IPES 2023 Conference Program

October 27 - 28

Georgetown University

Rafik B. Hariri Building
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20057

Important travel information to get to the Rafik B. Hariri building: 

Taxi or Ride Share Service

  • Instruct the driver to enter the Georgetown Campus through the Canal Road entrance. (You can request pickup or drop off from the McDonough School of Business in ride share services.)
  • Follow the road through the gate, around the bend, and up the hill next to Cooper Field. The Hariri Building is at the top of the hill. There is a pull in for drop-off near the front of the building.
     
Friday, October 27, 2023
Time Room Authors  Topic
AM Chairs
Room 1 Leo Baccini
Room 2 Ken Scheve
Room 3 Megumi Naoi

Friday
8:30 AM

Room 1

Dillon Laaker

Political Cleavages over Supply Chains: Rules of Origin and Preferential Liberalization

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Joseph Ruggiero

What Makes a World War? Economic Networks and Distributions of Power

Paper 

Room 3

Chloe Ahn and Julia Gray

‘Rededicating Ourselves to the Cause of Bleeding Africa’: Sociotropic Portrayals of Economic Cooperation in US Black Newspapers, 1946–1989

Paper | Presentation

Friday
9:00 AM
Room 1

In Song Kim and Hao Zhang

The Political Origins Of Rules Of Origin

Paper 

Room 2

Layna Mosley and Alexandra Zeitz

Terms And Conditions: The Pricing And Politics Of Bilateral Sovereign Lending

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Vincent Arel-Bundock and
Krzysztof Pelc

Buy-in for Buyouts: Attitudes Toward Compensation for Reforms

Paper | Presentation 

Friday
9:30 AM
Room 1

Erica Owen and Sojun Park

Offshoring And The Decline Of Labor Unions: How Globalization Fosters Technological Change

Presentation 

Room 2

Quintin Beazer, Daniel Blake, and Raphael Cunha

Why Oppose Foreign Investment?

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Evelyne Hubscher and
Thomas Sattler

What Do Voters Expect From Populist Parties? 

Paper | Presentation 

Friday
10:00 AM
Room 1

Jihye Park

Trade as a Potent Threat: A Firm-Centered Approach to Economic Statecraft

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Shiyang Wu

Strategized Exit: Sunset Clauses and Unilateral Terminations of BITs

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

Keyi Tang

Democracy, Distributive Politics, And Development Finance: Evidence From Africa

Paper | Presentation 

Friday
10:45 AM
Room 1

Jon Pevehouse and Felicity Vabulas

Who Lobbies: Analyzing the Drivers of Foreign Lobbying in the U.S

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Sung Eun Kim, Rebecca Perlman, and Grace Zeng

The Politics Of Rejection: Explaining Chinese Import Refusals

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Ryan Jablonski

Voting for Foreign Aid: How international donors impact voting, accountability and public services in democracies

Paper | Presentation 

Friday
11:15 AM
Room 1

Sojun Park

Innovation, Imitation, and Political Cleavages in International Trade and Patent Protection

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Haillie Na-Kyung Lee and Erik Voeten

Transboundary Air Pollution and Hazy Accountability: Evidence from South Korea and China

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Katja Kleinberg

Support For Economic Nationalism And Industrial Policy In Diverse Societies: The US Case

Presentation

Friday
11:45 AM
Room 1 Thomas Pepinsky, Adam Reiff, and Krisztina Szabo

Programmatic Subsidies and Democratic Backsliding in the EU: Evidence From Hungary

Presentation 

Room 2 Kishore Gawande, Pablo Pinto, and Santiago Pinto

Exporters and Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Districts

Paper

Room 3 Owen Bernstein, Gautam Nair, and Richard Zeckhauser

Incidental Representation

Paper | Presentation  

       
Friday
PM Chairs
Room 1 Erica Owen
Room 2 Tom Pepinsky
Room 3 Stefanie Walter
Friday
1:00 PM
Room 1

