Workshop IPE-YSI: The redefinition of trade partners: Global Value Chains, Innovation and Structural Change

The fragmentation of international production has become a defining feature of global trade and investments, with approximately 70% of international trade involved in it, including services, raw materials, and more. In this sense, the international organization of production plays a crucial role in understanding local economies, their policies, and their evolution. Developing economies have reorganized their trade and internationalization policies to adapt to this trend. While some nations have emerged as key providers of manufacturing and assembly, others, particularly Latin American economies, have deepened their specialization in the provision of natural resources.

This shift raises significant concerns for developing countries, which are focused on finding ways to integrate into more value-added steps in global value chains (GVCs) to promote economic catch-up. Meanwhile, high-income economies like the USA and Western Europe are revisiting industrial policies to re-industrialize their economies, promoting nearshoring in some industries.

The Workshop “The redefinition of the trade partners: Global value change, innovation and structural change” is presented to discuss these changes and tendencies between senior scholars and Ph.D. students about the effect of the new international events on local economies structures. In this regard, the workshop will be structured in two days of discussion, combining senior speakers’ sessions with student contributions during each day of the event.

On the first day of the workshop, the event will be centered on trade and international relations.  In this regard, the discussion will be covers topics such us:

• International trade
• Unequal relation south-north
• International technology transfer
• Foreign Direct Investment effect on global south

During the second day of the workshop, the discussion will be held around the following topics:

• Global value chain
• Structural change
• Offshoring and nearshoring
• Effect of GVC in the Global South

How to apply

We invite all young scholars to submit an abstract for consideration to present during the student session. Selected participants outside Berlin will receive accommodation (based in double room, same gender) and partial travel stipend to cover the expenses of the trip to Berlin.

Applications can be submitted in this link:

Relevant dates:

Application deadline (Extended!): April 15th

Applications results: April 16th

Dates of the workshop: May 19th and 20th

Speakers:

Andrea Coveri, University of Urbino

Jennifer Pédussel Wu, Berlin School of Economics and Law

Carlo Pietrobelli, Roma Tre & UNU-MERIT

Christina Teipen, Berlin School of Economics and Law

Hannes Warnecke-Berger, University of Kassel

Apply here!