IPES 2009 Program
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Friday, November 13
| 8:00-9:00 AM | Breakfast | ||
| AM Chairs | Room 1 | Judith Goldstein | |
| Room 2 | Jeff Frieden | ||
| Room 3 | David Leblang | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Room 1 |
John Ahlquist, Michael D. Ward, |
"Gravity's Rainbow: the perils of p-values in models of international commerce" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Ryan Baird, University of Arizona |
"An Inviting Signal: Imperfect Information, Institutional Environments, and Increased FDI" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Christina Case, University of North Texas |
"Economic Ties and Their Influence on Mediation Strategy" | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Room 1 | Mark Copelovitch, University of Wisconsin - Madison David Ohls, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
"Timing is Everything: Post-Colonial States and WTO Accession" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Sonal Pandya, University of Virginia |
"Political Economy of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego |
"International Political Budget Cycles" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Room 1 | Jose Fernandez-Albertos, IBEI - Barcelona Intern. Studies |
"Trade and currency policies as substitutes: The institutional sources of the preference over policy instruments" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Sophia Haenny, Katharina Michaelowa, |
"Poverty Reduction Strategies and their Impact on Democratization in Developing Countries" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
Andreea Mihalache, Ekrem Karakoc, |
"Heterogeneous attitudes towards globalization: Does social spending help?" | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break | ||
| 10:50-11:20 | Room 1 | Julia Gray, University of Pittsburgh |
"Politics and Patronage in Regional Trade Agreements" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Clint Peinhardt, University of Texas - Dallas |
"FDI to Low Income Countries: The Role of Multilateral Insurance" | |
| Room 3 |
Lorraine Eden, Charles F. Hermann, Robert T. Kudrle, |
"Bringing the Renegades Back In: Insights from the OECD's Harmful Tax Competition Project" | |
| 11:20-11:50 | Room 1 | Hyeran Jo, Texas A&M |
"Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in International Trade: Asymmetry, Boilerplates, and Dissatisfaction" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Erica Owen, University of Minnesota |
"Information and the Democratic Politics of Foreign Direct Investment Protection" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Stephanie Rickard, London School of Economics |
"International Organizations and Domestic Politics: The case of IMF labor market conditionality" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 11:50-12:20 | Room 1 | Su-Hyun Lee, University of Michigan |
"Party Unity and the Distribution of Trade Protection in Democracies" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Nathan Jensen, Washington University |
"Government Actors and Acts of Expropriation" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
Mark Kayser, Christian Houle, Jun Xiang, |
"Diffusion or Confusion? How International Economic and Political Shocks Induce Democratization around the World" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 12:20-1:20 | Lunch Break | ||
| PM Chairs | Room 1 | Lisa Martin | |
| Room 2 | Helen Milner | ||
| Room 3 | David Leblang | ||
| 1:20-1:50 | Room 1 |
Nita Rudra, Daniel Tirone, |
"Is Trade Good for the Poor? A Second Look" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Boliang Zhu, Columbia University |
"The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Corruption: the Case of China" | |
| Room 3 | Christian Houle, University of Rochester |
"Inequality, State Capacity and Democratization" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 1:50-2:20 | Room 1 |
Jon Pevehouse, Felicity Vabulas, |
"For Sale to Whom? Foreign Agents and American Trade Policy" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Stefanie Walter, Harvard University |
"The Distributional Effects of Exchange-Rate Policy. Evidence from a Firm-Level Survey" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Margaret Peters, Stanford University |
"Where are the Winners: The Determinants of US Immigration Policy, 1795-2008" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 2:20-2:50 | Room 1 | Mark Manger, London School of Economics |
"Vertical Trade Integration and the Formation of North-South PTAs" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Laurissa Muehlich, Freie Universitaet Berlin |
"Does South-South Regional Monetary Cooperation Mitigate Financial Volatility?" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Paul Vaaler, University of Minnesota |
"Political, Financial and Cultural Factors Shaping the Impact of Immigrant Remittances on the Venture Investment Environment in Developing Countries" | |
| 2:50-3:10 | Break | ||
| 3:10-3:40 | Room 1 | Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego Ikuo Kume, Waseda University |
"Explaining Mass Support for Agricultural Protectionism: Evidence from a Survey Experiment during the Global Recession" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University |
"Openness without Liberalization: Why Bankers in Developing Countries Support Financial Internationalization" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
Robert Franzese, Jude Hays, Aya Kachi, |
"A Model of Dynamic, Endogenous Interdependence and Network Coevolution in the Labor-Market Policies of Developed Democracies" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 3:40-4:10 | Room 1 | Yotam Margalit, Stanford University |
"Taking Preferences to Task: How Foreign Competition Shapes Workers' Interests" |
| Room 2 | Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University |
"Independent Central Banks, Democratic Politics and Budget Deficits" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
Adam Luedtke, Christian Breunig, |
"Of Citizens, Refugees, Green Cards and Border Guards: Explaining Immigration Flows" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 4:10-4:40 | Room 1 |
Elena McLean, Taehee Whang, |
"Taking Trade Competition Seriously: Target Trade Relations and the Success of Economic Sanctions" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Alexandra Guisinger, David Andrew Singer, |
"Words, Actions, and Costs: Exchange Rate Proclamations and Sovereign Risk Premia" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
David Bearce, Jennifer Laks, |
"Energy Production, South-South Labor Flows, and Political Liberalization in the Global South" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 4:40-6:10 | Roundtable: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis |
