Schedule Spring 2024
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All workshop events take place virtually on Monday, 12:00-13:00 (1:00 pm) Eastern Time (UTC−05:00).
Links to workshop papers will be active as events draw closer here.
Upcoming Workshops
May 6： Marnie Ginis (Columbia University), “Strategic Adoption of Production Technology”
Moderator: Shiyang Wu (University of California Santa Barbara)
Previous Workshops
February 12： Shiyang Wu (University of California Santa Barbara), “Strategized Exit: Sunset Clauses and Unilateral Terminations of Bilateral Investment Treaties”
Moderator: Marnie Ginis (Columbia University)
February 19： Ishana Ratan (University of California, Berkeley), “Does Manufacturing Matter? Forward Linkages and Downstream Growth in the Malaysian Solar Industry”
Moderator: Christian Elliott (Brown University)
February 26： Nicolas Wesseler (UBC Sauder School of Business), “The Ties that Bind: Bilateral Gains from Trade and Interstate Conflicts”
Moderator: Seung-Uk Huh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
March 4： Seung-Uk Huh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Failed Coup Attempts and Fading Foreign Direct Investment in the Extractive Sector”
Moderator: Yue Lin (University of California, Berkeley)
March 11： Yujin Zhang (Columbia University), “Openness and Prosperity: The Rise and Fall of Globalization and Mass Preferences for Free Trade”
Moderator: Kirthana Ganeson (World Trade Institute)
March 18： Melle Scholten (University of Virginia), “Investing in Voice: Remittances and Varieties of Political Participation”
Moderator: Søren Frank Etzerodt (Technical University of Munich)
March 25： Alexander Yarkin (Brown University and LISER), “Lobbying for Industrialization: Theory and Evidence”
Moderator: Sujin Cha (University of Michigan)
April 1： Natalie Romeri-Grass (Ohio State University), “From Fighters to Farmers in My Backyard? Social and Economic Cohesion Among Unlikely Neighbors in the Hardest of Contexts”
Moderator: Melle Scholten (University of Virginia)
April 8： Harshal Zalke (Princeton University), “Investments in the Shadow of Conflict”
Moderator: Nicola Nones (University of Toronto)
April 15： Sujin Cha (University of Michigan), “Political Motives in Subsidy Distribution: A Firm-Level Analysis of US Industrial Policy from 1966 to 2023”
Moderator: Harshal Zalke (Princeton University)
April 22： Søren Frank Etzerodt (Technical University of Munich), “The Political Shadows of Industrial Job Displacements: How to Compensate Losers from a Major Plant Closure”
Moderator: Elisa Navarra (Universite libre de Bruxelles)
April 29： Kirthana Ganeson (World Trade Institute), “Accessing Markets or Exporting Norms: The Determinants of Democratic Provisions in EU Trade Agreements”
Moderator: Yujin Zhang (Columbia University)