Academic Perspectives
on Industrial Policy
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Monday 10 March 2025 - 9:00 to 17:30 (CET)
The purpose of the conference organized by the University of Zurich was to offer an opportunity to the Geneva-based trade policy community to be informed about the results of research by leading academics on subsidies and industrial policy more broadly.
For questions regarding the presentations and remarks please e-mail michele.himmelrich@econ.uzh.ch.
PROGRAM
9:00 - 9:05 | Welcome and Opening Remarks - watch
David Yanagizawa-Drott, Professor, University of Zürich
9:05 - 10:20 | Economic Development - watch the session
9:05 - 9:20 | Industrial Policies for Avoiding the Middle-income Trap - watch the presentation
Justin Lin (remotely), Professor, Peking University9:20 - 9:35 | Industrial Policy Implementation: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shipbuilding Industry
Panle Barwick (remotely), Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison - watch the presentation9:35 - 10:05 | Discussants - watch
Juan Carlos Hallak, Professor, University of Buenos Aires
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Professor, University of Chicago
Augustin Fosu (remotely), Professor, University of Ghana
10:05 - 10:20 | Questions from Audience
10:20 - 10:45 | Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00 | Digital Transformation - watch the session
10:45 - 11:00 | Promoting Bricks, Chips and Bits: Recent government policy changes along the technological value chain - watch the presentation
Johannes Fritz, CEO, St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade11:00 - 11:15 | Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector - watch the presentation
Réka Juhász, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia11:15 - 11:45 | Discussants - watch
Alicia Garcia Herrero (remotely), Adjunct Professor, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at NATIXIS
Dan Trefler, Professor, University of Toronto (slides)
David Yanagizawa-Drott, Professor, University of Zürich
11:45 - 12:00 | Questions from Audience
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:15 | Green Transition - watch the session
13:00 - 13:15 | The Role of Government Policies in Renewable Energy - watch the presentation
Mar Reguant, Professor, Northwestern University13:15 - 13:30 | Subsidies and Other Government Policies in the Global Electric Vehicle Market - watch the presentation
Shanjun Li (remotely), Professor, Cornell University13:30 - 14:00 | Discussants - watch
Joelle Noailly, Senior Lecturer, the Geneva Graduate Institute and Associate Professor, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Joseph Shapiro (remotely), Associate Professor, University of California Berkeley
Hongsong Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong
14:00 - 14:15 | Questions from Audience
14:15 - 14:45 | Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:45 | Measurement Challenges - watch the session
14:45 - 15:00 | Penny Goldberg, Professor, Yale University - watch the presentation
15:00 - 15:15 | Camille Boullenois and Daniel Rosen, Rhodium Group - watch the presentation
15:15 - 15:30 | Simon Evenett, Professor, International Institute for Management Development - watch the presentation
15:30 - 15:45 | Questions from Audience - watch the Q/A
15:45 - 16:00 | Short Break
16:00 - 17:15 | International Cooperation - watch the session
16:00 - 16:15 | Reflections on Previous Presentations and Implications for International Cooperation - watch the presentation
Penny Goldberg, Professor, Yale University16:15 - 16:30 | International Disciplines of Government Subsidies - watch the presentation
Gene Grossman, Professor, Princeton University
Alan Sykes, Professor, Stanford University
16:30 - 17:00 | Discussants - watch
Bernard Hoekman, Professor, European University Institute
Emanuel Ornelas, Professor, Sao Paulo School of Economics
Tu Xinquan, Professor, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing
17:00 - 17:15 | Questions from Audience
17:15 - 17:30 | Closing Remarks - watch
Robert Staiger, Professor, Dartmouth College (slides)
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