Philly Trade Group (PTG) is a network of international trade economists from the Philadelphia region, including Bryn Mawr, Drexel, Haverford, Lehigh, Swarthmore, Temple, UPenn, and Widener University. We organize monthly trade workshops, featuring a keynote speaker and two internal presentations. PTG is hosted by School of Economics and Center for Global Policy Analysis at Drexel University.
If you are interested in presenting your work, please contact me.
Upcoming events:
January 16th, 2026
Keynote: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Brown)
February 27th, 2026
Keynote: Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard)
April 3rd, 2026
Keynote: Marc Melitz (Harvard)
May 15th, 2026
Keynote: Donald Davis (Columbia)
Past events:
November 21th, 2025
Keynote: Treb Allen (Dartmouth) "The Economic Geography of American Slavery"
Internal: Mario Larch (University of Bayreuth), Mengxiao Liu (Lehigh)
October 24th, 2025
Keynote: Arnaud Costinot (MIT) "A World Trading System for Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs"
Internal: Jack Liang (Temple), Sarah Webb (Maryland)
September 26th, 2025
Keynote: Samuel Kortum (Yale) "Tariffs and Trade Deficits"
Internal: Manho Kang (Georgia Tech), Nicolas Wesseler (University of British Columbia)
May 16th, 2025
Keynote: James Anderson (Boston College) "Non-price Trade Frictions: Non-parametric Evidence and Implications"
Internal: Yoto Yotov (Drexel), Elena Aguilar (Princeton)
April 18th, 2025
Keynote: Gene Grossman (Princeton) "Optimal Tariffs with Geopolitical Alignment"
Internal: Minuk Kim (Bryn Mawr), Tongyang Yang (Widener)
March 14th, 2025
Keynote: Eduardo Morales (Princeton) "Market Entry and Plant Location in Multi-Product Firms"
Internal: Paul Ko (Swarthore), Blaize Giangiulio (Drexel)
February 14th, 2025
Keynote: Robert Staiger (Dartmouth) "Geopolitics and the World Trading System"
Internal: Ohyun Kwon (Drexel), Jin Liu (Princeton)