IPES 2016 Program
Shuttles from hotel will run from 7:30 AM until 8:30 AM.
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| 7:00-7:45 | IPES yoga class | Aloft Hotel 6th Floor Conference Room | |
| 8:00-9:15 | Breakfast/registration | TBD | |
| AM Chairs | Room 1 | Sarah Brooks | |
| Room 2 | David Singer | ||
| Room 3 | Nita Rudra | ||
| 9:15-9:45 | Room 1 | Christian Ambrosius, Freie Universitat Berlin |
"Do Remittances Crowd-In or Crowd-Out Public Expenditure?" |
| Room 2 | Eric Arias, New York University |
"Patronage by Credit" | |
| Room 3 | James Lee, Princeton University |
"Strategies of Assistance: Geopolitical Alignment and Economic Development" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 9:45-10:15 | Room 1 | Youyi Zhang, Cornell University |
"Foreign Investment and Intrastate Conflicts: A Spatial Analysis of China's Hydropower Investment in Myanmar" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Julia Morse, Princeton University |
"Pathways to Policy Change: Institutional Monitoring, Blacklists, and Market-Driven Compliance" | |
| Room 3 | Megan Roosevelt, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder |
"Disparate distributions of exporting vs. import-competing firms and their implications for trade policy" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Room 1 | Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University Fangjin Ye, Michigan State University |
"Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs): Do They Increase Income Inequality in Developing Countries?" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Jonas Bunte, University of Texas at Dallas Brandon Kinne, University of California, Davis |
"Troops or Cash? Analyzing the interdependencies between military and financial cooperation" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Felicity Vabulas, University of Chicago Inken von Borzyskowski, Florida State University |
"The Consequences of Membership Suspension from International Organizations" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Room 1 | Erik Wibbels, Duke University |
"Geography, State Conflict and Development over the (very) Long Run" |
| Room 2 | Dennis Quinn, Georgetown University Maria Toyoda, Suffolk University Stephen Weymouth, Georgetown University |
"The Political Origins of Neutral and Stable Exchange Rate Valuations" | |
| Room 3 | David Bearce, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder Andrew Hart, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder |
"Is there a Tradeoff between External and Internal Migration Policy?" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Room 1 | Edmund Malesky, Duke University Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina |
"Chains of Love? The Impact of Supplier Relationships on the Diffusion of Labor Standards" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich Elias Dinas, Oxford University Ignacio Jurado, University of York Nikitas Konstantinidis, University of Cambridge |
"Disintegration by popular vote: Expectations, foreign intervention and the vote in the 2015 Greek bailout referendum" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Sarah Bermeo, Duke University |
"Trade and Development: Industrialized Country Preferences for Free Trade Agreements over the WTO" | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Room 1 | Robert Gulotty, University of Chicago Dorothy Kronick, Stanford University |
"Good Guests? Home-country judicial systems and the host-country conduct of MNCs" |
| Room 2 | Jose Fernandez-Albertos, CSIC (Spanish Research Council) Alexander Kuo, Cornell University |
"Preferences for Austerity: Endorsements versus Content" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Sung Eun Kim, Columbia University |
"Who Speaks for Free Trade in the US Congress and How That Matters" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch Break | TBA | |
| PM Chairs | Room 1 | Helen Milner | |
| Room 2 | Mark Copelovitch | ||
| Room 3 | Stephanie Rickard | ||
| 1:30-2:00 | Room 1 | Soumyajit Mazumder, Harvard University James Vreeland, Georgetown University |
"Does Foreign Aid Work? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in International Relations" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Vera Z. Eichenauer, Heidelberg University Lutz Bruckner, Andreas Fuchs, Heidelberg University |
"The Causal Effects of Trade, Aid and Investment on China’s Image Abroad" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Adrian Shin, University of Colorado Boulder Albana Shehaj, University of Michigan Ronald F. Inglehart, University of Michigan |
"Immigration and Right-Wing Populism: An Origin Story" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 2:00-2:30 | Room 1 | Nikhar Gaikwad, Yale University Rachel Brulé, NYU, Abu Dhabi |
"Culture, Capital, and the Gender Gap in Political Economy Preferences: Evidence from Meghalaya's Matrilineal Tribes" |
| Room 2 | Jennifer Tobin, Georgetown University Nita Rudra, Georgetown University |
"Is the Right right? Globalization and the Poor in Developing Countries" | |
| Room 3 | Megumi Naoi, UCSD Jason Kuo, UCSD Chun-fang Chiang, National Taiwan University Jin-tan Liu, National Taiwan University |
"What Do Voters Learn from Foreign News? Experimental Evidence on PTA Diffusion in Japan and Taiwan" | |
