Australasian Trade Workshop

The Australasian Trade Workshop (ATW) is an annual conference of trade economists in Australasia that is hosted by a different university in the region each year, co-ordinated by Benedikt Heid, Onur Koska and Frank Stähler.

It has its origins in the Otago Workshop in International Trade, a trade conference organized at the University of Otago in New Zealand from 2006 to 2009, and it moved to Australia under its current name in 2010.

The last conference (ATW 16) was hosted by James Cook University at their Cairns campus in Queensland, on the weekend of 18-19 March 2023, with local host Prof. Sizhong Sun. The keynote speaker was Arpita Chatterjee (UNSW). 

The next meeting (ATW 17) will be hosted by the Department of Economics and Finance in Te Kura Umanga | the UC Business School of the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, on the weekend of 16-17 March 2024, with local host Onur Koska. You can find the Call for Papers here.