2021 Conference

OCTOBER 22-23, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

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

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Friday, October 22, 2021

  • Breakfast

    8:15-9:15am

  • Break 1

    10:45-11:00am

  • Lunch

    12:30-1:30pm

  • Break 2

    3:00-3:20pm

  • Reception & Dinner

    5:30-9:30pm
    Location:     North Byron R. White Club in the Champions Center, Folsom Field

AM Chairs

  • Room 1

    Judy Goldstein

  • Room 2

    Mark Copelovitch

  • Room 3

    David Bearce (Zoom presentations)

  • 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

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  • 9:15-9:45 | Room 2

    Krzysztof Pelc (McGill University)
    Sung Eun Kim (Korea University)

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

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  • 9:15-9:45 | Room 3

    David Steinberg (Johns Hopkins University)
    Yeling Tan (University of Oregon)
    Daniel McDowell (Syracuse University)

    If There is No Struggle, There is No Progress: Labor-Led Democratization and Respect for Labor Rights

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  • 9:45-10:15 | Room 1

    Zuhad Hai (Stanford University)

    Scientific Consensus and International Climate Cooperation

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  • 9:45-10:15 | Room 2

    Minju Kim (University of Chicago)

    Who Wants to Work at a Transparent International Organization?

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  • 9:45-10:15 | Room 3

    Etienne Lepers (City, University of London)

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

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  • 10:15-10:45 | Room 1

    Rachel Wellhausen (University of Texas at Austin)
    Anthony Calacino (University of Texas at Austin)

    Leveraging Foreign Garbage: Developing Democracies in the Global Waste Trade

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  • 10:15-10:45 | Room 2

    David Cupery (MA College of Liberal Arts)
    Andy Baker (University of Colorado, Boulder)

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

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  • 10:15-10:45 | Room 3

    Gal Bitton (Tel Aviv University)

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

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  • 11:00-11:30 | Room 1

    Alexandra Zeitz (Concordia University)
    Lauren Ferry (University of Mississippi)

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

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  • 11:00-11:30 | 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

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  • 11:00-11:30 | Room 3

    Irene Menendez Gonzalez (IE University)
    Michael Becher (IE University)

    Trade Origins of Proportional Representation? Historical and Contemporary Evidence

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  • 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

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  • 11:30-12:00 | Room 2

    Kee Hyun Park (University of MD, College Park)
    Shannon Carcelli (University of MD, College Park)

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

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  • 11:30-12:00 | Room 3

    Anne Spencer Jamison (Copenhagen Business School)

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

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  • 12:00-12:30 | Room 1

    Nguyen Huynh (Pennsylvania State University)
    Bumba Mukherjee (Pennsylvania State University)
    Vineeta Yadav (Pennsylvania State University)

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

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  • 12:00-12:30 | Room 2

    Faisal Ahmed (Princeton University)
    Adeel Malik (Oxford University)

    Crony Globalization: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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  • 12:00-12:30 | Room 3

    Christina Schneider (UC San Diego)
    Robert Thomson (Monash University)

    International Economic Integration and Promissory Democracy

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PM Chairs

  • Room 1

    Edward Mansfield

  • Room 2

    Megumi Naoi

  • Room 3

    Rachel Wellhausen

  • 1:30-2:00 | Room 1

    Cleo O'Brien-Udry (Yale University)

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

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  • 1:30-2:00 | Room 2

    Noah Zucker (Columbia University)
    Richard Clark (Princeton University)

    Climate Cascades: IOs and the Prioritization of Climate Action

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  • 1:30-2:00 | 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

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  • 2:00-2:30 | Room 1

    Eleanor Wiseman (UC Berkeley)

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

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  • 2:00-2:30 | Room 2

    Lauren Konken (Princeton University)

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

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  • 2:00-2:30 | Room 3

    Calvin Thrall (University of Texas, Austin)

    Treaty Diplomacy and the Global Firm

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  • 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

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  • 2:30-3:00 | Room 2

    Samantha Vortherms (UC Irvine)
    Jack Zhang (University of Kansas)

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

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  • 2:30-3:00 | 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

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  • 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

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  • 3:20-3:50 | 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?

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  • 3:20-3:50 | Room 3

    Michael Allen (Yale University)
    Kenneth Scheve (Yale University)
    David Stasavage (NYU)

    Democracy, Inequality and Antitrust

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  • 3:50-4:20 | Room 1

    Haillie Na-Kyung Lee (Seoul National University)

    Democratic Disadvantage?: Evidence from Korean Commercial Diplomacy

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  • 3:50-4:20 | 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

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  • 3:50-4:20 | Room 3

    Sonnet Frisbie (University of Chicago)

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

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  • 4:20-4:50 | Room 1

    Lauren Pinson (University of Pennsylvania)

    The Domestic Constraints on International Assistance to Counter Drug Trafficking

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  • 4:20-4:50 | Room 2

    Pei-Yu Wei (Duke University)

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

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  • 4:20-4:50 | Room 3

    Brandon Merrell (Yale University)

