Schedule Fall 2026
All workshop events take place virtually on Mondays, 12:00-13:00 (1:00 pm) Eastern Time.
Links to workshop papers will be active as events draw closer here.
Upcoming Workshops
September 14
Practice Job Talk
“Squeezing the Balloon: How Anti-Corruption Enforcement Restructures Firm Corruption”
Chengyu Fu
Harvard University
Discussant: Jerry Min
September 21
Practice Job Talk
“When Legitimacy Becomes a Liability: How Economic Securitization Shapes Global Firms’ Socio-Political Strategy”
Yue Lin
UC Berkeley
Discussant: Xiuyu Li
September 28
Practice Job Talk
“Bias Against Mobile Capital: Evidence from U.S. Environmental Enforcement”
Jerry Min
Harvard University
Discussant: Giuseppe Peressotti
October 5
Practice Job Talk
“Rulemakers and Ruletakers in Digital Trade Governance: Network Structure and the Diffusion of Digital Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements”
Giuseppe Peressotti
The University of Texas at Dallas
Discussant: TBD
October 12
Practice Job Talk
“Beyond Nationality: Domestic Embeddedness and Industrial Subsidies”
Sujin Cha
University of Michigan
Discussant: Riccardo Di Cato
October 19
Practice Job Talk
“Seeds of Market-Based Capitalism: Christian Missionaries and China’s Modernization”
Riccardo Di Cato
UC San Diego
Discussant: Yangran Gao
October 26
Standard Presentation
“Not in My District: The Political Geography of Export Controls”
Evan Mann
UC San Diego
Discussant: Iqbal Pervez
November 2
Early Ideas
“Trade Creation or Trade Reorientation? The China–Laos Railway and Supply-Conditioned Integration”
Luobing Deng
Renmin University of China
Discussant: Sujin Cha
“Vulnerability and Voice: African Agency in reforming Agricultural Trade at the WTO”
Teesta Lahiri
Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Discussant: TBD
November 9
Standard Presentation
“Policy Versus Access: How Do Firms Respond to Protectionism with Campaign Contributions?”
Xiuyu Li
New York University
Discussant: Luobing Deng
November 16
Standard Presentation
“Labor Politics in a Dual Economy”
Syamsul Bahri
University of Michigan
Discussant: Saira Salman
November 23
Standard Presentation
“The Firm-Level Politics of Geoeconomic Adaptation”
Tommaso Fonti
Geneva Graduate Institute
Discussant: Nafisa Arshid
November 30
Early Ideas
“The Impact of Renewable Portfolio Standards on Economic Growth in New Mexico: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Approach”
Iqbal Pervez
New Mexico State University
Discussant: Tommaso Fonti
“Displaced Knowledge? Credential Recognition and the Political Economy of Skilled Migration”
Saira Salman
University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)
Discussant: Syamsul Bahri
December 7
Standard Presentation
“ESG Backlash and Institutional Ownership Response”
Nafisa Arshid
University of Bolzano/University of Trento
Discussant: Evan Mann
December 14
Standard Presentation
“China’s Electric Vehicle Revolution in Latin America: The Cases of Brazil and Mexico”
Yangran Gao
University of Southern California
Discussant: Teesta Lahiri