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2025/26 seminars

GEP Seminar: Marta Santamaria (University of Warwick)

Date: 07 October 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Broke, but not out of luck: indebtedness, mobility and structural change (A45, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Jing Cai (University of Maryland)

Date: 14 October 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Firm-to-firm access in production networks (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Mimosa Distefano (LSE)

Date: 21 October 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building

GEP Seminar: Mireia Giné (IESE)

Date: 28 October 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: AI adoption and the demand for managerial expertise (A45, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Niels Johannesen (University of Oxford)

Date: 11 November 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: (A45, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)

Date: 17 November 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: What do market-access Subsidies do? Experimental from Tunisia (A01, HH)

Cancelled GEP Seminar: Basile Grassi (Bocconi University)

Date: 25 November 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A44 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: *Cancelled*

GEP Seminar: Peter Egger (ETH Zurich)

Date: 02 December 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building

GEP Seminar: Constantine Yannelis (University of Cambriidge)

Date: 09 December 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A44 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Buyouts with payouts: The impacts of private equity on workers and owners (A44)

GEP Seminar: Dennis Novy (University of Warwick)

Date: 10 February 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Urban-Biased Structural Change

GEP Seminar: Kate Smith (London School of Economics)

Date: 17 February 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: "The efficiency and equity effects of capital tax reform" (with Helen Miller)

GEP Seminar: Gregory Veramendi (Royal Holloway)

Date: 24 February 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy (with Y. Gallen, J Joensen and E. Johansen)

GEP Seminar: Justin Pierce (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Date: 03 March 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Online
Description: Trade Disruptions and the Organization of Supply Chains (with Sebastian Heise, Georg Schaur and Peter K. Schott)

GEP Seminar: Martí Mestieri (IAE-CSIC)

Date: 10 March 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Highfield House A01
Description: The Structural Transformation of Innovation

GEP Seminar: Michael Koch (Aarhus University)

Date: 17 March 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Trading Through Times of Disintegration: How Services Help Firms Weather Shocks (with Holger Gorg, Michael Irlacher and Saskia Meuchelbock)

GEP Seminar: Clement Imbert (Sciences Po)

Date: 24 March 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Title: Floating population: migration with(out) family and the spatial distribution of economic activity (with Joan Monras, Marlon Seror and Yanos Zylberberg)

GEP Seminar: Emma Tominey (University of York)

Date: 28 April 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building

GEP Seminar: Monika Mrazova (University of Geneva)

Date: 05 May 2026 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building

2024/25 seminars

GEP Seminar: Felipe Saffie (University of Virginia)

Date: 08 October 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: c27 Coates Building
Description: Stochastic volatility in interest rates and trend cycles (C27, Coates)

GEP Seminar: Anna Ignatenko (Norwegian School of Economics)

Date: 15 October 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Description: Frequency of shipment and welfare gains from trade

GEP Seminar: Gaia Dossi (UCL)

Date: 22 October 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Race and science (A01, Highfield House)

GEP Seminar: Speaker: Jaedo Choi (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)

Date: 29 October 2024 (16:15-17:30)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Superstars or supervillains? Large firms in the South Korean growth miracle (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Eduard Talamas (IESE)

Date: 05 November 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Artificial Intelligence in the knowledge economy (A39, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Mayara Felix (Yale)

Date: 12 November 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: c27 Coates Building
Description: The reallocation effects of domestic outsourcing (C27, Coates)

GEP Seminar: Ernest Liu (Princeton)

Date: 19 November 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: The bullwhip: Time to build and sectoral fluctuations

GEP Seminar: Heather Sarsons (University of British Columbia)

Date: 26 November 2024 (16:00-17:15)
Location:: Zoom

GEP Seminar: Frank Stähler (University of Tübingen)

Date: 03 December 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Disentangling frictions across the world: Markups versus trade costs (A01, Highfield House)

GEP Seminar: Laura Alfaro (Harvard)

Date: 10 December 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Industrial and trade policy in supply chains: The case of rare earth elements

GEP Seminar: Joel Stiebale (Heinrich Heine University)

Date: 04 February 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Gains from patent protection: Innovation, market power and cost savings in India (A45, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Martina Magli (Ludwig-Maximilians Universiity)

Date: 11 February 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: C29 Physics Building
Description: Corporate taxation and cross-border trade in the global economy (C29, Physics)

GEP Seminar: Banu Demir Pakel (University of Oxford)

Date: 18 February 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Plastic Turkiye: International impacts of China's waste import ban (A45, SCGB)

Cancelled GEP Seminar: Uta Bolt (University of Bristol)

Date: 25 February 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A02 Highfield House
Description: Imagine your life at 25: Gender conformity and later-life outcomes (A02, Highfield House)

GEP Seminar: Alan Manning (LSE)

