CEPR / CTEI Webinar: COVID-19 and Trade Policy: Why Turning Inward Won't Work

You are invited to a CEPR / CTEI webinar on:

COVID-19 and Trade Policy:

Why Turning Inward Won?t Work

Join us on Friday 8 May 2020

16:00-17:00 (BST, London), 17:00 - 18:00 (CST, Geneva)

Panellists:

Richard Baldwin, Professor, International Economics, Co-Director, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Editor-in Chief, VoxEU.org, ex President, CEPR

Simon Evenett, Professor, International Trade and Economic Development, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, DLA Distinguished Visiting Professor, Carey Business School, The Johns Hopkins University, Research Fellow, CEPR

Anna Stellinger, Deputy Director General, International and EU Affairs, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise, Vice Chairman, Board of Lund University, ex Director-General, Swedish National Board of Trade

In this webinar, the co-editors and one of the contributors to the new e-book "COVID-19 and Trade Policy: "Why Turning Inward Won?t Work" will discuss how restrictive trade policies that some governments are pursuing are doubly harmful and what initiatives can be proposed, highlighting how groups of nations?if not every nation?can cooperate in meaningful ways to stamp out COVID-19?s threat to humanity. It is time to rediscover the logic of international cooperation.

Register here: https://graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/covid-19-and-trade-policy-why-turning-inward-wont-work.