Jeff Frieden, Harvard University (Chair) Kishore Gawande, Texas A&M University Helen Milner, Princeton University Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina David Andrew Singer, Massachussetts Institute of Technology |
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| 6:15- | Reception and Dinner | ||
Saturday, November 14
| 8:00-8:30 | Breakfast | ||
| AM Chairs | Room 1 | Judith Goldstein | |
| Room 2 | Lisa Martin | ||
| Room 3 | Helen Milner | ||
| 8:30-9:00 | Room 1 | Taedong Lee, University of Washington |
"Does Gravity Model Explain FTA (Free Trade Agreement) Networks?" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
David Steinberg, Victor Shih, |
"Mercantilism, Free Riding or Institutionalism? The Political Economy of the International Dollar Standard" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
Tadeusz Kugler, Constantine Boussalis, |
"The Force of Migrations: An Empirical Test of Economics, Politics, and Culture" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Room 1 |
Pablo Pinto, Robert Erikson, Kelly Rader, |
"'Dirty Pool' Revisited: Applying Randomization Tests to the 'Democratic Trade' Hypothesis" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Dennis Quinn, John Freeman, |
"The Economic Origins of Democracy Reconsidered" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Faisal Ahmed, University of Chicago |
"The Repression Effect" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 9:30-10:00 | Room 1 |
Ken Scheve, Xiaobo Lu, Matthew Slaughter, |
"Envy, Altruism, and the International Distribution of Trade Protection" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Joseph Cohen, April Linton, Cecelia Walsh-Russo, |
"Secular Inflation and Political Instability" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Matthew Winters, Princeton University |
"A Cross-Country Analysis of Corruption in World Bank Projects" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 10:00-10:15 | Break | ||
| 10:15-10:45 | Room 1 | Moonhawk Kim, University of Colorado |
"Trading Freely and Fairly: Explaining Formation of PTAs with Fair Trade Provisions" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Patrick Leblond, Sara Hobolt, |
"Economic Insecurity and Support for the Euro" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Quan Li, Texas A&M University |
"National Security and International Political Economy" | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Room 1 |
Tobias Hofmann, Soo Yeon Kim, |
"The Domestic Politics of International Compliance, or: How the WTO Enforces the Rules of Trade" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Irfan Nooruddin, Byungwon Woo, |
"Heeding the Sirens: Why some States enter IMF Programs Sooner than Others?" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Christopher Kilby, Villanova University |
"Donor influence in International Financial Institutions: Deciphering what alignment measures measure" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 11:15-11:45 | Room 1 | Lucy Goodhart, Columbia University |
"Becoming Red and Blue: 'New, New Trade Theory' and U.S. Presidential Voting" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Jennifer Tobin, Marc Busch, |
"The Effect of BITs and PTAs on Investment and Trade Flows" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
William Clark, Robert Woodberry, |
"Aid, Protestant Missionaries, and Growth" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 11:45-12:15 | Room 1 | John Doces, Bucknell University |
"Explaining the Baby Bust: The Effect of Trade on Total Fertility Rates in the OECD, 1960-2002" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Tim Buthe, Walter Mattli, |
"The Institutional Sources of International Regulatory Power: Setting Standards for Global Product and Financial Markets" | |
| Room 3 | Dustin Tingley, Princeton University |
"Beliefs and Preferences Over Foreign Economic Aid: An Experimental Study" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 12:15-1:15 | Break/Lunch | ||
| PM Chairs | Room 1 | Kishore Gawande | |
| Room 2 | Edward Mansfield | ||
| Room 3 | David Lake | ||
| 1:15-1:45 | Room 1 |
Joshua Eastin, Ka Zeng, |
"Export Destination, FDI Origin, and the Environmental Performance of Chinese Provinces" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Felicity Vabulas, Faisal Ahmed, |
"External Shocks and Economic Voting: Does the 'Law' Hold Up?" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Ruth Ben-Artzi, Providence College |
"Preferences, Variance, and Politics of Multiple Lenders: The Case of Brazil" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 1:45-2:15 | Room 1 |
Thomas Bernauer, Michael Bechtel, Reto Meyer, |
"Green Protectionism? Effects of Environmental Attitudes On Trade Policy Preferences" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Seo Young Cho, Rainer Holst, |
"A Panel Analysis on the Effects of the Women’s Convention" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Tatiana Vashchilko, Pennsylvania State University |
"Design of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment: Does International Law Help Foreign Investors?" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 2:15-2:45 | Room 1 | Phillip Lipscy, Stanford University |
"The Political Economy of Energy Efficiency" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 |
Gabriele Ruoff, Lena Schaffer, |
"Adding another level: individual responses to globalization and government welfare policies" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Hannes Oehler, Johannes Weisser, |
"Acting Autonomously or Mimicking the State and Peers? A Panel Tobit Analysis of Financial Dependence and Aid Allocation by Swiss NGOs" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 2:45-3:00 | Break | ||
| 3:00-3:30 | Room 1 |
J. Lawrence Broz, Daniel Maliniak, |
"Malapportionment, Gasoline Taxes, and Global Warming" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Witold Henisz, University of Pennsylvania |
"Preferences, Structure and Influence: The Engineering of Consent" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 | Richard Nielsen, Harvard University |
"Assessing Aid Effectiveness with Observational Data: The Case of Democracy Aid" (PRESENTATION) |
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| 3:30-4:00 | Room 1 |
Xun Cao, Aseem Prakash, |
"Trade Competition, National Political Institutions, and Domestic Pollution" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Brian Richter, University of California, Los Angeles |
"An Empirical Investigation into the Political Economy of the Firm in a Globalizing World Economy: How Domestic Political Connections Affect Cross-listing Choices" (PRESENTATION) |
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| Room 3 |
Sarah Bermeo, David Leblang, |
"Foreign Economic Assistance as Immigration Control: Band-Aid or Tourniquet" (PRESENTATION) |
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