Centre for Trade and Economic Integration

The Centre for Trade and Economic Integration is the Graduate Institute's Centre of Excellence for research on international trade. 

CTEI brings together the research activities of eminent professors of economics, law and political science in the area of trade, economic integration and globalization. It provides a forum for discussion and dialogue between the global research community, including the Institute's student body and research centres in the developing world, and the international business community, as well as international organisations and NGOs. The Centre runs research projects and organises events, and occasionally hosts a visiting scholar.

LATEST AT CTEI

#TradeLaw

Trade Law Course - Argentina

CTEI is proud to announce the launch of the Trade Law Course - Argentina. Dedicated for Argentinean Nationals, this course will deep dive into key topics of International Trade Law Policy
#TESS

THE FORUM ON TRADE, ENVIRONMENT AND THE SDGS (TESS) LAUNCH

The Graduate Institute and UNEP are proud to announce the launch of their new partnership, TESS, to support dialogue and action on trade policies to address urgent global environmental crises and advance implementation of the UN SDGs
#G2TRADEHACK

G2 Conference & Hackathon Challenge Winners | 14 April 2021

#G2TRADEHACK

G2 Conference | 14 April 15:00 CET

How to Make the WTO Fit for Future Trade
#TACIT

Getting America Back In The Game: A Multilateral Perspective

A TACIT Project Paper
New eBook

Revitalising Multilateralism - Pragmatic ideas for the new WTO Director General

Simon J. Evenett & Richard Baldwin

OUR PLATFORMS

#GTP

GENEVA TRADE PLATFORM (GTP)

The Geneva Trade Platform (GTP) is a multi-stakeholder platform that focuses on trade
#TASC

Thinking Ahead on Societal Change Platform

The TASC Platform is an open forum where policymakers, businesses, researchers and civil society can come together to tackle some of the biggest universal challenges of the future.

Upcoming events

Latest news

Other projects and partnerships

GENEVA TRADE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP

 

Sharing frontier research in international trade and development

 

The Geneva Trade and Development Workshop (GTDW) is a joint seminar series of the Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM), the Graduate Institute in Geneva (IHEID), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). After twelve years of running as an on-site seminar, we are joining forces with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) to bring the GTDW online, with the aim of sharing frontier research in international trade and development.

In the fall Semester of 2020, the seminars will take place online on Mondays at 4 PM CET and last for one hour and fifteen minutes including questions. For more details and to register please visit the dedicated website.

The Permanent Mission of India to the WTO, Geneva (PMI)

 

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The Permanent Mission of India to the WTO, Geneva (PMI), the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at The Graduate Institute, Geneva (CTEI), and the Centre for Trade and Investment Law at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi (CTIL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with a view to collaborating and cooperating in the field of international trade and investment law for academic, research, training, and capacity-building activities. The MOU was signed by H.E. Ambassador Brajendra Navnit from PMI, Professor Joost Pauwelyn from CTEI and Professor James J. Nedumpara from CTIL on 27 November 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The MOU broadly covers five areas of cooperation between the Parties, which include:

  1. Training and capacity building;
  2. Joint research projects, conferences and workshops;
  3. Submission of India-focused projects for examination at TradeLab legal clinics functioning at CTEI in Switzerland or CTIL in India;
  4. Internship for selected CTEI students with CTIL; and
  5. Exchange of staff and faculty for study and research purposes

Management and coordination: 

For more detailed information, please click here

TradeLab

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Law Clinics to make Global Economic Regulation work for everyone

TradeLab is a global network of legal clinics, initiated at the Graduate Institute by Professor Joost Pauwelyn in 2009,  with  sites located across the globe. It aims to empower countries and smaller stakeholders to reap the full development benefits of global trade and investment rules by supporting them to answer important trade related questions through pro bono legal clinics and practica. These legal clinics and practica are implemented by law students, with support from academics and legal practitioners. 

CTEI hosts the Geneva based Law clinics, part of Trade Lab.

THE GENEVA INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW SESSIONS (GIELS)

 

GIELS provide an opportunity to PhD candidates and other junior researchers working in the field of international economic law (IEL) to present and get feedback on their work.

The target audience of GIELS is other students as well as faculty in the field (including from disciplines other than law) and interested people in the practice of IEL (IOs, law firms, NGOs, diplomatic missions). 

GIELS want to provide a small, informal and friendly setting where new IEL research can be tested and cross-topic, interdisciplinary links and networks can be forged so as to help Graduate Institute students and confirm the place of the Graduate Institute's Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI) as a leading research hub on IEL.