Date: 11 March 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: C04 Physics Building
Description: Firm dynamics and the labour supply elasticity (C04, Physics)

GEP Seminar: Holger Breinlich (University of Surrey)

Date: 18 March 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A45 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Shocked by COVID: Exporting along global value chains (A45, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Yuan Zi (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Date: 25 March 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Local corporate taxes and the geography of foreign multinationals (A01, Highfield House)

GEP Seminar: Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (University of Exeter)

Date: 29 April 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Minority political representation and immigrants integration (A01, Highfield House)

GEP Seminar: Luciana Juvenal (IMF)

Date: 20 May 2025 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: The pass-through of currency risk premia (A39, SCGB)

2023/24 seminars

GEP Seminar: Christian Volpe (Inter-American Development Bank)

Date: 03 October 2023 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A41 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: The value of organic certifications (A41, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Julia Cajal Grossi (Geneva Graduate Institute)

Date: 17 October 2023 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A41 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Workers in space: Evidence from urban Bangladesh (A41, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Oleg Itskhoki (UCLA)

Date: 24 October 2023 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Optimal exchange rate policy

GEP Seminar: Anna Maria Mayda (Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna)

Date: 31 October 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: A41 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Do immigrants hurt local public finances? Evidence from Italy (A41, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Nikhil Datta (University of Warwick)

Date: 14 November 2023 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A41 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description: Local monopsony power (A41, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Réka Juhász (University of British Columbia)

Date: 21 November 2023 (16:30-17:45)
Location:: Zoom

GEP Seminar: Jingting Fan (Pennsylvania State University)

Date: 28 November 2023 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Trade and technology compatibility in general equilibrium (zoom)

Cancelled GEP Seminar: Esther Ann Bøler (Imperial College)

Date: 05 December 2023 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: C27 Coates
Description: Strapped for cash: The role of financial constraints for innovating firms (C27, Coates)

GEP Seminar: Stephen Machin (LSE)

Date: 20 February 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: C17 Monica Partridge
Description: Government contracting and living wages > minimum wages (C17, MP)

GEP Seminar: Benny Kleinman (University of Chicago)

Date: 27 February 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Wage inequality and the spatial expansion of firms (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Paola Conconi (University of Oxford)

Date: 05 March 2024 (14:00-15:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: A political disconnect? Evidence from votes on EU trade agreements?

GEP Seminar: Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Date: 19 March 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: A01 Highfield House
Description: Labour market competition and the assimilation of immigrants (A01 Highfield House)

GEP Seminar: Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne & Oxford)

Date: 26 March 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: C17 Monica Partridge
Description: The gravity of violence (C17, MP)

GEP Seminar: Javier Cravino University of Michigan)

Date: 30 April 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: Zoom
Description: Input price dispersion across buyers and misallocation (zoom)

Joint GEP/NICEP Seminar: Mine Senses (John Hopkins University)

Date: 09 May 2024 (15:00-16:15)
Location:: B1 Physics Building
Description: Immigration and provision of public goods: Evidence at the local level in the US.

2022/23 seminars

GEP Seminar: Kirill Borusyak (UCL)

Date: 04 October 2022
Description: Understanding migration responses to local shocks (A01, Highfield House)

GEP Seminar: Richard Hornbeck (Chicago Booth)

Date: 18 October 2022
Description: Identifying agglomeration shadows: Long-run evidence from ancient ports

GEP Seminar: Benjamin G. Hyman (NY Fed)

Date: 25 October 2022
Description: Wage insurance for displaced workers (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Sharat Ganapati (Georgetown University)

Date: 01 November 2022
Description: Entrepôt: Hubs, scale, and trade costs (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Mary Amiti (NY Fed)

Date: 08 November 2022
Description: Trade protection, stock-market returns, and welfare (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge)

Date: 15 November 2022
Description: The pro-competitive effects of trade agreements (B21 Physics Building)

GEP Seminar: Joaquin Blaum (Boston University)

Date: 22 November 2022
Description: Protectionism unchained: Determinants and consequences of discretionary trade policy in Argentina (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Claudia Steinwender (LMU Munich)

Date: 29 November 2022
Description: Omnia juncta in uno: Foreign powers and trademark protection in Shanghai's concession era (B21, Physics Building)

GEP Seminar: Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)

Date: 06 December 2022
Description: Cultural homophily and collaboration in superstar teams (B21, Physics Building)

GEP Seminar: Marcel Smolka (University of Flensburg)

Date: 21 February 2023
Description: Firm exports, foreign ownership, and the global financial crisis

GEP Seminar: Joana Silva (Catolica Lisbon)

Date: 28 February 2023
Description: Adjusting to transitory shocks: Worker impact, firm channels, and (lack of) assistance

GEP Seminar: John Morrow (King's College London)

Date: 07 March 2023
Description: Technological distance: Grow up or grow out (A39)

GEP Special Seminar: Fernando Parro (Penn)

