Ongoing Series
GWU-World Bank Sustainable Cities Workshops
The GWU-World Bank Sustainable Cities workshop series brings together academics and development practitioners to present and discuss key questions of common interest relating to Sustainable Urbanization. Each workshop in the series focuses on a particular topic relating to cities in developing countries. The workshops are hosted by the World Bank (Urban, DRM, Resilience and Land Global Practice) and George Washington University (Institute for International Economic Policy & Department of Economics).
Information on a Fall 2026 Sustainable Cities Workshop coming soon
February 15, 2024 - 9:00 AM
Sustainable Cities Workshop: Housing, Local Economic Development, & Planning
May 9, 2023 - 9:30 AM
Sustainable Cities Workshop on “Urban Inclusion and Development”
March 30, 2023 - 12:00 PM
Thriving – Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate
Washington Area Development Economics Symposium
The Washington Area Development Economics Symposium (WADES) is an annual research conference which highlights academic work from researchers at leading economics institutions in development economics in the Washington DC area. Researchers from George Washington University, University of Maryland, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Virginia, the World Bank, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), American University, George Mason University, and the Center for Global Development are all participants in the symposium.
Washington Area International Trade Symposium
The Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) is a forum that highlights trade research at institutions in the Washington D.C. area. Its primary activity is sponsoring an annual research conference where scholars present their latest academic work. Researchers from George Washington University, American University, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Board, Georgetown University, George Mason University, the Inter-American Development Bank, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), the U.S. International Trade Commission, the University of Maryland, and the World Bank have all participated in the symposium.
Past WAITS Events:
- 15th Washington Area International Trade Symposium May 1, 2026
Sessions Included: “Trade and Investment Policies," "Trade, Finance, and Automation," and "Trade, Agriculture, Environment, and Intermediation"
Hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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- 14th Washington Area International Trade Symposium May 2, 2025
Sessions Included: “Immigration and Trade Credit," "Trade Disruptions," and "Trade Policy and Firm Networks"
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
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- 13th Washington Area International Trade Symposium May 6, 2024
Sessions Included: “Domestic Subsidies," "Firms and Industries," "Tariffs and Trade Wars," and "Trade and Migration"
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
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- 12th Washington Area International Trade Symposium May 6, 2023
Sessions Included: “Frictions and Trade," "Immigration," "Trade and Inequality," and "The Pandemic Trade Shock"
Hosted by George Mason University
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- 11th Washington Area International Trade Symposium May 6, 2022
Sessions Included: “Trade, Automation, and Labor Market," "Immigration," "Trade Frictions and Spillovers," and "International Firms"
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
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- 10th Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 29-30, 2021
Sessions Included: “Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. Matched Employer-Employee Data”, “Foreign Competition Along the Quality Ladder”, “Disentangling the Effects of the 2018-2019 Tariffs on a Globally Connected U.S. Manufacturing Sector”, “Foreign Influence: The International Transmission of Gender Equality”, “Linkages with Multinationals: The Effects of Domestic Firms’ Exports”, “Quality Misallocation, Trade, and Regulations”, “Industry Linkages from Joint Production”, “Trade, Technology, Size, and the Division of Labor”, “Spatial Misallocation, Informality, and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City”, “Game of Zones: Taking a Chance or Playing it Safe?”
