The WTO Public Forum is an annual event that provides a platform for public debate across a wide range of WTO issues and trade topics. The theme of the event is “Expanding Trade through Innovation and the Digital Economy”.

Empirical or theoretical papers in the following areas are especially welcome: - Measurement of national income and wellbeing - Income distribution - Inequality (of income, wealth, education or opportunities) - Poverty - Socioeconomic mobility - Definition and measurement of the middle class -...

Topics: - International adjustment dynamics; - Current account imbalances and international capital flows; - Global financial crises; - Open-economy macroeconomic models; - Exchange rates; - International dimensions of monetary and fiscal policy; - Sovereign risk.