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## 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?](/file_url/203)”.

Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. 2023. “["Undisclosed Debt Sustainability.”](/file_url/204) 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 .](/file_url/205)” Economic Dynamics Research Agenda 23 (2).

Itskhoki, Oleg. 2023. [“The Story of the Real Exchange Rate](/file_url/206).” Annual Review of Economics 13 (Aug. 2021): 423-455. [Abstract](/publications/story-real-exchange-rate)

**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 .](/file_url/200)” International Organization 71 (Fall 2017): 665-699.

Owen, Erica, and Rena Sung. 2023. [“Labor and Trade Protection in Comparative Perspective](/file_url/201)[ ](https://conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/peif/publications/labor-and-trade-protection-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 ](/file_url/202).” 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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