30 – 31 Oct
2025
Joint Conference Kiel Institute and CEPR in Paris
4th Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics
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 in Paris, in cooperation with Sciences Po and the German Embassy 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.
Find the preliminary program here.
Conference highlights:
We are honored that Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard) and Pol Antràs (Harvard and CEPR) will join us as keynote speakers.
The Kiel Institute's 2025 Bernhard Harms Prize, one of Europe’s leading awards in the field of international economics, will be awarded to Silvana Tenreyro (LSE and CEPR) for her outstanding work in monetary economics, macro development, and international economics.
The presenting scholars include Rodrigo Adao (Chicago Booth), Elena Carletti (Bocconi and CEPR), Christopher Clayton (Yale), Lydia Cox (Wisconsin-Madison), Banu Demir-Pakel (Oxford and CEPR), Beata Javorcik (Oxford, EBRD and CEPR), Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton), Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE and CEPR), Alberto Martin (Barcelona and CEPR), Thierry Mayer (Sciences Po and CEPR), Jacob Moscona (MIT), Nitya Pandalai-Nayar (UT Austin), Ralph Ossa (Zurich and CEPR), Hélène Rey (LBS and CEPR), Robert Staiger (Dartmouth), Mathias Thoenig (Lausanne and CEPR) and many more.
Confirmed honorary speakers include Luis Vassy (President of Sciences Po), Ambassador Stephan Steinlein (German Ambassador to France) and Beatrice Weder di Mauro (President of CEPR).
Two high-level policy panels will discuss "The Economics of Defense" and "Global Trade at a Crossroads".
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:
- 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)
