2:30 pm Welcome of participants

Valentina Meliciani
Director, Luiss School of European Political Economy

3:00 pm Measuring Exposure to Risk in Global Value Chains
Alessandro Borin, Economist, Banca d’Italia
Michele Mancini, Economist, Banca d’Italia
Co-author
Daria Taglioni, Research Manager, Trade and International Integration, Development Economics, The World Bank

3:30 pm Supply Chain Fragmentation and the Global Trade Elasticity: A New Accounting Framework

Ba Los, Professor of the Economics of Technological Progress and Structural Change, University of Groningen

Co-authors

Marcel P. Timmer, Professor of Growth and Development Economics, University of Groningen

Robert Stehrer, Scientific Director, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

Gaaitzen J. de Vries, Professor of International Economics and Development Economics, University of Groningen

4:00 pm Break
4:10 pm Testing the Smile Curve: Functional Specialisation and Value Creation in GVCs
Roman Stöllinger, Economist, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

4:40 pm Nearshoring and Farsharing within Global Value Chains
Ariel Wirkierman, Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
Co-authors
Filippo Bontadini, Research Fellow, Luiss University
Valentina Meliciani, Director, Luiss School of European Political Economy
Maria Savona, Professor of Applied Economics, Luiss University and Professor of Economics of Innovation, SPRU, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex

5:20 pm Round Table
Chair
Maria Savona, Professor of Applied Economics, Luiss University and Professor
of Economics of Innovation, SPRU, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex
Discussion
Luciano Fratocchi, Professor of Management Engineering, University of L’Aquila
Michael Gasiorek, Director, UK Trade Policy Observatory
Andrea Linarello, Economist, Banca D'Italia
Lucia Tajoli, Professor of Political Economics, Politecnico di Milano

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