Hosted by American University
- 9th Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 26, 2019
Sessions Included: “Regional Spillovers through Multi-Market Firms: The Product Replacement Channel”, “Non-Tariff Barriers and Bargaining in Generic Pharmaceuticals”, “Training and Labor Adjustment to Trade”, “Trade, Jobs, and Worker Welfare”, “Family Leave Law and the Demand for Female Labor: Evidence from a Trade Shock”, “Robots, Tasks, and Trade”, “Testing Stolper- Samuelson with a Natural Experiment”, What are the Price Effects of Trade: Evidence from the U.S. and Implication for Quantitative Trade Models”, and “Your (Country’s) Reputation Precedes You: Information Asymmetry, Externalities and the Quality of Exports”
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 8th Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 27, 2018
Sessions Included: “Policy Credibility and Firm Growth in the Global Economy”, “Policy Credibility and Firm Growth in the Global Economy”, “Uncertainty and Firm Growth in the Global Economy”, “Uncertainty and Trade Elasticities”, “Information and Exports: Firm-Level Evidence from an Outline Platform”, “The Impact of Trade on Managerial Incentives and Productivity”, Investment Responses to Trade Liberalization: Evidence from U.S. Industries and Establishments”, “Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement”, “Assessing Market (Dis)Integration in Pre-Modern China and Europe”, “The Trade Effects of the New Silk Road”, “How Does Industry Comparative Advantage Affect Establishments?”, “Endogenous Trade Policy in a Global Value Chain: Evidence from Chinese Micro-level Processing Trade”
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 7th Washington Area International Trade Symposium 2017
Sessions Included: “Trade, Inequality, and the Endogenous Sorting of Heterogeneous Workers”, “The Local Incidence of Trade Shocks”, “An Empirical Dynamic Model of Trade with Consumer Accumulation”, “The Role of Transfer Prices in Profit Shifting by U.S. Multinationals: Evidence from 2004 Homeland Investment”, “An Anatomy of Foreign Investment News”, “Industry Mix, Local Labor Markets, and the Incidence of Trade Shocks”, “The Impact of Chinese Competition on Mexican Labor Outcomes”, “Trade Creation and Trade Diversion in Deep Agreements”
Keynote Speakers: Keith MaskusHosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 6th Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 29, 2016
Sessions Included: “Reassessing the Productivity Gains from Trade Liberalization”, “Learning, Prices, and Firm Dynamics”, “Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods”, “The Tradability of Services: Geographic Concentration and Trade Costs”, “Trade Policy in Practice: The TPP from an Insider’s Perspective”, “Misallocation, Trade, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Data”, “Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy”, and “Green Innovation and Green Manufacturing: Links Between Environmental Policies, Innovation and Production”.
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 5th Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 30, 2015
Sessions Included: “Overcoming the Tyranny of History: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa”, “The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms: an Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms”, “Learning and the Value of Relationships in International Trade”, “The Border Labyrinth: Information Technologies and Trade in the Presence of Multiple Agencies”, “Learning and Reputation in Trade” and Trade-induced Quality Upgrading: Transaction-level Evidence from Portugal”
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 4th Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 25, 2014
Sessions Included: “Customs: What are the Effects on International Trade”, “Comparative Advantages of Rich and Poor Countries”, “Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry”, “Estimating the Effects of the Container Revolution on World Trade”, “Important Dynamics and Demands for Protection”, “The Structure of Export Entry Costs”, and “Buyer-Seller Relationships in International Trade: Do your Neighbors Matter?”
Keynote Speakers: Michael Moore, Christopher KurzHosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 3rd Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 12, 2013
Sessions Included: “Export Destinations and Input Prices: Evidence from Portugal”, “Menu Costs, Trade Flows, and Exchange Rate Volatility”, “Policy Uncertainty, Trade and Welfare: Theory and Evidence for China”, “Product Switching in a Model of Learning”, “Under the Cover of Antidumping: Does Administered Protection Facilitate Domestic Collusion?”, “Diversification, Cost Structure, and the Stock Returns of Multinational Companies”, “Exchange Rate Pass-through in a Global Value Chains: The Effects of Upstream Suppliers”, and “Entry Costs and Increasing Trade”.
Keynote Speakers: Michael MooreHosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 2nd Washington Area International Trade Symposium April 6, 2012
Sessions Included: “Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics”, “Globalization, Labor Markets and the Role of Human Capital”, “Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions”, “Exports-at-Risk: The Effect of Multi-Market Contact in International Trade”, “Exports-at-Risk: The Effect of Multi-Market Contact in International Trade”, “Trade Policy and Wage Inequality: A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility”, “A Global Database of Foreign Affiliate Activity”, “Trade and Volatility at the Firm and Plant Level”, and “Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillovers: Identifying the Impact of Multinational Activity on Aggregate Productivity”
Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 1st Washington Area International Trade Symposium March 11, 2011
Sessions Included: “Multi Market Service Firms”, “Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence Presentation”, “Trade Liberalization, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data”, “Trade Liberalization, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data, “Local Intermediate Inputs, Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of Domestic Firms: When Firms Share Common Local Input Suppliers”, “The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms”, and “Offshoring, Terms of trade and the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth”
Keynote Speakers: Michael MooreHosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium
The Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium (WALES) is a one-day labor economics conference that brings together researchers from many DC institutions. The goal is to provide an outlet to share work in progress and get to know other researchers. In the past, WALES has featured participants from the Agency for Healthcare Quality Research, American University, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Trade Commission, George Washington University, Georgetown University, International Food Policy Research Institute, University of Maryland, Urban Institute, US Naval Academy, and World Bank.
