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Faculty Panel Discussion on the November G20 Meeting
Mike Moore, Steve Suranovic, Fred Joutz, and Susan Aaronson
The George Washington University
Co-Hosted with the GWU Department of Economics
Friday, November 19, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Pampered Bureaucracy and Trade Liberalization
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality and Economic Growth in Mexico
Santiago Levy
Inter-American Development Bank
View the paper here.
Co-hosted with the GWU Department of Economics
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Permanent and Transitory Macroeconomic Relationships between China and the Developed World
by Tara Sinclair
Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Market
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
The Libertarian Welfare State
Robert Frank
Cornell University
Thursday, October 14, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Bad Public Schools are Public Bads: Test-Scores and Civic Values in Public and Private Schools
Jishnu Das
The World Bank
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
3rd Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and the U.S. – China Relationship
Friday, October 8, 2010
Made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous donor
Continental breakfast at 8:00 AM
8:45 AM: Welcome and Overview of the Conference
Stephen C. Smith (Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU)
9:00-9:45 AM: Kenneth Lieberthal, Brookings Institute, “Necessary Strategic Adaptation by U.S. Multinationals to Succeed in China’s Evolving Business Environment”
9:45-11:00 AM: Economic Development Patterns in China
Moderator: Steve Suranovic, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU
Panelists:
Lu Ming, Fudan University, “Sustainable Growth or Not? Hukou, Land and Rural-Urban Development in China“
Zhang Xiaobo, IFPRI, “Analysis of Industrial Clusters in China“
Feng Tian, Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, “Trade Linkages of BRICs in the World Economy“
11:00-11:15 AM: Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 PM: Political Economy of Development in China
Moderator: Jiawen Yang, Professor of International Business and International Affairs, GWU
Panelists:
Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, GWU, “Firm Performance and Investment in Political Human Capital“
Bruce Reynolds, UVA, “A Macro Framework for Understanding the Exchange Rate Debate“
Meng Lingsheng, Tsinghua University, “Prenatal Sex Selection and Missing Girls in China: Evidence from the Diffusion of Diagnostic Ultrasound“
12:30-1:45 PM: Luncheon and Keynote by Huang Yasheng, MIT, “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics“
1:45-3:00 PM: Aspects of U.S.-China Economic Relations
Moderator: Michael Moore, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU
Panelists:
Doug Guthrie, Dean, GWU School of Business, “Economic Development & U.S.-China Relations“
Gao Fei, China Foreign Affairs University, “Chinese View on Contemporary Sino-US Relations: Challenge and Opportunity“
Bruce Dickson, GWU, “China’s Evolving Economic Model and Its Implications for the US”
3:00-4:15 PM: China-Africa Links
Moderator: Fred Joutz, Professor of Economics, GWU
Panelists:
Deborah Brautigam, African Union, “Chinese Aid and Investment in Africa: Think Again“
Joshua Eisenman, American Foreign Policy Council and UCLA, “China’s Trade and Political Engagement in Africa“
Ambassador David Shinn , GWU, “China’s Security and Diplomatic Relations with Africa”
An archive of all previous Annual Conferences on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations is available here.
For more information, please contact Kyle Renner at iiep@gwu.edu or 202-994-5320.
Co-sponsored by:
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Maggie Chen
The George Washington University
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Greed, Capitalism and the Financial Crisis
by Steve Suranovic
To Sell or Not to Sell: List Price, Transaction Price and Marketing Time in the Housing Market
by Paul Carrillo
Differences in PRC and Indian Textile and Apparel Industry Response to the Elimination of the MFA: Do Cultural Differences Matter?
Patent Protection and Strategic Delays in Technology Development: Implications for Economic Growth
Interdependence in Multinational Production Networks
Export Duration and New Market Entry
Anna Rakhman
The George Washington University
Co-hosted with the GWU Department of Economics
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
International development through multinationals: foreign R&D units and indigenous innovation
Joel Blit
George Washington University
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review
by Arun Malik & Stephen C. Smith
Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?
Implementing Carbon Tariffs: A Fool’s Errand?
