Program of the 15^th Annual Conference on

The Political Economy of International Organization

May 4-6, 2023

Wednesday, May 3

5:30-9.00 pm Dinner (optional, at own expense)

Sky Deck, Del Mar Highlands Town Center, 12841 El Camino Real, about a 10 minute taxi ride from the Hilton

Thursday, May 4

Institute of the Americas, UC San Diego Campus, Malamud Room (10111 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037)

8:00-8:45 am Breakfast

Institute of the Americas Courtyard

8:45-9:00 am Opening remarks

9:00-10:45 am Session 1: Trade and Investment

Chair: Christina Schneider

• Paper 1: Karen Alter (Northwestern University), Timothy Meyer (Duke University). The Legalization of Global Economic Governance: Contracting or Multilateralism? Discussion openers: Tana Johnson, Jonas Tallberg
• Paper 2: Gyu Sang Shim (Texas A&M University). Corporate Lobbying Information and Investor-State Dispute. Discussion openers: Terrence Chapman, Layna Mosley
• Paper 3: Leonardo Baccini (McGill University), Arianna Bondi (McGill University), Matteo Fiorini (European University Institute), Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute), Carlo Altomonte (Bocconi University), Italo Colantone (Bocconi University). Global Value Chains and Deep Integration. Discussion openers: Renee Bowen, B. Peter Rosendorff

10:45-11:15 am Group photo and break

11:15-1:00 pm Session 2: Foreign Aid

Chair: Jennifer Tobin

• Paper 1: Samuel Brazys (University College Dublin), Minhaj Mahmud (Asian Development Bank). Poisoning the Well? Donor Control and Elite Capture in Arsenic Mitigation. Discussion openers: Bernhard Reinsberg, Martin C. Steinwand
• Paper 2: Richard Clark (Cornell University), Lindsay Dolan (Wesleyan University), Alexandra Zeitz (Concordia University). Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries. Discussion openers: Lauren Ferry, Daniel Nielson
• Paper 3: Cleo O’Brien-Udry (Yale University). An (Ethnic) Political Economy of Aid and Legitimacy. Discussion openers: Faisal Ahmed, Alice Iannantuoni

1:00-2:00 pm Lunch

Institute of the Americas Courtyard

2:00-3:45 pm Session 3: Various Interesting Topics

Chair: Christopher Kilby

• Paper 1: Andreas Fuchs (University of Göttingen), Andre Groeger (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), Tobias Heidland (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Lukas Wellner (University of Göttingen). Does Foreign Aid Reduce Migration? Global Micro-Evidence from World Bank Projects. Discussion openers: Alice Iannantuoni, Adrian Shin 
• Paper 2: Averell Schmidt (Harvard University). Damaged Relations: How Treaty Withdrawal Impacts International Cooperation. Discussion openers: Lisa Dellmuth, Phillip Lipscy
• Paper 3: Christina L. Davis (Harvard University), Jialu Li (Harvard University). Shining Light on Regulatory Policies: The Impact of WTO Disputes on Notification Patterns. Discussion openers: Alessia Invernizzi, Jennifer Tobin

3:45-4:15 pm Break

4:15-6:00 pm Session 4: International Organizations

Chair: Renee Bowen

• Paper 1: Pietro Bomprezzi (University of Milano Bicocca), Silvia Marchesi (University of Milano Bicocca), Rima Turk-Ariss (International Monetary Fund). Do IMF Programs Stimulate Private Sector Investment? Discussion openers: Antoine Boucher, Bernhard Reinsberg
• Paper 2: Timon Forster (Boston University). Deliberating over Development Policy: What are the Benefits and Limits of Arguing in International Organizations? Discussion openers: Renee Bowen, Zheng Zhai
• Paper 3: Ayse Kaya (Swarthmore College), Christopher Kilby (Villanova University), Jingke Pan (Heidelberg University). Geoeconomics of Chinese Influence: The Belt & Road Initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Discussion openers: Ryan Powers, Wen-Chin Wu

6:30-9:00 pm Dinner

Birch Aquarium at Scripps: 2300 Expedition Way, La Jolla, CA 92037

Friday, May 5

Institute of the Americas, UC San Diego Campus, Malamud Room (10111 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037)

