Social Science and Public Policy
The Cost of Dissolving the WTO: The Role of Global Value Chains
September 21, 2020 at 4:00pm – 6:00pm EDT
Falk Complex
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Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Trade, Development and Political Economy presents
Ahmad Lashkaripour
Assistant Professor, Indian University – Bloomington
The Cost of Dissolving the WTO: The Role of Global Value Chains (with Mostafa Beshkar)
The authors find that the disintegration of existing trade agreements will erase 30% of the overall gains from trade, which amounts to a $2.8 trillion loss in global GDP. Around 46% of this value is driven by the agreements’ facilitation of global value chains.
Ahmad Lashkaripour is Assistant Professor of Economics at Indian University – Bloomington. He main research interests are trade and trade patterns. His work has been published in top journals like the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics and the Journal of International Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.
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This event was published on September 14, 2020.
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- Social Science and Public Policy
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- Devashish Mitra
dmitra@syr.edu
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