International Economics Seminars

The International Economics Seminar (IES) series is organized by the Center for Business and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business, the Economics Department, and the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Spring 2024 Seminars

IES are Mondays from 12:30-1:50 in Hariri 370

2/12: Jingting Fan (Penn State)

3/11: Steve Redding (Princeton University)

3/18: Teresa Fort (Dartmouth College)

4/8: Levi Crews (Princeton University)

4/22: Arnaud Costinot (MIT)

4/29: Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA)

5/6: David Argente (Yale University)

In addition, we will host four DC area speakers to the trade workshop (12:30 pm-1:30 pm, in ICC 550). Please email charly.porcher@georgetown.edu if you would like to attend the workshop and be added to its mailing list.

Trade Workshop Local Speakers, Spring 2024:
2/20: Lin Tian (INSEAD)
2/26: Devaki Ghose (World Bank)
4/2: Julian Neira (University of Exeter)
5/7: Jordan Norris (NYUAD)

Past Seminars
Fall 2023

9/18: John McLaren (University of Virginia)

9/25: Juno Kim (Georgetown University)

10/2:  Lydia Cox (Yale University)

10/16: Fernando Parro (Penn State)

10/23: Meixi Wan (Georgetown University)

11/6: Farid Farrokhi (Purdue University)

11/13: Ana Maria Santacreu (Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis)

11/27: Réka Juhász (University of British Columbia)

Spring 2023

February 27, 2023
Monika Mrazova
University of Geneva, visiting Princeton University

March 13, 2023
Simone Lenzu
NYU Stern School of Business

March 27, 2023
Rick Hornbeck
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business

April 3, 2023
Torsten Jaccard
Dartmouth College

April 17, 2023
Kalina Manova
University College London

April 24, 2023
David Nagy
CREI, visiting Princeton University

May 1, 2023
Luigi Pascali
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, visiting Princeton University

April 18, 2023
Ben Zissimos
University of Exeter Business School

Fall 2022 Seminars

September 19, 2022
Kyle Handley

University of California, San Diego
Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Exports: When Modern Supply Chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism

October 17, 2022
Ahmad Lashkaripour

Indiana University
Who Pays for Markups in a Global Economy? The Unequal Impacts of International Rent-Shifting

October 24, 2022
Matt Turner

Brown University
The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago

October 31, 2022
Kadee Russ

University of California, Davis
Currency Areas, Labor Markets, and Regional Cyclical

November 7, 2022
Kevin Donovan

Yale University
From Micro to Macro in an Equilibrium Diffusion Model

November 14, 2022
Marc Melitz

Harvard University
The Laffer Curve for Rules of Origin

November 28, 2022
Mathilde Muñoz

University of California, Berkeley

December 5, 2022
Bob Staiger

Dartmouth College

September 20, 2022
Philipp Ludwig

Georgetown University

September 27, 2022
Colin Hottman

Federal Reserve Board

October 4, 2022
Heitor Pellegrina

New York University, Abu Dhabi
Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity

October 11, 2022
Rowan Shi

Ryerson University
Combinatorial Discrete Choice: Multinational Companies, Plant Fixed Costs, and Markups

October 18, 2022
Ferdinando Monte

Georgetown University

October 25, 2022
Charly Porcher

Georgetown University

November 1, 2022
Rahul Gupta

Georgetown University

November 8, 2022
Jasmina Chauvin

Georgetown University

November 15, 2022
Xiang Ding

Georgetown University

November 29, 2022
Kirill Borusyak

University College London

December 6, 2022
Yunan Ji

Georgetown University

Fall 2020 Seminars

Spring 2021 Seminars

  • Natalia Ramondo, Boston University, March 8, 2021
  • Diego Puga, CEMFI, March 15, 2021
  • Sharon Traiberman, NYU, March 22, 2021
  • Ariell Reshef, Paris School of Economics, March 29, 2021
  • Swati Dhingra, LSE, April 12, 2021
  • Sebastian Sotelo, University of Michigan, April 19, 2021

Fall 2019

Spring 2020
Note: After March 2, 2020, the remainder of the International Economics Seminar series for the spring 2020 semester was canceled due to COVID-19.

Fall 2018

  • Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California, Los Angeles September 17, 2018
  • Walker Hanlon, New York University – Stern, October 1, 2018
  • Arnaud Costinot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 22, 2018
  • Giovanni Maggi, Yale University, November 5, 2018
  • David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 19, 2018
  • Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania – Wharton, December 3, 2018

Spring 2019

Fall 2017

  • Jonathan Vogel, Columbia University, September 18, 2017
  • Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago, October 2, 2017
  • Gordon Hanson, University of California, San Diego, October 12, 2017
  • Eduardo Morales, Princeton University, October 30, 2017
  • Peter Schott, Yale University – SOM, November 13, 2017
  • Claudia Steinwander, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -Sloan, November 20, 2017
  • Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, December 4, 2017

Spring 2018

  • Jonathan Dingel, University of Chicago – Booth, February 26, 2018
  • Pol Antras, Harvard University, March 12, 2018
  • Ben Faber, University of California, Berkeley (visiting MIT), March 26, 2018
  • David Weinstein, Columbia University, April 9, 2018
  • Teresa Fort, Dartmouth College (visiting Princeton), April 23, 2018
  • James Robinson, University of Chicago, April 30, 2018

Fall 2016

  • Cecilia Fieler, University of Pennsylvania, September 19, 2016
  • Cecile Gaubert, University of California, Berkeley, October 3, 2016
  • Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University, October 24, 2016
  • Maggie Liu, Georgetown University, October 31, 2016
  • Bob Staiger, Dartmouth College, November 7, 2016
  • Réka Juhász, Columbia University, November 14, 2016
  • Tarek Hassan, University of Chicago – Booth School of Business, November 21, 2016
  • Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago, December 5, 2016

Spring 2017

  • Kevin O’Rourke, University of Oxford, February 16, 2017
  • Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University, February 27, 2017
  • Ralph Ossa, University of Zurich, March 13, 2017
  • Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley, March 27, 2017
  • Olga Timoshenko, George Washington University, April 3, 2017
  • Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia, April 24, 2017
  • Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 1, 2017
  • Gino Gancia, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, May 8, 2017