Past WALES Events:
- 8th Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium April 24, 2026
Papers Discussed: "The Distributional Effects of Firm Demand Changes: Evidence from U.S. Worker-Owner Data," "Quantifying the Distortions of Labor Market Power: U.S. Coal Mines 2001-2019," "Free Homes and Youth Crime," "Refugee-Host Integration through Social Safety Nets: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," "Learning and Talent Allocation along the Supply Chain," "Public Employment Services Reduce Hiring Frictions? Evidence from a Firm-Side Experiment in Morocco," "Changing Intergenerational Mobility in the Mid-20th Century: Evidence from Newly Linked Administrative Data," "How do neighborhoods and firms affect intergenerational mobility," "Incentives, Interaction, and Peer Effects," and "Childcare and Long-Term Care: Altruism and Strategic Motives within the Family"
Hosted by Georgetown University
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- 7th Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium Feb 14, 2025
Papers Discussed: "State Auto-IRA Policies and Firm Behavior: Lessons from Administrative Tax Data," " Couples’ Remote Work Arrangements and Labor Supply," " Estimating employment transitions while accounting for classification error: evidence from South Africa," "The Variance of Achievement Increases During Childhood," "The Effect of Parental Resources on College Major Choice," "The Gryffindor Effect: The effect of manufactured identity on student high-stakes outcomes," "Marriage Dynamics, Earnings Dynamics, and Lifetime Family Income," " Race and Mobility in U.S. Marriage Markets: Quantifying the Role of Segregation," "- Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector," and "Income Effects on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Survivor Pension Threshold," "Decomposing Historical Changes in Employer Costs and Contributions to Inequality," "Anomalous Unemployment Insurance Payments During the Pandemic," "Separations Revisited: Do Layoffs or Quits Drive Lower Separation Rates in High-Quality Firms?," " The Long-term Decline of the U.S. Job Ladder," " Import Competition and Firm Productivity," "Did Unemployment Insurance Reduce the Spread of Covid? Evidence from Weekly Data," "The Value of Remote Work: A Correspondence Experiment on Tutors," "Air Pollution and Labor Supply: Evidence from Bangladesh," "Love or Taxes: Separating Tax Benefits from other Motivations to Marry within Same-Sex Partnerships," "Infrastructure Investment and Economic Development: Evidence from the US Numbered Highway System," "Extreme Temperature, Working Hours and Heat Regulations," "The Impact of Refugee Flow on Host Countries’ Healthcare Systems: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Turkey," "Robots and Wage Inequality Between and Within Occupations," "Occupational Choice and Income Inequality: A Human Capital Approach," "The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Influential Estimates Are Severely Biased," "Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leadership, and Development in Origin Countries," "Jewish Occupational Attainment in the Antebellum United States: Filling a Gap in the Literature," "The Success Rate of Unemployment Insurance Applicants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effect of Eligibility Expansions and Variation Across States," and "Minimum Wage, Informality, and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco,"
Hosted by George Mason University
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- 6th Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium April 19, 2024
- 5th Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium April 28, 2023
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Hosted by Georgetown University
- 4th Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium April 22, 2022
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Hosted by Georgetown University
- 3rd Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium Feb 19, 2021
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Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 2nd Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium Feb 28, 2020
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Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 1st Annual Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium March 29, 2019
Sessions Included: “The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation”, “Timing is Everything: Evidence from College Major Decisions”, “Climate Change and Internal Migration in Brazil: The Role of Geography and Road Infrastructure”, “The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory”, “Household Adaptation to Seasonal Earnings Losses”, “Transmission of Foreign Business Cycles and Financial Shocks through the Lens of Individual Firms and Workers”, “The Gig Economy and the Future of Work”, “Returns to Experience and Economic Growth”, “Breaking the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from Female Mobile Money Agents in Bangladesh”, “Missing Skills and Mobility Frictions: An Experiment in Urbanizing India”, “The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to the Earned Income Tax”
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Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
Washington Area Network Economics Symposium
The Washington Area Network Economics Symposium (WANES) is a research conference that highlights academic work from researchers at leading economics institutions in network economics in the Washington DC area.
