The Politics and Economics of International Finance Research Group Meeting
Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Location: Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Conference Chairs
Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Harvard Kennedy School.
Jeffry A. Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Department of Government, Harvard University.
Schedule
8:30–9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast
9:00–9:10 a.m. | Welcome
9:10–10:40 a.m. | Laura Alfaro (Harvard Business School), "Trade and Capital Flows: The Role of China"
- Background Material:
Alfaro, Laura, Maggie X. Chen, and Davin Chor. 2023. “Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy?”.
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. 2023. “"Undisclosed Debt Sustainability.” AEA PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS 112 (May 2022): 521-525.
10:40–11:00 a.m. | Coffee Break
11:00–12:30 p.m. | Oleg Itskhoki (UCLA), “Exchange Rate Puzzles and Policies”
- Background Material:
Itskhoki, Oleg. 2023. “Oleg Itskhoki on Exchange Rate Puzzles and Policies .” Economic Dynamics Research Agenda 23 (2).
Itskhoki, Oleg. 2023. “The Story of the Real Exchange Rate.” Annual Review of Economics 13 (Aug. 2021): 423-455. Abstract
12:30–1:30 p.m. | Lunch
1:30–3:00 p.m. | Erica Owen (University of Pittsburgh), “Skills, Labor, and the Political Economy of Globalization”
- Background Material:
Owen, Erica, and Noel P. Johnson. 2023. “Occupation and the Political Economy of Trade: Job Routineness, Offshorability, and Protectionist Sentiment .” International Organization 71 (Fall 2017): 665-699.
Owen, Erica, and Rena Sung. 2023. “Labor and Trade Protection in Comparative Perspective .” OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIA, POLITICS . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Owen, Erica, Irene Menéndez González, and Stefanie Walter. 2023. “Low-Skill Products by High-Skill Workers: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries .” Comparative Political Studies Vol. 0(0): 1-36.
3:00–3:15 p.m. | Coffee Break
3:15–4:30p.m. | Policy Panel: "Global Recession?"
Catherine Mann, member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England; former global chief economist at Citibank; former chief economist of the OECD
Karen Dynan, Harvard Kennedy School and Department of Economics; former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Eswar Prasad, Cornell University and Brookings Institution; creator of the Brookings-Financial Times world index (TIGER: Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery
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