Partners Eyler-Driscoll and Simard-Casanova represent Standard Error at 4th CEPR–PSE Policy Forum, “Globalization at the crossroads”
This fourth annual meeting on Boulevard Jourdan connected researchers with policymakers and featured a distinguished roster of participants, along with a few old friends.
Standard Error partner Olivier Simard-Casanova returned last week to the Paris School of Economics at École normale supérieure to attend the fourth annual Policy Forum hosted by PSE and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He was joined this year by Standard Error founder and lead editor Samantha Eyler-Driscoll, who was attending this event series for the first time.
The series is designed to bridge the siloed spaces of research and policy by promoting encounters and interaction between scholars and policymakers. This year’s edition, entitled “Globalization at the crossroads,” focused on the difficulties confounding the international trade regime and the countries, firms, and workers within it—all in the macrohistorical context of the ongoing power struggle between the United States and China, with Europe caught between them.
Beatrice Weder di Mauro, CEPR president and André Hoffman chair at the Graduate Institute Geneva, discusses the squeeze on Europe’s industrial sectors from Chinese exports.
Each day featured presentations by leading and early career scholars complemented by panels with current and former policymakers from international financial institutions and central banks.
Alberto Martín of CREI and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics presents his new research on trade alignment under hegemonic globalization.
Olivier Blanchard discusses the revival of “global imbalances” as a topic of high-level diplomatic concern and debate.
Eyler-Driscoll and Simard-Casanova, who were themselves meeting in person for the first time after two years of virtual collaboration through Standard Error, were able to meet the notable scholar-policymakers Olivier Blanchard, director of the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department, and Gita Gopinath, Harvard economics professor and former first deputy managing director of the IMF.
They were also able to reconnect with longstanding friends of Standard Error such as Andrea Matranga, who received important developmental support from our team for his blockbuster paper on the Neolithic revolution, now published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the inspiration for his popular science manuscript in development on the same topic. (See below.)
Standard Error editors regularly attend international conferences in economics to expand our expertise in the fields in which our customers work and build our relationships with researchers and institutions worldwide.
