2017 IPES Conference Program

November 17-18

University of Texas at Austin

Friday, November 17
Time	Room	Presenter	Topic
7:30-9:15		Breakfast/registration	AT&T Conference Center, Level M1
AM Chairs	101	David Singer
	105	Edward Mansfield
	106	Nita Rudra
9:15-9:45
	101	Julia Gray, University of Pennsylvania	"Reputations Revisited: Do Financial Markets Still Care About Politics?" (View Presentation)
	105	Sarah Brooks, The Ohio State University Marcus Kurtz, The Ohio State University	"Oil and Democracy" (View Presentation)
	106	Bethany Lacina, University of Rochester Rikhil Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin-Madison	"Nativism and Economic Integration Across the Developing World: Collision and Accommodation" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
9:45-10:15
	101	David Steinberg, Johns Hopkins University Luis Schiumerini, University of Notre Dame	"The Political Economy of Illicit Financial Flows: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Argentina" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University Martin Gassebner, University of Hannover Paul Schaudt, University of Hannover	"The Effect of Migration on Terror – Made at Home or Imported from Abroad?" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Tobias Hofmann, University of Utah	"Exporter Inaction: Motivating Free Trade Constituencies in WTO Disputes" (View Presentation)
10:15-10:45
	101	Rikhil Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mark Copelovitch, University of Wisconsin-Madison	"The Electoral Impact of Monetary Shocks: Evidence from India's 2016 Demonetization" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Lauren Lee, University of California, San Diego Emilie Hafner-Burton, University of California, San Diego Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego	"International Development Organizations and National Political Corruption" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Patrick Shea, University of Houston Pablo M. Pinto, University of Houston Ulkar Imamverdiyeva, University of Houston	"The Impact of Women Legislators on Trade Policy" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-11:30	101	Cameron Ballard-Rosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mashail Malik, Stanford University Stephanie Rickard, London School of Economics Kenneth Scheve, Stanford University	"The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence from Local Trade Shocks in Great Britain" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Tana Johnson, Duke University	"The ABCs of Access: Non-Governments Organizations Roles in Crafting the Sustainable Development Goals" (View Presentation)
	106	David Bearce, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder Samantha Moya, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder	"Why Does the Mass Public Not Believe in Free Trade?" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
11:30-12:00	101	Jonas Bunte, University of Texas at Dallas	"Sovereign Lending after Debt Relief" (View Presentation)
	105	Ryan Weldzius, University of California, Los Angeles	"Supply Chains as a Golden Straitjacket for Currency Manipulation" (View Presentation)
	106	Alexandra Zeitz, University of Oxford	"Emulation or differentiation? China’s development finance and traditional donor aid in developing countries" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
12:00-12:30	101	NO PRESENTATION
	105	Susan Achury, University of Houston Rodrigo Nunez-Donoso, University of Houston Pablo M. Pinto, University of Houston	"Unpacking the effects of governance on the activities of MNCs: Evidence from U.S. imports" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Raphael Cunha, Princeton University Sarah M. Brooks, The Ohio State University Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	"How do Sovereign Debt Investors React to Political Events in Emerging Market Countries?" (View Presentation)
12:30-1:30		Lunch Break	AT&T Conference Center Tejas Dining Room, Level M2
PM Chairs	101	Sarah Brooks
	105	Mark Copelovitch
	106	Stephanie Rickard
1:30-2:00	101	Erica Owen, Texas A & M Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich	"Low Skill Products by High Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Developing Countries" (View Presentation)
	105	Covadonga Meseguer, London School of Economics Christian Ambrosius, Free University Berlin	"Return Migration and Democratic Consolidation" (View Presentation)
	106	Robert Gulotty, University of Chicago Ipek Cinar, University of Chicago	"Anticipated Access: Producer coalitions in the negotiation of NAFTA" (View Presentation)
2:00-2:30	101	Krzysztof Pelc, McGill University Sung Eun Kim, National University of Singapore	"How Are Workers Compensated Following Trade Liberalization?" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Susanne Mueller-Redwood, University of Wisconsin-Madison	"Joining the Global Trade Regime: The Determinants of Autocratic Trade Agreements" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Leonardo Baccini, McGill University Francesco Amodio, McGill University Giorgio Chiovelli, London Business School Michele Di Maio, University of Naples (Parthenope)	"Trade Liberalization and Political Violence: Evidence from North-South Cooperation" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
2:30-3:00	101	Raphael Cunha, Princeton University Andreas Kern, Georgetown University	"Trumped - The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election and its Impact on International Financial Markets" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Allison Carnegie, Columbia University Austin Carson, University of Chicago	"Trading Secrets: Disclosure Dilemmas in International Trade" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin - Madison Ryan Powers, Yale University Frederick Chen, University of Wisconsin - Madison	"Geopolitics and Trade Preferences" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
3:00-3:20		Break
3:20-3:50	101	Cameron Ballard-Rosa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas at Austin	"Contingent Advantage? Sovereign Borrowing, Democratic Institutions and Global Capital Cycles" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Soo Yeon Kim, National University of Singapore Andreas Fuchs, University of Heidelberg Austin Strange, Harvard University Michael Tierney, College of William and Mary	"Competing for Aid Recipients? Donor Responses to Chinese Development Finance" (View Presentation)
	106	Marco Morucci, Duke University Pablo Beramendi, Duke University Erik Wibbels, Duke University	"Determinants and Channels of Illicit Financial Flows" (View Presentation)
3:50-4:20	101	Xiaobo Lü, University of Texas at Austin Didac Queralt, Yale University Jay Chieh Kao, University of Texas at Austin	"A Tale of Two Regimes? Taxation, Political Bargaining, and Fiscal Contract in China and Taiwan" (View Presentation)
	105	Tim Büthe, Technische Universität München	"Power Transition in Global Market Governance"
	106	David Leblang, University of Virginia	"Deterring Migration into the United States" (View Presentation)
4:20-4:50	101	Tal Sadeh, Tel Aviv University Nizan Feldman, Tel Aviv University	"Globalization, Selection and Wartime Trade" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Lukas Linsi, University of Amsterdam Daniel Mügge, University of Amsterdam	"How offshoring and digitization undermine the quality of international economic statistics: a cautionary note" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Matthew Castle, McGill University	"How Do Global Trade Rules Evolve? Strategic Sequencing In International Economic Law" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
6:30		Reception & Dinner	Blanton Museum of Art (Please walk from the AT&T Conference Center)

