Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) 2026
09 July 2026 9:00 am CEST
Leading researchers in International Economics cover state-of-the-art research in a two days workshop
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Venue
University of Vienna, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics
Sky Lounge
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1
1090 Vienna
Description
Following upon the first eight editions of WIEN, the University of Vienna's Economics Department, the Research Centre International Economics (FIW), the Economic and Social Research Council (UKRI), the Heinrich Graph Hardegg'sche Stiftung and the Vienna Institute for International Economics Studies (wiiw) will again host a two-day meeting that will draw together researchers interested in international economics, global value chains and economic geography.
The workshop's format will allow for detailed presentations and discussion about the research strategies underlying the presented papers.
Please find more information here.
Organizers: Alejandro Cuñat (University of Vienna), Harald Fadinger (University of Vienna), Kalina Manova (UCL), and Pol Antràs (Harvard)
Programme
July 9
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome
09:00 – 09:50 Keynote #1:
Thierry Meyer (Sciences Po) “TBA”
09:50 – 10:10 Coffee break
10:10 – 11:00 PhD/Post-doc Session #1
Carole Marullaz (Zurich) “Inside Out: The Allocative Impact of Firms’ Make-or-Buy Decisions on Aggregate Energy Intensity”
Robin Sogalla (Mannheim) “Clean Production, Dirty Sourcing: Importing, Exporting, and Emission Shifting in Global Supply Chains”
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:10 PhD/Post-doc Session #2
Lidia Smitkova (Oxford) “Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: The Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry”
Yuyang Jiang (Princeton) “Strategic Transportation Investment and Coordinative Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Highway Network”
12:10 – 13:10 Lunch
13:10 – 13:50 Sonali Chowdry (DIW Berlin) “Quantitative Trade with Ships”
13:50 – 14:30 Edoardo Tolva (ISEG & Lisboa) “One Way or Another: Modes of Transport and International Trade”
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 15:40 Magnus Tolum Buus (Copenhagen) “R&D Employment Spillovers in Trade and MNE Networks: Evidence from a R&D Tax Reform”
15:40 – 16:20 Konstantin Egorov (Antwerp) “Hostile Decoupling and Geoeconomics of Multinationals”
Adjourn
July 10
08:50 – 09:40 Keynote #2
Matilde Bombardini (Berkeley Haas) “TBA”
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 11:15 PhD/Post-doc Session #3
Sophia Praetorius (Geneva) “Collaboration in Technology and Multinational Production”
Sameer Malik (BI Norway) “The Role of Unreported Intermediate Inputs in Firms’ Production Structure”
Swann Chelly (Sciences Po) “Spatial Comovements”
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:10 Vanessa Alviarez (IDB) “How Shocks Travel: The Cross-Border Impact of Natural Disasters in Firm Networks”
12:10 – 12:50 Sergi Basco (Barcelona) “Superstar Buyers and Financial Crises: Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Trade Data”
12:50 – 14:00 Lunch
Adjourn
Registration
We kindly ask you to register. Participation is free of charge.