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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Last day to submit a paper to the inaugural Silk Road Empirical Trade Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, August 28-29, 2026: freit.org/SRET/sret.html

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SRET 2026 — Astana, Kazakhstan | FREIT

The inaugural Silk Road Empirical Trade Conference, held in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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Reshad Ahsan @rnahsan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

And that's a wrap for the second Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference! Thanks to Paola Conconi for a wonderful keynote! Please keep an eye out for future editions of the conference. @lpuzzell.bsky.social Maria Ptashkina @mcphilman.bsky.social @besedes.bsky.social

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Another great RMET conference in the books! Looking forward to the next one. Thanks to all who came. And Eugene Beaulieu for all the work on local logistics and more.

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Kristy Buzard @kbuzard7.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

What kind of conference do you want to go to? One with great papers, a fantastic keynote (@emilyjblanchard.bsky.social‬), and lunch at the top of a mountain! Many thanks to the organizers (@besedes.bsky.social‬) and participants for a fantastic time www.freit.org/RMET/2025/Pr...

Conference participants at summit of Tunnel Mountain, Banff AB

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Deadline to submit a paper to the Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference is this Friday, April 18: www.freit.org/METC/2025/

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F.R.E.I.T. Forum for Research in International Trade

F.R.E.I.T. Forum for Research on Empirical International Trade

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The first METC at UniMelbourne was a great success. Thanks to @lpuzzell.bsky.social and @rnahsan.bsky.social for hosting and organizing. Join us for the 2025 edition. @abbernard.bsky.social

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Submit a paper to RMET and join us in Banff, Canada, May 23-25. Submissions due January 17,2025. Emily Blanchard will give a keynote talk. www.freit.org/RMET/2025/

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Pol Antras @pantras.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.

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Thomas Sampson @thomsampson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Here is my attempt to systematically think through possible consequences of new Trump tariffs Suppose US imposes 20% tariff on all goods imports Effect 1: higher prices for goods imported into US. This hurts US consumers by raising living costs 1/

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

I am very honored and grateful to be giving the Peter Neary Plenary talk at ETSG this Saturday.

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

A few days left to submit a paper to FREIT’s newest conference, METC 2024, and spend a part of December in Melbourne, www.freit.org/METC/2024

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F.R.E.I.T. Forum for Research in International Trade

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

We use info on air highways to calculate the distance actually flown by planes and then take advantage of restricted airspace to obtain a time-varying measure of distance. This allows us to estimate the distance coefficient in panel gravity estimation.

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

We use a natural experiment from conflicted airspaces over Ukraine and other countries to identify the role of transport costs in gravity models. Distance has a negative effect on airborne trade, mostly through the extensive margin.

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Great to see "Fly the unfriendly skies: The role of transport costs in gravity models of trade" with Jing Chu and Antu Panini Murshid published by JIE: doi.org/10.1016/j.ji....

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Thomas Sampson @thomsampson.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

I made a Starter Pack of academic economists who work on International Trade go.bsky.app/G3dqAYg

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Tibor Besedes @besedes.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Happy to announce FREIT’s nee conference, the Melbourne Empirical Trade Conference to be held at the University of Melbourne Dec 12-14, 2024. CFP is out, www.freit.org/METC/2024. Thanks to Laura Puzzello and Reshad Ahsan for making it possible.

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F.R.E.I.T. Forum for Research in International Trade

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