Seminar streamed via Zoom
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 to share frontier research in trade and development.
As part of the Geneva Trade and Development Workshop (GTDW) seminar series, the Graduate Institute in Geneva (IHEID) and our partners are pleased to invite you to a public talk given by David Atkin, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Professor Atkin will present his paper The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions: Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley, coauthored with Keith Chen and Anton Popov.
David Atkin is currently a Professor of Economics at MIT. He was previously an Assistant Professor at UCLA and Yale, after receiving his PhD from Princeton University. His primary fields are trade and development. David’s research focuses on evaluating the impacts of trade liberalization on the poor in the developing world by using the microeconometric tools and the large household datasets common in applied economics to analyze trade and development issues. His recent work has studied the role of regional taste differences in altering the impacts of trade reforms in India, and educational responses to the rise of export oriented manufacturing in Mexico.