TPRForumCURATED COLLECTION · 14 WEBINARS
Trade agreements, tariffs, strategic competition, and fragmentation.
2026-04
Ahmad Lashkaripour demonstrates a fast tariff-war model and public dashboard, then discusses what their results depend on: strategic retaliation, elasticities, welfare definitions, and production structure. The conversation makes clear why an accessible interface still needs careful economic interpretation.
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2025-04
Henry Gao and Huan Zhu examine the April 2025 tariff confrontation as a negotiation over economic rules and political priorities. Their discussion contrasts an ambitious interpretation of US strategy with uncertainty about credible concessions, while identifying Chinese domestic reform as a possible route toward a less confrontational outcome.
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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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2024-11
In November 2024, Mary Lovely and Michael Ferrantino examine the prospective US tariff agenda through input costs, tax policy, investment and retaliation. Audience questions draw out origin rules, supply-chain research and the difficulty of dividing the world into stable blocs.
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2024-09
The Iron Curtain sharply restricted trade, but its permeability changed over time. Benedikt Heid and Costanza Bosone use the historical evidence to question simple bloc narratives—and explain why modest aggregate welfare estimates should not be mistaken for harmless fragmentation.
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2024-03
Arne Nagengast shows that allowing agreement effects to vary across cohorts and time substantially changes gravity estimates. Rebecca Freeman and the Q&A explore slow adjustment, agreement content and causal limits, cautioning against treating weak recent-cohort estimates as proof that new agreements are ineffective.
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2024-02
Christine McDaniel and Sarah Stewart explain why a fisheries subsidies agreement cannot deliver sustainable fishing on its own. Their exchange connects ecological information, local monitoring, legal disciplines, and negotiating realities—and identifies access agreements and implementation evidence as research priorities.
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2023-10
Patrik Tingvall and Simon Evenett examine the return of strategic intervention through the design and international effects of subsidies. They challenge automatic policy imitation, distinguish legitimate objectives from appropriate instruments, and make transparency and evaluation the central practical response.
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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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2023-04
Emily Benson and Dan Ciuriak distinguish supply-chain risk management from politically driven friend-shoring. Moderated by Mia Mikic, the conversation examines what governments would need to specify, how firms could respond, and why third-country development and longer-run strategic consequences belong in the assessment.
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2022-11
Randomized US survey experiments show that accessible research findings need not move trade preferences in the expected direction. Price-benefit messages can increase protectionist preferences. Discussion separates these experimental results from promising but untested approaches involving locally relevant information, adjustment assistance and participation.
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2022-05
Erdal Yalcin, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, and Maksym Chepeliev connect historical sanctions evidence, payment-system constraints, and energy-embargo modeling. Michael Ferrantino’s questions sharpen three distinctions: economic damage versus political success, financial messaging versus settlement, and hypothetical scenarios versus measures actually under discussion.
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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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2021-10
Maurizio Zanardi explains antidumping's administrative discretion and political economy. Veysel Avsar presents Turkish evidence that targeted exporters respond by offering more trade credit. Their discussion connects payment terms, downstream input users, and global value chains, while explicitly recognizing limits to the study's causal identification.
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