Venue: Marietta-Blau Saal, University of Vienna (Main Building)
Date: June 26-27, 2025
Organizers: Pol Antràs (Harvard), Alejandro Cuñat (University of Vienna), Harald Fadinger (University of Vienna), and Kalina Manova (UCL)
Keynote Speakers: Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale) and Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po)
Following upon the first seven editions of WIEN, the University of Vienna will again host a two-day meeting that will draw together researchers interested in international economics, global value chains and economic geography.
June 26th
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome 09:10 – 10:00
Keynote #1 Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale) “Mechanics of Spatial Growth”
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee break
10:20 – 11:00
PhD Student Session #1
Jeanne Astier (CREST) “Climate Change Effects on Ports in the Shipping Network”
Hubert Massoni (Bologna) “Climate Trade Costs”
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:00 PhD Student Session #2
Maxim Alekseev (Harvard) “Trade Policy in the Shadow of Conflict: The Case of Dual-Use Goods”
Paul-Emmanuel Chouc (CREST) “Multinational Activity and the Global Minimum Tax” 12:00 – 13:10 Lunch 13:10 – 13:50
Aaron Flaaen (FED Board) “An Anatomy of U.S. Establishments‘ Trade Linkages in Global Value Chains”
13:50 – 14:30 Simon Fuchs (Atlanta FED) “Supply Chain Disruptions, Pass-Through, and Firm Heterogeneity”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 15:40 Hale Utar (Grinell) “The US-China Trade War and the Relocation of Global Value Chains to Mexico”
15:40-16:20 Marc-Andreas Muendler (UC San Diego) “Dynamic Adjustment to Trade Shocks”
Adjourn
June 27th
09:00 – 09:50 Keynote #2 Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po) “The Fragmentation Paradox: De-risking Trade and Global Safety”
09:50 – 10:10 Coffee break 10:10 – 11:10
PhD Student Session #3
Prashant Garg (Imperial) “AI-Generated Production Networks: Measurement and Applications to Global Trade”
Hiroyuki Asai (Tokyo) “Inter-Firm Network Growth over Firm Life Cycle and Its Macroeconomic Implications”
Antonio Martner (UCLA) “Nonlinear Prices in Supply Chains” 11:10 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:10 Agostina Brinatti (Michigan) “Third-Country Effects of U.S. Immigration Policy”
12:10 – 12:50 Eric Verhoogen (Columbia) “What Do Market-Access Subsidies Do? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia”
12:50 – 14:15 Lunch and Adjourn
The workshop will take place in the University of Vienna’s beautiful historical main building.
The conference is generously supported by the Heinrich Graph Hardegg’sche Stiftung, FIW, University of Vienna, wiiw, and the ERC/UKRI under Horizon Europe Guarantee. The workshop will be held in english language. We kindly ask for registration, participation is free of charge.
