WORKSHOP ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC NETWORKS (WIEN)
Date July 9-10, 2026
Venue Sky Lounge, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna
Organisation: Pol Antràs (Harvard), Alejandro Cuñat (Universität Wien), Harald Fadinger (Universität Wien) & Kalina Manova (UCL)
Registration: We kindly ask for registration until July 6, 2026.
July 9
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome
09:00 – 09:50 Keynote #1
Thierry Meyer (Sciences Po) “TBA”
09:50 – 10:10 Coffee break
10:10 – 11:00 PhD/Post-doc Session #1
Carole Marullaz (Zurich) “Inside Out: The Allocative Impact of Firms’ Make-or-Buy Decisions on Aggregate Energy Intensity”
Robin Sogalla (Mannheim) “Clean Production, Dirty Sourcing: Importing, Exporting, and Emission Shifting in Global Supply Chains”
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:10 PhD/Post-doc Session #2
Lidia Smitkova (Oxford) “Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: The Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry”
Yuyang Jiang (Princeton) “Strategic Transportation Investment and Coordinative Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Highway Network”
12:10 – 13:10 Lunch
13:10 – 13:50 Sonali Chowdry (DIW Berlin) “Quantitative Trade with Ships”
13:50 – 14:30 Edoardo Tolva (ISEG & Lisboa) “One Way or Another: Modes of Transport and International Trade”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 15:40 Magnus Tolum Buus (Copenhagen) “R&D Employment Spillovers in Trade and MNE Networks: Evidence from a R&D Tax Reform”
15:40 – 16:20 Konstantin Egorov (Antwerp) “Hostile Decoupling and Geoeconomics of Multinationals”
Adjourn
July 10
08:50 – 09:40 Keynote #2
Matilde Bombardini (Berkeley Haas) “TBA”
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 11:15 PhD/Post-doc Session #3
Sophia Praetorius (Geneva) “Collaboration in Technology and Multinational Production”
Sameer Malik (BI Norway) “The Role of Unreported Intermediate Inputs in Firms’ Production Structure”
Swann Chelly (Sciences Po) “Spatial Comovements”
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:10 Vanessa Alviarez (IDB) “How Shocks Travel: The Cross-Border Impact of
Natural Disasters in Firm Networks”
12:10 – 12:50 Sergi Basco (Barcelona) “Superstar Buyers and Financial Crises: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Trade Data”
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch
Adjourn
