IPES 2021 Conference Program

October 22 - 23

University of Colorado Boulder

Institute of Behavioral Science
1440 15th Street, Boulder, CO 80302

Updated 10/21

Friday, October 22, 2021
Time Room Authors (* denotes presenter) Topic
8:15-9:15
  Breakfast  
AM Chairs
Room 1 Judy Goldstein
Room 2 Mark Copelovitch
Room 3 David Bearce (Zoom presentations)

Friday
9:15-9:45

Room 1

Katja Kleinberg
Binghamton University

Alexandra Guisinger
Temple University

The Gender Gap in Attitudes toward Trade: Putting Gender Back into the Equation

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Sung Eun Kim
Korea University

*Krzysztof Pelc
McGill University

The Downside of Hubs: How Industrial Clusters Turn Economic Shocks Into Political Shocks

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual) 

Yeling Tan
University of Oregon

*David Steinberg
Johns Hopkins University

Daniel McDowell
Syracuse University

The Domestic Political Consequences of Global Economic Expansion in Rising Powers: Evidence from Survey Experiments in China

Paper | Presentation

Friday
9:45-10:15
Room 1

*Zuhad Hai
Stanford University

Scientific Consensus and International Climate Cooperation

PaperPresentation

Room 2

*Minju Kim
University of Chicago

Who Wants to Work at a Transparent International Organization?

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Etienne Lepers
City, University of London

Who is Best at Taking Away the Punch Bowl? Institutional Arrangements and Macroprudential Activity

Paper | Presentation

Friday
10:15-10:45
Room 1

Anthony Calacino
University of Texas at Austin

*Rachel Wellhausen
University of Texas at Austin

Leveraging Foreign Garbage: Developing Democracies in the Global Waste Trade

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Andy Baker
University of Colorado, Boulder

*David Cupery
MA College of Liberal Arts

Animosity, Amnesia, or Admiration? Mass Opinion around the World toward the Former Colonizer

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Gal Bitton
Tel Aviv University

How Does Culture Shape Financial Policies? A Macro-Level Analysis Using Instrumental Variables

Paper | Presentation

10:45-11:00
  Break  
Friday
11:00-11:30
Room 1

Lauren Ferry
University of Mississippi

*Alexandra Zeitz
Concordia University

Too Much of a Good Thing? China, the IMF, and Sovereign Debt Crises

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Jonas Bunte
University of Texas at Dallas

Burak Giray
University of Houston

Patrick Shea
University of Houston

Selling Sovereignty: International Coercion, Debt Diplomacy, and Land Transactions

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

Michael Becher
IE University

*Irene Menendez Gonzalez
IE University

Trade Origins of Proportional Representation? Historical and Contemporary Evidence

Paper | Presentation

Friday
11:30-12:00
Room 1

*Boliang Zhu
Pennsylvania State University

Aubrey Waddick
Pennsylvania State University

Angel Villegas-Cruz
Pennsylvania State University

The Politics of Tariff Exclusion

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Shannon Carcelli
University of MD, College Park

*Kee Hyun Park
University of MD, College Park

Partisanship in the Trump Trade War: Evidence from County-Level Crop Planting Data

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Anne Spencer Jamison
Copenhagen Business School

Is Civil Unrest Bad for Business? Source-Country Politics and FDI

Paper | Presentation

Friday
12:00-12:30
Room 1

*Nguyen Huynh
Pennsylvania State University

Vineeta Yadav
Pennsylvania State University

*Bumba Mukherjee
Pennsylvania State University

Financial Crisis, Clientelism and the Rise of Right-Wing Populists in Developing Democracies

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Faisal Ahmed
Princeton University

Adeel Malik
Oxford University

Crony Globalization: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Christina Schneider
UC San Diego

Robert Thomson
Monash University

International Economic Integration and Promissory Democracy

Paper | Presentation

12:30-1:30
  Lunch Break  
Friday
PM Chairs
Room 1 Edward Mansfield
Room 2 Megumi Naoi
Room 3 Rachel Wellhausen
Friday
1:30-2:00
Room 1

*Cleo O'Brien-Udry
Yale University

Aid, Blame, and Backlash: The Political Economy of Unpopular Aid

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Richard Clark
Princeton University

*Noah Zucker
Columbia University

Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Sayumi Miyano
Princeton University

*Diana Stanescu
Harvard University

Do Ties With the Home Government Help Businesses Abroad?: The Effect of Revolving-Door Connections on FDI of Japanese Firms

Paper | Presentation

Friday
2:00-2:30
Room 1

*Eleanor Wiseman
UC Berkeley

Trade, Corruption and Covid-19: Evidence from Small-Scale Traders in Kenya

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Lauren Konken
Princeton University