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
“Womb for Rent” – Gestational Surrogacy Contracts – A New Path for Outsourcing Service Contracts
Financial Regulation and Supervision: Lessons from the Crisis
The Institute for International Economic Policy, the National Center for Sustainable Development, and the Bertelsmann Foundation
International Monetary Fund
Conference videos coming soon.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
8:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
City View Room, 7th Floor
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
Continental breakfast at 8:15 AM
8:45-9:00 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Stephen C. Smith (Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GW)
9:00-10:00 AM: Session 1 – What Went Wrong: Market and Regulatory Failures
Prof. John Geanakoplos (Yale University)
Prof. Matthew Richardson (NYU)
10:00-10:15 AM: Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 PM: Session 1 (cont’d) – What Went Wrong: Market and Regulatory Failures
Prof. Ross Levine (Brown University)
Prof. Phillip Swagel (Georgetown University & former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy
11:15-11:30 AM: Coffee Break
11:30AM-1:00 PM: Session 2 – The Regulation of Financial Institutions
Dr. Stijn Claessens (Research Department, IMF)
Prof. Douglas Gale (NYU)
Prof. Mark Flannery (University of Florida)
1:00-2:30 PM: Lunch Break
2:30-4:00 PM: Session 3 – The Regulation of Financial Markets
Dr. Laura Kodres (Research Department, IMF)
Prof. Neil Pearson (University of Illinois)
Prof. Erik Stafford (Harvard Business School)
4:00-4:15 PM: Coffee Break
4:15-5:00 PM: Keynote Address – The Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis: An Early Assessment
Dr. Jeffrey Lacker – President, Federal Reserve Board of Richmond
5:00-5:30 PM: Open Floor Discussion
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later
by James Foster
Third Country Effects on the Formation of Free Trade Agreements
Freedom, Opportunity and Wellbeing
Regional Agricultural Endowments and Shifts of Poverty Trap Equilibria: Evidence from Ethiopian Panel Data
Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador
IIEP Climate and Energy Forum: Policy Comparisons and Business Perspectives: The Coal and Solar Sectors in China, U.S.A. and Germany
Co-sponsored by the National Center for Sustainable Development,
and the Bertelsmann Foundation
This event is part of the Institute for International Economic Policy’s Adaptation to Climate Change Initiative.
Friday, April 23, 2010
7:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
City View Room, 7th Floor
1957 E St., NW
Elliott School of International Affairs
George Washington University
Washington, DC
7:30am: Registration and Breakfast
8:30am: Welcome Remarks (bilingual): Prof. Maggie Xiaoyang Chen – GWU
8:40am: Introduction to Roundtable Topics and Participants
Framing of the discussion topics, and Overview of the Forum
Prof. Stephen Smith – Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, GWU
9:00am: Introduction of the First Panel
The Public Sector Role in Setting the Rules of the Game for Economic and Environmental Balance
Moderator: Prof. Arun Malik – GWU
China Reps: Chen Huan – Deputy Director General, CDM Fund
& Dr. Wen Gang – Ministry of Finance
U.S. Rep: Dr. Phyllis Yoshida – Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Energy Cooperation, Department of Energy
German Rep: Matthias Sonn – Minister for Economic Affairs, German Embassy – Washington, DC and Board Director, US-German Business Council
Questions to pose for Perspectives and Comparison
1. WHAT IS YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON THE PUBLIC ROLE IN THE ENERGY SECTOR, IN SEEKING ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE BALANCE?
2. HOW DO YOU ENVISION THE WAY THE PUBLIC SECTOR WILL INTERACT WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR?
2. WHAT ARE THE MAIN CONSTRAINTS ON IMPLEMENTING THE APPROPRIATE PUBLIC ROLE?
3. WHAT DO YOU VIEW AS UNIQUE TO YOUR COUNTRY FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF SPECIAL POLICY CHALLENGES AND SPECIAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES?
10:00am: Audience Participation Questions – Questions collected from the audience during the primary panel discussion and posed by the moderator at this time.
