The KDI Journal of Economic Policy is now inviting submissions for a conference on “Navigating Geoeconomic Fragmentation: Global Rules, Industrial Policy, and the New Architecture of Cross-border Trade and Finance” scheduled to take place in Seoul, Korea, on June 17, 2026. Papers that are accepted and presented at the conference are automatically submitted to the KDI Journal of Economic Policy (http://www.kdijep.org/).

The conference aims to bring together research that investigates the consequences of rising geoeconomic fragmentation and explores effective policy responses at both national and corporate levels. We welcome papers in international trade, finance, and macroeconomics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-  Recent trends in trade and cross-border financial flows amid the heightened geoeconomic fragmentation risk
-  Tariffs, subsidies, capital flow management measures, and industrial policies as drivers or tools of global imbalances 
-   Efficiency-resilience trade-offs in managing supply chain reconfiguration 
-   Multinational corporations’ sourcing, sales, and financing strategies 
-   Global investors’ portfolio reallocations
-   Digital sovereignty, digital trade barriers, and digital platform regulation
-   The impacts of policy uncertainty on trade, investment, and firm performance 
-   Bilateral, regional, and multilateral cooperation

Preference will be given to research with implications for the Asian economy.
The KDI will cover the following for each presenter: (i) roundtrip economy airfare; (ii) two nights of hotel accommodation; (iii) an honorarium of KRW 500,000 (approximately USD 360), and an additional honorarium upon paper acceptance for publication in the KDI Journal of Economic Policy.

Please submit a 2 to 5-page proposal outlining your research and including some preliminary empirical or theoretical results. If you have a preliminary version of your paper available, you may include it with your submission. Send your proposals by December 31, 2025, to guest editor JaeBin Ahn at jaebin.ahn@snu.ac.krwith “KDI JEP conference submission” in the subject line. Authors will be informed by January 15, 2026, if their paper is selected. Please note that only selected authors will be contacted. Preliminary drafts of accepted papers should be completed one month before the conference, as discussants will be assigned to all presentations at the conference.