#  March 30, 2024 

 



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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**

##  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](/file_url/210), The Economic Journal 132 (647): 2500–2533.

 Mitchener, Kris James, and Kirsten Wandschneider. 2024. [“Currency Wars and Monetary Regime Disintegration”.](/file_url/216)

 **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.

- Background Material:
- Ballard-Rosa, Cameron. 2024. “[Hungry for Change: Urban Bias and Autocratic Sovereign Default ](/file_url/213).” International Organization 70 (02): 313 - 346.
- Ballard-Rosa, Cameron, Lucy Martin, and Kenneth Scheve. 2024. “[The Structure of American Income Tax Policy Preferences.”](/file_url/214) The Journal of Politics 79 (1): 1-16.
- Ballard-Rosa, Cameron, Layna Mosley, and Rachel L Wellhausen. 2024. [“Contingent Advantage? Sovereign Borrowing, Democratic Institutions and Global Capital Cycles](/file_url/215).” British Journal of Political Science 51: 353– 373.

 **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](/file_url/211)”.

 Stantcheva, Stefanie. 2024. [Understanding of Trade](/file_url/212)



 



 

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