8:30-9:00 am Breakfast

Institute of the Americas Courtyard

9:00-10:45 am Session 5: WTO

Chair: Axel Dreher

• Paper 1: Siyao Li (University of Pittsburgh). Who Harmonizes? Bilateral Regimes and Multilateral Underpinnings. Discussion openers: Alessia Invernizzi, Jennifer Tobin
• Paper 2: Yoo Sun Jung (University College of Dublin), Erica Owen (University of Pittsburgh), Yohan Park (University College of Dublin). Multinational Firms and the Impact of Trade Disputes on Investment Decisions. Discussion openers: Jason Davis, Christian Winkler
• Paper 3: Clara Park (University of Colorado Boulder). Beyond Finance: Why Countries Liberalize Financial Markets. Discussion openers: Lawrence Broz, Rachel Wellhausen

10:45-11:15 am Break

11:15-1:00 pm Session 6: International Monetary Fund

Chair: Daniel Nielson

• Paper 1: Anna M. Meyerrose (Arizona State University), Irfan Nooruddin (Georgetown University). The Authoritarian Trojan Horse Threatening Liberal International Organizations. Discussion openers: Shannon Carcelli, Jamus Lim
• Paper 2: Ha Eun Choi (Michigan State University), Jihwan Jeong (Yonsei University), Amanda Murdie (University of Georgia), Byungwon Woo (Yonsei University), Hyunjin Yim (Yonsei University). UN Secretary General Visits & Human Rights Diplomacy. Discussion openers: Simon Hug, Rachel Schoner
• Paper 3: Elena V. Mclean (State University of New York), Taehee Whang (Yonsei University), Joonseok Yang (Sungkyunkwan University). United Nations Sanctions and Public Support for Target Leaders’ Policy Choices. Discussion openers: Susanna Campbell, Martin Mosler

1:00-2:00 pm Lunch

Institute of the Americas Courtyard

2:00-3:45 pm Session 7: Conflict

Chair: Helen Milner

• Paper 1: Travers Barclay Child (CEIBS), Kai Gehring (University of Bern), Sarah Langlotz (University of Göttingen), Austin L. Wright (University of Chicago), Rossella De Sabatta (University of Bern). Terrorist Propaganda. Discussion openers: Susanna Campbell, Aila Matanock
• Paper 2: Harry Oppenheimer (Harvard University). The Failed Digital State Problem? Capacity Gaps and Managing Internet Externalities. Discussion openers: Austin Beacham, Manuel Oechslin
• Paper 3: Martin Gassebner (Leibniz University Hannover), Paul Schaudt (University of Bern), Melvin H. L. Wong (KfW Development Bank). Armed Groups: Competition and Political Violence. Discussion openers: Jordan Becker, Wendy Wagner

3:45-4:15 pm Break

4 pm Convene in front of IOA to walk over to the Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club as a group for poster reception and dinner

4:15-6:15 pm Poster Session and Reception

Security

• Jordan Becker (United States Military Academy). Populism and Burden-Sharing in the Transatlantic Community. Discussants: Ryan Brutger, Tyler Pratt
• Ringailė Kuokštytė (Military Academy of Lithuania), Vytautas Kuokštis (Vilnius University). Exploring Free Riding Among NATO Member States: A Spatiotemporal Approach. Discussants: Martin Gassebner, Harry Oppenheimer
• Aila M. Matanock (UC-Berkeley), Wendy Wagner (UC-San Diego). Statebuilding Through Delegation. Discussants: Julia Morse, Averell Schmidt

Foreign Aid

• Ryan Powers (University of Georgia), Austin Strange (University of Hongkong). Can Rising Powers Reassure? Shifting Power, Foreign Economic Policy, and Perceptions of Revisionist Intent. Discussants: Ayse Kaya, Jingke Pan
• Shannon P. Carcelli (University of Maryland). Where You Stand Depends on Where Your Data Sit: Bureaucratic Differences in Foreign Aid Reporting. Discussants: Lindsay Dolan, Cleo O’Brien-Udry
• Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow), Martin C. Steinwand (University of Essex). Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Evidence From Donor Participation Decisions in Collective Development Initiatives. Discussants: Pietro Bomprezzi, Alexandra Zeitz
• Ding-Yi Lai (National Chung Cheng University), Wen-Cheng Lin (National Chengchi University), Wen-Chin Wu (Academia Sinica). Aiding Digital Repression: Chinese Communication Aid and Media Freedom. Discussants: Samuel Brazys, Harry Oppenheimer
• Simone Dietrich (University of Geneva), Daniela Donno (University of Oklahoma), Katharina Fleiner (University of Geneva), Alice Iannantuoni (University of Geneva). Targeting Gender Equality Through Foreign Aid. Discussants: Helen Milner, Cleo O’Brien-Udry

