Week 1: October 13

Florian Ploeckl (Nuffield)

Borders, Market Size and Urban Growth: The case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century

Week 2: October 20

Monika Mrázová (Balliol)

Kemp-Wan customs union formation under imperfect competition: Revising the WTO Article XXIV

Week 3: October 27

Jeff Bergstrand (Notre Dame)
(This seminar is joint with OXIGED.)

Finding Vertical Multinational Enterprise Activity (with Peter Egger)

Week 4: November 3

Roberto Bonfatti (St. John's College Oxford and LSE)

Foreign Influence and the China-Africa Trade in Natural Resources

Week 5: November 10

No Seminar

(Ernst Fehr Clarendon Lectures cancelled.)

Week 6: November 17

Mauro Caselli (Exeter College)

Trade and skill-biased technical change interactions in wage determination with heterogeneous firms

Week 7: November 24

Ben Nelson (Bank of England)

Just to Sell, or to Make There as Well? Agency Costs, Multinational Firms and The Mode of Foreign Entry

Week 8: December 1

Edwin L.-C. Lai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
(This seminar is joint with OXIGED.)

Innovation and patentability requirement in a globalized world (with David Chor)