IPES 2014 Program

Friday, November 14

8:30-9:15		Breakfast/registration	Fischer Colloquium
AM Chairs	Room 1	Eddy Malesky
	Room 2	Sarah Brooks
	Room 3	Layna Mosley
9:15-9:45	Room 1	Andreas Fuchs, Heidelberg University Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University Bradley C. Parks, William and Mary Michael Tierney, William and Mary Roland Hodler , University of St. Gallen Paul Raschky , Monash University	"Favoritism in the Regional Allocation of Aid" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Mariana Medina, Texas Tech University	"Emigration and income inequality: The case of Mexico"
	Room 3	Johannes Urpelainen, Columbia University Joonseok Yang, Columbia University Sung Eun Kim, Columbia University	"Electric Utilities and American Climate Policy: Lobbying by Expected Winners and Losers" (PRESENTATION)
9:45-10:15	Room 1	Tim Buthe, Duke University Stephen Morgan, Michigan State University Anu Bradford, Columbia Law School	"Antitrust Enforcement and Foreign Competition: Special Interest Theory Reconsidered"
	Room 2	David Bearce, University of Colorado Cody D. Eldredge, University of Colorado Brandy J. Jolliff, University of Colorado	"Does Institutional Design Matter? A Study of Trade Effectiveness and PTA Flexibility" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas Leslie Johns, UCLA	"Modern Day Merchant Guilds: Supply Chains and Informal Property Rights Enforcement" (PRESENTATION)
10:15-10:45	Room 1	Krzysztof Pelc, McGill University Jeffrey Kucik, City College of New York	"Can International Legal Rulings Deter? Financial Markets Say Yes" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	In Song Kim, Princeton University Kosuke Imai, Princeton University Radhika Saksena, Princeton University	"Scalable Clustering Algorithm and Visualization Tools for Analyzing 10 Billion Trade Flow Data"
	Room 3	Jasen Castillo, Texas A&M University Kishore Gawande, Texas A&M University	"Development Programs and Counterinsurgency Strategy: Evidence from CERP Projects in Afghanistan"
10:45-11:00		Break
11:00-11:30	Room 1	Alexander Kuo, Cornell University Jose Fernandez-Albertos	"Social Networks, Economic Crises, and Policy Preferences"
	Room 2	Allison Carnegie, Columbia University Lindsay Dolan, Columbia University	"The Effects of Aid on Government Legitimacy: Evidence from Natural Disaster Responses" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Sonal Pandya, University of Virginia Adam Hughes, University of Virginia Raj Venkatesan	"Grocery Shopping for America: Conflict, National Identity, and Consumer Behavior" (PRESENTATION)
11:30-12:00	Room 1	Quan Li, Texas A&M Di Wang, Texas A&M Robert Weiner, George Washington University Srividya Jandhyala, George Washington University	"Leviathan as Foreign Investor: Micro-Level Evidence from Sovereign Wealth Funds" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Julia Gray, University of Pennsylvania Jeff Kucik, City College of New York	"Leadership Turnover and the Implementation of Preferential Trade Agreements" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Nikhar Gaikwad, Yale University	"East India Companies and Long-Term Economic Change in India" (PRESENTATION)
12:00-12:30	Room 1	Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Yale University	"You Reap what you Sow: The Electoral Politics of Democratic Sovereign Default" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Erica Owen, Texas A&M University Noel Johnston, Washington University	"Labor Mobility and the Politics of Openness Reconsidered: the Implications of Occupational Mobility for Trade Cleavages"
	Room 3	Judith Kelley, Duke University Beth A Simmons, Harvard University	"The new landscape of global governance indicators and soft power in the global information age"
12:30-1:30		Lunch Break	Fischer Colloquium
PM Chairs	Room 1	Jeffry Frieden
	Room 2	Ken Scheve
	Room 3	Stephanie Rickard
