Geneva Trade and Development Workshop⁽¹⁾

Autumn Semester 2025

Programme

Date	Speaker	Title
Monday 22 September 14:15-15:45 University of Geneva Uni Mail, Room M 3250, 3rd Floor, Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 40 Hybrid via Zoom	Meredith Startz (Dartmouth College, USA) Cancelled	"Search costs, intermediation, and trade: Experimental evidence from Ugandan agricultural markets" (co-authored with Lauren Falcao Bergquist and Craig McIntosh)
Friday 26 September Local GTDW (All Day) WTO Rue de Lausanne 154 Geneva	With 10 speakers
Tuesday 30 September 12:30-13:30 WTO Rue de Lausanne 154 Geneva	Dario Pozzoli (Copenhagen Business School)	"Offshoring, Matching, and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence" (co-authored with Gueyon Kim and Dohyeon Lee)
Monday 6 October 14:15-15:45 University of Geneva Uni Mail, Room M 3250, 3rd Floor, Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 40 Hybrid via Zoom	Thierry Mayer (Science Po, Paris)	"The Trade-Off Between Decarbonization and Reshoring: Evidence from the French EV Environmental Score Reform" (co-authored with Clément Malgouyres and Lewin Nolden)
Tuesday 7 October 14:15-15:30 Maison de la Paix 2 Chemin Eugène Rigot, Geneva Petal 1 – Room S5 Hybrid via Webex	Professor Lei Li (Universität Göttingen, Germany)	"Defensive Innovation: Technological Rivalry and College Major Choice" (co-authored with Xiaohua Bao, Qin Chen, Zibin Huang and Mengyuan Wang)
Tuesday, 14 October 14:15-15:30 Maison de la Paix 2 Chemin Eugène Rigot, Geneva Petal 1 – Room S5 Hybrid via Webex	Tishara Garg (Princeton University, USA)	"Can Industrial Policy Overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence"
Monday 24 November 14:15-15:30 University of Geneva Uni Mail, Room M 3250, 3rd Floor, Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve 40 Hybrid via Zoom	Nuno LIMÃO (Georgetown University, USA)	"Economic Consequences of US National (In)Security Export Controls" (co-authored with Kyle Handley and Jingting Fan)
Tuesday, 25 November 14:15-15:30 Maison de la Paix 2 Chemin Eugène Rigot, Geneva Petal 1 – Room S5 Hybrid via Webex	Inga Heiland (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)	TBC

Note:
1. The workshop is a joint initiative organized by the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM), the Graduate Institute (IHEID), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Its objectives are to provide a forum for discussion for academics and researchers working in the area of trade and development, to support high-quality research, and to facilitate outreach to policy makers.