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

Fall 2025

Spring 2024

  • 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

Spring 2026

  • May 4, 2026 – Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard University), The Optimal Macro Tariff
  • April 13, 2026 – Mayara Felix (Yale University); Outsourcing, Labor Market Frictions, and Employment
  • March 23, 2026 – Tishara Garg (Princeton University), Can Industrial Policy Overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence
  • March 16, 2026 – Ariel Burstein (University of California, Los Angeles), Aggregate Productivity with Discrete Choice
  • February 23, 2026 – Ezra Oberfield (Cornell University), The Network Origins of Firm Dynamics: Contracting Frictions and Dynamism with Long-Term Relationships
  • February 9, 2026 – Gene Grossman (Princeton University), Optimal Tariffs with Geopolitical Alignment

Fall 2025

  • December 8, 2025 – Alejandro Sabal (Yale University), Product Entry in the Global Automobile Industry
  • December 1, 2025 – Winnie van Dijk (Yale University), The Effects of Eviction on Children
  • November 17, 2025 – Bob Staiger (Dartmouth College), Geopolitics and the World Trading System
  • October 27, 2025 – Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University), What Do Market-Access Subsidies Do? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia
  • October 6, 2025 – John Sturm Becko (Princeton University), Strategic (Dis)Integration
  • September 22, 2025 – Leonardo D’Amico (Princeton University), Capital Market Integration and Growth Across the United States
  • September 8, 2025 – Davin Chor (Dartmouth College), Exclusions For Sale? Tariff Exclusions in the U.S.-China Trade War

Spring 2025

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