While often a regional or national approach has been used to analyze the economic effects of migration, recent evolutions have shown that the role of firms is extremely important in better understanding this phenomenon. On many occasions, it is firms choosing the migrant workers and initiating...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. We...

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. The...

Conference theme: "Lessons from Covid-19. A stronger EU: Staying together in a new policy space" Topics: - Inequality and pandemic; - Global Supply Chains, pandemic and trade - Monetary and fiscal policies in the post Covid-19; - The unequal impact of Covid on workers. Skills, automation and...

Topics: - Globalization (Sharing globalization benefits and compensate the losers; Demographic Changes, social inclusiveness and migration; Protectionism and welfare in a globalized world; Declining labor shares and technological change; Skills polarization and wages), - Trade (Trade and...

Main topics: - The Robustness of Globalization Theory. Trade Liberalization and its Benefits; - Globalization, Inequality and Social Inclusion; - The United States and the Protectionist option: a New Trade Deal?; - How Scary is Disruptive Technology? Perspectives on Employment; - The Upcoming...

Topics: 1. Empirical Evidence 2. Ricardian Models of Producer Heterogeneity 3. Producer Heterogeneity with Product Differentiation and Entry/Exit a. Modelling Framework (Closed Economy) b. Open Economy c. Competition and Endogenous Markups d. Extensions (Factor Abundance, Innovation, Dynamics,...

Over the past two decades, technological advances have facilitated an increasing international fragmentation of production processes. The academic literature has proposed several explanatory paradigms for this new form of trade. Some of these follow the lines of comparative advantage, while...

The original intention behind the ‘Doha Round’ of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was to promote the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. The collapse of the round in 2008 led to pessimism over whether the pursuit of such a ‘development-based’ agenda is...

A new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is in the making: larger and deeper than most that have been signed earlier. Their focus has moved away from the elimination of tariffs to regulatory cooperation and a WTO-Plus agenda. At the same time, theoretical and empirical modelling...