1:30-2:00	Room 1	Daniel Blake, IE Business School Quintin Beazer, Florida State University	"Political Institutions & Relative Perceptions of Political Risk in International Investment" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Megumi Naoi, UCSD	"Why Some PTAs are More Popular than Others? Conjoint Experiments in Japan and South Korea" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Allison Carnegie, Columbia University Austin Carson,	"The Spotlight's Harsh Glare: Rethinking Publicity and International Order" (PRESENTATION)
2:00-2:30	Room 1	Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University Raymond Hicks, Princeton University	"Short and Long Term Capital Flows and Central Bank Independence" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Adam Dean, University of Chicago	"Liberalizing Labor: How the New Deal Enabled American Free Trade"
	Room 3	Helen Milner, Princeton University Amaney Jamal, Princeton University	"Economic Globalization and Political Change: A Micro-Level Analysis of Tunisia's Political Economy" (PRESENTATION)
2:30-3:00	Room 1	Michael Aklin, University of Pittsburgh Andreas Kern, Georgetown University	"The Politics of Private Credit Booms and Soft Landings" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Stephen Chaudoin, University of Illinois	"Political Contestation and Firm Behavior in Response to WTO Disputes" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Stefano Pagliari, City University London Lauren M. Phillips, London School of Economics Kevin Young, University of Massachussets, Amherst	"Convergence of Interests: The effect of individual shareholding on the interests of labor in advanced economies"
3:00-3:20		Break
3:20-3:50	Room 1	Matthew Winters, University of Illinois Simone Dietrich, University of Missouri	"Evaluating USAID Branding in the Context of a Survey Experiment in Bangladesh" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Rikhil Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin-Madison Margaret E. Peters, Yale University	"Emigration, Remittances and the Political Economy of Development: Insights Using New Methods and Data from Kerala" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Sijeong Lim, Stockholm University	"Industrialization, Foreign Aid, and the Urban Bias in Public Goods Provision" (PRESENTATION)
3:50-4:20	Room 1	Puspa Amri, Claremont Graduate University Andreas Kern, Georgetown University	"Political Credit Cycles: Myth or Reality?"
	Room 2	Julia Gray, University of Pennsylvania Phillip Potter, University of Michigan	"Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: Diplomacy and WTO Dispute Resolution" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Hye Young You, Harvard University	"Price of Political Access: Empirical Evidence from the Foreign Agent Registration Act"
4:20-4:50	Room 1	Katja Kleinberg, Binghamton University Scott Boddery, Binghamton University	"Economic Benefits, Perceived Threats: U.S. Attitudes toward Inward Foreign Direct Investment"
	Room 2	Sarah Bermeo, Duke University David Leblang, University of Virginia	"Environmental and Labor Migrants: Similarities and Differences" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Matthew DiGiuseppe, University of Mississippi Colin M. Barry, University of Oklahoma K. Chad Clay	"Labor Rights, Economic Competitors and Policy Convergence" (PRESENTATION)
4:50-5:20	Room 1	Puspa Amri , Claremont Graduate University Eric Chiu Thomas Willett, Claremont Graduate University Greg Richey, California State University, San Bernardino	"Do Financial Crises Discipline Future Credit Growth" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	B. Peter Rosendorff, New York University Alastair Smith, New York University	"Domestic Political Determinants of the Onset of WTO Disputes" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Christoph Mikulaschek, Princeton University	"Minor powers' influence in international organizations: Empirical evidence exploiting the natural experiment of African representation on the UN Security Council"
5:45			Board buses and depart for dinner
6:30-10:30		Reception & Dinner	Odyssey Cruise
7:30		Keynote	Dani Rodrik, Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study