United Nations

• Rachel J. Schoner (Princeton University). Naming and Shaming in the Human Rights Committee: Individual Petitions’ Effect on Human Rights. Discussants: Anne Jamison, Anna Meyerrose
• Martin Mosler (University of Lucerne). Seatmate, Votemate: Spatial Peer Effects on Voting Behavior at the United Nations General Assembly. Discussants: Axel Dreher, Alexandra Zeitz
• Shannon Carcelli (University of Maryland), Sloan Lansdale (University of Maryland), Andrew Lugg (University of Nevada Las Vegas). The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing A New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies. Discussants: Rachel Hulvey, Michal Parizek
• Simon Hug (University of Geneva). With a Little Help from my Friends? Keeping Voting Rights in the United Nations General Assembly. Discussants: Christopher Kilby, Joonseok Yang
• Jessica Maves Braithwaite (University of Arizona), Alex Bruens (University of Arizona), Susanna P. Campbell (American University), Hatem Zayed (American University). Who Keeps the Peace? Reconceptualizing Peace Operations through Networks of Influence and Support. Discussants: Sloan Lansdale, Anna Meyerrose
• Richard Clark (Cornell University), Christoph Mikulaschek (Harvard University), Julia C. Morse (UC-Santa Barbara). Socialization, Information, and the Underpinnings of Institutionalized Cooperation. Discussants: Daniel Nielson, Jonas Tallberg

Multilateral development Banks

• Stefano Jud (Emory University). Diffusing Risk: Bureaucratic Agency, UN Security Council Horse-Trading, and the Role of Co-Financing. Discussants: Faisal Ahmed, Axel Dreher
• Brendan Connell (Lyon College), Adrian Shin (University of Colorado Boulder). Capitol Controls: Migration and Congressional Oversight of International Organizations. Discussants: Lawrence Broz, Christina Schneider
• Antoine Boucher (University Paris Dauphine), Lisa Chauvet (University Paris 1), Marin Ferry (University Gustave Eiffel). Foreign Aid and Power Play: Political Cycle in World Bank’s Procurement Allocation. Discussants: Silvia Marchesi, Elena Mclean 
• Zhai Zheng (National University of Singapore). Major donors, World Bank, and Premier Borrowers: The Political Economy of the World Bank’s Loan Allocation. Discussants: Christopher Kilby, Lukas Wellner

Trade & Investment

• Alessia Invernizzi (University of Konstanz). Interdependence that Hurts: Sectoral Trade as a Driver of
  WTO Litigation. Discussants: Clara Park, Yohan Park
• Bo Won Kim (Northwestern University), Minju Kim (Syracuse University). Arbitrators as Advisors: Evidence from Changes in Investment Treaty Design. Discussants: Siyao Li, Timothy Meyer 
• Leopoldo Biffi (Geneva Graduate Institute), Christian Winkler (Geneva Graduate Institute). When Win-Sets Turn Volatile: Measuring the Effect of Domestic Uncertainty on the Formation and Design of Preferential Trade Agreements. Discussants: Gal Bitton, Jialu Li
• Jason Davis (Florida State University). Firms, Dynamics, and Stumbling Blocks in Trade. Discussants: Arianna Bondi, Gyu Sang Shim
• Jennifer Tobin (Georgetown University). Separate and Unequal: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Property Rights in Developing Countries. Discussants: Soo Yeon Kim, Yoo Sun Jung
• Jing Qian (Princeton University). Race to the Bottom, Treaty Shopping, and Treaty Cascades. Discussants: Erica Owen, Tal Sadeh
• Rachel Wellhausen (The University of Texas at Austin). Waste to the Bottom: Developing States’ Leverage in the Global Waste Trade. Discussants: Christina Davis, Zoe Ge

Health and Environment

• Austin Beacham (UC-San Diego). Conserving What’s Left: The Political Economy of Protected Area Location. Discussants: Richard Clark, Randall Stone
• Don Casler (Brown University), Richard Clark (Cornell University), Noah Zucker (Princeton University). Do Pledges Bind? The Mass Politics of International Climate Targets. Discussants: Christina Davis, Julia Morse
• Anne Spencer Jamison (Copenhagen Business School), Lauren Ferry (University of Mississippi), Witold Henisz (University of Pennsylvania), Anastasia Gracheva (University of Pennsylvania). Political Risk, Sustainability and Sovereign Credit Risk: Pricing High-Frequency Political, Environmental, Social and Governance News. Discussants: Layna Mosley, Kilian Rieder
• Nam Kyu Kim (Korea University), Byungwon Woo (Yonsei University), Joonseok Yang (Sungkyunkwan University). Effect of Direct Engagement of International Organization with the Public: Information Source Effect, IO Legitimacy, and Public Opinion. Discussants: Yumi Park, Evelina Jonsson

