FIW-Workshop International Economics
Time: May 28-29, 2026
Location: Vienna University of Economics and Business, EA (Executive Academy)
EA Foyer, ground floor (EA.0.024), Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
Organizers:
Peter Egger (ETH Zürich)
Alexander Hudetz (WIFO)
Harald Oberhofer (WU Vienna & WIFO)
We kindly ask for registration.
Preliminary Program
Day 1 – Thursday, May 28
9:50 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Keynote Lecture I
10:00 – 11:00: Peter Schott (Yale University)
To Find Relative Earnings Gains from Trade, Look Outside Manufacturing and Upstream (joint work with Justin R. Pierce & Christina Tello-Trillo)
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
Session I: Chair Harald Oberhofer
11:20 – 12:00: Monika Mrazova (University of Geneva)
Strategic yet not demanding: empirical reach of oligopoly with CES preferences ( joint work with Peter Neary and Mathieu Parenti)
12:00 – 12:40: Hartmut Egger (University of Bayreuth)
Hedging trade Cost Uncertainty
12:40 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Session II: Chair Peter Egger
14:00 – 14:40: Harald Oberhofer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About EU Membership Trade Effects But Were Afraid to Ask (joint work with Zhenyi Wang)
14:40 – 15:20: Ruobing Hang (ETH Zürich)
International Trade with Homothetic Non-CES Demand.
17:00
Workshop Dinner
Day 2 – Friday, May 29, 2026
Keynote Lecture II
10:00 – 11:00: Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University)
Title (TBA)
11:00 – 11:20
Coffee Break
Session III: Chair Peter Egger
11:20– 12:00: Birgit Meyer (WIFO)
From Courtrooms to Customs: How Patent Disputes Shape Global Trade Flows (joint work with Agnes Kügler)
12:00 – 12:40: Farid Toubal (University of Paris Dauphine – PSL)
Chinese Industrial Policy and International Spillovers: Evidence from 60,000 Policy Documents (joint work with Paul-Emile Bernard and Vincent V. W. D. Brussee)
12:40 – 14:00
Lunch Break
Session IV: Chair Birgit Meyer
14:00 – 14:40: Leandro Navarro (University of Bayreuth)
Co-Exportation of Products by Multi-Product Firms”
(joint work with Peter Egger and Corinne Jones).
14:40 – 15:20: Peter Egger
Title (TBA)
End of Workshop
