CBPP Seminars
Academic Research Seminars
The center’s academic research seminar series showcases the scholarship of faculty from leading universities across the nation and around the world.
The research presentations attract Georgetown University faculty and students, as well as industry and policy professionals. The seminars are held in the McDonough School of Business on the main campus of Georgetown University.
- The Business, Economics, and Public Policy (BEPP) Seminar series is presented jointly with the Strategy, Economics, Ethics and Public Policy faculty of the McDonough School of Business, a multi-disciplinary group whose primary research and teaching interests lie in Economics, International Business, International Political Economy, Organizational Theory, and Strategy. See the complete listing of BEPP Seminars.
- The International Economics Seminar series is presented jointly with the School of Foreign Service and the Economics Department at Georgetown University. See a complete listing of International Economic Seminars.
Past Events
Business, Economics, and Public Policy Seminars
- March 14, 2024 – Lamar Pierce (Olin Business School, Washington University)
- March 21, 2024 – Ben Handel (University of California, Berkeley)
- April 18, 2024 – Tim Layton (Harvard Medical School)
- May 2, 2024 – Jetson Leder-Luis (Questrom School of Business, Boston University)
- May 23, 2024 – Beat Hintermann (University of Basel)
International Economics Seminars
- May 22, 2025 – Giovanni Peri (University of California, Davis), Foreign Grad Students Spark Entrepreneurial Spillovers Across U.S. Campuses
- May 15, 2025 – Esteban Rossi Hansberg (University of Chicago), Banks in Space
- April 22, 2025 – Frederic Warzynski (Princeton), Novel Methodologies for Markup Estimation with Multiproduct Firms
- April 7, 2025 – Danial Lashkari (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Capital-Skill Complementarity in Firms and Aggregate Economy
- March 12, 2025– Jonathan Vogel (UCLA), The Labor-Market Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks in Normay
- Feb. 26, 2025 – Jin Liu (Princeton University), Multinational Production and Innovation
- Feb. 18, 2025 – Nina Pavcknik (Dartmouth), The Long-Term Employment Effects of Tariff Reductions in Developing Countries
- Feb. 11, 2025 – Agostina Brinatti (Yale University), Third Country Effects of U.S. Immigration Policy
- Dec. 2, 2024 – Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth), The Long-Term Employment Effects of Tariff Reductions in Developing Countries
- Nov. 18, 2024 – Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA), Direct-to-Consumer Imports and the U.S. Tariff Act
- Nov. 4, 2024 – Yulu Tang (Dartmouth), Benefits and Costs of Migrant Networks
- Oct. 21, 2024 – Feodora Teti (Princeton University), Missing Tariffs
- Oct. 7, 2024 – Reka Juhasz (UBC)
- Sept. 24, 2024 – Ralph Ossa (WTO)
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Explore recaps from the Center for Business and Public Policy’s other regular events series: Georgetown on the Hill, which takes the center’s work to Capitol Hill. This signature series of presentations and panel discussions of issues on current legislative agendas fosters collaboration and exchange among prominent academics, industry experts, business leaders, and policy makers.
Georgetown on the Hill
- Feb. 12, 2026 – Rules in Flux: How Trade Uncertainty Is Reshaping Supply Chains, Investment, and U.S. Competitiveness
- Nov. 18, 2025 – Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Mergers: Can Antitrust Thread the Needle
- Oct. 22, 2025 – U.S. Antitrust Policy: Economics, Populism, or Politics?
- Sept. 15, 2025 – Broadband Subsidy Programs