Saturday, November 15

8:00		Breakfast	Faculty Club Room, Georgetown Hotel and Conference Center (Breakfast is available and complimentary for hotel guests, other conference guests may partake at a cost)
AM Chairs	Room 1	Helen Milner
	Room 2	Layna Mosley
	Room 3	Nita Rudra
9:30-10:00	Room 1	Federica Genovese, Stanford University Michael M. Bechtel, University of St. Gallen Kenneth Scheve, Stanford University	"Interests, Norms, and Support for Global Climate Cooperation" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Jennifer Tobin, Georgetown University Marc Busch, Georgetown University	"When Trade as Aid Isn't: GSP, the GATT/WTO and Trade" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Erica Owen, Texas A&M University Quan Li, Texas A&M University	"How Do Labor and Capital Share Private Sector Economic Gains in an Age of Globalization?" (PRESENTATION)
10:00-10:30	Room 1	Meredith Wilf, Princeton University	"Voluntary State Adoption of International Agreements: Evidence from International Banking Regulations" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Patrick Bayer, Washington University	"Government-Firm Bargaining over Regulation from International Agreements: Evidence from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Nathan Jensen, Washington University Guillermo Rosas, Washington University Thomas Carroll,	"Open for Politics: Economic Globalization and Political Survival" (PRESENTATION)
10:30-11:00	Room 1	Andrew Kerner, University of Michigan Timm Betz, University of Michigan	"The Influence of Interest: Real US Interest Rates and Participation in Global Economic Institutions"
	Room 2	Tana Johnson, Duke University	"Information Revelation and Structural Supremacy: Explaining the International Trade Regime's Incorporation of Environmental Policy" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Randall Stone, University of Rochester Rabia Malik,	"The World Bank and U.S. Multinational Corporations" (PRESENTATION)
11:00-11:10		Break
11:10-11:40	Room 1	Daniel McDowell, Syracuse University	"Waiting is the Hardest Part: IMF Lending Responsiveness, 1984-2009" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Christina Davis, Princeton University Julia Morse, Princeton University	"Protecting Trade By Legalizing Political Disputes: Why Countries Bring Cases to International Court of Justice" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	William Bernhard, University of Illinois David Leblang, University of Virginia Bryce Reeder, University of Illinois	"Sovereign Debt, Migration Pressure, and Government Survival" (PRESENTATION)
11:40-12:10	Room 1	Jeffrey Chwieroth, London School of Economics Andrew Walter, University of Melbourne Cohen Simpson, London School of Economics	"How do Networks Matter in Sovereign Default?: Public Debt and Political Survival since the Napoleonic Wars" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Margaret Peters, Yale University Michael K. Miller, George Washington University	"Migration Policy and Autocratic Power" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Jeff Colgan, American University	"The Political Economy of Empire Extinction" (PRESENTATION)
12:10-12:40	Room 1	Christina Schneider, UCSD Vera E. Troeger, University of Warwick	"The Politics of Strategic Budgeteering" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Judith Goldstein, Stanford University Robert Gulotty, Stanford University	"Weighting the Dimensions of Economic Ideology: Text Analysis of the Trade Policy Consensus" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Jessica Weiss, Yale University Allan Dafoe, Yale University	"Authoritarian Audiences in International Crises: A Real-History Survey-Experiment of Diversionary Incentives and Economic Grievances in China"
12:40-1:30		Lunch	Fischer Colloquium
PM Chairs	Room 1	Stephanie Rickard
	Room 2	Jeffry Frieden
	Room 3	Raymond Hicks
1:30-2:00	Room 1	Jan-Egbert Sturm, ETH Zurich Fabian Gunzinger,	"It's Politics, Stupid! Political Constraints Determine Governments' Reactions to the Great Recession" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Ryan Brutger, Princeton University Julia Morse, Princeton University	"Balancing Law and Politics: Judicial Incentives in WTO Dispute Settlement" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University Sebastian Dettman, Cornell University	"Commodity Shocks and Local Public Goods: A Tale of Two Districts" (PRESENTATION)
2:00-2:30	Room 1	Daniel Nielson, Brigham Young University Michael Findley, University of Texas Matthew Brigham, Brian Reed,	"Financial Opportunism Among International Non-Governmental Organizations: A Randomized Global Field Experiment" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Anna Mayda, Georgetown University Rod Ludema Christian Volpe	"The Political Economy of South-South Regional Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation of Latin America" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Sarah Brooks, Ohio State University Caleb Gallemore, Northeastern Illinois University Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University	"Oil and Development: Technology, Geology and the 'Curse' of Natural Resources" (PRESENTATION)
2:30-3:00	Room 1	Stefanie Walter, ETH Zurich	"Distributing the Pain. Societal Vulnerabilities and Variation in Crisis Management Strategies" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Robert Gulotty, Stanford University Dorothy Kronick, Stanford University	"Importing Influence: The Political Economy of Overvaluation"
	Room 3	Andrew Coe, University of Southern California	"Sanctions as Instruments of Regime Change"
3:00-3:20		Break
3:20-3:50	Room 1	Bumba Mukherjee, Penn State University Ben Bagozzi, University of Minnesota	"Private Bank Concentration, Legislative Institutions and De Facto Exchange Rate Policy in Autocracies" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Hyeran Jo, Texas A&M University Kishore Gawande, Texas A&M University	"The Political Economy of Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation"
	Room 3	Daniela Donno, University of Pittsburgh Nita Rudra, Georgetown University	"Are Rising Powers Changing the Shape of the World Economy? The Unforeseen Consequences of China's Growing Export Dominance"
3:50-4:20	Room 1	Tal Sadeh, Tel Aviv University Yehuda Porath	"Fiscal Policy Signalling in Government Bond Issues" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 2	Mark Manger, University of Toronto Thomas Sattler, London School of Economics	"Mercantilism in a Liberal World Order: The Origins of Global Imbalances" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Edmund Malesky, Duke University Sebastian M. Saiegh, UCSD Keith Ingersoll,	"Heterogeneity and Group Performance: Evaluating the Effect of Cultural Diversity in the World's Top Soccer League" (PRESENTATION)
4:20-4:50	Room 1	Sarah Bauerle, UNC - Chapel Hill	"Cronies, Capitalists, & Control: How Banking Sector Reforms Affect Openness to Foreign Investors"
	Room 2	Leonardo Baccini, London School of Economics Pablo M. Pinto, Columbia University Stephen Weymouth, Georgetown University	"International Economic Agreements and the Activities of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms" (PRESENTATION)
	Room 3	Adrian Shin, University of Michigan	"Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Resource Booms and Immigration Policy in the Era of Trade Liberalization" (PRESENTATION)

International Political Economy Society

IPES 2014 Program

Friday, November 14

Saturday, November 15