| 2:30-3:00 | Room 1 | Pablo Pinto, University of Houston Santiago M. Pinto, Fed Reserve Bank - Richmond Nicolas Stier-Moses, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella |
"Regulating Foreign Investment through International Agreements: BITs, Investment Risk, and the Reallocation of FDI" |
| Room 2 | Christopher Gandrud, Hertie School of Governance Mark Hallerberg, Hertie School of Governance |
"Can You Stop the Fire Before it Burns Down the Block? Central banks and the fiscal costs of financial crises" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Ryan Brutger, University of Pennsylvania |
"Trade, Conflict, and Compromise: Incentives for Cooperative Bargaining Outcomes" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 3:00-3:20 | Break | ||
| 3:20-3:50 | Room 1 | Alexander Slaski, Princeton University |
"Foreign Direct Investment and Perceptions of Government Performance in Latin America" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | David Steinberg, Johns Hopkins University Stephen Nelson, Northwestern University |
"The Mass Political Economy of Capital Controls" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Samuel Brazys, University College Dublin William Winecoff, Indiana University |
"The Politics of Prominence and the Struggle for Position in the Global Network of Trade Agreements" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 3:50-4:20 | Room 1 | Jane Sumner, University of Minnesota Andrew Kerner, University of Michigan Brian Richter, University of Texas |
"Offshoring, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Liability of Foreignness" |
| Room 2 | Lauren Peritz, University of California, Davis & Princeton University Thomas Flaherty, University of California, San Diego Ronald Rogowski, UCLA Ryan Weldzius, UCLA |
"European Integration in Crisis: Specialization and the Differential Impact of the Great Recession" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Simon Wuethrich, World Trade Institute Manfred Elsig, World Trade Institute |
"Learning from the Past: WTO Litigation Experience and the Design of Preferential Trade Agreements" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 4:20-4:50 | Room 1 | Quan Li, Texas A&M Erica Owen, Texas A&M Austin Mitchell, Texas A&M Kelly McCaskey, Texas A&M |
"Do Democracies Attract More Foreign Direct Investment? A Meta-Regression Analysis" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Andrew Walter, University of Melbourne Jeffrey M. Chwieroth, London School of Economics |
"Policy Responses to Banking Crises over the Long Run" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Jeff Colgan, Brown University |
"The Political Economy of Territorial Ambitions" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 5:00 | Shuttle buses from Duke University Sanford School to Aloft Hotel | ||
| 6:30 | Reception & Dinner | Durham Bulls Athletic Park (The Park is about 200 meters from the Aloft hotel) |
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Saturday, November 12
| 8:00-9:00 | Breakfast | TBA | |
| AM Chairs | Room 1 | Eddy Malesky | |
| Room 2 | Sarah Brooks | ||
| Room 3 | Stephanie Rickard | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Room 1 | John Doces , Bucknell University |
"Attitudes about foreign aid: Experimental evidence from Africa" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Alexandra Zeitz, University of Oxford Emily Jones, University of Oxford |
"The Politics of Peripheral Diffusion: Explaining the adoption of Basel standards by non-members" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Yeonju Lee, University of Chicago |
"Misperceiving Trade: Information, Trust and Individual Attitudes Toward Trade Policy" | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Room 1 | Boliang Zhu, Pennsylvania State University Joseph Wright, Pennsylvania State University |
"Monopoly Rents and Foreign Direct Investment in Fixed Assets" |
| Room 2 | Andreas Kern, Georgetown University Michael Aklin, University of Pittsburgh |
"Is Central Bank Independence Always a Good Thing?" | |
| Room 3 | Iain Osgood, University of Michigan |
"Globalizing the Supply Chain: Firm and Industrial Support for Trade" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Room 1 | Michael Bechtel, University of St.Gallen Kenneth F. Scheve, Stanford University |
"International Climate Cooperation, Time Preferences, and Risk Aversion" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Cameron Ballard-Rosa, University of North Carolina Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina Rachel Wellhausen, University of Texas |
"The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Issues" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Margaret Peters, Yale University Alisha Holland, Princeton University |
"Explaining Migrant Waves" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Room 1 | James Hollyer, University of Minnesota B. Peter Rosendorff, New York University James Vreeland, Georgetown University |
"Transparency and Investment" |
| Room 2 | Katharina Richert, Heidelberg University Axel Dreher, Heidelberg University Nicola Limodio, London School of Economics |
"The International Finance Corporation's hidden lending motives" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Peter Sima-Eichler, Georgetown University Marc Busch, Georgetown University Jennifer Tobin, Georgetown University |