Date: 08 March 2023
Description: Mechanics of spatial growth (C43)

GEP Seminar: Dave Donaldson (MIT)

Date: 14 March 2023
Description: Putting quantitative trade models to the test: Evidence from the Trump tariffs (zoom)

GEP Seminar: Jonathan Dingel (Chicago Booth)

Date: 21 March 2023
Description: Market size and trade in medical services

GEP Seminar: Jose Azar (IESE)

Date: 28 March 2023
Description: Estimating labour market power

2021/22 seminars

GEP Seminar: Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto)

Date: 05 October 2021
Description: AI, trade and creative destruction: A first look

GEP Seminar: Mathieu Parenti (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Date: 12 October 2021
Description: Quantifying profit shifting

GEP Weminar: Robert Feenstra (University of California-Davis)

Date: 26 October 2021
Description: A second-best argument for low optimal tariffs

GEP Seminar: Catherine Thomas (LSE)

Date: 02 November 2021
Description: The perfect match: Positive assortative matching in mergers and acquisitions (E07, Monica Partridge Building)

GEP Seminar: Monika Mrazova (University of Geneva)

Date: 09 November 2021
Description: Not My standard: Regulatory harmonization versus diversity

GEP Seminar: Rocco Macchiavello (LSE)

Date: 16 November 2021
Description: Markups and quality: Evidence from Colombian coffee exports

GEP Seminar: Erik Hornung (University of Cologne)

Date: 23 November 2021
Description: NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

GEP Seminar: Jonas Cederlof (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 30 November 2021
Description: Reconsidering the cost of job loss: Evidence from redundancies and mass layoffs

GEP Seminar: Stefania Garetto (Boston University)

Date: 07 December 2021
Description: On the origins of the multinational premium

GEP Seminar: Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (University of Texas at Austin)

Date: 08 February 2022
Description: The local-area incidence of exporting

GEP Seminar: Stephen Yeaple (Pennsylvania State University)

Date: 15 February 2022
Description: Multinationals, markets, and mark-ups

GEP Seminar: Ana Maria Santacreu (Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis)

Date: 22 February 2022
Description: Dynamic gains from trade agreements with intellectual property provisions

GEP Seminar: Enghin Atalay (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Date: 01 March 2022
Description: Micro-and macroeconomic impacts of a place-based industrial policy

GEP Seminar: Tommaso Porzio (Columbia University)

Date: 08 March 2022
Description: Labour misallocation across firms and regions

GEP Seminar: Christina Gathmann (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)

Date: 22 March 2022
Description: Marginal returns to citizenship and educational performance

GEP Seminar: Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)

Date: 29 March 2022
Description: Gravity with granularity (A100, L&SS)

GEP Seminar: Peter Egger (ETH Zurich)

Date: 05 April 2022
Description: China's dazzling transport-infrastructure growth: Measurement and effects

GEP Seminar: Natalie Chen (University of Warwick)

Date: 03 May 2022
Description: Markups, quality, and trade costs (A42, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Adrien Bilal (Harvard University)

Date: 10 May 2022
Description: The geography of unemployment

2020/21 seminars

GEP Seminar: Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

Date: 29 September 2020
Description: Price effects of trade with China

GEP Webinar: Kai Gehring (University of Zurich)

Date: 06 October 2020
Description: China and the World Bank: How contrasting development approaches affect the stability of african states (via Zoom)

Joint Senior Academic/GEP Seminar: Robert Staiger (Dartmouth College)

Date: 13 October 2020
Description: Quantitative analysis of multi-party tariff negotiations (via Zoom)

GEP webinar: Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)

Date: 20 October 2020
Description: Serial entrepreneurship in China (via zoom)

GEP Webinar: Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College)

Date: 27 October 2020
Description: The economic consequences of Sir Robert Peel (via Zoom)

GEP Seminar: Joan Llull (Autonoma Barcelona)

Date: 03 November 2020
Description: Labour market competition and the assimilation of immigrants

GEP Seminar: Paola Conconi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Date: 10 November 2020
Description: Trade protection along supply chains (via Zoom)

GEP webinar: Cecile Gaubert (University of California - Berkeley)

Date: 17 November 2020
Description: Place-based redistribution

GEP Webinar: Pamela Medina (University of Toronto)

Date: 24 November 2020
Description: Labour Market Power, Selection and Informality in Peru

GEP Seminar: Thilo Albers (Humboldt)

Date: 08 December 2020
Description: Losing the gains from trade: Evidence from the trade multiplier of the Great Depression

GEP Webinar: Nuno Limao (University of Maryland)

Date: 15 December 2020
Description: Firm input choice under trade policy uncertainty

GEP Webinar: Jonas Hjort (Columbia University)

Date: 02 February 2021
Description: Individuals and organizations as sources of state effectiveness

GEP Webinar: Mingyu Chen (Princeton University)

Date: 09 February 2021
Description: The value of US college education in global labour markets: Experimental evidence from China

GEP Seminar: Gaurav Khanna (University of California, San Diego)

Date: 23 February 2021
Description: The productivity consequences of pollution-induced migration in China.