10:30am: Coffee Break
11:00am: Introduction of Second Panel
The Private Sector Role in Promoting Viable Balanced Markets to achieve low carbon intensity sustainable development:
Moderator: Prof. Fred Joutz – GWU
China Reps: Chen Huan – Deputy Director General, CDM Fund
& Dr. Wen Gang – Ministry of Finance
U.S. Rep: Tom Mackey – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Clean Coal Project
German Rep: TBA
Questions to Pose for Implementation and Comparison
1. WHAT DOES THE PRIVATE SECTOR NEED FROM THE PUBLIC SECTOR?
2. WHAT SIGNIFICANT UNWARRANTED CONSTRAINTS COME FROM THE PUBLIC SECTOR?
3. WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE BALANCED AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE OF THE RESPECTIVE ENERGY SUBSECTORS?
4. WHAT FINANCING CONSTRAINTS ARE PRESENT?
12:00 noon: Audience Participation Questions – Questions collected from the audience during the second panel discussion will be posed by the moderator at this time.
12:30pm: Lunch
1:00pm: Keynote Speaker & Questions
1:15pm: Keynote Speaker introduction by Annette Heuser: Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation, Washington, DC
“Energy and Climate Policy: Practical Lessons from Germany”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Klaus Scharioth – German Ambassador to the United States of America
2:00pm: Wrap up by: Mitchell F. Stanley, President & Trustee, National Center for Sustainable Development, Washington, DC
On Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty
by James Foster
Do Cheaters Bunch Together? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion
Addressing the Fiscal Deficit Crisis
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
former Director of the Congressional Budget Office
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Suite 505
1957 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
Is Fairer Trade Compatible with Freer Markets?
Cosponsored by the Government of the Netherlands,
the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Financial Times
Conference Videos coming soon.
Thursday, March 4 and Friday, March 5, 2010
Lindner Commons, Suite 602
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
March 4, 2010
6:00-7:30 PM – Evening Keynote
Michael Conroy, PhD (Chair of the Board, TransFair)
Fairer Trade and Freer Trade: The Evolution of Strategies That Work for the Poor
March 5, 2010
8:00-8:30 AM Continental breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Introductory Remarks: Steve Suranovic (GWU-IIEP)
“Defining Fairness in Trade”
A description of the conference and an overview of what we mean by fairness as applied in international trade discussions. Do we mean fairness of outcome? Do we mean fairness of process, or both? PPT
9:00 – 10:30 AM – Fairness in the Real World
There is a lot of talk about fair trade, but we really know little about what policymakers, academics, and consumers are concerned about when they think about fair trade. This panel will focus on perceptions of fair trade among these groups and how these perceptions play out in global and national markets.
Michael Hiscox (Harvard) PPT
Shareen Hertel (UConn) Paper and PPT
Doug Nelson (Tulane and Univ. of Nottingham) Paper and PPT
Sean Ehrlich (Florida State) Paper
10:40-11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Consumers and Fair Trade
Is there sufficient consumer demand for products carrying social/eco labels signaling they are fairly produced? Are fair trade strategies workable and sustainable? How do public policies channel or distort fairer trade?
Daniel Stokes (TransFair FLO) Paper
Kelly Johnston (Vice President – Government Affairs, Campbells Soup) Paper
Eric Biel (Managing Director, Corporate Responsibility, Burston Marsteller)
Kim Elliott (CGD)
12:30 – 2:00 PM – Luncheon Keynote – “Making Markets Work for the Poor”
Monika Weber-Fahr (Global Business Line Leader, IFC, World Bank) PPT
Moderated by: James Politi (The Financial Times)
2:00 – 3:30 PM – Producers and Fair Trade
How can market actors work to achieve fairer outcomes for workers? Do such strategies yield more productive workers? How do they affect market share and profits?
David Berdish (Ford Motor Company) Paper
Rene Van Hell (Deputy Director for Trade Politics and Globalization in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Holland) Paper
Bama Athreya (International Labor Rights Forum)
Charita Castro (Division Chief for Operations, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor Affairs) PPT
3:30 – 3:45 PM – Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:30 PM – So, What do you think? Are Freer Markets Compatible with Fairer Outcomes for the Poor?
Prof. Susan Aaronson (GWU) will ask audience questions focused on the Conference objective, “Are Free Markets Compatible with Fairer Outcomes for the poor?”
