Program of the 1st Seminar Series on
The Political Economy of International Organization
Monday, 11am EST, January 25-March 29, 2021
Monday, January 25
Session 1: Agreements & Trade
11:00-11:35am EST (8:00am PST, 5:00pm CET, 12:00am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Soo Yeon Kim
- Paper: Julia Morse (University of California, Santa Barbara). International Institutions and Spillover Effects: How Financial Cooperation Disrupts Global Trade.
Discussion openers: David Carter (Washington University in St. Louis), In Song Kim (MIT)
11:35am-12:20pm EST (8:35am PST, 5:35pm CET, 12:35am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar (Graduate Institute Geneva). Change and Continuity from NAFTA to NAFTA: Policy Feedbacks and the Design of Labor Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements.
Discussants: Lisa Lechner (University of Innsbruck), Evgeny Postnikov (University of Melbourne) - Poster 2: Markus Gastinger (University of Salzburg), Andreas Dür (University of Salzburg). Joint Bodies in Preferential Trade Agreements: Why Are Some Stronger Than Others?
Discussants: Timm Betz (Technical University of Munich), Jonas Tallberg (Stockholm University) - Poster 3: Tuuli-Anna Huikuri (University of Oxford). Constraints and Incentives in the Investment Regime: How Bargaining Power Shapes BIT Reform.
Discussants: Helen Milner (Princeton University), Alexander Thompson (Ohio State University)
Monday, February 1
Session 2: Effects of IMF Programs
11:00-11:35am EST (8:00am PST, 5:00pm CET, 12:00am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Mark Copelovitch
- Paper: Pietro Bomprezzi (Universita’ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), Silvia Marchesi (Universita’ degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca). A Firm Level Approach on the Redistributive Effects of IMF Programs.
Discussion openers: Alexander Kentikelenis (Bocconi University), Valentin Lang (University of Mannheim)
11:35am-12:20pm EST (8:35am PST, 5:35pm CET, 12:35am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Iasmin Goes (Carlos III University Madrid). Examining the Effect of IMF Conditionality on Natural Resource Policy.
Discussants: Stephen Nelson (Northwestern University), James Vreeland (Princeton University) - Poster 2: Andreas Kern (Georgetown University), Elias Nosrati (University of Oxford), Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow), Dilek Sevinc (Georgetown University). Capital Flight and the Political Economy of IMF Conditionality.
Discussants: Lawrence Broz (University of California, San Diego), Erica Gould (Stanford University) - Poster 3: Andreas Sintos (University of Ioannina), Michael Chletsos (University of Piraeus). Hide and Seek: IMF Intervention and the Shadow Economy – An Empirical Investigation.
Discussants: Timon Forster (Free University Berlin), Friedrich Schneider (University of Linz)
Monday, February 8
Session 3: IOs & Opinions
11:00-11:35am EST (8:00am PST, 5:00pm CET, 12:00am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: B. Peter Rosendorff
- Paper: Richard Clark (Columbia University), Ryan Brutger (University of California, Berkeley). At What Cost? Power, Payments, and Public Support of International Organizations.
Discussion openers: Lauren Prather (University of California, San Diego), Erik Voeten (Georgetown University)
11:35am-12:20pm EST (8:35am PST, 5:35pm CET, 12:35am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Siria Angino (European Central Bank), Federico Maria Ferrara (LSE), Stefania Secola (European Central Bank). The Cultural Origins of Institutional Trust: The Case of the ECB.
Discussants: Nicole Baerg (University of Essex), Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich) - Poster 2: Lee Crawfurd (Center for Global Development). Recipient Views on International Aid: Evidence from Survey Experiments with Government Officials.
Discussants: Matthew DiLorenzo (Old Dominion University), Ani Harutyunyan (Sunwater Institute), Eva Vivalt (University of Toronto) - Poster 3: Benjamin Daßler (LMU Munich), Tim Heinkelmann-Wild (LMU Munich). International Authority, Democracies, and Exit from International Organizations.
Discussants: Gary Marks (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Michael Zürn (WZB Berlin) - Poster 4: Cleo O’Brien-Udry (Yale University), Lauren Ferry (University of Mississippi). Turning the Tables? Aid, Status and Stability in the International System.
Discussants: Lindsay Dolan (Wesleyan University), Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University)
Monday, February 15
Session 4: The Good & the Bad
11:00-11:35am EST (8:00am PST, 5:00pm CET, 12:00am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Christina Schneider
- Paper: Cleo O’Brien-Udry (Yale University). Aid, Blame, and Backlash: The Political Economy of Unpopular Aid.
Discussion openers: Cesi Cruz (University of British Columbia), Matthew Winters (University of Illinois)
11:35am-12:20pm EST (8:35am PST, 5:35pm CET, 12:35am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Lauren Konken (Princeton University), Haillie Na-Kyung Lee (Seoul National University). What Can We Learn from Failed Economic Negotiations? Lessons from BITs and PTAs
Discussants: Sonal Pandya (University of Virginia), Beth Simmons (University of Pennsylvania) - Poster 2: Michael Manulak (Carleton University). The Sources of Influence in Multilateral Diplomacy.
