#  March 29, 2025 

 



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## 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](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/anusha-chari-are-globalrisk.pdf). *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](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/anusha-chari-spillovers-jie.pdf), *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](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/anusha-chari-taper-tantrums.pdf), 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](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/political-importance-financial-performance)," 2020, *American Journal of Political Science*, Vol 64, Issue 1, 152-168.
- Beta and Pond, "[Politically Connected Owners](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/politically-connected-owners)," 2022, *Comparative Political Studies*, Vol 54, Issue 6, 561-595.
- Lee and Pond, "[Antitrust and Corporate Taxation,](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/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](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/hanson_gordon_the_u.s._place_based_policy_supply_chain_0.pdf) (with Dani Rodrik, Rohan Sandhu) February 2025
- [Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization](https://peif.conferences.wcfia.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/gordon-hanson-nber-w33424.pdf) (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)