Past WANES Events:
- 2nd Annual Washington Area Network Economics Symposium Oct 11, 2025
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Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 1st Annual Washington Area Network Economics Symposium Aug 7, 2023
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Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
Washington Area International Finance Symposium
The Washington Area International Finance Symposium (WAIFS) is a research conference that highlights academic work from researchers at leading finance institutions in the Washington DC area. The goal of WAIFS is to bring together researchers working in international finance and macroeconomics. Researchers, practitioners, and students from policy institutions and universities present and discuss new ideas in the field. WAIFS welcomes recently arrived, junior economists so they become integrated into the broader community. The event takes place annually at one of the partner institutions.
Past WAIFS Events:
- 7th Annual Washington Area International Finance Symposium Sep 26, 2025
Sessions Included: “Sovereign Debt Sustainability and Redistribution,” “Tax Revolts and Sovereign Defaults,” “Breaking Up: Fragmentation in Foreign Direct Investment,” “Fiscal Policy, Portfolio Frictions, and International Transmission,” “Capital Allocation and Firm Dynamics in Small Open Economies,” and "Monetary-Fiscal-Capital Account Interactions in a Small Open Economy"
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Hosted by Johns Hopkins University
- 6th Annual Washington Area International Finance Symposium Oct 11, 2024
Sessions Included: “Monetary Policy and Fiscal-led Inflation in Emerging Markets,” “A New Test of Fiscal Dominance and Central Bank Independence,” “Macroeconomic Attention and Expected Returns,” “Partisan Cities,” “The Causal Effect of Expected Depreciations,” "Crowding Out and Banking Crises," "Inelastic Financial Markets and Foreign Exchange Interventions," "Intermediary Elasticity and Risk-Bearing Capacity," and “Quantities and Covered-Interest Parity”
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Hosted by the World Bank
- 5th Annual Washington Area International Finance Symposium Sep 22, 2023
Sessions Included: “The Unintended Consequences of Financial Sanctions,” “Reexamining Sovereign Spreads,” “Buyer Market Power and Exchange Rate Pass-Through,” “Corporate Credit Risk and Capital Flows in Emerging Economies,” “Liability Dollarization and Exchange Rate Pass-Through,” and “Shock Propagation with Multi-Sector Firms”
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Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
- 4th Annual Washington Area International Finance Symposium Sep 23, 2022
Sessions Included: “Fiscal Policy in the Age of COVID: Does it ‘Get in all of the Cracks?,'” “Exchange Rate Disconnect and Commodity Prices,” “The Optimal Design of Green Securities,” “Financial Globalization: Winners and Losers,” “Reallocation and Productivity in Resource-Rich Economies,” and “Inequality and Asset Prices during Sudden Stops”
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Hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank
- 3rd Annual Washington Area International Finance Symposium
- 2nd Annual Washington Area International Finance Symposium Apr 5, 2019
Sessions Included: “Global Financial Cycle, Household Credit, and Macroprudential Policies,” “ The Global Rise of Asset Prices and the Decline of the Labor Share,” “Liquidity Rules and Credit Booms,” “The Granularity of Corporate Saving,” and “ Price Dynamics and the Financing Structure of Firms in Emerging Economies”
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Hosted by the University of Maryland
- 1st Annual Washington Area International Finance Symposium Mar 11, 2011
Sessions Included: “Multi Market Service Firms,” "Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence,” “Trade Liberalization, Firm Heterogeneity, and Wages: New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data,” “Local Intermediate Inputs, Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of Domestic Firms: When Firms Share Common Local Input Suppliers,” “The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms,” and "Offshoring Bias in U.S. Manufacturing: Implications for Productivity and Value Added Effects of Terms of Trade Gains and Tariff Changes on the Measurement of U.S. Productivity Growth"
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Hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy
Previous Series
Rethinking Capitalism and Democracy
Fissures in the political, social, economic, and financial orders, accompanied by an increasingly stressed natural environment, pose serious and possibly existential threats to capitalist democracies, as income and wealth inequality subverts the integrity and fairness of markets and elections, weak regulatory oversight increases the fragility of the financial system, and the visible effects of climate change threaten lives and livelihoods and drive migrations. The three spheres of wellbeing – political and social, economic and financial, and the natural environment, are each becoming more fragile while their complex interrelationships are producing wicked challenges. The IIEP webinar series on Rethinking Capitalism and Democracy examined these difficult questions and possible policy responses. This series was organized under the leadership of IIEP Distinguished Visiting Scholar Sunil Sharma.
