Joint Conference Kiel Institute and CEPR in Paris

4th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics

30 - 31 Oct 2025
75007 Paris
Sciences Po, 27/28 rue Saint-Guillaume
Invitation only

The Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics is now in its 4th year and has become a premier event on the topic (review the 2024, 2023 and 2022 programs). Once again our goal is to bring together the world's leading academics working on Geoeconomics to present and discuss their latest research.

This year, for the first time, the conference will take place at Sciences Po in Paris.

The event is further supported by the CEPR RPN on Geoeconomics, the CEPR RPN on International Lending and Sovereign Debt, the ReCIPE initiative, and the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University.

Keynotes:
Pol Antràs (Harvard University and CEPR)
Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University and CEPR)

Honorary Lecture:
Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics and CEPR)

Further confirmed speakers include:
Rodrigo Adao (Booth School of Business at University of Chicago)
Christopher Clayton (Yale School of Management)
Lydia Cox (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Beata Javorcik (EBRD, University of Oxford, and CEPR)
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)
Jacob Moscona (MIT)
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (UT Austin)

The range of research topics includes (but is not limited to): 

  • Geoeconomic strategies (US, China, EU) 
  • The economics of rearmament and war 
  • The cost of decoupling and fragmentation
  • Sanctions, export controls, and disruptions in global value chains
  • Industrial policy, including security and defense 
  • Geopolitics of international currencies
  • Energy security and scarce resources
  • The economics of technological sovereignty (technology, data, and AI)

Organizers

  • Isabelle Méjean (Sciences Po and CEPR)

  • Moritz Schularick (Kiel Institute, Sciences Po, CEPR and Geoeconomics RPN Leader)

  • Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute, CEPR, Geoeconomics RPN Steering Committee and International Lending and Sovereign Debt RPN Leader)

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