Princeton-Yale Seminar - Empirical Strategies in International Political Economy

Wallace Hall, Room 300

Organizers: Giovanni Maggi (Yale University), Helen V. Milner (Princeton University), and Kenneth Scheve (Yale University)

By invitation only.
To request to attend the conference, please e-mail Patricia Trinity

Friday, April 20, 2012

9:00-9:30am	Continental breakfast and Introductions

9:30-11:45am	Session 1: Trade Agreements
	The Effect of WTO on the Extensive and Intensive Margins of Trade Pushan Dutt (INSEAD), Ilian Mihov (INSEAD & CEPR) and Timothy Van Zandt (INSEAD& CEPR)
	Discussant: Robert S. Staiger (Stanford University)
	Free Trade Agreements and the Consolidation of Democracy Emanuel Ornelas (London School of Economics) and Xuepeng Liu (Kennesaw State University)
	Discussant: Edward D. Mansfield (University of Pennsylvania)

11:45am-1:15pm	Lunch

1:15-3:30pm	Session 2: Lobbying and Trade Policy
	America and Trade Liberalization: A Revisionist Account Judith L. Goldstein (Stanford University) and Robert Gulotty (Stanford University)
	Discussant: Kishore Gawande (Texas A&M University)
	Protection for Free? The Political Economy of U.S. Tariff Suspensions Rodney D. Ludema (Georgetown University), Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University) and Prachi Mishra (International Monetary Fund)
	Discussant: Jens Hainmueller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

3:30-3:45pm	Refreshment break

3:45-6:00pm	Session 3: Trade and Wages
	Looking for Local Labor-Market Effects of the NAFTA John E. McLaren (University of Virginia) and Shushanik Hakobyan (Middlebury College)
	Discussant: A. Kerem Coşar ( University of Chicago)
	Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics Rafael Dix-Carneiro (University of Maryland)
	Discussant: Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)

6:30pm	Reception and dinner