9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

EMPIRICAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE & FINANCE (EIITF)

12th AND 13th December, 2024, KOLKATA

EMERGING ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT






 Keynote Speakers

Distinguished Keynote Speakers for this year's conference:

Prof. Marcelo Olarreaga

Professor of Economics at University Of Geneva
Fellow, International Trade and Regional Economics

Prof. Richard Tol

Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Sussex
Professor of the Economics of Climate Change, Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Member, the Academia Europaea


 

List of Eminent scholars present in previous conferences:

Conference Name University/Organisation Topic
1st EIITF (2008) Prof. Partha Sen Professor, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Policy
Prof. Kala M. Krishna Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University  
2nd EIITF (2010) Prof. Richard Baldwin Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva; CEPR Policy Director, and VoxEU.org Editor-in-Chief 21st Century Regionalism: Filling the gap between 21st century trade and 20th century trade rules
Prof. Bernard Hoekman Senior Director, International Trade Department, World Bank , Washington Services Trade and Policy: Re-invigorating International Cooperation
Prof. Gita Gopinath Professor, Harvard University, Department of Economics Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Member of Board of Editors, American Economic Review The Long and Short of Exchange Rate Pass-through
Prof. Ganeshan Wignaraja Principal Economist at the Asian Development Bank's Office of Regional Economic Integration Asian Free Trade Agreements: Which Way Now?
3rd EIITF (2012) Prof. Jeffrey H. Bergstrand Professor, University of Notre Dame  
Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak Professor, London School of Economics  
4th EIITF(2014) Prof. Alan V. Deardorff John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics, Professor of Economics and Public Policy Department of Economics / Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Proliferation of Free Trade Agreements and the Implications of Rules of Origin
Prof. Graciela Chichilnisky Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University, Director of Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM)       The Carbon Market - Trade and the Global Environment
Prof. Jim Rollo Emeritus Professor (Law), University of Sussex TradeSift and International Trade Policy Analysis
Prof. Shujiro Urata Professor, Waseda University Production Networks and the Role of FDI and Trade in Economic Development in East Asia
Dr. Hildegunn Kyvik Nord's Senior Economist, Trade and Agriculture Directorate,OECD, Paris Service Trade Liberalization: Recent Issues and Challenges
Mr. J. S. Deepak Additional Secretary, Department of Commerce, Government of India  
5th EIITF (2016) Prof. Le'la Choukroune Director of the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH), New Delhi India, the French National Research Centre (CNRS) Unit on South Asia "Non-Trade concerns in new mega international trade and investment deals"
Prof. Rajat Acharyya Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University Trade and Economic Development"
6th EIITF (2018) Prof. Alan L. Winters Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom BREXIT, Trump: What is Happening to Rules-Based Trade?
Prof Joshua Aizenman, Distinguished Professor of International Relations and Economics, University of Southern California Global Financial and Macro Fragility & Emerging Markets Precautionary Strategies
7th EIITF (2021 Hybrid Mode) Dr. Sumit Agarwal Low Tuck Kwong Professor at the School of Business and Professor in the departments of  Economics, Finance and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore Digital Payments and Consumption
Dr. Pol Antras Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard University Trade Policy and Global Sourcing: A Rationale for Tariff Escalation
Dr. Jeffrey H. Harris Gary D. Cohn Goldman Sachs Chair in Finance, Professor, Department of Finance and Real Estate, American University Financial Markets and Systemic Risk
8th EIITF (2022) Prof. Pranab Bardhan Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley Reflections on Consequences of Trade Policy, with special reference to India
Prof. James R. Markusen Professor of International Economics (emeritus) at the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder
 		 Theory and Empirics of Multinational Firms: where are we, where should we go?

 

 

The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the Government of India as an autonomous organisation to help professionalise the country's foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources; generating, analysing and disseminating data; and conducting research. Today it is one of India's most prestigious business schools.

No registration fee. But, it's mandatory to register by giving all your relevant details to submit a paper.

The Conference aims to have intellectual discourse on issues related to international trade and finance and provide platform to the researchers for communicating their views on their intellectual standing of empirical research in international economics.

To encourage young researchers who are currently pursuing PhD in the area of international trade and finance a separate track is added in the Conference. The session is open for all doctoral students pursuing PhD in Indian universities ( or recently submitted their thesis but degree is awaited).