The Global Economy Workshop

The Global Economy Workshop (GEW) is for faculty and students interested in Trade, Migration, International Economics and Economic Geography. The series showcases UC San Diego as a forum for discussing cutting-edge research on cross-border economics.

Professor Shinnosuke (Shin) Kikuchi organizes GEW.

Day/Time: Thursdays from 2-3:30 p.m.

Locations: GPS Conference Room 3106.

Note: Two Trade Days will be held on Friday, Oct. 24 and Friday, Nov. 14. Details, including time, location, and activities, will be confirmed.

To sign up for the mailing list, please join the GEW Google group (note: please log in to your ucsd.edu Google account).

Upcoming Events


Date	Speaker	Institution
Sept. 25, 2025	No Seminar
Oct. 2, 2025	Jordán Mosqueda Juárez	UC San Diego, Economic Ph.D. Candidate (Job Market Candidate)
Oct. 9, 2025	No Seminar
Oct. 16, 2025	Junyuan Chen	UC San Diego, Economic Postdoctoral Candidate (Job Market Candidate)
Oct. 24, 2025*	Reka Juhász Cécile Gaubert	University of British Columbia UC Berkeley
Oct. 30, 2025	Román David Zárate Shin Kikuchi	UC San Diego UC San Diego
Nov. 6, 2025	Jan Bakker	Bocconi University
Nov. 14, 2025*	Doireann Fitzgerald Monica Morlacco	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis University of Southern California
Nov. 20, 2025	Fabian Eckert Fabian Trottner	UC San Diego UC San Diego
Nov. 27, 2025	No seminar (Thanksgiving)
Dec. 4, 2023	No seminar

* There are two Trade Days on Fridays. The details of the time, locations and activities will be confirmed.

Past Events

Date	Speaker	Institution
April 6, 2023	Milena Almagro	University of Chicago
April 13, 2023	Hugo Hopenhayn	UCLA
April 20, 2023	Oleg Itskhoki	UCLA
April 27, 2023	Ina Simonovska	UC Davis
May 4, 2023	Andres Rodriguez-Clare	UC Berkeley
May 11, 2023	Alessandra Peter	New York University
May 18, 2023	Joan Monras	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
May 25, 2023	Gueyon Kim	UC Santa Cruz
June 1, 2023	Daniel Xu	Duke University
June 8, 2023	Melanie Morten	Stanford University

Oct. 5, 2023	Carlos Goes	Econ job market candidate
Oct. 12, 2023	Leah Boustan	Princeton University
Oct. 19, 2023	Dimitrije Ruzic	INSEAD
Oct. 26, 2023	David Torun	Econ postdoc
Nov. 2, 2023	Peter Schott	Yale University
Nov. 9, 2023	Jonathan Dingel	University of Chicago
Nov. 16, 2023	Miguel Zerecero	UC Irvine
Nov. 23, 2023	No seminar (Thanksgiving)
Nov. 30, 2023	Sebastian Tebbe	GPS postdoc
Dec. 7, 2023	No seminar

Date	Speaker	Institution
Sept. 29, 2022	Magnus Tolum Buus (Post-doc)	CCD
Oct. 6, 2022	Marti Mestieri	Barcelona GSE
Oct. 13, 2022	Swapnika Rachapalli	University of British Columbia
Oct. 20, 2022	Diana Van Patten	Yale SOM
Oct. 27, 2022	Mayara Felix	Princeton University
Nov. 3, 2022	Mathilde Muñoz	UC Berkeley
Nov. 10, 2022	Mark Bils	University of Rochester
Nov. 17, 2022	Treb Allen	Dartmouth College
Nov. 24, 2022	Thanksgiving
Dec. 1, 2022	Laura Alfaro (CCGT Distinguished Speaker)	Harvard Business School

Date	Speaker, Institution
June 2, 2022	Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
May 26, 2022	Farid Farokhi, Purdue
May 19, 2022	Matthew Grant, Dartmouth
May 12, 2022	Julieta Caunedo, University of Toronto
May 5, 2022	Monica Morlacco, USC
April 28, 2022	Myrto Kalouptsidi, Harvard
April 21, 2022	Jon Vogel, UCLA
April 14, 2022	Harri Li, UC San Diego (Postdoc)
April 7, 2022	Ben Faber, UC Berkeley
March 31, 2022	Giovanni Peri, UC Davis \| Video
Dec. 2, 2021	Linda Tesar, University of Michigan
Nov. 18, 2021	Pablo Fajgelbaum, Princeton University
Nov. 4, 2021	Trevor Tombe, University of Calgary
Oct. 28, 2021	Nitya Nair, UT Austin
Oct. 21, 2021	Rodrigo Adao, University of Chicago
Oct. 14, 2021	Fernando Parro, Pennsylvania State University
Oct. 7, 2021	Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland
Sept. 30, 2021	Sharon Traiberman, New York University