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#ETSG 2024 #Athens 🇬🇷 - September 12-14 - Celebrating the 25th (!) annual conference of the European Trade Study Group.

➡️Conference info: etsg.org
➡️Submit paper before April 5:
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FIW - Research Centre International Economics announces its 15th Research Conference ‘International Economics’ and invites the submission of (full) working papers to be presented at the conference.
Conference date: February 23-24, 2023, WU Vienna

More information and Call for Papers:

blog.fiw.ac.at/fiw-conference…

Recently accepted at EJ: ‘The Cultural Roots of Firm Entry, Exit, and Growth’ by Katharina Erhardt & Simon Haenni doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Oxford Economics Royal Economic Society Katharina Erhardt #EconTwitter

We’ll host Katharina Erhardt from Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics to present an excellent work of hers with Peter Egger & Sergey Nigai at our wiiw-FIW - Research Centre International Economics webinar on 2 Dec 2021 at 15:00 CET entitled 'Empirical Productivity Distributions and International Trade'.
Register:
wiiw.ac.at/e-545.html

Wir freuen uns sehr: Seit heute verstärkt Katharina Erhardt als Professorin für Wirtschaftspolitik das DICE. Herzlich Willkommen!
dice.hhu.de/das-dice/team/…

Switzerland about to abolish tariffs on all industrial goods by 2022 to foster integration in international production networks, to foster competition and to lower prices for consumers. To ensure the latter, a monitoring entity will be introduced.
nzz.ch/wirtschaft/wie… via NZZ

Why don’t all firms use regional trade agreements with lower #tariffs ? Firms incur costs to comply with rules of origin. Reducing fixed costs can be more effective & feasible in increasing the use of regional trade agreements than decreasing variable costs ow.ly/twBU50x7RDC

Extended submission deadline for the #FIW -conference in #InternationalEconomics . Submit your papers until the end of the week (cc Gabriel Felbermayr Yoto V. Yotov Richard Baldwin Harald Fadinger Katrin Kamin Sonali Chowdhry Joschka Wanner Julian Hinz Katharina Erhardt Volker Nitsch Cora Jungbluth et al.)

Seems kind of topical ...

When we try to predict the effects of trade policy changes, we should take into account both the currently applied level of tariffs and the currently applied level of non-tariff barriers! voxeu.org/article/effect…

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“Auf den Einstiegspositionen sind in Deutschland noch 30 Prozent Frauen, bei den ordentlichen Professoren nur 18 Prozent.” - Macho-Kultur? #gender #inequality in der deutschen VWL faz.net/-gqe-9l84c?GEP… via Frankfurter Allgemeine

Unintended trade war consequences: China relies now more on soya-beans imports from Brazil -> experts forecast massive deforestation in Brazil. Why the US–China trade war spells disaster for the Amazon nature.com/articles/d4158…

Great presentations and discussions on #trade and #innovation at the #HeilbronnWorkshop19 . Thanks to Hanna Hottenrott 🇪🇺 and @JensWrona for organizing !

Trade war consequences; Red Bull shifted production to Switzerland (in 2005!) to avoid being affected by EU - US trade disputes in the future.