Competition details
To encourage the presence and participation of graduate students, we hold a special competition limited to graduate students. The graduate student paper competition is a longstanding EIIT tradition. From the papers submitted by graduate students, we will select at least one paper and include it on the program.
The papers submitted but not selected through this competition will be added to the stack of general submissions. The deadline for submission is the same as for general conference submissions.
Eligibility: The author or authors must all be graduate students at the time of the conference. Joint work with faculty members is not eligible for the graduate student competition, but is welcome under general submissions.
Past winners
| Year | Winner | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 |
Max Marczinek
University of Oxford
|
Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague |
| 2024 |
Chan Kim
University of Maryland
|
From Research to Development: How Globalization Shapes Corporate Innovation |
| 2023 |
Jin Liu
New York University
|
Multinational Production and Innovation in Tandem |
| 2022 |
Manho Kang
UC Davis
|
Export Competition and Innovation |
| 2021 |
Shihangyin Zhang
University of Maryland
|
Quantitative Effects of Trade Shocks Under Global Supply Chains |
| 2020 |
Trang Hoang
Vanderbilt University
|
The Dynamics of Global Sourcing |
| 2019 |
Devaki Ghose
University of Virginia
|
Trade, Internal Migration and Human Capital: Who Gains from India's IT Boom? |
| 2018 |
Chen Daisy Sun
Yale University
|
Market Interdependence Through Shared Suppliers |
| 2017 |
Lucas Costa-Scottini
Brown University
|
Firm-Level Distortions and Aggregate Productivity: The Trade Channel |
| 2016 |
Heitor Pellegrina
Brown University
|
Nature, Markets, and the Spatial Distribution of Agriculture in Brazil |
| 2015 |
Farid Farrokhi
Pennsylvania State University
|
Global Sourcing in Oil Markets |
|
Rodrigo Adao
MIT
|
Distributional Effect of International Trade and Comparative Advantage in Labor Markets | |
| 2014 |
Reka Juhasz
London School of Economics
|
Trade and Development: Evidence from the Bapoleonic Blocakde |
| 2013 |
Gabriel Smagghue
Sciences Po
Paul Piveteau
Columbia University
|
A New Method for Quality Estimation using Trade Data: An Application to French Firms |
| 2012 |
Samuel Bazzi
UC San Diego
|
Wealth Heterogeneity, Income Shocks, and International Migration: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia |
| 2011 |
Treb Allen
Yale University
|
Information Frictions in Trade |
| 2010 |
Anson Soderbery
UC Davis
|
The Competitive Effects of Heterogenous Firms Facing Capacity Constraints |
| 2009 |
Zhiyuan Li
UC Davis
|
Task Offshoring and Organizational Form: Evidence from China |
| 2008 |
Benjamin Mandel
UC Davis
|
Heterogeneous Firms and Import Quality: Evidence from Transaction-Level Prices |
| 2007 |
Joel Rodrigue
Vanderbilt University
|
FDI, Exports and Aggregate Productivity |
| 2006 |
Alan Spearot
Univeristy of Wisconsin Madison
|
Firm Heterogeneity, Acquisition Incentives, and Trade Liberalization |
| 2005 |
Amit Khandelwal
Yale University
|
Product Quality and Competition in International Trade |
| 2004 |
Matilde Bombardini
MIT
|
Firm Heterogeneity and Lobby Participation |
| 2003 |
Rubiana Chamarbagwala
University of Maryland
|
The Role of Capital-Skill Complementarities in Child Labor and Schooling in India |
| 2002 |
Ricardo Lopez
UCLA
|
Exports and Productivity: A Theoretical Analysis of Trade Policies for Developing Countries |
| 2001 |
Sebastian Claro
UCLA
|
Tariff and FDI Liberalization: What to Expect from China's Entry to WTO |
| 2000 |
Eileen Brooks
Harvard University
|
Why Don't Firms Export? |
| 1999 |
Mika Saito
Cornell University
|
Empirical Investigation on Comparative Advantage Among OECD Countries |
| 1998 |
Chad Bown
University of Wisconsin Madison
|
Trade Disputes and the Implementation of Protection Under the GATT: An Empirical Assessment |
| 1997 |
Peter Schott
UCLA
|
Education, Development, and Trade: Should All Countries Educate? |
| 1996 |
Dorsati Madani
UC Davis
|
Productivity, Mark-ups, and Government Policy: Estimates for South Korea, 1972-1991 |
| 1995 |
David Hummels
University of Michigan
|
On the General Validity of the Gravity Model |
Submit your paper for the 2026 competition
The deadline is the same as for general conference submissions.