Geography, Trade, and Growth

The BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Geography, Trade, and Growth will take place in Barcelona from June 19-20, 2024.

This workshop is focused on the interplay between economic geography, trade in products and production factors, and their relationship to economic growth. We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including:

• The causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of economic activity.
• The evolution of economic geography in response to globalization.
• The interaction between trade, geography and growth.
• The effect of technological change and trade on the global organization of production.
• The political economy of trade, growth and spatial misallocation.

The workshop is proposed as a continuation of the workshop organized under the same title in 2017-23, which counted with the participation of prominent scholars from all around the world, including Laura Alfaro (Harvard), Rebecca Diamond (Stanford), Teresa Fort (Dartmouth), Edward Glaeser (Harvard), Gene Grossman (Princeton), Jessie Handbury (Penn), Vernon Henderson (Manchester), Beata Javorcik (Oxford), Kalina Manova (UCL), Marc Melitz (Harvard), Diego Puga (CEMFI), Stephen Redding (Princeton), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Chicago) and Jesse Rothstein (Berkeley), among others.

Keynote speaker

Donald Davis (Columbia University)

Workshop organizers

• Bruno Conte (UPF and BSE)
• Elisa Giannone (CREI, UPF and BSE)
• Dávid K. Nagy (CREI, UPF and BSE)
• Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto (CREI, UPF, IPEG and BSE)
• Edouard Schaal (ICREA-CREI, UPF and BSE)