The NOITS Conference 2025
The 26th annual NOITS conference will be held on October 23rd -24th 2025 in Copenhagen Denmark. See the original call for papers
Organizers of NOITS 2025
Jakob Roland Munch, Magnus Tolum Buus and Björn Thor Arnarson
NOITS 2025 - Keynote Speakers
Venue: ROCKWOOL Foundation
The NOITS 2025 conference is held at the ROCKWOOL Foundation in central Copenhagen.
The ROCKWOOL Foundation’s newest unit, Productivity & Prosperity, explores solutions to one of today’s most pressing economic challenges: productivity and competitiveness. The initiative is driven by growing concerns about Europe’s economic future—and with it, Denmark’s position in a globally challenged economy.
Program
Day 1: Thursday 23rd of October
ChairsBjörn Thor Arnarson, ROCKWOOL foundation and University of Copenhagen (9.00-12:30)
Anders Åkerman, Stockholm University (13.30-17:15)
Location: Ny Kongensgade 6, 1472 København
| Time | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 09:00-09:45 | Maria Person | Building Bridges: The Effect of Major Infrastructure Development on Trade |
| 09:45-10:30 | Megan Haasbroek | Infrastructure and trade liberalization in India |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-11:45 | David Jinkins | Open Economy Price Indices and the Food Engel Curve |
| 11:45-12:30 | Torfinn Harding | A Green Trade-Off? Agricultural Technical Change and Deforestation |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Keynote: Treb Allen | The Economic Geography of American Slavery |
| 14:30-15:15 | Fuchen Zhang | Misplaced Confidence: Estimating Substitution Structures in Production Functions |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:45-16:30 | Ina Jäkel | Globalization and the Glass Ceiling |
| 16:30-17:15 | Linnea Lorentzen | Wage-Setting Constraints and Firm Responses to Demand Shocks |
| 17:15-19:15 | Beers & Relaxation Time | |
| 19:15-Late | Conference Dinner at Væksthuset |
Day 2: Friday 24th of October
Chairs
Magnus Tolum Buus , University of Copenhagen (8.30-12:00)
Linnea Lorentzen, University of Oslo (13.00-16:45)
| Time | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30-09:15 | Fredrik Sjöholm | Assessing the Geoeconomic Footprint of China: Evidence from Swedish Firm Acquisitions |
| 09:15-10:00 | Andrii Tarasenko | Effects of Input Trade Liberalization with Strategic Sourcing |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30-11:15 | Anna Ignatenko | Shipping and Market Power |
| 11:15-12:00 | Inga Heiland | Circumventing Sanctions: The Role of Ship-to-Ship Transfers in Russia’s Oil Trade |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Keynote: Beata Javorcik | Sanctions and the Shifting Landscape of Global Trade |
| 14:00-14:45 | Saskia Meuchelböck | Trading Through Times of Disintegration: How Services Help Firms Weather Shocks |
| 14:45-15:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:15-16:00 | Andreas Moxnes | Follow FDI: Production Networks and the Geography of Globalization |
| 16:00-16:45 | Heini Suominen | Reassessing the Benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Area: The Case of Nigeria and Learning-by-Exporting |
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Sponsors and Hosts of NOITS 2025
The NOITS 2025 conference is hosted by the University of Copenhagen in cooperation with the Rockwool Foundation.
