TPRForumCURATED COLLECTION · 18 WEBINARS
Firms, production networks, and the distribution of opportunities from trade.
2025-07
Ugandan procurement raises suppliers’ sales but crowds out their private business without clear evidence of lasting capacity expansion. Filippo Santi and Anirudh Shingal distinguish commercial gains for contractors from the broader development and trade objectives governments hope procurement will deliver.
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2025-06
Pol Antràs maps research gaps in trade, from oligopoly and global value chains to national security and measurement. Sébastien Dessus translates the agenda into development-policy needs. Their exchange calls for institutions, distribution and industry detail alongside numerical model outputs.
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2025-05
Saon Ray examines India’s imports from ASEAN as a route into regional production networks. Thi Thanh Ha Doan’s discussion sharpens the distinction between an aggregate import relationship and evidence about value chains, while the Q&A considers integration, policy uncertainty, and India’s absence from RCEP.
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2025-03
Amita Batra argues that India’s merchandise-trade strategy has not sufficiently adapted to cross-border production. Amrita Saha adds domestic political economy and unequal regional exposure. The discussion links inputs, investment and agreement depth to employment, upgrading and livelihood concerns.
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2025-01
Emmanuel Orkoh examines whether online presence can broaden firms’ participation in exports. Johanna Hill connects the evidence to digital infrastructure, skills, regulation, and WTO cooperation. Their exchange distinguishes helping disadvantaged firms trade from ensuring those firms catch up with stronger competitors.
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2023-07
Hildegunn Nordås shows how draft treaty provisions can be translated into services-policy counterfactuals. The discussion with Amrita Saha moves beyond export gains to measurement limits, domestic regulation, and the development evidence needed to make an agreement politically persuasive.
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2023-06
Douglas Zeng and Cholachit Vorawangso Virakul discuss when special economic zones and economic corridors can support development. Research and Thailand’s experience converge on investor demand, functioning services, skills, and connections to existing production—not simply a designated area and tax concessions.
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2023-05
Fisheries-subsidy reform depends on stock management, information and negotiating capacity. A risk framework guides action without claiming every subsidy's ecological effect is identified. Discussion asks how stronger disciplines, assistance and better measurement can jointly support sustainability and developing-country interests.
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2023-02
Marina Ngoma finds positive manufacturing-employment effects from Chinese import exposure in Ethiopia, principally through input access. Paul Brenton contextualizes these gains within restrictive foreign-exchange allocation and weak industrial transformation. Discussion qualifies causal identification and extrapolation beyond observed formal-sector industries.
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2023-01
Thi Thanh Ha Doan uses Chinese firm data to examine how technical requirements reshape exports. Some firms exit, while surviving exporters show higher sales and estimated quality. Mahdi Ghodsi’s discussion highlights how measurement, selection, and the treatment of resolved trade concerns affect interpretation.
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2022-10
Ben Shepherd models how better border procedures change sourcing and value-chain participation. Maria Persson’s discussion focuses on what the aggregate exercise cannot yet tell practitioners: fixed versus variable costs, differences between shipments, and which reform should come first when resources are scarce.
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2022-07
Trade eventually expanded pandemic medical-goods access, but early shortages exposed concentrated supply without sufficient inventories or visibility. The session emphasizes detailed product data, upstream bottlenecks and coordinated investment, while distinguishing observed responses from unidentified effects of particular policies.
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2022-03
Korea's heavy-industry drive and a review of US policy episodes illustrate why industrial-policy assessment needs long horizons, explicit objectives and competition. Discussion separates persistent firm growth from modeled welfare and asks how far historical success can guide policy elsewhere.
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2022-02
Stephen Adams and Maura Décosterd explain how firms and investors assess trade-policy risk within real supply chains. The discussion moves from tariffs to origin, sanctions, reporting, and political uncertainty, highlighting the difference between understanding today’s rules and making defensible judgments about tomorrow’s exposure.
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2021-11
Amrita Bahri and José-Antonio Monteiro examine how trade agreements address gender inequality and why provisions may fail to become practice. Their discussion distinguishes market access from the capacity to use it, and treaty innovation from evidence that commitments improve women’s economic lives.
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2021-07
Syed Uddin presents evidence linking immigrant networks to US exports across products, skill categories, and trade margins. Philippe Legrain broadens the discussion to entrepreneurship and diversity, while Ben Shepherd asks whether networks serve neighboring markets and whether information is the mechanism behind the estimates.
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2021-06
Lucian Cernat proposes letting preferences follow LDC inputs through third-country processing. Model simulations suggest additional exports and supply-chain integration. Marion Jansen tests the proposal's productivity assumptions, upgrading incentives, and implementation burden; the discussion also raises the unresolved distribution of tariff savings between LDC suppliers and downstream buyers.
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2021-04
Christian Volpe Martincus reviews evidence that information-focused export promotion helps firms, then examines benefits reaching domestic suppliers in Uruguay. Andrea Lassmann connects the findings to inclusive growth and regional policy. The discussion stresses program coordination, firm readiness, and unresolved identification and data limitations.
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