March 29, 2025

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

8:30–9:00 / Continental Breakfast

9:00–9:10 / Welcome

9:10–10:40 / Session 1
"Emerging Markets at Risk"
Anusha Chari (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• Anusha Chari (2023). Global Risk, Non-Bank Financial Intermediation, and Emerging Market Vulnerabilities. Annual Review of Economics, 15(1), 549-572.
• Anusha Chari, Karlye Dilts-Stedman, Kristin Forbes (2022). Spillovers at the extremes: The macroprudential stance and vulnerability to the global financial cycle, Journal of International Economics, Volume 136, 2022, 103582, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2022.103582.
• Anusha Chari, Karlye Dilts Stedman, Christian Lundblad (2021). Taper Tantrums: Quantitative Easing, Its Aftermath, and Emerging Market Capital Flows, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 34, Issue 3, March 2021, Pages 1445–1508, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhaa044

10:40–11:00 / Coffee Break

11:00–12:30 / Session 2
“'The Politics of Credible Commitments'”
Amy Pond (Washington University in St. Louis)

• Pond and Zafeiridou, "The Political Importance of Financial Performance," 2020, American Journal of Political Science, Vol 64, Issue 1, 152-168.
• Beta and Pond, "Politically Connected Owners," 2022, Comparative Political Studies, Vol 54, Issue 6, 561-595.
• Lee and Pond, "Antitrust and Corporate Taxation," 2025, forthcoming, Business and Politics.

12:30–1:30 / Lunch

1:30–3:00 / Session 3
“How Does Place-Based Policy Work?”
Gordon Hanson (Harvard Kennedy School)

• The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain (with Dani Rodrik, Rohan Sandhu) February 2025
• Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization  (with David Autor, David Dorn, Maggie R. Jones, and Bradley Setzler) January 2025

3:00–3:15 / Coffee Break

3:15–4:45 / Policy Panel
“International Economics under Biden vs. Trump”
Jay Shambaugh (George Washington University and Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs at the US Department of the Treasury, 2023–2025)