19.02.2025
Upcoming Conference on Geoeconomics Secures DFG Funding
The two-day conference will cover topics including the long-term impact of trade, fiscal policy in times of conflict, global capital allocation, the effects of economic sanctions, and the role of inequality in shaping economic policies.
We are pleased to announce that the Conference on Geoeconomics: New Developments and Historical Perspectives, to be held at Castle Tübingen on April 11-12, 2025, has secured funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). The event, organized by Jörg Baten, Anna Gumpert, Ralph Lütticke, Gernot Müller (University of Tübingen & CEPR), and Moritz Schularick (IfW Kiel, Sciences Po & CEPR), will bring together leading researchers to discuss the intersection of economics, history, and international relations.
This two-day conference will cover topics including the long-term impact of trade, fiscal policy in times of conflict, global capital allocation, the effects of economic sanctions, and the role of inequality in shaping economic policies. A keynote lecture will be delivered by Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne & CEPR).
Conference Program
Friday, April 11
- 14:00 | Opening Remarks – Anna Gumpert & Jörg Baten
- Session 1: The Long-run
- Johannes Boehm (Geneva Graduate Institute & CEPR) – Trade and the End of Antiquity
- Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford & CEPR) – Three Centuries of Economic Warfare and Sanctions
- Session 2: Fiscal Policy
- Jonathan Federle (IfW Kiel) – Guns vs Butter? How States Finance Wars and the Military
- Vytautas Valaitis (University of Surrey) – Optimal Fiscal Policy under Endogenous Disaster Risk: How to Avoid Wars?
- Keynote Lecture: Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne & CEPR)
Saturday, April 12
- Session 3: Technology and Investment
- Bruno Pellegrino (Columbia University) – Barriers to Global Capital Allocation
- Antoine Levy (UC Berkeley) – Import Risk and Technological Progress
- Session 4: Sanctions
- Banu Demir Pakel (University of Oxford & CEPR) – Trading Around Geopolitics
- Beata Javorcik (EBRD & CEPR) – Decision to Leave: Economic Sanctions and Intermediated Trade
- Session 5: Inequality
- Adam Spencer (University of Bonn) – Inequality and Industrial Policy Wars: Who Loses and When?
- Ralph Luetticke (University of Tübingen & CEPR) – The Great Leveler According to HANK
Each presentation will be followed by discussions led by distinguished scholars.
For more details, please email economics@wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de