On the Value of the WTO
TBA
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Drawing on insights from the 2026 World Trade Report, this seminar explores the economic value of the WTO and the role of reciprocity, non-discrimination, and common rules in sustaining international trade cooperation. It examines the challenges facing the multilateral trading system amid rising protectionism, geopolitical fragmentation, and changing global trade dynamics.
SPEAKER
Robert Staiger, WTO Chief Economist
DISCUSSANTS
Carlo Altomonte, IEP Management Board member
Daniel Gros, IEP Senior Fellow
MODERATOR
Paloma Lopez-Garcia, IEP Director
Robert W. Staiger is Roth Family Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an economist specializing in the study ...
Member of the Management Council
BA in Economics (with major in International Economics) from Università Bocconi. PhD in International Law and Economics from Università Bocconi. MA in Economics (UC Louvain) and PhD in Applied Economics from KU Leuven.Carlo Altomonte was Program Dire ...
Senior Fellow
Daniel Gros is the former Director of the Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University.Between 2020 and 2022 he was Distinguished Fellow and Member of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Before that, was the d ...
IEP Bocconi Director
Paloma Lopez-Garcia is Director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. She is an economist with nearly 25 years of experience in central banking, spanning the Banco de España and the European Central Bank (ECB). Throug ...