Discussants: Miles Kahler (American University), Daniel Nexon (Georgetown University) - Poster 3: Yu Wang (University of Rochester). Leader Visits and UN Security Council Membership.
Discussants: Dan Reiter (Emory University), Michael Tierney (William & Mary)
Monday, February 22
Session 5: Capacity & Compliance
11:00-11:35am EST (8:00am PST, 5:00pm CET, 12:00am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Christina Davis
- Paper: Shannon Carcelli (University of Maryland, College Park). Reconsidering Bureaucratic Capacity and Treaty Compliance.
Discussion openers: Ryan Briggs (University of Guelph), Julia Gray (University of Pennsylvania)
11:35am-12:20pm EST (8:35am PST, 5:35pm CET, 12:35am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Eun Young Kim (University of Texas at Austin). Counting What Counts: What Leads to Higher Statistical Capacity in Developing Countries?
Discussants: Dan Honig (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, SAIS), Morten Jerven (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) - Poster 2: Jean-Frédéric Morin (Université Laval), Clara Brandi (German Development Institute), Jakob Schwab (German Development Institute). Trade Effects of Environmental Agreements: Uncovering De Facto Environmental Clubs.
Discussants: Mihai Paraschiv (State University of New York at Oswego), Quynh Nguyen (Australian National University) - Poster 3: Harry Oppenheimer (Harvard University). Developing Digital Capacity: How and Why Foreign Assistance Shapes Institutions.
Discussants: Erik Gartzke (University of California, San Diego), Susan Hyde (University of California, Berkeley) - Poster 4: Vegard Tørstad (BI Norwegian Business School), Vegard Wiborg (University of Oslo). Mitigation Ambiguity and Prudence in Climate Pledges.
Discussants: Kenneth Scheve (Yale University), Dustin Tingley (Harvard University)
Monday, March 1
Session 6: IOs in a Changing Landscape
11:00-11:35am EST (8:00am PST, 5:00pm CET, 12:00am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Simon Hug
- Paper: Jing Qian (Princeton University), Zetao Wu (Fudan University and LSE), Jianzhi Zhao (Fudan University). Compete or Complement? How the World Bank Responds to the Establishment of the AIIB.
Discussion openers: Austin Strange (University of Hong Kong), Alexandra Zeitz (Concordia University)
11:35am-12:20pm EST (8:35am PST, 5:35pm CET, 12:35am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Antoine Boucher (Université Paris Dauphine), Lisa Chauvet (Université Paris 1), Marin Ferry (Université Gustave Eiffel). Political Cycle in World Bank’s Procurement Allocation.
Discussants: Erasmus Kersting (Villanova University), Elena McLean (University at Buffalo, SUNY) - Poster 2: Michael Denly (University of Texas at Austin). Institutional Autonomy and Donor Strategic Interest in Multilateral Foreign Aid: Rules vs. Informal Influence.
Discussants: Christopher Kilby (Villanova University), Randall Stone (University of Rochester) - Poster 3: Tim Heinkelmann-Wild (LMU Munich). After Exit: Explaining Institutional Resilience and Decay after Hegemonic Withdrawal.
Discussants: Karolina Milewicz (University of Oxford), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford) - Poster 4: Andrew McWard (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Formalizing Informality: How States Control Intergovernmental Organizations through NGO Participation.
Discussants: Kenneth Abbott (Arizona State University), Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto)
Monday, March 8
Session 7: Aid
11:00-11:35am EST (8:00am PST, 5:00pm CET, 12:00am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Daniel Nielson
- Paper: Andreas Fuchs (University of Goettingen), Samuel Siewers (University of Goettingen). The Timing of Emergency Aid.
Discussion openers: Kurt Annen (University of Guelph), Paul Raschky (Monash University)
11:35am-12:20pm EST (8:35am PST, 5:35pm CET, 12:35am Singapore (Tuesday), 3:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Leonardo Baccini (McGill University), Mirko Heinzel (University of Potsdam), Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (LSE). The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid.
Discussants: Thomas Stubbs (Royal Holloway), Eric Werker (Simon Fraser University) - Poster 2: Alice Iannantuoni (University of Geneva). Strategic Motivations and Volatility in Aid Allocation by the Council of the European Union.
Discussants: Nikolay Marinov (University of Houston), Catherine Weaver (University of Texas at Austin) - Poster 3: Johannes Karreth (Ursinus College), Timothy Passmore (Virginia Military Institute), Jaroslav Tir (University of Colorado Boulder). Foreign Aid and the Steps to Peacekeeping Operations.
Discussants: Lise Howard (Georgetown University), Lisa Hultman (Uppsala University) - Poster 4: Abrams Mbu Enow Tagem (UNU-WIDER). The Economics and Politics of Foreign Aid and Domestic Revenue Mobilization.