- 2023 Events
“Capitalism, Democracy, and Governance” featuring Martin Wolf (Financial Times) and Joe Zammit-Lucia (RADIX) – Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
- 2022 Events
“Negative Economic Shocks: Can Our Fragile Democracies Take the Hit?” featuring Bill White (C D Howe Institute), Martha Finnemore (GWU), and Alan Kirman (EHESS Paris and Chief Adviser to the OECD NAEC initiative) – Wednesday, May 4, 2022
“India at 75: Systemic Challenges and the Path Ahead” featuring Ravinder Kaur (University of Copenhagen) and Ajay Chhibber (GWU and Atlantic Council) -Wednesday, February 23, 2022
“The U.S. Federal Reserve and Economic Inequality” featuring Karen Petrou (Federal Financial Analytics), Mark Levonian (Promontery Financial Group), Bill Nelson (Bank Policy Institute), and Peter Conti-Brown (University of Pennsylvania) – Wednesday, January 26, 2022
- 2021 Events
“Governing the New Voluntary Carbon Markets” featuring Mark Kenber (VCMI) and Kavita Prakash-Mani (Mandai Nature) – Tuesday, October 19, 2021
“Accelerating Systemic Transformation: A Case Study from Wales (UK)” featuring Jyoti Banerjee (North Star Transition), Jenny Scott (Apella), and Victoria Topham (Wales Transition Lab) – Wednesday, November 10, 2021
“The Centrifugal Nature of the Labor Market” featuring Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria) – Wednesday, September 29, 2021
“Food Systems at a Crossroads: How to fix them and help people, economies, and the planet” featuring Sunil Sharma (GWU), Nicoletta Batini (IMF), Bruce Friedrich (GFI), and Ann Florini (ASU Thunderbird) – Thursday, June 24, 2021
“Policy Choices and Contagion: The Covid Pandemic and the Climate Crisis” featuring Robert Frank (Cornell) and Dr. Roland Kupers (Thunderbird) – Wednesday, May 26, 2021
“Peace in the Age of Chaos” featuring Steve Killelea (IIEP Founder), Pedro Conceição (UNDP-HDRO), Matthew Levinger (GWU), and Sabina Alkire (OPHI) – Thursday, April 22, 2021
“Rethinking Financial Regulation for the 21st Century” featuring Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. (GWU), Erik Gerding (Colorado), Sunil Sharma (GWU), Jay Shambaugh (GWU), and Jeremiah Pam (GWU) – Wednesday, March 24, 2021
“Governing Finance for Sustainable Prosperity” featuring Alexander Barkawi (CEP), Jay Shambaugh (GWU), Ann Florini (ASU Thunderbird), Sunil Sharma (GWU), and James E. Foster (GWU) – Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
“Taking Stock of Climate Change: Earth, Air, Fire and Water” featuring Sir David Hendry (Oxford), Jennifer Castle (Oxford), and Ann Florini (ASU Thunderbird) – Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
- 2020 Events
“Sustainability and the Architecture of Global Finance” featuring Simon Zadek (Finance for Biodiversity, and Migrant Nation Initiative), Sonja Gibbs (IIF), and Ann Florini (ASU Thunderbird) – Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
“Valuing Nature: Whales, Elephants, and the Global Economy” featuring Ralph Chami (IMF), Connel Fullenkamp (Duke), and Ann Florini (ASU Thunderbird) – Thursday, November 19th, 2020
International Trade
- 2022 Events
“Macro-International Seminar with Rully Prassetya (GWU)/Zheyu Yang (GWU)” – Wed, December 7, 2022
“Microeconomics Seminar with Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton)” – Wed, December 7, 2022
“Trade and Development Workshop with Mariaflavia Harari Wharton Real Estate Department” – Tue, December 6, 2022
“Macro-International Seminar with Gon Huertas (GWU)/TBA” – Wed, November 30, 2022
“Microeconomics Seminar with Laura Wherry (NYU)” – Wed, November 30, 2022
“Microeconomics Seminar with Jessie Handbury (U Penn – Wharton)” – Wed, November 16, 2022
“Microeconomics Seminar with Laurent Bouton (Georgetown University)” – Wed, November 9, 2022
“Trade and Development Seminar with Jonathan Weigel (Berkeley Haas)” – Tue, November 8, 2022
