International research conference on "Global Value Chains: implications for firms' competitiveness, macroeconomics and trade policy"

9 July 2021

Banca d'Italia is organizing a research conference on "Global Value Chains: implications for firms' competitiveness, macroeconomics and trade policy", to be held online on 11-12 October 2021.

Submissions are invited on the following topics: the role of multinationals in GVCs, the macroeconomic implications of GVCs on growth, the business cycle, inflation, and international spillovers; the effects of trade policies in the presence of GVCs; the availability of new data on inter-firm production linkages; the reorganization of GVCs following the pandemic shock; the effects of the COVID shock on international trade flows.

Two keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Pol Antràs (Harvard University) and by Professor Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute).

Interested authors should submit completed papers or advanced drafts to gvc.workshop@bancaditalia.it by September 10, 2021.

For more information see the call for papers.