30^th International Input-Output Association Conference
and
12^th Edition of the International School of I-O Analysis
1^st - 5^th July 2024, Santiago, Chile

Keynote Speakers

At the 30th IIOA conference, three plenary sessions will feature renowned speakers with extensive experience in input-output research. The sessions will take place from July 2nd to July 4th, 2024 at the ECLAC facilities. Each session will last one hour, including a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute discussion.

In this year's edition, the IIOA, the LOC, and the SPC are pleased to recognize three esteemed speakers at the 30th IIOA Conference. Here is the line-up of speakers and their respective details:

Career profile

Dr. Ya-Yen Sun is an Associate Professor at the Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. She received her PhD in environmental economics and tourism management from Michigan State University, USA. Her research focuses on the industry’s economic impacts and environmental footprint, aiming to integrate two key sustainability perspectives into one equation. Her work on tourism economic impacts has provided estimates on how national tourism policies, market developments, special events, and disasters affected jobs, incomes, and GDP. Additionally, her research into the environmental aspects of travel behaviours has measured the tourism carbon footprint and tourism water footprint.

Ya-Yen’s recent work has focused on managing tourism’s climate impact, including:

• Collaborating with Statistics New Zealand, Statistics Norway, Visit Scotland, and the German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control to generate the national/regional tourism carbon emissions inventory for carbon management.
• Leading the Australian Research Council Discovery Project to establish a global tourism carbon emissions database and identify enablers for tourism decarbonization.

Presentation Theme

Travel has become a way of life in our modern society. However, with over 10 billion trips taken annually, tourism has become a significant contributor to global carbon emissions. In this talk, Ya-Yen will discuss the impacts, drivers, and trade-offs of tourism's carbon emissions using global and national evidence. She will focus on the disparities in travel footprints between and within countries, and illustrate how these inequalities perpetuate climate injustice. Ya-Yen will also introduce the newly passed UN World Tourism Organization framework for measuring tourism sustainability and discuss how input-output scholars can contribute to this field, which is expected to gain significant momentum in the future.

Career profile

Thijs ten Raa (NYU, 1981) was affiliated with New York University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Tilburg University, and is now Lecturer in Economics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His primary research area is economic theory. He has published fourteen books, including the acclaimed The Economics of Benchmarking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), the textbook Microeconomics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Shaking up Measures of Economic Well-being (World Scientific Publishing, 2022).

He has published numerous articles in publications including Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Oxford Economic Papers.

Presentation Theme

The keynote presentation delves into the relationship between the incidence of emission taxes on consumer income classes and the footprints of their respective consumption bundles. While the footprints are typically measured in industry-by-product dimensions, the literature commonly uses industry-by-industry input-output coefficients. The presentation will demonstrate how to rectify footprint analysis by reverting to the underlying national accounts, specifically the use and make tables. The findings of this research indicate that emission taxes are regressive, suggesting a trade-off between environmental and income policies.

Career profile

Sébastien Miroudot is Senior Trade Policy Analyst at the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate, and holds a PhD in International Economics from SciencesPo Paris. Before joining the OECD, he worked for several years at Groupe d’ Economie Mondiale. His research interests include global value chains, the relationship between trade and investment and the role of multinational enterprises and services in international trade and global value chains.

Presentation Theme

The supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, new conflicts and geopolitical rivalry have started to cast doubts on the benefits of globalisation and triggered new trade and industrial policies that put the emphasis on economic security. In this changing global environment, policymakers are looking for indicators and data that can help them to assess risks, identify vulnerabilities in supply chains and design policies aimed at promoting economic resilience and sustainability. With the development of inter-country input-output tables and indicators of trade in value-added terms, IO research has played a significant role in putting international supply chains at the forefront of policymakers’ agenda. The presentation will highlight how input-output analysis has shaped trade and industrial policies in the past decade and how it can contribute to address new challenges and help countries to build resilience and sustainability.