2019
Halis Murat Yildiz
Ryerson University
Tariff Bindings and Dynamic Formation of Preferential Trade Agreements
joint with James Lake and Moïse Nken
14 May 2019
Yi Huang
Graduate Institute
Trade Linkages and Firm Value: Evidence from the 2018 US-China “Trade War”
joint with Chen Lin, Sibo Liu and Heiwai Tang
21 May 2019
Andrea Ciani
Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich-Heine University
The Performance of Exporting Firms under Import Protection
joint with Joel Stiebale
24 May 2019
James Harrigan
University of Virginia
Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity
joint with Ariell Reshef and Farid Toubal
28 May 2019
Farid Toubal
CREST-École Polytechnique
A Fistful of Dollars? Foreign Sales Platforms and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens
joint with Sébastien Laffitte
11 Jun. 2019
Rossana Merola
International Labour Organization
How Can Taxes Help Ensure a Fair Globalization?
joint with Francois Langot and Samil Oh
18 Jun. 2019
Xiaodong Zhu
University of Toronto
Trade Wars Along the Global Value Chains: Quantifying the US-China Trade Conflicts
joint with Jiandong Ju, Hong Ma and Zi Wang
Fall 2018
04 Sep. 2018
Leandro Zipitría
Universidad de la República, Uruguay
The Role of Competition in Explaining Law of One Price Deviations
joint with Fernando Borraz
11 Sep. 2018
Nina Vujanovic
Staffordshire University, Central Bank of Montenegro
09 Oct. 2018
Frederic Warzynski
Aarhus University
Multi Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies
joint with Emmanuel Dhyne, Amil Petrin and Valérie Smeets
23 Oct. 2018
Swati Dhingra
London School of Economics
Trade and Worker De-skilling
joint with Rui Costa and Stephen Machin
06 Nov. 2018
Davide Suverato
Technical University of Munich
“Unequal” We Trade
joint with Gianmarco Ottaviano
13 Nov. 2018
Jasmeer Virdee
International Trade Centre
The Impact of Quality-Related Business Training in Latin America
joint with Antonina Popova and Valentina Rollo
20 Nov. 2018
Ben Zissimos
University of Exeter
Contesting an International Trade Agreement
joint with Matt Cole and James Lake
04 Dec. 2018
Anna Gumpert
LMU University of Munich
Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments
joint with Henrike Steimer and Manfred Antoni
18 Dec. 2018
Kalina Manova
University College London
Productivity, (Mis)allocation and Trade
joint with Antoine Berthouy, John Jong-Hyun Chung and Charlotte Sandoz Dit Bragard
Spring 2018
06 Feb. 2018
Peter Egger
ETH Zürich
Trade Costs in the Global Economy: Measurement, Aggregation and Decomposition
20 Feb. 2018
Veronica Rappoport
London School of Economics
The Birth of a Multinational Innovation and Foreign Acquisitions
joint with Jim Goldman and Maria Guadalupe
27 Feb. 2018
Ronald Davies
University College Dublin
The Heterogeneous Impact of Brexit: Early Indications from the FTSE
joint with Zuzanna Studnicka
06 Mar. 2018
Matteo Fiorini
European University Institute
Asymmetric Cultural Proximity and Greenfield FDI
joint with Giorgia Giovannetti, Mauro Lanati and Filippo Santi
13 Mar. 2018
Mario Larch
University of Bayreuth
Growth and Trade with Frictions: A Structural Estimation Framework
joint with James Anderson and Yoto Yotov
20 Mar. 2018
Facundo Albornoz Crespo
University of Nottingham
Importing after Exporting
joint with Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman
10 Apr. 2018
Laura Puzzello
Monash University
Does Trade Matter for Growth when the Geographical Instruments are Randomly Generated?
joint with Sabine Deij and Jakob Madsen
17 Apr. 2018
Rainer Lanz
World Trade Organization
Distance, Formal and Informal Institutions in International Trade
joint with Woori Lee and Victor Stolzenburg
24 Apr. 2018
Guy Michaels
London School of Economics
Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania
joint with Dzhamilya Nigmatulina and Ferdinand Rauch
08 May 2018
Jeronimo Carballo
University of Colorado Boulder
Border Processing, Trade Costs, and New Trade Policy
joint with Alejandro Graziano, Georg Schaur and Christian Volpe Martincus
15 May 2018
Anna Maria Mayda
Georgetown University
The Political Economy of Protection in GVCs: Evidence from Chinese Micro Data
joint with Rodney Ludema, Miaojie Yu and Zhi Yu
29 May 2018
Eduardo Morales
Princeton University
Estimating Models with Spillovers: Formalizing Bartik Designs
joint with Rodrigo Adão and Michal Kolesár
05 Jun. 2018
Julien Martin
Université du Québec à Montréal
Relationship Stickiness: Measurement and Applications to International Trade
joint with Julien Martin, Isabelle Méjean and Mathieu Parenti
Fall 2017
12 Sep. 2017
Peri da Silva
Kansas State University
Value-Added Exports and U.S. Local Labor Markets: Does China Really Matter?
joint with Leilei Shen
19 Sep. 2017
Jo Van Bieserbroeck
KU Leuven
Comparative Advantage in Routine Production
joint with Liza Archanskaia and Gerald Willmann
03 Oct. 2017
Brian McCaig
Wilfrid Laurier University
Export Markets and Household Business Performance: Evidence from Vietnam
joint with Nina Pavcnik
10 Oct. 2017
Paola Conconi
Université Libre de Bruxelles, CEPR
Globalization for Sale
joint with Michael Blanga-Gubbay and Mathieu Parenti
17 Oct. 2017
Mauro Boffa
International Trade Centre
SMEs in a World of Global Value Chains
joint with Marion Jansen and Olga Solleder
24 Oct. 2017
Marius Brulhard
University of Lausanne
Let There Be Light: Trade and the Development of Border Regions
joint with Olivier Cadot and Alexander Himbert
07 Nov. 2017
Mostafa Beshkar
Indiana University
Interdependence of Trade Policies In General Equilibrium
joint with Ahmad Lashkaripour
14 Nov. 2017
Kyle Bagwell
Stanford University
Trade Policy under Monopolistic Competition with Firm Selection
joint with Seung Hoon Lee
21 Nov. 2017
Damina Räss
University of Bern, University of Reading
Labour Clauses in Trade Agreements: Worker Protection or Protectionism?
joint with Céline Carrère and Marcelo Olarreaga
28 Nov. 2017
Andreas Moxnes
University of Oslo
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach
joint with Andrew Bernard, Emmanuel Dhyne, Glenn Magerman and Kalina Manova
12 Dec. 2017
Hartmut Egger
University of Bayreuth
Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy
joint with Sascha Becker, Michael Koch, and Marc Muendler