Joint Peterson Institute-BIS-WTO conference on geopolitics and international trade and finance

A joint conference organised by the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIEE), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and the World Trade Organization (WTO), Washington DC, 21 October 2024.

Major events that marked the world stage in the past decade – such as US-China trade tensions, the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine – have brought geopolitics to the forefront of international economic policymaking. This conference, organised by the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), explores this theme through a series of engaging discussions. 

This one-day conference aims to achieve two objectives. First, it will provide a forum for discussing theoretical and empirical frameworks that international organisations can use in their analysis of the impact of geopolitics on international trade and finance. Second, it will enhance dialogue between economists and decision makers to better understand what the objectives are – economic and noneconomic – and pinpoint what the optimal tools to achieve them could be.