Seminar in International Economics
This seminar is open to the public.
The Seminar in International Economics covers a broad spectrum of recent theoretical and empirical research on international trade, capital markets, monetary arrangements, and sovereign debt. Examples of recent topics include monetary unions, global financial adjustment, causes of recession, the international organization of production, and the effect of trade on growth, income distribution, and welfare.
The Seminar in International Economics meets once a week during the fall and spring semesters and is attended by graduate students and faculty, mostly from the Department of Economics and Harvard Kennedy School.
The workshop is chaired by Professors Pol Antràs, Elhanan Helpman, Oleg Itskhoki, Marc Melitz, and Kenneth Rogoff.
Chairs
Pol Antràs
pantras@fas.harvard.eduResearch interests: Global value chains; the international organization of production; trade and inequality; and international political economy.
Elhanan Helpman
ehelpman@harvard.eduResearch interests: International economics; productivity and growth; and political economy.
Marc Melitz
marc_melitz@harvard.edu
Kenneth S. Rogoff
krogoff@harvard.edu
Oleg Itskhoki
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
Upcoming Seminars
Seminar in International Economics
Quantifying the Sensitivity of Quantitative Trade Models
Speaker: Ed Wiles, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Seminar in International Economics
Tariffs and State Capacity: A Specific Story
Speaker: Martin Rotemberg, Associate Professor of Economics, New York University.