GEP Seminar: David Lagakos (Boston University)

Date: 02 March 2021
Description: Quantifying the importance of tax collection capacity for development

GEP Webinar: Jo Van Biesebroeck (University of Leuven)

Date: 09 March 2021
Description: Comparative advantage in (non-) routine production

Postponed GEP Seminar: Carl Davidson (Michigan State University)

Date: 16 March 2021

GEP Seminar: Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University)

Date: 23 March 2021
Description: Matching and agglomeration: Theory and evidence from Japanese firm-to-firm trade

GEP Seminar: Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)

Date: 20 April 2021
Description: Globalization, structural change and international co-movement

GEP Webinar: Sebastian Sotelo (University of Michigan)

Date: 11 May 2021
Description: Migration, specialization, and trade: Evidence from Brazil's march to the west

2019/20 seminars

Paolo Vanin (University of Bologna)

Date: 24 September 2019
Description: Historical roots of conflict in Europe: A disaggregated millennial perspective

Hylke Vandenbussche (University of Leuven)

Date: 01 October 2019
Description: Input reallocation within multi-product firms

Jacob Weisdorf (University of Southern Denmark)

Date: 08 October 2019
Description: The real road to riches: annual labour incomes across six centuries of English history, 1250-1850

Rahul Mukherjee (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Date: 15 October 2019
Description: Taxes and dual labour margins: A macroeconomic perspective

Thilo Huning (University of York)

Date: 22 October 2019
Description: How Britain unified Germany: Endogenous trade costs and the formation of a Customs Union

Laura Hering (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Date: 29 October 2019
Description: Looking for the bright side of the China Syndrome: Rising export opportunities and life satisfaction in China

Mark J Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)

Date: 06 November 2019
Description: Firm R&D investment and export market exposure

Cancelled: Maurizio Zanardi (Lancaster University)

Date: 12 November 2019
Description: Global value chains and the removal of trade protection (A64, SCGB)

Harald Fadinger (University of Mannheim)

Date: 19 November 2019
Description: Trade and domestic policies in models with monopolistic competition

Martin Halla (University of Linz)

Date: 26 November 2019
Description: Extractive institutions: A little goes a long way. The Soviet occupation of Germany versus Austria

GEP Seminar: Erin Hengel (University of Liverpool)

Date: 03 December 2019
Description: Gender and quality at top economics journals (A64, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Banu Demir Pakel (Bilkent University)

Date: 10 December 2019
Description: Production networks and skill-biased technology (A64, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Alexander Tarasov (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

Date: 03 March 2020
Description: Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure (A64, SCGB)

GEP Seminar: Ariell Zimran (Vanderbilt University)

Date: 10 March 2020
Description: Like an ink blot on paper: Testing the diffusion hypothesis of mass migration, Italy 1876-1920. (A64, SCGB)

Postponed GEP /CREDIT Seminar: Kai Gehring (University of Zurich)

Date: 18 March 2020

Postponed GEP Seminar: Xavier Jaravel (LSE)

Date: 24 March 2020

Postponed GEP Seminar: Thilo Albers (Humboldt University)

Date: 31 March 2020

Posponed GEP Seminar: Jo Van Biesebroeck (University of Leuven)

Date: 28 April 2020

Cancelled GEP Seminar: Keith Head (University of British Columbia)

Date: 05 May 2020

Cancelled GEP Seminar: Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University)

Date: 19 May 2020

2018/19 seminars

Oded Stark (University of Bonn)

Date: 25 September 2018
Description: A downside to the integration of regions and nations

Brendon McConnell (University of Southampton)

Date: 02 October 2018
Description: On the marriage wage premium

Ariell Reshef (Paris School of Economics)

Date: 09 October 2018
Description: Techies, trade, and skill-biased productivity: Firm level evidence from France

Mario Larch (University of Bayreuth)

Date: 12 October 2018
Description: Trade, fossil fuel supply, and leakage: The consequences of unilateral withdrawals from the Paris agreement

Halis Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University, Toronto)

Date: 16 October 2018
Description: Tariff bindings and the dynamic formation of preferential trade agreements

Brian Varian (Swansea University)

Date: 23 October 2018
Description: The economics of Edwardian imperial preference: what can New Zealand reveal?