Aina Gallego and Alexander Kuo

Support For Policies To Regulate Technological Change

Presentation 

Room 2

Sarah M. Brooks, Raphael Cunha, and Layna Mosley

Financial Markets and Mass Political Attitudes: Evidence from the 2022 Brazilian Election

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Matt Malis and Calvin Thrall

The Bureaucratic Politics of International Agreements

Presentation

Friday
1:30 PM
Room 1

Chloe Ahn and Nina Obermeier

Cryptocurrency And The State: Evidence From South Korea

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Gabriele Magni and Zoila Ponce De Leon

Immigration and Deportation Attitudes in the United States and Brazil

Paper  | Presentation 

Room 3

Siyao Li, Aditi Sahasrabuddhe and Scott Wingo

The Limits Of Economic Statecraft: RMB Internationalization And The External Security Environment

Paper | Presentation 

Friday
2:00 PM
Room 1

Jason Davis

Firms, Dynamics, And Stumbling Blocks In Trade

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Abhit Bhandari, Sekou Jabateh, and Robert Kubinec

The Political Nature of Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Experimental Evidence from Tunisia and Senegal

Paper 

Room 3

Sarah Hunter, Adrian Shin, and Alexandra Siegel

Industry Representatives: How Deindustrialization Shapes Elite Messaging On Globalization

Paper | Presentation 

Friday
2:45 PM
Room 1

Soohyun Cho 

Compliance By Obfuscation: Firm-level Labor Upgrading In Global Value Chains

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Minju Kim and Jieun Lee

Foreign Lobbying Against Administrative Protectionism: Evidence from ITC Patent Investigations

Presentation

Room 3 

Cleo O'Brien-Udry and Julia Gray 

Donor Funding to International Organizations: Evidence from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Presentation 

Friday
3:15 PM
Room 1

Anil Menon, Katie Nissen, and Ian Osgood

Climate Regulation’s Effects on Businesses and Public Support for Climate Action

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Emilie Hafner-Burton and Christina Schneider

International Liberal Foundations Of Democratic Backsliding

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Ze Han, Helen Milner and Kris Mitchener

Deep Roots: On The Persistence Of American Populism

Presentation

Saturday, October 28, 2023
Time Room Authors Topic
Saturday
AM Chairs
Room 1 David Bearce
Room 2 Rachel Wellhausen
Room 3 Ken Scheve
Saturday
8:30 AM
Room 1

Patrick Bayer, Jonas Bunte

Carbon Disclosure And Governmental Kickbacks: Evidence From The U.S. EXIM Bank

Presentation

Room 2

Zuhad Hai

What Motivates Industrial Policy in a Globalized World?

Presentation 

Room 3

Didac Queralt

The Origins of Foreign Aid: Colonial Development and Welfare Funds in the Late British Empire

Paper | Presentation 

Saturday
9:00 AM
Room 1

Dahyun Choi

Scientification of Politics? Interest Group Influence on Bureaucratic Expertise in Climate Change

Presentation

Room 2

Jieun Lee

Foreign MNCs’ Utilization of Domestic Political Endowments Inherited from Cross-border M&A

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Sichen Li

Global Innovation Networks And National Security-Related Investment Restrictions: Firm-Level Evidence Of CFIUS Reviews

Paper | Presentation 

Saturday
9:30 AM

Room 1

Jialu Li

Sanction Busting or Industry Boosting? China’s Strategic Response to US Sanctions

Presentation 

Room 2

Zenobia Chan, Noel Foster, Kwok-Kin Lui

Hoarding By Beijing: Understanding China’s Rare Earth Industrial Policy And Its Global Impact

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

Lauren Ferry, Anne Jamison, and Anastasia Gracheva

Political Risk, Sustainability and Sovereign Credit: Pricing High-Frequency Political, Environmental, Social and Governance News

Paper | Presentation 

Saturday
10:00 AM
Room 1

Benjamin Helms

Global Migration, Local Enforcement, And Electoral Outcomes

Presentation 

Room 2

Carlos Felipe Balcazar, Amanda Kennard

Climate Change Awareness in Sub-Saharan Africa

Presentation

Room 3

Andreas Kern, Bernhard Reinsberg, 

Patrick Shea

China Lending And The Political Economy Of Leader Survival

Presentation 

Saturday
10:45 AM
Room 1

Anthony Calacino

Linking International Organizations and Domestic Policymaking: The Role of Civil Society Participation