COVID-19 AND TRADE

Third E-Book

COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work

World trade will soon collapse largely as a result of governments’ battle against the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Richard E. Baldwin & Simon J. Evenett | 29 Apr 2020
Second E-Book

Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis: Act Fast and Do Whatever It Takes

In this second eBook on the coronavirus from CEPR and Vox, the experts are unanimous that the case for decisive and coordinated fiscal stimulus is overwhelming. Richard Baldwin, Beatrice Weder di Mauro 18 March 2020
First E-Book

Economics in the Time of COVID-19

This eBook addresses some key questions: How, and how far and fast, will the economic damage spread? How bad will it get?... Richard Baldwin, Beatrice Weder di Mauro 06 March 2020
Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, breaks down the global economic impact of COVID-19 and which industries will be hardest hit by the epidemic.
The great trade collapse - CTEI Webinar on Trade and COVID19 - 24th April 2020

Past Events

Data Disrupts Trade: Exploring Innovative Solutions | 24 June 2021
2030 DFS | Could Better Data Contribute to Making Peace With Nature? | 22 June 2021
A Conversation with Minister Bruno Le Maire & Prof. Richard Baldwin | 01 April 2021
Book Launch: The Flip Side Of Free: Understanding The Economics Of The Internet | 09 March 2021
Covid-19 Response & Digital Trust | A Discussion on Proximity Tracing Applications | 16 Feb 2021
Women in Tech | DFS 2030 | 15 February 2021 | 15:00-16:00 CET
Openness, Innovation And Productivity: Evidence From Enterprise Surveys by Anmol Kaur Grewal | 03 February 2021, 12:30pm CET
Trading Through Platforms: Evidence From Aliexpress by Edoardo Chiarotti | 20 January 2021, 12:30pm CET
DFS 2030 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ETHICS 07 December 2020 | 17:00 - 18:15 CET
Prof. Dr Hong Zhao, Chair of the WTO Appellate Body - Farewell Remarks
Data 2025 Opening & Session 1 - ' What is Data?'
Data 2025 Session 2 - ' The use of data for healthcare and pandemics'
Data 2025 Session 3 - ' Principles of Data Governance'
Data 2025 Session 4 'Future Practice of Data Governance' & Closing High-Level Panel
eBook Launch: Revitalising Multilateralism: Pragmatic ideas for the new WTO Director General
Online Showcase of 2019-2020 TradeLab Projects
International Trade and Health Series: Trade of Vital Medical Supplies (27th May)
International Trade and Health Series: Trade Responses to Global Health Crisis (25th May)
CTEI Webinar: COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work. 8 May 2020

CTEI Webinar: COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won’t Work. Slides R.Baldwin

CTEI & DevPol Webinar: The Digital Marketplace and Development 5 May 2020 , 16:30 - 18:00
CTEI & DevPol Webinar: The Appellate Body Crisis at the WTO, 28 April 2020, 16:30 - 18:00
The great trade collapse - CTEI Webinar on Trade and COVID19 - 24th April 2020

The Great Trade Collapse - Presentation (Full pack)

The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics - Book Launch by Kaushik Basu 25th February 2020

Podcast with Kaushik Basu - The republic of beliefs

The World Development Report 2020: The Age of Global Value Chains - Interview with Aaditya Mattoo, Research Manager, Trade and Integration, World Bank and Co-Director of the World Development Report 2020 on Global Value Chains
Launch of The World Development Report 2020 The Age of Global Value Chains, 19th November 2019 [Full session]
United States-China Technological Rivalry - Speaker Professor Peter Petri, Brandeis University, Brandeis International Business School; Monday 28th October 2019

CTEI Fellows

Wayne GTP
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration Fellow
Amad GTP
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration Fellow
Weiwei Zhang
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration Fellow
Cezar Rodrigo
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration

Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar

scott andersen
Centre for Trade and Economic Integration Fellow

Scott Andersen

The Globotics Upheaval

BOOK

The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work

by Richard E. Baldwin
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While globalization and robotics, “globotics”, will eventually make a better world, they are today creating competition for service-sector jobs that is coming faster than most believe and in ways that will seem incredibly unfair. If the displaced office workers join with the displaced factory workers, the result could be a disruptive upheaval. This book argues that workers need to prepare for the future of work in new ways, and governments regulate the pace and unfairness of the competition from globots.

"With its focus on the scale, speed and scope of technological transformation, and its impact on employment, this book breaks new ground."

Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister, 2007-2010

"Richard Baldwin has written the best book yet on the new economic era we are entering. Any worker, company or government who doesn’t want to be left behind should read and consider his arguments."

Lawrence H. Summers, Ex-Secretary of the US Treasury, ex-President of Harvard

The globotics upheaval: A book event with Richard Baldwin | LIVE STREAM

MORE VIDEOS & PODCASTS

 

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  • TALK AT LOWY INSTITUTE IN SYDNEY - PODCAST
  • INTERVIEW FOR RADIO NEW ZEALAND - PODCAST 
  • INTERVIEW IN WHARTON - PODCAST 
  • INTERVIEW IN SAN FRANCISCO - PODCAST 
  • INTERVIEW WITH THE LOWY INSTITUTE - PODCAST

CTEI Annual Report 2019

CTEI Annual Report 2020

CTEI ANNUAL REPORT 2021

CTEI Annual Report 2022

Contact us

 

Mail Address

Centre for Trade and Economic Integration
Maison de la paix
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2A
Case Postale 1672
CH-1211 Genève 1

Email: ctei@graduateinstitute.ch

Access

The Maison de la paix is located at Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2A, on the corner of Avenue de France. You may take tram 15 until the Maison de la paix stop or, alternatively, walk a few minutes from the stop at Place des Nations.

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CTEI brings together the research activities of eminent professors of economics, law and political science in the area of trade, economic integration and globalization. It provides a forum for discussion and dialogue between the global research community, including the Institute's student body and research centres in the developing world, and the international business community, as well as international organisations and NGOs. The Centre runs research projects and organises events, and occasionally hosts a visiting scholar.

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