International Institutions

• Lisa Dellmuth (Stockholm University), Evelina Jonsson (Stockholm University). Estimating Subnational-Level Political Trust in National and International Institutions. Discussants: Richard Clark, Anne Jamison
• Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto), Jiajia Zhou (University of Toronto). Institutional Racism in International Relations. Discussants: Yumi Park, Tyler Pratt
• Tana Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Formal International Institutions. Discussants: Karen Alter, Helen Milner
• Jamus Lim (ESSEC Business School). Toward a Methodologically Individualist Theory of the Modern State. Discussants: Terrence Chapman, Timothy Meyer
• Grace Zeng (Princeton University). Institutional Constraints and Treaty Continuity. Discussants: Ryan Brutger, Sujeong Shim
• Manuel Oechslin (University of Lucerne). Open-Source Information and Repression. Discussants: Sarah Langlotz, B. Peter Rosendorff

6:00-9:00 pm Dinner

The Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club, UC San Diego

Saturday, May 6

Institute of the Americas, UC San Diego Campus, Malamud Room (10111 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037)

8:00-8:45 am Breakfast

Institute of the Americas Courtyard

9:00-10:45 am Session 8: Legitimacy

Chair: Lawrence Broz

• Paper 1: Jiseon Chang (University of Texas at Austin), Mirko Heinzel (University of Glasgow), Daniel Nielson (University of Texas at Austin). The Financial Consequences of International Organization Legitimacy: Evidence from a Global Field Experiment. Discussion openers: Daniela Donno, Christoph Mikulaschek
• Paper 2: Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt (University of Duisburg-Essen), Lisa Dellmuth (Stockholm University), Jonas Tallberg (Stockholm University). The Missing Link: How Political Values Matter for Global Legitimacy Beliefs. Discussion openers: Sujeong Shim, Joonseok Yang
• Paper 3: Julia Morse (UC-Santa Barbara), Tyler Pratt (Yale University). Fighting Facts or Fighting Norms: Reputation Management and International Norm Transgressions. Discussion openers:  Karen Alter, Bo Won Kim

10:45-11:15 am Break

11:15-1:00 pm Session 9: Elections & Empowerment

Chair: Christina Davis

• Paper 1: Tal Sadeh (Tel Aviv University), Gal Bitton (Tel Aviv University). Aiming at Compromise or Compromising the Aims: Do Voters Reward Eurosceptic Governments? Discussion openers: Stefano Jud, Noah Zucker
• Paper 2: Daniela Donno (University of Oklahoma), Julia Gray (University of Pennsylvania). Institutional Crowding in the International Electoral Monitoring Regime. Discussion openers: Alex Bruens, Shannon Carcelli
• Paper 3: Zoe Ge (New York University). Empowered by Information: Disease Outbreak Reporting at the World Health Organization. Discussion openers: Ringailė Kuokštytė, Adrian Shin

1:00-2:00 pm Lunch
Institute of the Americas Courtyard

2:00-3:10 pm Session 10: United Nations II

Chair: Simon Hug

• Paper 1: Anne Spencer Jamison (Copenhagen Business School), Claudia Liuzza (Duke University), Witold J. Henisz (University of Pennsylvania), Lynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania). Who Protests Whom in Challenges to the Liberal International Order? Liberalization, Economic Deprivation, and the Targeting of Political and Economic Actors at World Heritage Sites. Discussion openers: Jing Qian, Grace Zeng
• Paper 2: Rachel Hulvey (University of Pennsylvania). Polarizing the United Nations: China’s Rise and the Degree of Ideological Persuasion. Discussion openers: Soo Yeon Kim, Randall Stone

3:10-3:25 pm Break

3:25-4:35 pm Session 11: Other Very Interesting Topics

Chair: B. Peter Rosendorff

• Paper 1: Michal Parizek (Charles University). Media Reporting on International Organizations: Using Machine Learning to Identify Worldwide Patterns. Discussion openers: Leopoldo Biffi, Andrew Lugg
• Paper 2: Michael Ehrmann (European Central Bank), Phillipp Gnan (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Kilian Rieder (Austrian National Bank). Central Bank Communication by ??? The Economics of Public Policy Leaks. Discussion opener: Vytautas Kuokštis

4:35-5:00 pm Closing Remarks

6:00 pm Dinner (optional, at own expense)

Border X Brewing, Barrio Logan, 2181 Logan Ave. Take the MTS Trolley (Blue Line from UCSD to Barrio Logan).