Will fair trade strategies yield fairer outcomes?
Will they distort trade?
Will consumers respond? If so, what are the best strategies to achieve fairer trade?
4:30 – 4:45 PM – Conclusions
Prof. Steve Suranovic (GWU) will summarize the conference findings: What do we think about these options? What is the future of fairer trade strategies?
How China’s Employment Problems Became Trade Problems: China, Labour Law and the Rule of Law
by Susan Aaronson
Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO, and Some Democratic Rights
by Susan Aaronson
The Unlevel Playing Field of Financial Regulation
Anna Gelpern (Washington College of Law, American University)
Len Seabrooke (Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick)
Eleni Tsingou (Centre for the Sudy of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick)
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Suite 505
1957 E St NW
Washington, DC 20052
Herd Behavior and Contagion in Financial Markets
A Post-Montesquieu Analysis of the WTO
Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
2nd Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and the U.S. China-Relationship
Friday, November 20, 2009
Continental breakfast at 8:00 AM
9:00 AM: Welcome and Overview of the Conference
Stephen C. Smith (Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GW) Trends in China’s Development and U.S.-China Trade
9:15-10:00 AM: Opening address and charge to the conference
Dr. Harry Harding (Dean, University of Virginia, former Elliott School Dean, and former University Professor at GW) The G-2 Chimera: Fusion or Illusion? – Paper
10:00-10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Session 1: Transformations and Emerging Challenges in the Economy of China
Bruce Reynolds (Professor of Economics, University of Virginia) Macro Problems and Macro Policy in China and the United States: Lessons from the Economic Crisis – PPT
Loren Brandt (Professor of Economics, University of Toronto) – PPT
John Giles (Associate Professor of Economics, Michigan State University, and Senior Labor Economist, World Bank) The Current and Future Well Being of China’s Rural Elderly – Paper and PPT
Dr. Xiaobo Zhang (Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute) The Competitive Savings Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China – Paper and PPT and Transcript
Dr. Lixin Colin Xu (Senior Economist, World Bank)
12:30-1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00-1:45 PM: Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Dr. Fred Bergsten (Founder and Director, Peterson Institute of International Economics) – “The United States-China Economic Relationship and the Strategic and Economic Dialogue“. Paper – Two’s Company (Letter to the Editor of Foriegn Affairs Magazine) – Paper
1:45-2:00 PM: Coffee Break
2:00-4:00 PM: Session 2: Crisis, Emergence of the G2 relationship, and Future Challenges
Zhu Caihua (Associate Professor of International Economics, China Foreign Affairs University) FDI Flows Between China and the US: Implications for Sino-US Economic Relations – Paper
Dr. Philip Levy (Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and former Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers) The Sustainability of Chinese Economic Success: Implications for Future Sino-U.S. Relations
Margaret Pearson (Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland) China as a G2 Member: What are the Political Constraints? – Paper
Bruce Dickson (Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GW)
An archive of all previous Annual Conferences on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations is available here.
For more information, please contact Kyle Renner at iiep@gwu.edu or 202-994-5320.
Co-sponsored by:
Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change: Methodology
Sergio Margulis
Lead Environmental Economist for Climate Change, World Bank
Thursday, November 12, 2009
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Suite 505
1957 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
The Financial Crisis: An Inside View
Phillip Swagel
Georgetown University, former Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Economic Policy
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lindner Commons, Room 602
1957 E St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
Climate Change and Agriculture: Impacts and the Costs of Adaptation in Developing Countries
Gerald Nelson
IFPRI
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
How Well Does ‘Core’ CPI Measure Long-Run Inflation
How Well Does “Core” CPI Capture Permanent Price Changes?
The Short-Term Impacts of a Schooling Conditional Cash Transfer Program on the Sexual Behavior of Young Women
Limited Partnership: Business, Government, Civil Society (NGOs) and the Public in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)
Climate Change and the World Trading System
Dr. Steve Charnovitz – GWU
Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Jisun Kim – Peterson Institute
View the paper here.
This event was made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. It is a discussion of the book Climate Change and the World Trading System, co-authored with Cary Clyde and Jisun Kim (Peterson Institute).
