Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TEIAS)

/ International Trade II

Summer School

International Trade II

July 30th-31st, 2019

Venue

Khatam University
Address: Mollasadra, North Shiraz, Hakim Azam, No 30. See location on Google map

+982189174612

Organizers

Executive Chair

Mohammad Morovati (TeIAS)

 

Scientific Chair

Hosein Joshaghani

 

Organization Chair

Fereshte Allahverdi

Overview

Iran is the largest economy in the world that is still outside the World Trade Organization. What are the gains and challenges of integrating to the world economy for the Iranian consumers and producers? How would labor markets and consequently political parties respond to international trade? To answer these policy questions, it is imperative to understand the global economy and its institutions from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. The objective of this summer school is to bring interested Iranian scholars up to speed with the advancements in International Trade Theory with an emphasis on “Tariff Wars” and “Political Polarization”. It will also briefly review models used and developed by modern trade economists to measure the effects of different policy schemes.

Target Audience

The intended audience of the summer school are researchers and graduate students with some research background in Economics, Finance and Public Policy or closely related fields.

Speakers

Dr. Ahmad Lashkaripour


Assistant Professor of Economics
Indiana University

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Indiana University.
My Research interests are at the intersection of International trade and Economic development. My work emphasizes the role of composition (product-mix) in trade. Specifically, I study the link between the characteristics of a nation and the structure of its foreign trade. My recent work shows that the welfare-improving effects of trade are remarkably larger in the developing world, when one accounts for the composition of trade flows.

In my free time, I play and watch soccer. I’m an avid supporter of Man Utd.

Dr. Kaveh Majlesi


Visiting at Harvard Business School
Associate Professor of Economics
Lund University

My main areas of research are Labor economics and Household finance. In labor economics, I am mostly interested in how individuals and households react to labor market shocks. In a number of ongoing or finished research projects, I have been looking at the effects of labor market shocks, generated by rising exposure to trade competition, on households’ or individuals’ decisions on voting and migration as well as the allocation of decision making within households. In “Household finance”, I study the determinants of portfolio allocation and consumption and how and why they are related across generations.

Dr. Hosein Joshaghani


Assistant Professor of Economics
Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS)

Hosein Joshaghani is an empirical economist, interested in using big data to better understand labor markets and the macroeconomy. His current research is mainly on identifying mechanisms through which discrimination takes place in the labor market, role of gig economy as a shock absorber and the optimal design and reform of labor markets.
He joined the Graduate School of Management and Economics at Sharif University of Technology as a visiting assistant professor after receiving his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2017. Since May 2019 he joined TeIAS as an assistant professor of economics and finance.

Schedule

Day 1

Ahmad Lashkaripour

Kaveh Majlesi - Session 01

Kaveh Majlesi - Session 02

Day 2

Ahmad Lashkaripour

Hosein Joshaghani