BSE Summer Forum: Workshop on “Geography, Trade and Growth”

June 9-10, 2026

Organized by: Bruno Conte (UPF, CREI, and BSE), Manuel García-Santana (UPF, CREI, and BSE), Elisa Giannone (CREI, UPF, and BSE), Dávid K. Nagy (CREI, UPF, and BSE), Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto (CREI, UPF, IPEG, and BSE), Edouard Schaal (ICREA-CREI, UPF, and BSE).

This workshop is focused on the interplay between economic geography, trade in products and production factors, and their relationship to economic growth. We encourage submissions of theoretical and empirical papers addressing issues including:

  • The causes and consequences of the spatial distribution of economic activity.
  • The evolution of economic geography in response to globalization.
  • The interaction between trade, geography, and growth.
  • The effect of technological change and trade on the global organization of production.
  • The political economy of trade, growth, and spatial misallocation.

The workshop is proposed as a continuation of the workshop organized under the same title in 2017-25, which counted with the participation of prominent scholars from all around the world, including Laura Alfaro (Harvard), Donald Davis (Columbia), Rebecca Diamond (Harvard), Teresa Fort (Dartmouth), Edward Glaeser (Harvard), Gene Grossman (Princeton), Jessie Handbury (Penn), Beata Javorcik (Oxford), Kalina Manova (UCL), Marc Melitz (Harvard), Diego Puga (CEMFI), Stephen Redding (Stanford), Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (Chicago), and Jesse Rothstein (Berkeley), among others.

Call for papers