Julia Cajal Grossi (The Graduate Institute)

Date: 30 October 2018
Description: International buyers and firm performance

Jonathan Dingel (University of Chicago)

Date: 06 November 2018
Description: The spatial structure of productivity, trade, and inequality: Evidence from the global climate

Marcelo Olarreaga (University of Geneva)

Date: 13 November 2018
Description: On the heterogeneous effects of trade on unemployment

Carl Singleton (University of Reading)

Date: 20 November 2018
Description: Cyclical labour costs within jobs

Yuan Zi (University of Oslo)

Date: 27 November 2018
Description: Super processors and two-way heterogeneity

Andrei Potlogea (University of Edinburgh)

Date: 04 December 2018
Description: Trade liberalization and economic development: Evidence from China's WTO accession

Rosario Crino (Catholic University of Milan)

Date: 11 December 2018
Description: Firms and economic performance: A view from trade

Joel Stiebale (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

Date: 19 February 2019
Description: Mergers and the markups of rival firms: Evidence from european markets

Matteo Cervellati (University of Bologna)

Date: 05 March 2019
Description: Sovereign polities and pre-industrial development: Theory and evidence for Europe 1000-1850

Udo Kreickemeier (University of Göttingen)

Date: 12 March 2019
Description: Exporting and offshoring with monopsonistic competition

Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol)

Date: 19 March 2019
Description: Migrants and firms: Evidence from China

Toman Barsbai (University of St Andrews)

Date: 26 March 2019
Description: Animal spirits: The natural geography of economic behaviour

Sandra Sequeira (LSE)

Date: 02 April 2019
Description: The economic consequences of displacement

Cancelled - GEP Seminar: Mark Koyama (George Mason University)

Date: 14 May 2019

2017/18 seminars

Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo)

Date: 05 October 2017
Description: Barriers to entry and regional economic growth in China

Harald Fadinger (University of Mannheim)

Date: 10 October 2017
Description: The real exchange rate, innovation and productivity

Monika Mrazova (University of Geneva)

Date: 17 October 2017
Description: Choked by red tape? The political economy of wasteful trade barriers

Joan Monras CEMFI

Date: 24 October 2017
Description: Immigrants' residential choices and their consequences

Emanuel Ornelas (Sao Paulo School of Economics, FGV)

Date: 31 October 2017
Description: Preferential trade agreements and global sourcing

Nuno Palma (University of Manchester)

Date: 07 November 2017
Description: The existence and persistence of liquidity effects: Evidence from a large-scale historical natural experiment

Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)

Date: 14 November 2017
Description: Foreign acquisitions and environmental performance: Evidence from Indonesian manufacturing plants

Steffen Sirries (IAB Nurnberg)

Date: 21 November 2017
Description: Comparative statics quantification of structural migration gravity models

Esteban Jaimovich (University of Surrey)

Date: 20 February 2018
Description: Roadways, input sourcing, and patterns of specialisation

David Dorn (University of Zurich)

Date: 06 March 2018
Description: When work disappears: Manufacturing decline and the falling marriage-market value of young men

Ola Olsson (University of Gothenburg)

Date: 13 March 2018
Description: Roman roads to prosperity? Persistence and non-persistence of public good provision in economic development

Isabelle Méjean (Ecole Polytechnique)

Date: 20 March 2018
Description: Search frictions in international good markets

Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University)

Date: 22 March 2018
Description: Israel's immigration story: Winners and losers

Ingrid Kubin (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Date: 25 April 2018
Description: The impact of Brexit on trade patterns and industry location: a NEG analysis

Gregory Jolivet (University of Bristol)

Date: 01 May 2018
Description: A structural analysis of health and labour market trajectories

Gaia Narciso (Trinity College, Dublin)

Date: 15 May 2018
Description: The deep roots of rebellion: Evidence from the Irish revolution

2016/17 seminars

Jakob Madsen (Monasth)

Date: 04 October 2016
Description: Back to the Past: Is Growth Reverting to Pre-Industrial Levels?

Valerio Dotti (University College London)

Date: 25 October 2016
Description: The Political Economy of Immigration and Population Ageing

Dennis Novy (University of Warwick)

Date: 08 November 2016
Description: Currency unions, trade, and heterogeneity

Reshad Nazir Ahsan (University of Melbourne)

Date: 15 November 2016
Description: Trade Liberalization and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Urban India

Joaquin Blaum (Brown University)

Date: 22 November 2016
Description: The Gains from Input Trade With Heterogeneous Importers

Nicolas Berman (Aix Marseille)

Date: 29 November 2016
Description: Demand learning and firm dynamics: evidence from exporters

Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po)

Date: 06 December 2016
Description: Misallocation in the Market for Inputs

Clément Imbert (University of Warwick)

Date: 07 February 2017
Description: Internal Migration and Firm Growth: Evidence from China

GEP Seminar - Jens Suedekum (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)

Date: 14 February 2017
Description: Adjusting to Globalisation – Evidence from Worker-Establishment Matches in Germany (B2, Hemsley)

GEP Seminar - Max Friedrich Steinhardt (Helmut Schmidt University)

Date: 21 February 2017
Description: The impact of xenophobic violence on the integration of immigrants (A09, Highfield House)

CANCELLED GEP Seminar - Tim Uy (Cambridge University)

Date: 28 February 2017
Description: *CANCELLED* Self-fulfilling debt restructuring (A40, SCGB)

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Date: 07 March 2017
Description: Inter-sectoral labour reallocation in the short run: the role of occupational similarity

Martina Viarengo (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)

Date: 14 March 2017
Description: Nation building through compulsory schooling during the age of mass migration

Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University)

Date: 16 March 2017
Description: Self-enforcing trade agreements and lobbying

Catherine Thomas (LSE)

Date: 28 March 2017
Description: In-house and arm's length: Productivity heterogeneity and variation in organisational form

GEP Seminar - Daniel Bernhofen (American University)

Date: 12 June 2017
Description: David Ricardo's 1817 comparative advantage formulation at 200: a brief history and new insights (A09, Highfield House)

Seminars 2015/16

Maarten Bosker ( Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Date: 29 September 2015
Description: A theory of trade in a global production network

Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (Federal Reserve Board)

Date: 06 October 2015
Description: Learning and the Value of Relationships in International Trade

Mathieu Parenti (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Date: 13 October 2015
Description: Demand, technology, and the size distribution of firms

Luca Opromolla - Bank of Portugal

Date: 20 October 2015
Description: Productivity and Organization in Portuguese Firms

Gabriel Felbermayr (Ifo Institute)

Date: 27 October 2015
Description: Trade and the Spatial Distribution of Transport Infrastructure

Facundo Albornoz (University of Nottingham)

Date: 10 November 2015
Description: Importing after Exporting

Gregory Corcos (Ecole Polytechnique)

Date: 17 November 2015
Description: Trade Liberalization and the Link Between Services and Goods Trade at the Firm Level

Kerem Cosar (Stockholm School of Economics)

Date: 26 November 2015
Description: Economic analysis of ancient trade: the case of the old Assyrian merchants of the 19th Century BCE

Natalie Chen (University of Warwick)

Date: 01 December 2015
Description: Quality and the Great Trade Collapse

Veronica Rappoport (LSE)

Date: 09 February 2016
Description: Specialization in Bank Lending: Evidence from Exporting Firms

Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)

Date: 16 February 2016
Description: Grin and Bear It: Producer-financed Exports from an Emerging Market

Holger Breinlich (University of Nottingham)

Date: 23 February 2016
Description: The Impact of Trade Agreements on Consumer Welfare

Udo Kreickemeier (TU Dresden)

Date: 01 March 2016
Description: Offshoring, Firm Selection and Job Polarization in General Equilibrium

Holger Gorg (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel)

Date: 08 March 2016
Description: Which Boats are lifted by a Foreign Tide? Direct and Indirect Wage Effects of Foreign Ownership

Kalina Manova (University of Oxford)

Date: 15 March 2016
Description: Managing trade: evidence from China and the US

Fabiano Schivardi (Bocconi University)

Date: 26 April 2016
Description: Learning entrepreneurship from other entrepreneurs?

George Alessandria (University of Rochester)

Date: 05 May 2016
Description: The Dynamics of the U.S. Trade Balance and Real Exchange Rate: The J Curve and Trade Costs?

Shengyu Li (University of Durham)

Date: 10 May 2016
Description: Input Prices, Productivity and Trade: Evidence from Chinese Paint Manufacturers.

Fernando Vega-Redondo (Bocconi University)

Date: 17 May 2016
Description: Production Networks

Guillermo Noguera (University of Warwick)

Date: 24 May 2016
Description: Firm Performance in a Global Value Chain: Dressing Up in Bangladesh

Esther Hauk (Institute for Economic Analysis, Barcelona)

Date: 31 May 2016
Description: Optimal Policy with Endogenous Signal Extraction

Seminars 2014/15

Juan Carluccio (Banque de France)

Date: 30 September 2014
Description: "Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France"

Thierry Mayer (Paris)

Date: 07 October 2014
Description: "From micro to macro: Demand and supply-side determinants of the trade elasticity"

Paolo Masella (University of Sussex)

Date: 14 October 2014
Description: The Long Lasting Effects of Socialist Education

Kerem Cosar (University of Chicago)

Date: 21 October 2014
Description: Taste Heterogeneity, Trade Costs, and Global Market Outcomes in the Automobile Industry

Luigi Pascali (University of Warwick)

Date: 28 October 2014
Description: The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade and Economic Development

Andreas Moxnes (University of Oslo)

Date: 11 November 2014
Description: Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance

Doireann Fitzgerald (The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Date: 18 November 2014
Description: Exporters and Shocks: Dissecting the International Elasticity Puzzle

Luigi Minale, (UCL)

Date: 25 November 2014
Description: Information and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Yotam Margalit (Tel Aviv University)

Date: 02 December 2014
Description: Informed Preferences? The Impact of Unions on Workers' Policy Views

Wolfgang Keller (University of Colorado)

Date: 09 December 2014
Description: The Contributions of Institutions and Market Integration to Economic Development: Evidence from 19th Century Germany

Mariya Teteryatnikova (University of Vienna)

Date: 03 February 2015
Description: R&D in the Network of International Trade: Multilateral versus Regional Trade Agreements

Steven Poelhekke (VU University Amsterdam)

Date: 10 February 2015
Description: Former Foreign Affiliates: Cast Out and Outperformed?