Choosing Not to Conclude: Mapping Canadian and American Efforts to Negotiate Preferential Trade Agreements

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Calvin Thrall
University of Texas, Austin

Treaty Diplomacy and the Global Firm

Paper | Presentation

Friday
2:30-3:00
Room 1

*Byungwon Woo
Yonsei University

Ex Ante vs. Ex Post Conditionality: Punishment Mechanism, (In)Voluntary Defections, and the Design of Conditionality

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Jack Zhang
University of Kansas

*Samantha Vortherms
UC Irvine

Political Risk and Firm Exit: Evidence from the U.S.-China Trade War

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Cleo O'Brien-Udry
Yale University

Tyler Pratt
Yale University

Global Governance of Emerging Technology: Public Backlash and Regulatory Competition in Gene Editing

Paper | Presentation

3:00-3:20
  Break  
Friday
3:20-3:50
Room 1

*Kishore Gawande
University of Texas at Austin

Ben Zissimos
University of Exeter

Dictators Under the Weather: Using Import Policy to Forestall Democratization

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Mark Copelovitch
University of Wisconsin

Ryan Powers
University of Georgia

Do We Really Know What We Think We Know About the Politics of IMF Lending?

Paper | Presentation

Room 3 

*Michael Allen
Yale University

Kenneth Scheve
Yale University

David Stasavage
NYU

Democracy, Inequality and Antitrust

Paper | Presentation

Friday
3:50-4:20
Room 1

*Haillie Na-Kyung Lee
Seoul National University

Democratic Disadvantage?: Evidence from Korean Commercial Diplomacy

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Frederick Chen
University of WI-Madison & Stanford University

Jian Xu
Yale-NUS College

Long-Arm Deterrence: Judicial Reach and MNCs in Authoritarian Regimes

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Sonnet Frisbie
University of Chicago

Chinese Debt and Soft Power as Measured through Country Recommendations in the UN Universal Periodic Review

Paper | Presentation

Friday
4:20-4:50
Room 1

*Lauren Pinson
University of Pennsylvania

The Domestic Constraints on International Assistance to Counter Drug Trafficking

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Pei-Yu Wei
Duke University

Opening New Doors: Coerciveness, Third-Party States and Sanction Imposition

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Brandon Merrell
Yale University

Education for All? The Gender Literacy Gap and the Distributional Effects of World Bank Assistance

Paper | Presentation

5:30-9:30
  Reception and Dinner

North Byron R. White Club in the Champions Center, Folsom Field
2150 Stadium Drive, Boulder, CO 80302

Saturday, October 23, 2021
Time Room Authors (* denotes presenter) Topic
8:30-9:00
  Breakfast  
Saturday
AM Chairs
Room 1 Mark Copelovitch
Room 2 Judy Goldstein
Room 3 David Bearce (Zoom presentations)
Saturday
9:00-9:30
Room 1

*Gyu Sang Shim
University of Rochester

Randall Stone
University of Rochester

Foreign Agents: MNCs and WTO Disputes

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Cameron Ballard-Rosa
University of NC Chapel Hill

Judith Goldstein
Stanford University

Nita Rudra
Georgetown University

Trade as Villain: The Fading American Dream and Declining Support for Globalization

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Marco Martini
University of Zurich

Stefanie Walter
University of Zurich

Learning from Precedent: How Brexit Counteracts Nationalist Pressures in Other Countries

PaperPresentation

Saturday
9:30-10:00
Room 1

Quan Li
Texas A&M University

*Mingsi Song
Texas A&M University

Democracy, Autocracy, and International Student Flows

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Vincent Arel-Bundock
Université de Montréal

André Blais
Université de Montréal

Who Should Tax Multinationals?

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Adam Dean
George Washington University

Opening Up by Cracking Down

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
10:00-10:30

Room 1

*Don Casler
Columbia University

Dylan Groves
Columbia University

Perspective Taking Through Partisan Eyes: Cross-National Empathy, Partisanship, and Attitudes Towards International Cooperation

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Kelly Hunter
Duke University

Pei-Yu Wei
Duke University

More Harm Than Good?: The Differential Effects of Economic Sanctions on Various Dimensions of Women’s Rights

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Nicole Wu
University of Toronto

Restrict Foreigners, Not Robots: Partisan Responses to Automation Threat

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
10:30-11:00
Room 1

*Alexander Slaski
Leiden University

Sarah Bauerle Danzman
Indiana University Bloomington

Measuring Investment Incentive Effectiveness: Findings From a Natural Experiment in Brazil

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Robert Gulotty
University of Chicago

Clustered Decline: Regional Politics and Agricultural Subsidies

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

Lena Schaffer
University of Lucerne

*Gabriele Spilker
University of Salzburg

Individual Labor Migration Preferences: Culture, Context or Competition?

Paper | Presentation

11:00-11:10
  Break  
Saturday
11:10-11:40
Room 1

*Benjamin Helms
University of Virginia

Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in India

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Nina Obermeier
Cornell University 

Right-Wing Populism and the Rise of Internationalism in Europe

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Lorenzo Crippa
University of Essex

Global Firms and Global Sheriffs? How Cross-Border Value Chains Empower Enforcement of International Regimes

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
11:40-12:10
Room 1

Lindsay Dolan
Wesleyan University

*Robert Kubinec
New York University - Abu Dhabi

Jiakun Zhang
University of Kansas

Daniel Nielson
University of Texas at Austin

A Field Experiment on Business Opposition to the U.S.-China Trade War

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Vivekinan Ashok
Cornell University

*Nikhar Gaikwad
Columbia University

Rivalry and Equity Considerations in Mass Support for Corporate Income Tax Policy

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

*Fulya Apaydin
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)

Jonas Schmid
University of Oslo

Does Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Increase the Quality of Democracy? An Instrumental Variable Analysis

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
12:10-12:40
Room 1

*Matt Malis
New York University

Peter Rosendorff
New York University

Alastair Smith
New York University

A Political Economy of International Organizations

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Alexander Gazmararian
Princeton University

Helen Milner
Princeton University

Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Global Warming

Paper | Presentation

Room 3
(Virtual)

Evelyne Hübscher
Central European University

*Thomas Sattler
University of Geneva

Markus Wagner
University of Vienna

Voters and the IMF: Experimental Evidence from European Crisis Countries

Paper | Presentation

12:40-1:30
  Lunch Break  
Saturday
PM Chairs
Room 1 David Singer
Room 2 Edward Mansfield
Room 3 Megumi Naoi
Saturday
1:30-2:00
Room 1

Allison Carnegie
Columbia University

*Richard Clark
Princeton University

Ayse Kaya
Swarthmore College

Covert Participation: How Populists Engage with International Organizations

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Jonas Bunte
University of Texas at Dallas

Brandon Kinne
UC Davis

How Creditors Gain Influence: Power and Competition in Bilateral Lending Networks

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

Yoo Sun Jung
UC San Diego

*Erica Owen
University of Pittsburgh

Yohan Park
Texas A&M University

Multinational Firms and the Impact of Trade Disputes on Investment Decisions

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
2:00-2:30
Room 1

Mirko Heinzel
University of Potsdam

Samantha Jorgensen
University of Texas at Austin

*Catherine Weaver
University of Texas at Austin

Why Women Matter: Women's Representation and Gender Mainstreaming at the World Bank

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Yang Liang
San 
Diego State University

*Weiyi Shi
UC San Diego

*Dora Hu
UC San Diego

Surviving the US-China Trade War? Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Sarah Bauerle Danzman
Indiana University Bloomington

Sophie Meunier
Princeton University

The Big Screen: Global Crises and the Diffusion of Foreign Investment Review

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
2:30-3:00
Room 1

*David Bearce
University of Colorado, Boulder

Ana Carolina Garriga
University of Essex

A Third-Generation Framework: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Central Bank Independence and Fixed Exchange Rates

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Lauren Ferry
University of Mississippi

*Patrick Shea
University of Houston

Hierarchy and Sovereign Debt: Crises and Consequences in International Capital Markets

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Christoph Mikulaschek
Harvard University

The Responsive Public: How EU Decisions Shape Public Opinion on Salient Policies

Paper | Presentation

3:00-3:20
  Break  
Saturday
3:20-3:50
Room 1

*Haosen Ge
Princeton University

Jian Xu
Emory University

Strange Bedfellows: When Foreign Firms Participate in Standards Setting in Host Countries

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

*Dillon Laaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rules of Origin and Global Supply Networks

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

*Aycan Katitas
University of Virginia
/Princeton University

Does Exposure to Anti-Trade Ads Fuel Backlash Against Globalization?

Paper | Presentation

Saturday
3:50-4:20
Room 1

Stephen Chaudoin
Harvard University

*Michael-David Mangini
Harvard University

Why Populists Neglect Automation: The Political Economy of Economic Dislocation

Paper | Presentation

Room 2

Jiaxuan Huang
University of Texas at Austin

Zhizhen Lu
University of Texas at Austin

Eoin Power
University of Texas at Austin

Daniel Nielson
University of Texas at Austin

Guilty by Association? An Experimental Test of MVTS Compliance with International Law

Paper | Presentation

Room 3

Ryan Brutger
UC Berkeley

*Alexandra Guisinger
Temple University

Framing Layoffs: Media Coverage, Blame Attribution, and Trade-Related Policy Responses

Paper | Presentation