International Trade and Spatial Economics

Understanding trade, globalisation, and the geography of economic activity.

 

Researchers study international trade, globalisation and economic geography, examining how firms, supply chains, migration, cities and regional development shape economic activity. Their work explores how distance, borders, infrastructure and policy influence where businesses operate, how economies connect and how the gains and costs of globalisation are distributed.

The group has particular strengths in trade policy, the political economy of trade, multinational corporations, international corporate taxation, global and domestic supply chains, trade and the environment, and the relationship between globalisation and economic growth.

Events

Leading researchers working on topics related to our group are regularly invited to give seminars at Oxford. Recent and upcoming speakers include Costas Arkolakis (Yale), Andy Bernard (Dartmouth), Kirill Borusyak (Berkeley), Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke), Dave Donaldson (MIT), Mayara Felix (Yale), Tishara Garg (MIT), Keith Head (UBC), Gene Grossman (Princeton), Andrei Levchenko (Michigan), Hugo Lhuillier (Columbia), Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po), Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Chicago), Jose Vasquez (LSE), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia), and Daniel Xu ((Duke), among others.

The group also organises international conferences and workshops, and other events linked to its main research topics. During the past couple of years, these events include: