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March 30, 2024

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

PROGRAM

8:30am–9:00am / Continental Breakfast

9:00am–9:10am / Welcome

9:10am–10:40am

“‘Globalization Wars’ in Historical Perspective”
Presenter:  Kris Mitchener, Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University.

Background Material:

Mitchener, Kris James, Kevin Hjortshoj O'Rourke, and Kirsten Wandschneider. 2024. The Smoot-Hawley Trade War, The Economic Journal 132 (647): 2500–2533.

Mitchener, Kris James, and Kirsten Wandschneider. 2024. “Currency Wars and Monetary Regime Disintegration”.
 

10:40am–11:00am / Coffee Break

11:00am–12:30pm

“Fiscal fragility and tectonic politics”
Presenter: Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

12:30pm–1:30pm / Lunch

1:30pm–3:00pm / Policy Panel

"What have we now learned about inflation worldwide?"

  • Janice Eberly, Distinguished Senior Fellow, MIT Sloan School, 2023–2024; Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Chief Economist, US Treasury, 2011–2013.
  • Linda Tesar, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan; co-Director, NBER Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics; Senior Economist, US Council of Economic Advisers, 2014–2015.
  • Brad Setser, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Adviser, USTR, 2021–2022; Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economic Analysis, 2011–2015.


3:00pm–3:15pm / Coffee Break

3:15pm–4:45pm 

“Exploring people’s understanding of international policies”
Presenter: Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University and founder of the Social Economics Lab.

  • Background material:

Dechezleprêtre, Antoine, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, and Stefanie Stantcheva. 2024. Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes toward Climate Policies”.

Stantcheva, Stefanie. 2024. Understanding of Trade

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See also: March 30, 2024