Topics: - How firms react to trade shocks - How trade shocks propagate across markets within firms - How trade policies affect the behavior of firms - The role of firm networks in international markets - How trade shocks affect firms’ modes of serving foreign markets - How trade shocks affect...

The workshop intends to bring together researchers from the fields of migration and climate/disaster research. The submission of both theoretical and empirical papers is welcome. Preference will be given to papers studying the link between climate change/natural disasters and migration.

Over the past two decades, technological advances have facilitated an increasing international fragmentation of production processes. The academic literature has proposed several explanatory paradigms for this new form of trade. Some of these follow the lines of comparative advantage, while...

The original intention behind the ‘Doha Round’ of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was to promote the integration of developing countries into the world trading system. The collapse of the round in 2008 led to pessimism over whether the pursuit of such a ‘development-based’ agenda is...

A new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is in the making: larger and deeper than most that have been signed earlier. Their focus has moved away from the elimination of tariffs to regulatory cooperation and a WTO-Plus agenda. At the same time, theoretical and empirical modelling...