"The Cost of Conditionality: Why Non-Democracies Are Less Likely to Use GSP" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 11:00-11:10 | Break | ||
| 11:10-11:40 | Room 1 | Daniel Nielson, Brigham Young University Brandon de la Cuesta, Princeton University Helen Milner, Princeton University Stephen Knack, The World Bank |
"Taxation without Representation? Experimental Evidence from Ghana and Uganda on Citizen Action toward Taxes, Aid, and Oil" |
| Room 2 | John Ahlquist, UC San Diego |
"Who Signs up to Help the Workers? Private Governance and Firm Strategies in International Supply Chains" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Rikhil Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin-Madison Bethany Lacina, University of Rochester |
"Political Obstacles to Domestic Trade: Evidence from India" | |
| 11:40-12:10 | Room 1 | Leonardo Baccini, McGill University Francesco Amodio, McGill University Michele Di Maio, University of Naples Parthenope |
"Security, Trade, and Political Violence" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Lindsay Dolan, Columbia University |
"Conferring Status: How International Observers Assess Developing Countries" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Christina Davis, Princeton University |
"Deterring Disputes: WTO Dispute Settlement as a Tool for Conflict Management" | |
| 12:10-12:40 | Room 1 | Krzysztof Pelc, McGill University |
"Does the International Investment Regime Induce Frivolous Litigation?" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Jan-Egbert Sturm, ETH Zurich Jakob de Haan, University of Groningen |
"Finance and income inequality revisited" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | In Song Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology John Londregan, Princeton University Marc Ratkovic, Princeton University |
"Politics, Institutions, and Trade" | |
| 12:40-1:30 | Lunch | TBD | |
| PM Chairs | Room 1 | David Singer | |
| Room 2 | Layna Mosley | ||
| Room 3 | Mark Copelovitch | ||
| 1:30-2:00 | Room 1 | Jonas Bunte, University of Texas at Dallas Brad Parks, College of William and Mary Dan Runfola, College of William and Mary |
"Does FDI cause growth in post-conflict settings? Sub-national evidence from Liberia" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University Raymond Hicks, Princeton University Daniel Hansen, Michigan State University |
"Fiscal transparency and the cost of capital" | |
| Room 3 | Tonya Putnam, Columbia University |
"Disentangling Judicial Rule Elaboration and Enforcement in International Dispute Settlement" | |
| 2:00-2:30 | Room 1 | Randall Stone, University of Rochester Yu Wang, University of Rochester Shu Yu, University of Rochester |
"The Rise of China's Multinationals" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University Christopher Gandrud, Hertie School of Governance |
"Predicting Self-Fulfilling Financial Crises" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Tim Buthe, Duke University and Hochschule für Politik, Munich |
"Constraining or Enabling Behind-the-Border Regulation through Trade Agreements? The Regulation of Market Competition in PTAs" | |
| 2:30-3:00 | Room 1 | Nathan Jensen, George Washington University Terrence Chapman, University of Texas Edmund Malesky, Duke University Scott Wolford, University of Texas |
"International Bribery Laws and Firm Strategic Behavior" |
| Room 2 | Allison Carnegie, Columbia University Nikhar Gaikwad, Yale University |
"The Geopolitical Determinants of Support for Globalization" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Margaret Peters, Yale University Alisha Holland, Princeton University Thania Sanchez, Yale University |
"Migrants' Destination Decision" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 3:00-3:20 | Break | ||
| 3:20-3:50 | Room 1 | ||
| Room 2 | Kevin Foley, Cornell University |
"Economic Insecurity and Elite Discourse in US-China Relations: Evidence from the Senate" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Pierre Verdier, University of Virginia Mila Versteeg, University of Virginia |
"Domestic Law and the Credibility of Treaty Commitments" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 3:50-4:20 | Room 1 | Tana Johnson, Duke University Joshua Lerner, Duke University |
"Contemporary Dynamics among Industrialized and Developing Countries: Textual Analysis Using Machine-Learning" |
| Room 2 | Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University Andrew Schrank, Brown University |
"The International Political Economy of Software Protection: De Jure vs. De Facto" | |
| Room 3 | Faisal Ahmed, Princeton University Austin Wright, University of Chicago |
"Multinational Production of Violence" (PRESENTATION) | |
| 4:20-4:50 | Room 1 | Quintin Beazer, Florida State University Daniel J. Blake, IE Business School |
"How do Firms Deal with Political Risk? Investigating Firms' Ability to Cope with Imperfect Institutions" (PRESENTATION) |
| Room 2 | Hye Young You, Vanderbilt University |
"Legislators as Lobbyists" (PRESENTATION) | |
| Room 3 | Amanda Kennard, Princeton University |
"Monopolies of Influence and Institutional Efficiency: Evidence from IMF Quota Reform" | |
| 7:00 | Dinner | Tandem Restaurant, Carrboro, NC (Transportation will be provided.) |
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