“Macro-International Seminar with Balint Szoke (Federal Reserve Board)” – Wed, November 2, 2022
“Microeconomics Seminar with Mitchell Hoffman (Toronto)” – Wed, November 2, 2022
“Trade and Development Seminar with Devaki Ghose (World bank)” – Tue, November 1, 2022
“Trade and Development Seminar with Gharad Bryan (LSE)” – Thu, October 27, 2022
“Microeconomics Seminar with Jesse Gregory (Wisconsin University)” – Wed, October 26, 2022
“Macro-International Seminar with Jennie Bai (Georgetown University)” – Wednesday, October 19, 2022
“Microeconomics Seminar with Barry Chiswick (GWU)” – Wednesday, October 19, 2022
“The 2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index” – Monday, October 17, 2022
“Annual Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) Conference” – Friday, May 6, 2022
“Missing migrants: Border closures as a labor supply shock, joint with Dave Maré and Linda Sanderson” featuring Melanie Morten (Stanford) – Tuesday, April 12, 2022
“U.S.-China Tensions” featuring Bo Sun (Federal Reserve Board) – Friday, April 1, 2022
“Trade Links: New Rules for a New World” featuring James Bacchus (University of Florida) – Wednesday, March 23, 2022
“The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China” featuring Kevin Rudd (Asia Society), David Shambaugh (George Washington University), and Alyssa Ayres (George Washington University) – Tuesday, March 22, 2022
“Are China and India Encountering Convergence Stalls?” featuring Arvind Subramanian (Brown University), Dr. Kalpana Kochhar (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and David Dollar (Brookings Institution) – Tuesday, March 22, 2022
“Trade Shocks and Supply Chains: What is Happening to the WTO and Globalization?” featuring Bob Koopman (World Trade Organization), Michael Moore (George Washington University), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Tuesday, February 22, 2022
- 2021 Events
“Gender Inclusiveness in Trade: Barriers, Challenges, and Opportunities” featuring Renata Amaral (American University), Jamaica Gayle (National Foreign Trade Council), Nadia Bourély (Embassy of Canada to the United States), Lisa Schroeter (Dow Chemical Company), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Thursday, November 18, 2021
“What Can We Hope For at MC12?” featuring Alan Wm. Wolff (Peterson Institute for International Economics), Jake Colvin (National Foreign Trade Council), Isabel Jarrett (The Pew Charitable Trusts), Andrew Jory (Embassy of Australia in the United States), Sharon Bomer Lauritsen (AgTrade Strategies, LLC), Catherine Mellor (UPS), and Michael Moore (George Washington University) – Thursday, November 18, 2021
“Linkages with Multinationals: The Effects on Domestic Firms’ Exports” featuring Christian Volpe Martincus (Inter-American Development Bank) – Tuesday, November 16, 2021
“Escaping Sanctions? Iranian Firm Response and Market Reallocation Under International Trade Sanctions” featuring Ebad Ebadi (George Washington University) – Tuesday, November 9, 2021
“Are Pitcairn Island (UK), China and Taiwan really joining CPTPP?” featuring Ken Levinson (Washington International Trade Organization), The Honorable Tim Groser (former Ambassador of New Zealand), Wendy Cutler (Asia Society Policy Institute), Shanker Singham (Institute of Economic Affairs, Centre for Economics and Business Research), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Wednesday, November 3, 2021
“IMF World Economic Outlook: Recovery During a Pandemic – Health Concerns, Supply Disruptions, and Price Pressures” featuring John Bluedorn (IMF), Christoffer Koch (IMF), Jean-Marc Natal (IMF), Tara M. Sinclair (George Washington University), Benjamin F. Jones (Northwestern University), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Friday, October 29, 2021