Friday, September 18, 2009
12:00 to 2:00pm
Suite 601M
1957 E St NW
Washington, DC 20052
Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
Aggregate Income Shocks and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Jointly Evaluating GDP and Inflation Forecasts in the Context of the Taylor Rule
Can the Fed Predict the State of the Economy
Lazy Banks? Government Borrowing and Private Credit: Evidence from Developing Countries
Trade Topics in the Current Congress
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Joint with the Washington International Trade Association (WITA)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
8:00 am to 9:00 am
City View Room, 7th Floor
1957 E St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
Public Information and Household Expectations in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
The Matching of Heterogeneous Firms and Politicians
Trade Topics in the Current Congress
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Joint with the Washington International Trade Association (WITA)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
8:00 am to 9:00 am
City View Room, 7th Floor
1957 E St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Africa and the Middle East
Steve Radelet (CGD) – Paper
Antoinette Sayeh (IMF) – Paper
Mohsin Khan (Peterson Institute) – Paper
David Hamod (National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce)
Joint with the Institute for Middle East Studies
Monday, April 13, 2009
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
Antidumping Use Across the World
Implications for Developing Countries and U.S. Businesses
Thursday and Friday, April 9 & 10, 2009
8:00 – 3:00 PM (Thursday), 8:00 – 1:30 PM (Friday)
Lindner Commons, Suite 602
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
Thursday, April 9, 2009
8:00 – 8:45 AM – Continental breakfast
8:45 – 9:45 AM – Tom Prusa (Rutgers and NBER) – Trade Liberalization, Tariff Overhang and Antidumping Filing in Developing Countries”
Discussant: Michael Moore (GWU-IIEP)
9:45 – 10:45 AM – Maurizio Zanardi (ULB-ECARES): “Trade Liberalization and Antidumping in Developing Countries: Is There a Substitution Effect?”
Discussant: Rod Ludema (Georgetown)
10:45 – 11:00 AM – Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Kara Reynolds (American): “Overcoming Free-Riding: A Cross-Country Analysis of Firm Participation in Antidumping Petitions”
Discussant: Judith Dean (USITC)
12:00 – 1:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 PM – Chad Bown (Brandeis)
Discussant: Bob Feinberg (American)
2:00 – 3:00 PM – Justin Pierce (Georgetown): “Plant Level Responses to Antidumping Duties: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturers”
Discussant: Maggie Chen (GWU-IIEP)
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Friday, April 10, 2009
“Expanding Use of Antidumping and Prospects for Reform”
8:00 – 9:00 AM – Continental breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 AM – Global Antidumping Use and Implications for Developing Countries
Chad Bown (Brandeis)
Maurizio Zanardi (ULB-ECARES)
Jorge Miranda (King and Spaulding)
10:00 – 11:00 AM – Basic Concepts of Antidumping
Tom Prusa (Rutgers and NBER) – Economists’ Views
Matt Nolan (Arent Fox) – Lawyers’ views
Stephen Claeys (former Dep. Asst. Sec. for Import Administration) – Administrators’ views
11:00 – 11:15 AM – Coffee Break
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM – Reforming Antidumping
Michael Moore (GWU-IIEP) – Economists’ views
Jim Durling (Winston and Strawn) – Respondent Lawyers’ views
Stephen Jones (King and Spaulding) – Petitioner Lawyers’ views
12:15 – 1:30 PM – Lunch and Keynote Address
Grant Aldonas (former Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade)
“Trade Remedies’ Impact on U.S. Commercial Policy”
Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on East and South Asia
Justin Lin (World Bank)
Anoop Singh (IMF)
Arvind Subramanian (Peterson Institute)
Joint with the Sigur Center on Asian Studies
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
12:00 to 2:00pm
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
Third-Country Effects in Multinational Production Networks
March 2009
by Maggie Chen
NAFTA at 15
Assessing the Past and Preparing for the Future
Friday, March 27, 2009
Lindner Commons, Suite 602
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
8:30 – 9:20 AM Continental breakfast
9:20 – 9:30 AM
Introductory Remarks: Michael Moore (GWU-IIEP)
9:30 – 10:45 AM – NAFTA’s Origins and Impact on the U.S. and Canada
Moderator: Steve Suranovic (GWU-IIEP)
Sidney Weintraub (Center for Strategic and International Studies): Origins of North American Integration
Gary Hufbauer (Peterson Institute): NAFTA and the U.S.