Saturday, November 18

Saturday, November 18
Time	Room	Presenter	Topic
7:30-9:00		Breakfast	AT&T Conference Center, Level M1
AM Chairs	101	Jeffry Frieden
	105	Mark Copelovitch
	106	Layna Mosley
9:00-9:30	101	Nita Rudra, Georgetown University Ida Bastiaens, Fordham University	"A Democratic Dilemma? The Challenges of Taxing Firms in a Globalizing Economy" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Amanda Kennard, Princeton University	"The Politics of Expertise: Biased Learning in the Multilateral Trade Regime" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Felicity Vabulas, Pepperdine University Inken von Borzyskowski, Florida State University	"The Costs of Membership Withdrawal from International Organizations" (View Presentation)
9:30-10:00	101	John Kuk, University of California, San Diego Deborah Seligsohn, University of California, San Diego Jiakun Jack Zhang, University of California, San Diego	"The Partisan Divide in U.S. Congressional Communications after the China Shock" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Valentin Lang, Heidelberg University Andrea F. Presbitero, International Monetary Fund	"Room for Discretion? Biased Decision-Making in International Financial Institutions" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Daniel Nielson, Brigham Young University Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge Michael Findley, University of Texas at Austin	"A Field Experiment on Regulatory Compliance in the Finance Industry"
10:00-10:30	101	Andreas Fuchs, Heidelberg University Gerda Asmus, Heidelberg University Vera Z. Eichenauer, ETH Zurich Bradley C. Parks, College of William & Mary	"A New Scramble for Africa? An Analysis of Chinese and Indian Development Projects" (View Presentation)
	105	Lindsay Dolan, Columbia University	"The Distortionary Effects of Classifications on Aid Allocation Decisions: Evidence from an Elite Lab Experiment" (View Presentation)
	106	In Song Kim, MIT Weihuang Wong, MIT Soubhik Barari, MIT	"Democracy and Industry-varying Liberalization: Evidence from a New Tariff-line Dataset" (View Paper)
10:30-11:00	101	Matthew Winters, University of Illinois Kate Baldwin, Yale University	"Can International Aid Change the Politics of Service Delivery?" (View Presentation)
	105	Sarah Bermeo, Duke University	"Multilateral and Bilateral Development Initiatives: Complements or Substitutes?" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Dennis Quinn, Georgetown University Amy Pond, Texas A&M Nate Miller, Georgetown University	"When Does FDI Liberalization Limit Domestic Growth?" (View Presentation)
11:00-11:10		Break
11:10-11:40	101	Lauren Pinson, Yale University	"Constructing Capacity: Targeted Foreign Aid for Constraining Illicit Small Arms Trafficking" (View Presentation)
	105	Justin Nicholson, University of Rochester	"Adjudicating Adjudication: The Strategic Effects of Democracy on WTO DSM Use" (View Presentation)
	106	Jeremy Spater, Duke University	"Deficit Anxiety: Current Account Balance and Trade Preferences" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
11:40-12:10	101	Julia Morse, University of Pennsylvania	"The Hidden Costs of Trade Financing: How International Banking Regulations on Illicit Money Are Disrupting Trade Flows" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Sam Rowan, University of Oxford	"Participation and cooperation in global climate governance: new evidence from the regime level" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Lauren Peritz, University of California, Davis	"Inertia and opposition: The domestic politics of compliance in WTO disputes" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
12:10-12:40	101	Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego Weiyi Shi, University of California, San Diego	"Co-citizens First? Domestic Inequality and Support for Foreign Aid in China and the United States" (View Presentation)
