Pol Antras
pantras.bsky.social
Pol Antras
@pantras.bsky.social
Economics Professor at Harvard University
This was a fun and very informative event, at least for me. You can watch it in its entirety here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G-F...

My presentation starts at around minute 13.

Thanks again to the organizers for the kind invitation!
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Thrilled to see our decade-long research agenda with Teresa Fort and Felix Tintelnot on firm-level approaches to global value chains featured in the latest NBER Reporter. What a ride!

Link: www.nber.org/reporter/202...
October 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I am very much looking forward to this event in Stockholm in October.

If you are a local, and want to attend, you can find more information here: www.kommerskollegium.se/en/analyses-...
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Thank YOU for the invitation. It was great fun to visit Cologne after so many years, and to attend the first day of #VfS_Conf2025

In case you are interested, here are the slides of my talk: t.co/NKxEXeda4N
September 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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"Trump está convencido de que el libre comercio no es la manera óptima de manejar la globalización", nuevo #CIDOBinconversation con @pantras.bsky.social, profesor de economía en Harvard, sobre la agenda económica internacional y el impacto de las políticas de Trump
▶️ bit.ly/CIDOBinconve...
June 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I visited the University of Basel last December and sat down with Rolf Weder to discuss several aspects of my research and of global trade. A lot has changed in the last 4 months, but some of what I say may still be of relevance😅

Link to the interview: innoscape.ch/de/publikati...
Innoscape | Pol Antràs | Innoscape Talk #11
innoscape.ch
April 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Sounds like a fantastic event!
Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.
February 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.
November 14, 2024 at 3:03 PM
1/ 📢 New paper alert! 📄 Together with Vitalii Tubdenov, we propose a measure of the "Average Period of Production" (APP) to capture the temporal dimension of production processes. It is inspired by Böhm-Bawerk’s capital theory.
February 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What would be the impact of Trump's announced 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports? Lydia Cox's (coxlydia.com) job-market paper, now an R&R at the American Economic Review, provides good guidance. Latest version is here (coxlydia.com/papers/cox_s...).
coxlydia.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Very grateful to the @jeeanews.bsky.social for the super quick turnaround, and to the editor and referees for their constructive comments! @romainwacziarg.bsky.social @Referee_1 @Referee_2 @Referee_3
February 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you are still around San Francisco for the #ASSA2025 meeting, please come check out this session on oligopoly and international trade.
January 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm in San Francisco for the #ASSA2025 meetings. If you around and up early, come check out this session on inventories and international trade.
January 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Outlining several unexplored areas in international trade, from Pol Antràs https://www.nber.org/papers/w33312
January 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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December 22, 2024 at 11:56 AM
I've now turned the BBVA-EEA Lecture I gave in San Antonio in January and in Madrid this week into a working paper: scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola...

The paper will come out in the Journal of the European Econ. Assoc. some time next year, but it's not a final version yet. Comments most welcome!
December 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Super excited about this lecture in Madrid in December!
📢 Pol Antràs will give the 2024 @jeeanews.bsky.social -
FBBVA lecture "The Uncharted Waters of International Trade"
Hélène Rey will act as discussant.
🗓️Tues, Dec 10 @ 18:00 CET
📍Madrid
ℹ️on attendance & travel grants for PhD students in Spain bit.ly/41eK3MT
November 21, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, Kalina Manova and I are organizing the 8th Workshop on International Economic Networks (WIEN) to take place in beautiful Vienna on June 26-7, 2024. Send us a paper for consideration! We're particularly keen on receiving submissions from young scholars.
November 14, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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There's been a lot of debate about what economic theory says regarding tariffs.

Drawing on my research with quantitative economic models, here's a thread explaining the textbook logic for why "tariffs are bad" for revenue generation.

🧵 Let’s dive in!
November 14, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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Here is my attempt to systematically think through possible consequences of new Trump tariffs

Suppose US imposes 20% tariff on all goods imports

Effect 1: higher prices for goods imported into US. This hurts US consumers by raising living costs 1/
November 12, 2024 at 12:52 PM