22/04/2026
Ludovic Panon (Bank of Italy): The Superstar Buyer Penalty during Financial Crises: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Trade Data
01/04/2026
Jorge Klinnert (University of Maryland): The Transmission of Trade Shocks in Digital Markets
18/03/2026
Junyan Chen (Beijing Normal University): Pro-poor Bias of Trade? Revisiting the Unequal Consumer Gains from WTO Accession in China
04/03/2026
Sophia Praetorius (University of Geneva): Collaboration in Technology and Multinational Production [Video]
25/02/2026
Dan Xie (University College Dublin): Digital Trade Facilitation and Container Traffic: Evidence from China’s Electronic Single Window
10/12/2025
Gianluca Santoni (Paris School of Economics): Foreign Ownership and Occupational Safety: Evidence from France
26/11/2025
Riccardo Norbiato (Paris School of Economics): Production Fragmentation, Trade and Emissions
13/11/2025
Antonio Vicencio Betanzo (Maastricht University): Testing the Gravity Model
29/10/2025
Tommaso Sonno (University of Bologna and CEP-LES): Large Scale Land Acquisitions: Trees, Trade and Structural Change
15/10/2025
Yu Ji (Peking University): Boosting Exports of Picking Winners? The Role of Short-Term Export Credit Insurance in China
24/06/2025
Tibor Besedes (Georgia Tech): Experimenting with Ash: The Trade Effects of Airspace Closures in the Aftermath of Eyjafjallajökull
21/05/2025
Serena Chellini (KU Leuven): Environmental Non-Tariff Measures and Firms' Imports
07/05/2025
Pablo Muylle (Ghent University): The Impact of State Aid on Trade: Direct Effects, GVC Transmission, and Aid Objectives [Video]
23/04/2025
Stijn Salden (Ghent University): Identifying Trade Diversion Effects in Structural Gravity [Video]
02/04/2025
Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana University): Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change?
26/03/2025
Victor Gimenez-Perales (Kiel Institute): Demand Uncertainty in Foreign Markets. Learning from Competitors and Sequential Market Entry [Video]
12/03/2025
Quinten De Wettinck (KU Leuven): Identifying Sustainable Diversification Strategies using Economic Complexity Theory [Video]
26/02/2025
Thao Trang Nguyen (Maastricht University): Special Economic Zones and Firm Performance: Evidence from Vietnam [Video]
12/02/2025
Francesca Micocci (Roma Tre University): The Heterogeneous Impact of the EU-Canada Agreement with Causal Machine Learning [Video]
11/12/2024
Ying Dai (Aarhus University): Quality Complementarity of Imported Inputs and Output Quality [Video]
27/11/2024
Ibai Ostolozaga (University of the Basque Country): Intra-National Trade, Misallocation and Relative Prices [Video]
13/11/2024
Hanxiao Zhong (KU Leuven): Digital Presence and Firms' Performance [Video]
30/10/2024
Toshiaki Komatsu (University College London): Firm Responses and Wage Effects of Foreign Demand Shocks with Fixed Labor Costs and Monopsony
16/10/2024
Karsten Mau (Maastricht University): Inferring Input-Output Linkages with Firm-level Trade Data [Video]
02/10/2024
Philipp Ludwig (KU Leuven): Can Unilateral Policy Decarbonize Maritime Trade? [Video]
19/06/2024
Matthew T. Cole (California Polytechnic State University): Contesting an International Environmental Agreement
29/05/2024
Giorgos Morakis (IMT Lucca – KU Leuven): Identifying Exporters in B2B Networks: Information Gains from Network Embeddings over Balance Sheet Data [Video]
15/05/2024
Lan Lin (Peking University): Digital Imports and Firm-level Employment [Video]
24/04/2024
Elisa Navarra (ULB): The Effects of Corporate Subsidies Along Supply Chains [Video]
27/03/2024
Serena Chellini (KU Leuven): Trade Liberalization and Green Transformations within Firms
13/03/2024
Charles de Pierpont de Burnot (UCLouvain): The Legacy of the Roman Empire Economic Integration in the Western European Trade [Video]
13/12/2023
Bas Gorrens (KU Leuven): Carbon Taxation, Investment and Leakage [Video]
29/11/2023
Wenke Yank (Southeast University): Do Blue Barriers Put on a Good Face? [Video]
15/11/2023
Deniz Atalar (University of Cambridge): Plastic Turkey: International Leakages of China's Waste Contamination Policy [Video]
18/10/2023
Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (UCLouvain): Globalization and the Urban-Rural Divide in France
Hylke Vandenbussche (KU Leuven): Firm Survival in Export Markets: Productivity or Quality of Products?
28/06/2023
Philipp Ludwig (KU Leuven): Can Unilateral Policies Decarbonize Maritime Trade? [Video]
14/06/2023
Victor Ortiz Giménez (IMT Lucca): Enhancing Exporter Success. A Firm-Market Recommendation System [Video]
31/05/2023
Fabrizio Leone (ULB): Global Robots [Video]
17/05/2023
Yupeng Zhang (Peking University): Standard Internalization and Markups of Domestic Firms: Evidence from China [Video]
19/04/2023
Ignacio Marra de Artinao (ULB): Linkages with Multinationals: The Effects on Domestic Firms' Exports [Video]
29/03/2023
Joris Hoste (KU Leuven): On the Margins of Geographic Market Segmentation in the EU
15/03/2023
Charlotte Janssens (KU Leuven): Trade, Storage and Climate Extremes: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa [Video]
09/11/2022
Chiara Bellucci (IMT Lucca): GVCs, Takeovers and Market Power
26/10/2022
Bastien Bernon (ULB): Income Inequality in General Equilibrium
01/06/2022
Aksel Erbahar (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Trade intermediation by Producers
11/05/2022
Dorothee Hillrichs (UCLouvain): The Employment-Job-Gap and Far-Right Voting in France
20/04/2022
Joris Hoste (KU Leuven): Currency-Induced Trade Costs
09/03/2022
Hylke Vandenbussche (KU Leuven): Consumer Taste in Trade
09/02/2022
Christian Pröbsting (KU Leuven): Quantifying the Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union
12/01/2022
Charles de Pierpont de Burnot (UCLouvain): Metropolitan Birthplace Diversity and Wages
01/12/2021
Ryan Hynes (University College Dublin): TRIPS-Plus What? Evidence from CAFTA-DR
14/11/2021
Philipp Ludwig (KU Leuven): Export Entry and Network Interactions - Evidence from the Belgian Production Network
Marcus Biermann (UCLouvain): Remote Talks: How ICT Changed Economics Seminars During COVID-19
Gonzague Vannoorenberghe (UCLouvain): A Simple Theory of Deep Trade Integration
20/10/2021
Victor Ortiz Giménez (IMT Lucca): Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Trade: A Machine Learning Counterfactual Analysis
13/10/2021
Lorenzo Trimarchi (UNamur): The Unintended Consequences of Protectionism on the Environment
09/06/2021
Marcus Biermann (UCLouvain): Environmental Preferences and Deep Trade Agreements
12/05/2021
Joris Hoste (KU Leuven): Exchange Rates and Consumers' Cost of Living: Evidence from the 2015 Kazakh Currency Depreciation
14/04/2021
Zuzanna Studnicka (University College Dublin): Gravity and Trade in Video on Demand Services
10/03/2021
Elena Zaurino (KU Leuven): Information Frictions and the Two Margins of Trade: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing
10/02/2021
Dorothee Hillrichs (UCLouvain): Trade Costs, Home Bias and the Unequal Gains from Trade
20/01/2021
Irene Iodice (Paris I): The Sound of Silence: Non-transparent Technical Regulations as Obstacles to Trade
09/12/2020
Daniele Verdini (UCLouvain): Globalization and the Urban-Rural Divide in France
18/11/2020
Ronald Davies (University College Dublin): Innovation and the Technological Content of Imports
21/10/2020
Elsa Leromain (UCLouvain): The Brexit Vote, Inflation and UK Living Standards