“The Future Global Economic and Spatial Consequences of Climate Change” featuring Klaus Desmet (Southern Methodist University) – Tuesday, October 26, 2021
“Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?” featuring Dr. Bingjing Li (University of Hong Kong), James Feigenbaum (Boston University), Maggie Chen (George Washington University), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Friday, October 15, 2021
“India’s Trade Policy: Past, Present, Future” featuring Alyssa Ayres (George Washington University), Judith Dean (Brandeis University), Rajeev Kher (Research and Information System for Developing Countries), and James E. Foster (George Washington University) – Wednesday, June 2, 2021
“Elliott Experts Weigh in: The Global Economic System in the Age of Coronavirus” featuring Maggie Chen (George Washington University) – Thursday, May 7, 2020
“Globalizing Patient Capital: The Political Economy of Chinese Finance in the Americas” featuring Stephen Kaplan (George Washington University), Carol Wise (University of Southern California), Roselyn Hsueh (Temple University), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Friday, April 30, 2021
“10th Washington Area International Trade Symposium (WAITS) Conference” – Thursday, April 29, 2021 – Friday, April 30, 2021
“China’s Outward Investments: State Capitalism or Capital Flight?” featuring Meg Rithmire (Harvard Business School), Stephen B. Kaplan (George Washington University), Deborah Brautigam (Johns Hopkins University), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Friday, March 5, 2021
“Reshaping Global Trade: The Immediate and Long-Run Effects of Bank Failures” featuring Chenzi Xu (Stanford University) – Wednesday, February 24, 2021
- 2020 Events
“International Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region Amidst U.S.-China Tensions” featuring Maggie Chen (George Washington University), Chris Fussner (TransTechnology Worldwide), and Frank Wong (Scholastic Asia) – Tuesday, November 10, 2020
“IMF October 2020 World Economic Outlook” featuring Malhar Nabar (IMF), Claudia Sahm (SAHM Consulting), Francesca Caselli (IMF), Florence Jaumotte (IMF), Ken Gillingham (Yale University) Tara Sinclair (George Washington University), James Foster (George Washington University), and Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University) – Wednesday, October 28, 2020
“The African Continental Free Trade Agreement: Trading Up in the Era of COVID-19” featuring Albert Muchanga (African Union Commission), Florizelle (Florie) Liser (Corporate Council on Africa), Tony Carroll (Manchester Trade), and Jennifer G. Cooke (George Washington University) – Friday, October 23, 2020
“Are Informal Workers Benefiting from Globalization? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in India” featuring Nita Rudra (Georgetown University), Maggie Chen (George Washington University), Deepa Ollapally (George Washington University), and James Foster (George Washington University) – Tuesday, August 4, 2020
“Webinar: Innovations in Digital Trade: The Sequel” featuring Sabina Ciofu (techUK), Sam duPont (German Marshall Fund), Nigel Cory (Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub), and Susan Aarsonson (George Washington University) – Thursday, July 16, 2020
“Webinar on E-Commerce at the WTO: What’s Going On?” featuring Victor do Prado (World Trade Organization) – Monday, March 30, 2020
Facing Inequality
The Facing Inequality series focused on current and emerging inequality issues in the U.S. and around the globe, especially those revealed by the current COVID-19 pandemic. It brought together historians, economists, sociologists, political scientists, and epidemiologists, within the academy and without, to present work and discuss ideas that facilitated new interdisciplinary approaches to the problem of inequality. It is a platform for dialogue and debate.
