Trade-History Workshop: ‘’Uncertain Tides: The Past and Present of Trade Policy”

When 20 June 2025 9:00 AM
Where Central Bank of Ireland, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1

Central Bank of Ireland, CEPR and UCD hosted the Trade-History Workshop, “Uncertain Tides: The Past and Present of Trade Policy”, at the Central Bank’s Dockland Campus on Friday 20 June 2025.

The aggressive and widespread use of trade policy measures has become less prominent in the increasingly globalised world of the last few decades. As such, the opportunities to study the impacts of trade policy changes have been relatively limited. History, however, offers additional opportunities to assess the impact of trade policy, and in particular to discover how trade policy works in different contexts.

With trade wars and trade sanctions reappearing as a part of doing international business, the workshop brought together researchers at the intersection of international trade and economic history, who explored perspectives from both modern and historical contexts.

Keynote speakers were Prof. Kevin O’Rourke (Sciences Po) and Prof. Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe.