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Conference

Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2025

Date
Oct 24 — Oct 25, 2025

The annual conference on the theme of "Firms, Trade, and Development" was held on October 24-25, 2025. This event was co-hosted by the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Yale Economic Growth Center (EGC), in collaboration with the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University. The event took place in-person at Yale University in New Haven, CT, with an option to attend virtually.

Program:
The conference program is available here, and all sessions took place at the Yale Department of Economics, 87 Trumbull Street, Room B120.

Academic Committee: 
David Atkin (MIT), Lauren Bergquist (Yale), Laura Boudreau (Columbia), Stefano Caria (University of Warwick), Ritam Chaurey (Johns Hopkins), Mayara Felix (Yale), Namrata Kala (MIT), Jose Vasquez Carvajal (LSE), Eric Verhoogen (Columbia)

 

Support for the 2025 Firms, Trade, and Development Conference was provided by the Markets and Development Initiative at the Yale Economic Growth Center, the International Growth Centre, and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University.