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

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Saturday, October 23, 2021

  • Breakfast

    8:30-9:00am

  • Break 1

    11:00-11:10am

  • Lunch

    12:40-1:30pm

  • Break 2

    3:00-3:20pm

AM Chairs

  • Room 1

    Mark Copelovitch

  • Room 2

    Judy Goldstein

  • Room 3

    David Bearce (Zoom presentations)

  • 9:00-9:30 | Room 1

    Gyu Sang Shim (University of Rochester)
    Randall Stone (University of Rochester)

    Foreign Agents: MNCs and WTO Disputes

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  • 9:00-9:30 | 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

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  • 9:00-9:30 | Room 3

    Marco Martini (University of Zurich)
    Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich)

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

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  • 9:30-10:00 | Room 1

    Mingsi Song (Texas A&M University)
    Quan Li (Texas A&M University)

    Populism and International Development: The Case of Aid Withdrawal

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  • 9:30-10:00 | Room 2

    Vincent Arel-Bundock (Université de Montréal)
    André Blais (Université de Montréal)

    The Political Consequences of Foreign Land Investment

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  • 9:30-10:00 | Room 3

    Adam Dean (George Washington University)

    Opening Up by Cracking Down

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  • 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

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  • 10:00-10:30 | 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

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  • 10:00-10:30 | Room 3

    Nicole Wu (University of Toronto)

    Restrict Foreigners, Not Robots: Partisan Responses to Automation Threat

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  • 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

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  • 10:30-11:00 | Room 2

    Robert Gulotty (University of Chicago)

    Clustered Decline: Regional Politics and Agricultural Subsidies

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  • 10:30-11:00 | Room 3

    Gabriele Spilker (University of Salzburg)
    Lena Schaffer (University of Lucerne)

    Individual Labor Migration Preferences: Culture, Context or Competition?

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  • 11:10-11:40 | Room 1

    Benjamin Helms (University of Virginia)

    Global Economic Integration and Nativist Politics in India

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  • 11:10-11:40 | Room 2

    Nina Obermeier (Cornell University )

    Right-Wing Populism and the Rise of Internationalism in Europe

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  • 11:10-11:40 | Room 3

    Lorenzo Crippa (University of Essex)

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

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  • 11:40-12:10 | Room 1

    Robert Kubinec (New York University - Abu Dhabi)
    Lindsay Dolan (Wesleyan University)
    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

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  • 11:40-12:10 | Room 2

    Nikhar Gaikwad (Columbia University)
    Vivekinan Ashok (Cornell University)

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

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  • 11:40-12:10 | Room 3

    Fulya Apaydin (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals)
    Jonas Schmid (University of Oslo)

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

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  • 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

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  • 12:10-12:40 | Room 2

    Alexander Gazmararian (Princeton University)
    Helen Milner (Princeton University)

    Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Global Warming

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  • 12:10-12:40 | Room 3

    Thomas Sattler (University of Geneva)
    Evelyne Hübscher (Central European University)
    Markus Wagner (University of Vienna)

    Voters and the IMF: Experimental Evidence from European Crisis Countries

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PM Chairs

  • Room 1

    David Singer

  • Room 2

    Edward Mansfield

  • Room 3

    Megumi Naoi

  • 1:30-2:00 | Room 1

    Richard Clark (Princeton University)
    Allison Carnegie (Columbia University)
    Ayse Kaya (Swarthmore College)

    Covert Participation: How Populists Engage with International Organizations

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  • 1:30-2:00 | Room 2

    Jonas Bunte (University of Texas at Dallas)
    Brandon Kinne (UC Davis)

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

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  • 1:30-2:00 | Room 3

    Erica Owen (University of Pittsburgh)
    Yoo Sun Jung (UC San Diego)
    Yohan Park (Texas A&M University)

    Multinational Firms and the Impact of Trade Disputes on Investment Decisions

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  • 2:00-2:30 | Room 1

    Catherine Weaver (University of Texas at Austin)
    Mirko Heinzel (University of Potsdam)
    Samantha Jorgensen (University of Texas at Austin)

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

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  • 2:00-2:30 | Room 2

    Weiyi Shi (UC San Diego)
    Dora Hu (UC San Diego)
    Yang Liang (San Diego State University)

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

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  • 2:00-2:30 | Room 3

    Sarah Bauerle Danzman (Indiana University Bloomington)
    Sophie Meunier (Princeton University)

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

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  • 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

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  • 2:30-3:00 | Room 2

    Patrick Shea (University of Houston)
    Lauren Ferry (University of Mississippi)

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

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  • 2:30-3:00 | Room 3

    Christoph Mikulaschek (Harvard University)

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

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  • 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

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  • 3:20-3:50 | Room 2

    Dillon Laaker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

    Rules of Origin and Global Supply Networks

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  • 3:20-3:50 | Room 3

    Aycan Katitas (University of Virginia/Princeton University)

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

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  • 3:50-4:20 | Room 1

    Michael-David Mangini (Harvard University)
    Stephen Chaudoin (Harvard University)

    Why Populists Neglect Automation: The Political Economy of Economic Dislocation

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  • 3:50-4:20 | 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

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  • 3:50-4:20 | Room 3

    Alexandra Guisinger (Temple University)
    Ryan Brutger (UC Berkeley)

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

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