March 30, 2024
The Politics and Economics of International Finance
Research Group Meeting
Location: Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S-020
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Chairs
Jeffrey Frankel and Jeffry Frieden
PROGRAM
8:30am–9:00am / Continental Breakfast
9:00am–9:10am / Welcome
9:10am–10:40am
“‘Globalization Wars’ in Historical Perspective”
Presenter: Kris Mitchener, Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University.
Background Material:
Mitchener, Kris James, Kevin Hjortshoj O'Rourke, and Kirsten Wandschneider. 2024. The Smoot-Hawley Trade War, The Economic Journal 132 (647): 2500–2533.
Mitchener, Kris James, and Kirsten Wandschneider. 2024. “Currency Wars and Monetary Regime Disintegration”.
10:40am–11:00am / Coffee Break
11:00am–12:30pm
“Fiscal fragility and tectonic politics”
Presenter: Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Background Material:
- Ballard-Rosa, Cameron. 2024. “Hungry for Change: Urban Bias and Autocratic Sovereign Default .” International Organization 70 (02): 313 - 346.
- Ballard-Rosa, Cameron, Lucy Martin, and Kenneth Scheve. 2024. “The Structure of American Income Tax Policy Preferences.” The Journal of Politics 79 (1): 1-16.
- Ballard-Rosa, Cameron, Layna Mosley, and Rachel L Wellhausen. 2024. “Contingent Advantage? Sovereign Borrowing, Democratic Institutions and Global Capital Cycles.” British Journal of Political Science 51: 353– 373.
12:30pm–1:30pm / Lunch
1:30pm–3:00pm / Policy Panel
"What have we now learned about inflation worldwide?"
- Janice Eberly, Distinguished Senior Fellow, MIT Sloan School, 2023–2024; Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Chief Economist, US Treasury, 2011–2013.
- Linda Tesar, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan; co-Director, NBER Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics; Senior Economist, US Council of Economic Advisers, 2014–2015.
- Brad Setser, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Adviser, USTR, 2021–2022; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economic Analysis, 2011–2015.
3:00pm–3:15pm / Coffee Break
3:15pm–4:45pm
“Exploring people’s understanding of international policies”
Presenter: Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University and founder of the Social Economics Lab.
- Background material:
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, and Stefanie Stantcheva. 2024. Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes toward Climate Policies”.
Stantcheva, Stefanie. 2024. Understanding of Trade
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