Professional Development Seminar: Professor Phillip McCalman

The Changing Landscape of International Trade

International trade has evolved from the old notion of exchanging wine for cloth into something much more complex. This increase in complexity is due in part to international trade rules that have delivered relatively low trade barriers – but this complexity now calls for a change in the rules of international trade.

This talk will discuss the “new international trade” and its implications for the design of international trade institutions.

Biography

Phillip McCalman is a Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. His main research area is international trade. He spent the 2015/16 academic year as the Peter B. Kenen Fellow and visiting Professor at Princeton University. He has previously been a Resident Scholar at the IMF, faculty member at the University of California and consulted for the WTO, World Bank and Asia Development Bank.