Discussants: Roel Dom (World Bank), Lionel Roger (Zimbabwe Ministry of Finance and Economic Development)
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Monday, March 15
Session 8: Populism, Democracy, & IOs
11:00-11:35am EDT (8:00am PDT, 4:00pm CET, 11:00pm Singapore, 2:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Renee Bowen
- Paper: Allison Carnegie (Columbia University), Richard Clark (Columbia University), Noah Zucker (Columbia University). Global Governance under Populism: The Challenge of Information Suppression.
Discussion openers: Christina Davis (Harvard University), Jon Pevehouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
11:35am-12:20pm EDT (8:35am PDT, 4:35pm CET, 11:35pm Singapore, 2:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Katherine Beall (University of California, Berkeley). Trading Sovereignty for Self-Determination: Human Rights, Institutional Power, and Regional Organizations.
Discussants: Emilie Hafner-Burton (University of California, San Diego), David Lake (University of California, San Diego) - Poster 2: Minju Kim (University of Chicago). Who Wants to Work at a Transparent International Organization?
Discussants: Tana Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), David Stasavage (New York University) - Poster 3: Anna Meyerrose (Ohio State University). Building Strong Executives and Weak Institutions: How European Integration Contributes to Democratic Backsliding.
Discussants: R. Daniel Kelemen (Rutgers University), Ellen Lust (University of Gothenburg) - Poster 4: Hayley Pring (University of Oxford). Does Populism Affect Trade?
Discussants: Manfred Elsig (World Trade Institute), Jessica Weeks (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Monday, March 22
Session 9: Law, Agreements & Propaganda
11:00-11:35am EDT (8:00am PDT, 4:00pm CET, 11:00pm Singapore, 2:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Thomas Bernauer
- Paper: Justin Canfil (Columbia University). Yesterday’s Reach: How International Law Keeps Pace with Technological Change.
Discussion openers: Karen J. Alter (Northwestern University), Christopher Fariss (University of Michigan)
11:35am-12:20pm EDT (8:35am PDT, 4:35pm CET, 11:35pm Singapore, 2:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: David Bearce (University of Colorado), Max Chernoff (University of Colorado), Cody Eldredge (Oakland University). A Deepening/Widening Tradeoff? Evidence from the GATT and WTO.
Discussants: Judith Goldstein (Stanford University), Mike Tomz (Stanford University) - Poster 2: Kai Gehring (University of Zurich), Travers Child (CEIBS), Sarah Langlotz (University of Goettingen), Austin Wright (University of Chicago). Global and Local Propaganda of an International Terrorist Organization: How Islamic State Influences Public Perceptions in Afghanistan.
Discussants: Ruben Durante (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Tamar Mitts (Columbia University) - Poster 3: Julia Gray (University of Pennsylvania), Rachel Hulvey (University of Pennsylvania). Contracting with IOs: Explaining the Conditions for Immunity Agreements.
Discussants: Kristina Daugirdas (University of Michigan), Taylor St John (University of St Andrews) - Poster 4: Carolina Moehlecke (Fundação Getulio Vargas). Global Regulatory Agreements and Corporations: Does Innovation Facilitate Cooperation?
Discussants: Liliana Andonova (Graduate Institute Geneva), Rebecca Perlman (Princeton University)
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Monday, March 29
Session 10: Gaining & Losing
11:00-11:35am EDT (8:00am PDT, 5:00pm CET, 11:00pm Singapore, 2:00am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://villanova.zoom.us/my/peio2021
Chair: Jennifer Tobin
- Paper: Andrea Presbitero (IMF), Valentin Lang (University of Mannheim), David Mihalyi (Natural Resource Governance Institute). Borrowing Costs after Debt Relief.
Discussion openers: Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (University of California, Berkeley), Christoph Trebesch (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
11:35am-12:20pm EDT (8:35am PDT, 5:35pm CET, 11:35pm Singapore, 2:35am Melbourne (Tuesday), get calendar entry)
Location: https://www.wonder.me/r?id=7uq9sx-0ityy
- Poster 1: Jason Davis (University of Pennsylvania). Firms, Dynamics, and Stumbling Blocks in Trade.
Discussants: Leonardo Baccini (McGill University), Amy Pond (Technical University of Munich) - Poster 2: Leopoldo Avellán (Inter-American Development Bank), Arturo Galindo (Banco de la República), Giulia Lotti (Inter-American Development Bank). Sovereign External Borrowing and Multilateral Lending in Crises.
Discussants: Chris Humphrey (ETH Zurich, Center for Development and Cooperation), Paul J. Nelson (University of Pittsburgh) - Poster 3: Sara Norrevik (University at Buffalo). Foreign Economic Policy in the European Parliament. The Influence of Foreign Direct Investment.
Discussants: Catherine de Vries (Bocconi University), Amie Kreppel (University of Florida) - Poster 4: Mitali Pradhan (Fordham University). Impact of Losing Preferential Status: Evidence from the EU’s Generalized System of Preferences Reform
Discussants: Ana Fernandes (World Bank), Shushanik Hakobyan (IMF)