Pierre-Louis Vezina (University of Birmingham)

Date: 17 February 2015
Description: There goes gravity: eBay and the death of distance

Keith Head (University of British Columbia)

Date: 24 February 2015
Description: Geography, Ties, and Knowledge Flows

Hale Utar (Bielefeld University)

Date: 03 March 2015
Description: Workers beneath the floodgates: The impact of removing trade quotas for China on Danish workers

Holger Breinlich (University of Essex)

Date: 10 March 2015
Description: Merger Policy in a Quantitative Model of International Trade

Simon Evenett (University of St.Gallen)

Date: 13 March 2015
Description: How Crisis-Era Trade Distortions Slowed Down the LDC Export Growth Machine

Giacomo Ponzetto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Date: 24 March 2015
Description: Should Different People Have Different Governments?

Julian di Giovanni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

Date: 28 April 2015
Description: The Micro Origins of International Business Cycle Comovement

Radek Stefanski (University of St Andrews)

Date: 05 May 2015
Description: Spend, Baby, Spend: Windfalls, Specialization and Misallocation

Ana Fernandes (University of Exeter)

Date: 12 May 2015
Description: Trade-induced Quality Upgrading: Transaction-level Evidence from Portugal

Vadym Volosovych (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Date: 19 May 2015
Description: Foreign Ownership, Selection, and Productivity

Cheng Chen (University of Hong Kong)

Date: 26 May 2015
Description: The Agency Problem, Trade Liberalization and Within-Firm Productivity Gains: Theory and Evidence?

Seminars 2013/14

Holger Gorg - University of Kiel

Date: 30 September 2013
Description: Trust-based work arrangements and innovation: Evidence from firm level data (A09 HH)

Thomas Sampson, LSE

Date: 07 October 2013
Description: Dynamic Selection and the New Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms (A09, Highfield House)

Paolo Epifani (Bocconi University)

Date: 14 October 2013
Description: "Trade Imbalances and Wage Inequality" (C22, Coates Building)

Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania

Date: 21 October 2013
Description: "Technological Leadership and Innovation Policy in the World Economy" (A11 Highfield House)

Chris Parsons, University of Oxford

Date: 28 October 2013
Description: 'Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment' (A11 Highfield House)

Philip Sauré - Swiss National Bank

Date: 11 November 2013
Description: "Spatial Competition in Quality" (A09, HH)

Xenia Matschke, Trier University

Date: 18 November 2013
Description: "U.S. Multinationals and Preferential Market Access". (A09 Highfield House)

Jens Südekum, University of Duisburg-Essen

Date: 25 November 2013
Description: "Global sourcing of complex production processes" (A11, Highfield House)

Hylke Vandenbussche (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Date: 02 December 2013
Description: "Verti-zontal Differentiation in Export Markets" (A11, HH)

Klaus Desmet (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Date: 27 January 2014
Description: "On the Spatial Economic Impact of Global Warming"

Giordano Mion, University of Surrey

Date: 03 February 2014
Description: "Markup shocks, demand shocks and productivity shocks"(A09, HH)

Carsten Eckel, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

Date: 10 February 2014
Description: CATs and DOGs (C26, Portland)

Julien Prat, CREST, Paris

Date: 17 February 2014
Description: "Firm Dynamics and Residual Inequality in Open Economies" (A09, HH)

Ferdinand Rauch, University of Oxford

Date: 24 February 2014
Description: Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012 (A09 HH)

Jiahua Che, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Date: 03 March 2014
Description: Career Concerns, Beijing Style (C26, Portland)

GEP Workshop/Seminar - Ray Riezman (University of Iowa)

Date: 04 March 2014
Description: "The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development" (B7 Hemsley)

Vernon Henderson (LSE)

Date: 10 March 2014
Description: Roads, Railroads and Decentralization of Chinese Cities (C26, Portland)

Dominik Hangartner (LSE)

Date: 17 March 2014
Description: "Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland" (C26, Portland)

Giammario Impullitti (University of Nottingham)

Date: 24 March 2014
Description: 'Globalization and State Capitalism: Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO' (A09 Highfield House)

Gino Gancia (CREI, Spain)

Date: 31 March 2014
Description: "Offshoring and Directed Technical Change" (A09 Highfield House)

Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale)

Date: 11 April 2014
Description: "The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies"

