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News & talks

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Upcoming talks

20 November 2026
OECD LIFT seminar, Paris · LIFT: Leveraging Inter-Firm Transactions, the OECD network on firm-to-firm data
29 September 2026
ROCKWOOL Foundation Annual Internal Workshop, Berlin
10–12 September 2026
European Trade Study Group (ETSG), Exeter
24–25 August 2026
Scientific Workshop on Productivity, German Council of Economic Experts and DIW Berlin, Berlin
25–26 June 2026
Danish International Economics Workshop (DIEW), Aarhus
15–17 May 2026
Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference (RMET), a FREIT conference, Banff

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News

September 2026
Talk
Presented “Growing Together and Apart” at the European Trade Study Group (ETSG) in Exeter.
August 2026
Talk
Presented “R&D Employment and Transmission in Trade and MNE Networks” at the Scientific Workshop on Productivity, organised by the German Council of Economic Experts with DIW Berlin.
July 2026
Visit
Research visit to LMU Munich.
June 2026
Talk
Presented “International Spillovers from Supplying Superstars” at the Danish International Economics Workshop (DIEW) in Aarhus.
May 2026
Talk
Presented “R&D Employment and Transmission in Trade and MNE Networks” at the Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference (RMET) in Banff, a FREIT conference.
2026
Publication
“Globalization and the Gender Gap in Mental Well-being” (with David, Javorcik and Munch) is out in the Journal of International Economics.
2026
Working paper
“Growing Together and Apart: Scale Economies and Labor Specialization in Global Value Chains” (with Buus, Moxnes, Munch and Xiang) is out as CESifo Working Paper 12710 and CEPR Discussion Paper 21543.
Recent
Revision
“Growing Together and Apart” received a revise-and-resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy.
October 2025
Organising
Organised NOITS 2025 in Copenhagen, the annual Nordic conference in international economics.
June 2025
New position
Joined the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit as Researcher.
May 2025
Media
Op-ed in Vísbending on Trump’s tariffs (in Icelandic).
October 2024
Working paper
“Knowledge Spillovers from Cross-Border Commuters: Evidence from a Natural Experiment” (with Munch, Olsen and Simonsen) is out as ROCKWOOL Foundation Study Paper 215.
September 2024
Working paper
“R&D Employment and Transmission in Trade and MNE Networks” (with Buus, Munch and Schaur) is out as ROCKWOOL Foundation Study Paper 217.
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Talk archive

2026, with the paper presented
20 November 2026
OECD LIFT seminar
Seminar, Paris · LIFT: Leveraging Inter-Firm Transactions, the OECD network on firm-to-firm data
29 September 2026
ROCKWOOL Foundation Annual Internal Workshop
Workshop, Berlin
10–12 September 2026
European Trade Study Group (ETSG)
Conference, Exeter
Paper: Growing Together and Apart
24–25 August 2026
Scientific Workshop on Productivity, German Council of Economic Experts and DIW Berlin
Conference, Berlin
Paper: R&D Employment and Transmission in Trade and MNE Networks
25–26 June 2026
Danish International Economics Workshop (DIEW)
Workshop, Aarhus
Paper: International Spillovers from Supplying Superstars
15–17 May 2026
Rocky Mountain Empirical Trade Conference (RMET), a FREIT conference
Conference, Banff
Paper: R&D Employment and Transmission in Trade and MNE Networks
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Earlier talks, 2014–2025
2025
Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business (SNEE); invited seminar, ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit.
2024
NOITS (Oslo); SNEE (Lund); CESifo Area Conference on the Global Economy.
2023
Invited seminar, Icelandic Economists Abroad conference (University of Iceland); EPRN Copenhagen; SNEE (Lund).
2021
Invited seminar for Business Sweden.
2019
Road to Exporting, Copenhagen.
2018
Moscow International Economics Conference (Moscow); ADI Conference (Copenhagen); SNEE (Lund).
2017
Empirical Investigations in Trade and Investment, Yogyakarta (FREIT); invited seminar, Örebro University; NOITS (Helsinki); LETC (Slovenia, FREIT); ADI Conference (Copenhagen); SNEE (Lund).
2016
Invited seminars at the University of Copenhagen and IFN Stockholm; NOITS (Oslo); ADI Conference (Copenhagen); Lund University; ETSG (Helsinki).
2015
ETSG (Paris); NOITS (Copenhagen); GEP Postgraduate Conference (University of Nottingham); Lund University; Danish International Economics Workshop (Aarhus); invited seminar, Sydsvenska Handelskammaren (Malmö).
2014
NOITS; Nordic Summer Symposium in Macroeconomics; Lund University; ETSG.
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Visits and organising

Research visits

LMU Munich (July 2026); CESifo, Munich (July 2024).

Organising

NOITS, Copenhagen 2025 and Iceland 2021 (previous conferences); administrator of www.noits.org.

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