Richard Harris (Simon Fraser University): NAFTA and Canada
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM – Impact on Mexico
Moderator: Cynthia McClintock (GWU-LAHSP)
Nora Lustig (GWU-IIEP): Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Post-NAFTA Mexico
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University): Impact on Mexican Firms
Phil Martin (University of California – Davis): Immigration flows under NAFTA
12:00 – 12:45 PM – Remarks on “The Future of NAFTA” by Jaime Serra (former Mexican chief negotiator for NAFTA)
12:45 – 1:45 PM – Lunch
1:45 – 3:00 PM – What’s Next for North American Integration? Views from the Academy
Moderator: Nora Lustig (GWU-IIEP)
Robert Pastor (American University)
Gustavo Vega (El Colegio de Mexico) PowerPoint
John Curtis (Centre for International Governance Innovation)
3:00 – 3:15 PM – Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:30 PM – North American Governments’ Priorities
Moderator: Michael Moore (GWU-IIEP)
Grant Aldonas (former U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade)
Beatriz Leycegui (Mexican Undersecretary of Economy for International Trade Negotiations) PowerPoint
Susan Harper (Economic Minister for the Embassy of Canada)
Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Latin America
Steven Phillips (IMF)
Claudio Loser (GW and Inter-American Dialogue) – Paper
Nora Lustig (GW) – Paper
Jay Pelosky (Private Investor)
Joint with the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Regional Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Central and Eastern Europe
Marek Belka (IMF)
Clifford Gaddy (Brookings) – Paper
Graciela Kaminsky (GW) – Paper
Anders Aslund (Peterson Institute) – Paper
Joint with the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Monday, March 23, 2009
12:00 to 2:00pm
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
Coping with Rising Food Prices: Policy Dilemmas in the Developing World
Location Decision of Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
Financial Liberalization, Financial Restraint and Entrepreneurial Development
Fiscal and Political Instability and the Growth Nexus in Developing Countries: An Application to Nigeria
by Fred Joutz
IIEP Working Paper 2009-11
Incentives for Adopting Clean Technologies: A Comparison of Policy Instruments in the Small Numbers Case
by Arun Malik
IIEP Working Paper 2009-10
Oil Prices, Fiscal Policy, and Venezuela’s Economic Growth
by Fred Joutz & Michael Bradley
IIEP Working Paper 2009-3
Greed and Capitalism: A Source of Evil or Salvation?
by Steve Suranovic
IIEP Working Paper 2009-12
Bootstrap Test for Stationarity
by Tara Sinclair
IIEP Working Paper 2008-18
Why Don’t Foreign Firms Cooperate in U.S. Antidumping Investigations?: An Empirical Analysis
Exploring the Link Between Oil Prices and Tanker Rates
by Fred Joutz
IIEP Working Paper 2008-15
Cultural Inheritance, Gender, and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility: Evidence from a Developing Economy
The Extent of the Market and Stages of Agricultural Specialization
Estimating Import Demand Function in Developing Countries: A Structural Econometric Approach with Applications to India and Sri Lanka
Reflections and Projections: A Trade Transition Memo for the New Administration
Christopher A. Padilla
Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade
Joint with the Washington Trade Association (WITA)
Thursday, November 13, 2008
9:00 am – 10:00 am
City View Room, 7th Floor
1957 E St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
The U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement: Implementation and Impact
Alvaro Henzler (Economic Advisor to the Ambassador of Peru, professor at Georgetown University and Universidad del Pacifico)
Carlos Mateo Paz-Soldan (DTB Associates)
José Raul Perales (Senior Program Associate for Latin America at the Woodrow Wilson Center)
Joint with the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program
Thursday, October 30, 2008
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Duques Hall Suite 451
2201 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
1st Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and the U.S. China Relationship
Monday, October 20, 2008
Continental breakfast from 8:30 AM
9:30-10:45 AM: The U.S. and China in the World Economy
This session will examine the global context of the relationship, including macroeconomic conditions and global energy markets.