	105	Lennart Kaplan, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Kai Gehring, University of Zurich Melvin Wong, University of Hannover	"Aid and conflict at the local level - Mechanisms and causality" (View Presentation)
	106	Carolina Moehlecke, University of Texas at Austin	"Uncertainty, Information and Risk: How investor-state disputes affect global policy diffusion" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
12:40-2:00	*105*	Lunch and Editors Roundtable	Please grab a boxed lunch (near registration).
PM Chairs	101	Sarah Brooks
	105	David Singer
	106	Stephanie Rickard
2:00-2:30	101	Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, Cornell University	"Banking on Beliefs: The Bilateral Politics of Federal Currency Swaps" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Tyler Pratt, Princeton University	"Angling for Influence: Institutional Proliferation in Development Banking" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Su-Hyun Lee, Nanyang Technological University	"The Electoral Effects of Chinese Import Competition in the United States" (View Presentation)
2:30-3:00	101	Abraham Newman, Georgetown University Nikhil Kalyanpur, Georgetown University	"Mobilizing Market Power: Evidence from stock exchange delisting" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Vittorio Merola, Toulouse School of Economics	"Economic Inequality" (View Presentation)
	106	James Lee, Princeton University	"Economic Aid and the Strategy of Containment" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
3:00-3:30	101	Audrye Wong, Princeton University	"Crafting Payoffs: Explaining the Effectiveness of China's Economic Statecraft" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Jennifer Tobin, Georgetown University Quan Li, Texas A&M	"Sovereignty under Attack: Investment Disputes and Host Country Policy Autonomy" (View Presentation)
	106	Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas at Austin Leslie Johns, University of California - Los Angeles	"The Price of Doing Business: How Upfront Costs Deter Political Risk" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
3:30-3:50		Break
3:50-4:20	101	Gabriella Montinola, University of California, Davis Sarah M. Prince, University of California, Davis	"Are Women More Effective Stewards of Foreign Aid?" (\| View Presentation)
	105	Merih Angin, University of Oxford Saliha Metinsoy, University of Groningen	"IMF Programs and Democracy" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	106	Timm Betz, Texas A&M Amy Pond, Texas A&M	"With a Little Help From My Foreign Friends: Domestic Property Rights and Firm Ownership Structure" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
4:20-4:50	101	Alexander Slaski, Princeton University	"Foreign Investment and Perceptions of Government Performance: Evidence from Latin America" (View Presentation)
	105	No Presentation
	106	Mariya Grinberg, University of Chicago	"Planning for the Short Haul: The Formation of Wartime Commercial Policy" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
4:50-5:20	101	Adrian Shin, University of Colorado - Boulder Dalton Dorr, University of Colorado - Boulder	"War, Inequality, and Redistribution" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
	105	Kristin Vekasi, University of Maine Shunsuke Sato, University of Maine	"Political Strategy in the (Non)Use of Preferential Trade Agreements" (View Presentation)
	106	Soo Yeon Kim, National University of Singapore Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine	"Production Networks and Armed Conflict in Asia" (View Paper \| View Presentation)
6:00		*Dinner (by RSVP)*	Please meet the shuttles across the street from the AT&T Hotel lower entrance to go to Lambert’s (401 W 2nd St).

International Political Economy Society

2017 IPES Conference Program

November 17-18

University of Texas at Austin