Cristina Terra (THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise)

Date: 12 May 2014
Description: "Current Account and Real Exchange Rate changes: the impact of Trade Openness"

Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge)

Date: 29 May 2014
Description: Market-specific Cost Shocks and Firm Export Behaviour (A40, SCGB)

Emanuel Ornelas (LSE)

Date: 02 June 2014
Description: Political Competition and the Limits of Political Compromise (A40, SCGB)

Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (Tilburg University)

Date: 16 June 2014
Description: Volatility and Diversification of Exports: Theory and Evidence (A40, SCGB)

John Romalis (University of Sydney)

Date: 30 June 2014
Description: International Prices and Endogenous Quality (A40,SCGB)

Giovanni Federico (University of Pisa)

Date: 15 July 2014
Description: "A Tale of Two Globalizations: World Trade 1800-2000" (A44,SCGB)

Seminars 2012/13

GEP Seminar - Harald Fadinger (Vienna)

Date: 01 October 2012
Description: Trade Policy: Home Market Effect versus Terms-of-Trade Externality

GEP Seminar - Michele Imbruno (Nottingham)

Date: 08 October 2012
Description: Trade Liberalization, Firm Productivity and the Role of Trade Intermediaries: Evidence from China

GEP Seminar - Alessandra Guariglia (Birmingham)

Date: 15 October 2012
Description: A Balancing Act: Managing Financial Constraints and Agency Costs to Minimize Investment Inefficiency in the Chinese Market

GEP Seminar - Greg Wright (Essex)

Date: 22 October 2012
Description: Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

GEP Seminar - Gianmarco Ottaviano (LSE)

Date: 05 November 2012
Description: Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

GEP Seminar - Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham)

Date: 12 November 2012
Description: The political economy of trade and migration: Evidence from the US Congress

GEP Seminar - Giovanni Maggi (Princeton)

Date: 23 November 2012

GEP Seminar - Alexander Tarasov (Munich)

Date: 26 November 2012
Description: "Trade in Tasks and the Organization of Firms"

GEP Seminar - Paola Conconi (Bruxelles)

Date: 03 December 2012

GEP Seminar - Beata Javorcik, Oxford

Date: 04 February 2013
Description: WTO Accession and Tariff Evasion

GEP Seminar - Natalia Chen, Warwick

Date: 11 February 2013
Description: "Quality and Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Firm-Level Evidence for Argentinean Wine".

GEP Seminar - Andreas Hoefele, Loughborough University

Date: 25 February 2013
Description: Payment Choice and International Trade: Theory and Evidence from Cross-country Firm Level Data

Joint GEP Seminar/NSE Workshop - Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan

Date: 13 March 2013
Description: Ricardian Productivity Differences and the Gains from Trade

GEP Seminar - Dennis Novy, University of Warwick

Date: 29 April 2013
Description: "Trade and Uncertainty" (A39, SCGB)

GEP Seminar - Amit Khandelwal (Columbia University)

Date: 13 May 2013
Description: Prices, Markups and Trade Reform (A39, SCGB)

GEP Seminar - Doug Nelson, Tulane University

Date: 17 May 2013
Description: Prospects for Constitutionalization of the WTO

GEP Seminar - Agelos Delis, (Aston University)

Date: 20 May 2013
Description: Factor Content of Trade and Intermediate Inputs (A39)

GEP Seminar - Heiwai Tang (Tufts University and Johns Hopkins University)

Date: 23 May 2013
Description: Domestic Value Added in Chinese Exports: Firm-level Evidence (A39, SCGB)

Seminars 2012

GEP Seminar - Facundo Albornoz-Crespo (University of Birmingham)

Date: 06/02/2012
Description: Civil War and Foreign Influence

GEP Seminar - Holger Breinlich (University of Essex)

Date: 20/02/2012
Description: Economic Geography and Industrialisation

GEP Seminar - John Morrow (Centre for Economic Performance LSE)

Date: 27/02/2012
Description: The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

GEP Seminar - Zouheir El-Sahli (GEP, University of Nottingham)

Date: 05/03/2012
Description: Estimating the Effects of Containerization on World Trade

GEP Seminar - John McLaren (University of Virginia)

Date: 12/03/2012

GEP Seminar - Swati Dhingra (LSE)

Date: 19/03/2012
Description: Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands

GEP Seminar - Sebastien Krautheim (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Date: 26/03/2012

GEP Seminar - Arnaud Costinot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Date: 02/05/2012
Description: How Large Are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from US. Agriculture 1880-2002

GEP Seminar - Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)

Date: 09/05/2012
Description: Export Destinations and Input Prices: Evidence from Portugal

GEP Seminar - Ben Guanyi Li (Boston College)

Date: 21/05/2012
Description: Heterogeneous Productivity, Heterogeneous Fixed Trade Costs and Export Decisions

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