Paper 

Room 2

Ka Zeng

Political And Economic Drivers Of Manufacturing Reshoring: Evidence From U.S. Firms

Room 3

James Bisbee, Todd Hertling

Free Trade Attitudes And The Vote

PaperPresentation 

Saturday
11:15 AM
Room 1

Mark Dallas, Henry Farrell, Yeling Tan

Driven To Self-Reliance: Technological Interdependence And The Chinese Innovation Ecosystem

Room 2

Theo Serlin, Dustin Swonder

Who Were The Isolationists?

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Leonardo Baccini, Costin Ciobanu, Krzysztof Pelc

Why Different Economic Shocks Have Different Political Effects

Paper | Presentation 

Saturday
11:45 AM
Room 1 Kenya Amano, Masaaki Higashijima

Domestic and International Origins of Varieties of Central Bank: Global Textual Analysis of Central Bank Mandates and Functions

PaperPresentation 

Room 2 Sahil Deo, Mark Hallerberg

Responses To the Rise of (Multilateral) Chinese Finance: Voter Perceptions of the World Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in India

Presentation 

Room 3 Lizhi Liu, Jian Xu

Playing Catch-up: How Authoritarian Courts Handle Transnational IP Litigation

Paper | Presentation

       
Saturday
PM Chairs
Room 1 Erica Owen
Room 2 Megumi Naoi
Room 3 Leo Baccini
Saturday
1:15 PM
Room 1

Adam Dean, Ken Shadlen, Hannah Sworn

Outside Influence: U.S. Pressure And The Race To Free Trade In Developing Countries

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Ryan Brutger, Daniel Lobo

Fairness According to Whom?: Divergent Perceptions of Fairness Among White and Black Americans and its Effect on Trade Attitudes

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Christina Davis, Jialu Li, Sayumi Miyano

Peer Conformity and Competition: How Business Managers Evaluate Firm Withdrawals from Russia

Paper | Presentation 

Saturday
1:45 PM
Room 1

Sam Sharman

Autocratic Succession and Access to Foreign Finance

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Phuong Pham

Staying or Leaving? How Businesses Take Action Towards Economic Sanctions and Evidence from the Ukrainian War

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

Rachel Wellhausen, Boliang Zhu

Exiting Russia

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
2:15 PM
Room 1

Lu Sun

Managing Foreign Influence: Autocratic Strategies in Regulating the Import of Foreign Movies

PaperPresentation 

Room 2

Mirko Heinzel, Andreas Kern, Saliha Metinsoy, and Bernhard Reinsberg

The Cost of a Better World: Are Borrower Countries Citizens Willing to Pay for Progressive IMF Programs

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

William R. Clark, Pablo Pinto and Keigo Tanabe

The Perils of Privilege: Racial Prejudice, Manufacturing Wages, Educational Attainment, and the Populist Response to Industrial Decline

Paper 

Saturday
3:00 PM
Room 1

Frederick R. Chen, Jacque Gao

Property Rights, Working Class, and Demand for Foreign Direct Investment

Paper | Presentation 

Room 2

Robert Gulotty, Zikai Li

Information Exposure and Belief Manipulation in Survey Experiments

Paper | Presentation 

Room 3

Christian Baehr, Fiona Bare and Vincent Heddesheimer

Climate Exposure Drives Firm Political Behavior: Evidence from Earnings Calls and Lobbying Data

Paper | Presentation 

Saturday
3:30 PM
Room 1

Carlos Felipe Balcazar

Unions and protectionist populism: The role of unions in the backlash against globalization

Presentation 

Room 2

Tyler Ditmore

The Unintended Dangers of Tax Cooperation: How Countries Use the Common Reporting Standard

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

Xun Cao, Lingbo Zhao

Do Firm-level Climate Change Risks Drive Firm Lobby In Climate Change Policies?

Presentation