Warwick McKibbin (Professor of Economics at Australian National University, Member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution)
David Pumphrey (Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Energy Cooperation at the Department of Energy)
Jiawen Yang (Professor of International Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University, co-author of Case Studies of U.S. Economic Sanctions: The Chinese, Cuban and Iranian Experience)
10:45-11:00 AM: Coffee break
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: U.S. and China Trade and Investment Issues
This session will explore current controversies surrounding U.S. economic relations.
Jim Mendenhall (Partner at Sidley Austin, LLP and former General Counsel at Office of the U.S. Trade Representative)
Patrick Mulloy (Member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and former Assistant Secretary of Commerce)
Eswar Prasad (Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and former Chief of the China Division at the International Monetary Fund).
12:30-1:45 PM: Lunch
2:00-3:15 PM: The Future of U.S.-China Relations
The final group of panelist will discuss the economic and political future of the two countries.
Albert Keidel (Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Acting Director and Deputy Director for the Office of East Asian Nations at the U.S. Treasury Department)
Philip Levy (Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers)
David Shambaugh (Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University, Director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution).
An archive of all previous Annual Conferences on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations is available here.
For more information, please contact Kyle Renner at iiep@gwu.edu or 202-994-5320.
Trade and the Hill: What to Expect Post-Election
Eric Euland – The Duberstein Group; former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R., Tennessee)
David Castagnetti – Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, Inc.; former chief of staff to both Senator Max Baucus (D., Montana) and former Rep. Norman Mineta (D., California)
Jennifer Mulveny – Sandler, Travis and Rosenberg; former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for congressional affairs under President George W. Bush, and Republican professional staff, House Ways and Means Committee
Steve Champlin – Vice President of the Duberstein Group, and former Executive Director of the House Democratic Caucus
Joint with the Consumers for World Trade Education Fund
This is a U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
12:00 to 2:00pm
Lindner Commons, Suite 602
1957 E St., NW
Washington, DC 20052
Regionalism in Standards: Good or Bad for Trade?
Herd Behavior in Financial Markets: An Experiment with Financial Market Professionals
Trade Liberalization and Antidumping: Is There a Substitution Effect?
July 2008
by Michael Moore
Does Antidumping Use Contribute to Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries?
Output Fluctuations in the G-7: An Unobserved Components Approach
Investing in Health: The Long-Term Impact of Head Start on Smoking
Regional Economic Integration and Geographic Concentration of Multinational Firms
Asymmetry in the Business Cycle: Revisiting the Friedman Plucking Model
Alternative Measures of Homeownership Gaps Across Segregated Neighborhoods
by Paul Carrillo
Long-run Causes of Comparative Development: An Interpretation of the Recent Evidence
A Match Made in the Corporate and Public Interests: Marrying Voluntary CSR Initiatives and the WTO
June 2007
by Susan Aaronson
Efficient Deliveries of Cash Transfers to the Poor: Improving the Design of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Ecuador
A Research Symposium on New Directions for Research on Microfinance
Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy, GWU Department of Economics,and GW-Center for International Business Education and Research
Friday, April 20, 2007
Alumni House
1925 F St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
9:30 AM: Welcome and Overview of the Conference
Stephen C. Smith (Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GW)
9:45-10:45 AM: Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet (University of California-Berkeley and World Bank), “The Supply and Demand Side of Credit Information,” (with Craig McIntosh, University of California-San Diego)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Joe Kaboski, (OSU) “Testing a Structural Model of Credit Constraints Using a Large-Scale Quasi Experimental Microfinance Initiative,” (with Robert Townsend, University of Chicago)
12:00-1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00-2:00 PM: Jonathan Conning, (Hunter College/CUNY), “Foundations of Social Investment” (with Jonanthan Morduch, New York University)
2:15-3:15 PM Shahe Emran, (GWU), “Microfinance and Missing Markets” (with Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University)
3:30-4:30 PM Dean Karlan, (Yale University), “Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts” (with Jonathan Zinman, Dartmouth University)
4:30 PM Closing Remarks
The Desirability of Forgiveness in Regulatory Enforcement
by Arun Malik