This series was organized under the stewardship of James Foster, Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics; and IIEP Faculty Affiliate Trevor Jackson, Assistant Professor of History. It was co-sponsored by the GW Interdisciplinary Inequality Series and co-organized by Professor Trevor Jackson from the Department of History and Professor Bryan Stuart from the Department of Economics.
- 2022 Events
“Collaborate To Create Change: Towards Racial and Socioeconomic Equity in our Scholarship, Research & Teaching” – Friday, September 23rd, 2022
“Epidemics, Inequality and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times” featuring Guido Alfani (Bocconi University) – Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
“Black Politicians During Reconstruction: Impacts and Backlashes” featuring Dr. Trevon Logan (Ohio State University) – Monday, February 28th, 2022
“The Distribution of Wealth in Germany 1895-2018” featuring Dr. Charlotte Bartels (German Institute for Economic Research) – Monday, February 7th, 2022
- 2021 Events
“Inequality and the Centrifugal Nature of the Labor Market” featuring Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria) – Wednesday, September 29, 2021
“Campaign Finance Rules and Wealth of Politicians” featuring Marko Klašnja (Georgetown), Nina Eichacker (Rhode Island), and Tim Shenk (GWU) – Monday, June 21, 2021
“Hidden Wealth” featuring Neil Cummins (LSE) – Wednesday, April 28, 2021
“How the Pandemic Exposed the Incomplete Gender Revolution: Work, Family, and Public Policy” featuring Betsey Stevenson (Michigan), Madeline de Quillacq (GWU), Dr. Mary Ellsberg (GWU), and Eiko Strader (GWU) – Monday, February 15th, 2021
- 2020 Events
“Global Income Inequality: Current Developments and Their Political Implications” featuring Branko Milanovic (CUNY) – Tuesday, May 5, 2020
“Will Covid-19 Raise Inequality? Evidence from Past Epidemics and Crises” featuring Prakash Loungani (IMF) and Jonathan D. Ostry (CEPR) – Tuesday, May 26, 2020
“Just Governance: Lessons on Climate Change Justice from People in Poverty” featuring Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt) – Tuesday, June 16, 2020
“Imperfect Competition on the Cathedral Floor: Labourers in London 1672 to 1748” featuring Judy Stephenson (Bartlett CPM), Patrick Wallis (LSE), Bryan Stuart (GWU), and Barry Chiswick (GWU) – Tuesday, June 30, 2020
“How Should We Measure Multidimensional Inequality? A Philosopher’s Approach (with COVID applications)” featuring Kristi A. Olson (Bowdoin), Luis Felipe López-Calva (UN), and Jeffrey Brand (GWU) – Tuesday, July 14, 2020
“Central Banking in the Age of Inequality” featuring Dr. Benjamin Braun (IAS), Aditi Sahasrabudde (Cornell), and Trevor Jackson (GWU) – Tuesday, July 28, 2020
“Are Informal Workers Benefiting from Globalization? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in India” featuring Nita Rudra (Georgetown) – Tuesday, August 4, 2020
“Short and long-run distributional impacts of COVID-19 in Latin America” featuring Nora Lustig (Tulane), Guido Neidhöfer (ZEW), Stephen B. Kaplan (GWU), and Dr. Michael C. Wolfson (Statistics Canada) – Monday, October 12, 2020
“Immunocapital: Disease, Power, and Inequality in the Antebellum Cotton Kingdom” featuring Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford), Martin Saavedra (Oberlin), and Dayna Bowen Matthew (GWU) – Monday, October 26, 2020
“Multidimensional Poverty in the U.S.” featuring Brian Glassman (Census Bureau), Shatakshee Dhongde (Georgia Tech), Sabina Alkire (OPHI), James E. Foster (GWU), Sophie Mitra (Fordham), and Marianne Bitler (UC Davis) – Friday, December 11th, 2020
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