The Workshop on Growth and Development in Macroeconomics /International Trade will take place within the framework of the 2022 RIDGE December Forum.

The recent trade disputes and the technological rivalry between the US and China make the effects of trade policy one of the most relevant economic subject areas. We employ a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium modelling framework with imperfect competition and heterogeneous firm...

Highly interconnected global supply chains make countries vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. In this paper, we estimate the macroeconomic effects of global supply chain shocks for the euro area. Our empirical model combines business cycle variables with data from international container...

This joint workshop with will focus on how market integration - both internal and global - shapes the structural transformation process in developing countries. In particular, we are interested in the role of agriculture and connections between agriculture and on economic development. Specific...

This workshop focuses on how home production and market work change during the process of structural transformation, as an economy develops. We are particularly interested in how different types of barriers -- in the home and the market -- affect the movement of work from households into the...

Focus: the use of high-dimensional data. Advanced analytics techniques, such as the analysis of large and unstructured novel data sources, or the application of techniques derived from machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer new insights into problems in economics and finance. These...

We welcome papers on International Economic topics and Finance. We invite theoretical, conceptual and empirical proposals on all aspects of international trade and finance. We invite topics in trade, global value chains, growth, productivity, innovation, finance migration, cyber security...

We invite colleagues in this field (JEL-Classification F0 to F2) to submit papers for presentation at the workshop. Given the current border controls in place in New Zealand, the conference will be run online via Zoom.

The workshop is cancelled.

Topics: - Data and measurement related to structural transformation; - Firms, frictions and spillovers, and industrial policy; - Labour, home production, and structural transformation; - Agricultural productivity and sectoral gaps; - Trade and spatial frictions; - Political economy and public...