3rd Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics

Geoeconomics is reshaping global power dynamics, as nations use economic policies to assert influence in an increasingly fractured world, and geopolitical dynamics are prompting Europe to confront new economic and security challenges.

The conference, organized by CEPR and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, hosted at and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, brought together world-leading scholars and political decisionmakers to foster intellectual exchange about the link between economics and geopolitics at the highest level.

Conference highlights:

We were honored that German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Robert Habeck joined us and spoke on the topic of the new economics of European security.

The Kiel Institute's 2024 Bernhard Harms Prize, one of Europe’s leading awards in the field of international economics, was awarded to Hélène Rey, Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School for her outstanding work in international macroeconomics and finance.

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and Professor of Economics at U.C. Berkeley, gave a keynote speech on Changing Global Linkages: A New Cold War?

More speakers included Chad Bown (Chief Economist, US Department of State), Angela Ellard (Deputy Director-General of the WTO), Adam Posen (President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics), Marion Jansen (Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate at the OECD), Franziska Brantner (Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action), Vera Thorstensen (Professor of Economics, Fundação Getulio Vargas and WTO Chair Holder in Brazil), and Beatrice Weder di Mauro (President, CEPR).

Presenting scholars included Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School), Oleg Itskhoki (Harvard University), Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford), Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (Brown University), Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po), Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University), Pierre Yared (Columbia Business School), and many more.

Our Geoeconomics conference is now in its 3rd year and has become a premier event on the topic (see the 2023 and 2022 program.) Our goal is to bring together the world's leading researchers working on Geoeconomics, broadly defined. We will cut across fields, thus including research in international trade, international finance and macroeconomics, finance, political economy, economic history, or international relations.

In 2024, the conference was hosted at und supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). The event was further supported by the CEPR RPN on Geoeconomics, the CEPR RPN on International Lending and Sovereign Debt, the research project ReCIPE, the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University, and SciencesPo.