Who we are

The Global Center for International Economics (GCIE) was established in 2020. It is an excellence center of the University of St. Gallen dedicated to the study of international economics. Our research interests lie in the fields of Macroeconomics, Development, Political Economy and International Trade.

What we do

We conduct research at the academic frontier. A key focus of the center is to also translate these findings into policy-relevant findings, develop research-driven teaching, and facilitate exchange between our student body, academics, and policy-makers.

Latest Research

04.12.2023

Timo Boppart’s paper on “A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents” is the lead article of the November edition of the Review of Economic Studies. [paper|

Latest Policy

12.05.2022

The World Economic Forum just published a paper written by GCIE Fellow Simon Evenett. In this paper — Conflict, Sanctions and the Future of World Trade — he sketches out five scenarios for the world trading system in line of the conflict in Ukraine.
#trade #ukrainewar #WTO @SimonEvenett @GCIE_unisg @wef @HSGStGallen

Latest Event

08.11.2023

The Swiss Macro Workshop 2024 will take place from the 11 to 14th of January 2024. It brings together researchers in macroeconomics from the universities of Basel, Bern, Lugano, St. Gallen, and Zurich and international scholars. This initiative is jointly financed by the GCIE and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).