Conference

Banque de France

International Trade and Industrial Policy in a Changing World

Published on the 30th of January 2025

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26 May 2025 - 09:00

The Banque de France (BdF) is organizing a conference entitled “International Trade and Industrial Policy in a Changing World” on May 26, 2025. The conference will take place at the headquarters of the Banque de France in Paris.

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Conference Program

Morning Session: Trade Integration, Conflict, and Supply Chain Resilience

08:30 – 08:50  Welcome breakfast and registration
08:50 – 09:00  Opening Remarks
09:00 – 09:45  Deep Integration and Trade: UK Firms in the Wake of Brexit
Presenter: Marco Garofalo (Bank of England)
09:45 – 10:30  Interstate Conflict and Trade: The Montesquieu Model
Presenter: Gernot Müller (University of Tübingen, CEPR, CESifo)
10:30 – 10:45  Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:30  Supply Chain Uncertainty and Diversification
Presenter: Gustavo González (Central Bank of Chile)
11:30 – 12:15 

Industrial Policy, Supply Chains and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from Rare Earths
Presenter: Jan Schymik (University of Mannheim)
12:15 – 13:45  Lunch Break
13:45 – 14:30 

Afternoon Session: Trade Wars, Policy Shocks, and Macroeconomic Adjustments

The US-China Trade War and the Relocation of Global Value Chains to Mexico
Presenter: Hâle Utar (Grinnell College, IZA, CESifo)
14:30 – 15:15  Trading Places: How Trade Policy Is Reshaping Multinational Firms’ Location
Presenter: Alejandro Graziano (University of Nottingham)
 
15:15 – 15:30  Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15  Trade Partners’ Responses to US Tariffs
Presenter: Lorenzo Rotunno (IMF)
 
16:15 – 17:00  Exchange Rates in the Age of Protectionism
Presenter: Maylin Sun (IMF)
17:00 – 17:15 

Coffee Break
17:15 – 18:15  Keynote Speech
Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge)
18:15 – 18:30  Closing Remarks & End of Conference

Organizers/Scientific Committee
Nuno Coimbra (Banque de France)
Margarita Lopez-Forero (Banque de France)
Gabriel Smagghue (Banque de France)

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