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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. (unless otherwise noted)
Location: Malk Hall, 5th Floor
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(s) + Affiliation(s) |
|---|---|
| Trade Day: Oct. 9, 2026 (Fri.) at 10 a.m.–12:20 p.m. (PEB 721) | Tishara Garg (Stanford); Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (UT Austin) |
| Oct. 15, 2026 (Thu.) | Internal Presentations (Faculty workshop session) |
| Oct. 22, 2026 (Thu.) | Lidia Smitkova (ULB Brussels) |
| Oct. 28, 2026 (Wed.) at 2–3:20 p.m. | David Atkin (MIT) |
| Oct. 29, 2026 (Thu.) at 2–3:20 p.m. | David Atkin (MIT) |
| Trade Day: Nov. 6, 2026 (Fri.) at 10 a.m.–12:20 p.m. (PEB 721) | Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA); Erhan Artuc (World Bank) |
| Nov. 12, 2026 (Thu.) | Vafa Behnam (Mock job talk) |
| Nov. 19, 2026 (Thu.) | Kensuke Teshima (Doshisha) |
Past Events
Early 2026
| Date | Speaker(s) + Affiliation(s) |
|---|---|
| Trade Day: April 24, 2026 (Fri.) at 2–4 p.m. | Benny Kleinman (Stanford); Peter Morrow (Toronto) |
| Trade Day: May 1, 2026 (Fri.) at 2–4 p.m. | Marta Prato (Bocconi; visiting Stanford); Jordan Rosenthal-Kay (SF Fed) |
| Trade Day: May 8, 2026 (Fri.) at 2–4 p.m. | Agostina Brinatti (Chicago); Weiting Miao (Stanford) |
| May 28, 2026 (Thu.) at 2–3 p.m. | Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo; former chief economist, Asian Development Bank) |
2025
| 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, 2025 | No seminar |
* There are two Trade Days on Fridays. The details of the time, locations and activities will be confirmed.
2023
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
2021–22
| 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 |