Program of the 9^th Annual Conference on

The Political Economy of International Organizations

January 7-9, 2016

Wednesday, January 6, 2016 

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

(Location: Porcupine Pub & Grille)

Thursday, January 7, 2016

6:00 am Breakfast (included in conference rate)

(Location: University Guest House)

8:45-9:00 am Opening remarks

9:00-10:45 am Session 1: United Nations I

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Christopher Kilby

• Paper 1: David H. Bearce (University of Colorado), Thomas R. Cook (University of Colorado), The First Image Reversed: Can IGO Signals Influence Mass Political Attitudes? Discussion openers: Angel Saz-Carranza, Helen V. Milner
• Paper 2: Ursula Häfliger (University of Zurich), Simon Hug (University of Geneva), International Organizations, Their Employees and Volunteers and Their Values. Discussion openers: Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir, Felicity Vabulas
• Paper 3: Tobias Rommel (University of Zurich), Paul Schaudt (University of Hannover), Dyadic Leader Change, Foreign Policy Signals, and Aid Allocation. Discussion openers: Christoph Mikulaschek, Wen-Chin Wu

10:45-11:15 am Break

11:15-1:00 pm Session 2: World Bank I & Security

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Axel Dreher

• Paper 1: Kurt Annen (University of Guelph), Stephen Knack (World Bank), On the Delegation of Aid Implementation to Multilateral Agencies. Discussion openers: Katherine V. Bryant, Erasmus Kersting
• Paper 2: Nicola Limodio (LSE), The Economics of Development Lending: Evidence from Manager-Country Assignment in World Bank Projects. Discussion openers: Bradley C. Parks, Christopher Kilby
• Paper 3: Yoram Haftel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Stephanie C. Hofmann (The Graduate Institute, Geneva), Institutional Authority and Security Cooperation within Regional Economic Organizations. Discussion openers: Christoph Mikulaschek, Paul Schaudt

1:00-2:15 pm Lunch

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 7170)

2:15-4:00 pm Session 3: BITs

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Katharina Michaelowa

• Paper 1: Cristina Bodea (Michigan State University), Fangjin Ye (Michigan State University), Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs): The Global Investment Regime and Human Rights. Discussion openers: Colin R. Kuehnhanss, Volker Nitsch
• Paper 2: Eric Arias (New York University), James R. Hollyer (University of Minnesota), B. Peter Rosendorff (New York University), Leadership Survival, Regime Type and BITs. Discussion openers: Kai Gehring, Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir
• Paper 3: Adam S. Chilton (University of Chicago), Helen V. Milner (Princeton University), Dustin Tingley (Harvard University), Public Opposition to Foreign Acquisitions of Domestic Companies: Evidence From the United States and China. Discussion openers: Wen-Chin Wu, Tina Zappile

4:00-4:30 pm Break

4:30-6:15 pm Session 4: European Union & Security

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Helen V. Milner

• Paper 1: Christina J. Schneider (UCSD), The Globalization of Electoral Politics in the European Union. Discussion openers: Eva Kagan, Heather E. McKibben
• Paper 2: Christophe Crombez (KU Leuven & Stanford University), Martijn Huysmans (KU Leuven), Wim Van Gestel (KU Leuven), Choosing an Informed Agenda Setter: The Appointment of the Commission in the European Union. Discussion openers: Kai Gehring, Dimiter Toshkov
• Paper 3: Jeffrey M. Kaplow (College of William & Mary), Selective Enforcement and Revealed Preferences in International Security Organizations. Discussion openers: Paul Schaudt, Randall W. Stone

7:30 pm: Dinner

(Location: Alta Club)

Friday, January 8, 2016

6:00 am Breakfast (included in conference rate)

(Location: University Guest House)

9:00-10:45 am Session 5: Other Organizations

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Tobias Hofmann

• Paper 1: Vera Z. Eichenauer (Heidelberg University), Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Zurich), What determines Earmarked Funding to International Development Organizations? Evidence from the New Multi-bi Aid Dataset. Discussion openers: Elena McLean, Felicity Vabulas
• Paper 2: Eric Arias (New York University), The Diffusion of International Norms: A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge. Discussion openers: David H. Bearce, Daniel L. Nielson
• Paper 3: Brilé Anderson (ETH Zurich), Thomas Bernauer (ETH Zurich), How Much Carbon Offsetting and Where? Implications of Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Ethicality Considerations for Public Opinion Formation. Discussion openers: Axel Michaelowa, Jakob Skovgaard

10:45-11:15 am Break

11:15-1:00 pm Session 6: World Bank II

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Thomas Bernauer

• Paper 1: Axel Dreher (Heidelberg University), Andreas Fuchs (Heidelberg University), Roland Hodler (University of St. Gallen), Bradley C. Parks (The College of William and Mary), Paul A. Raschky (Monash University), Michael J. Tierney (The College of William and Mary), Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China’s Foreign Assistance. Discussion openers: Kurt Annen, Arvind Magesan
• Paper 2: Elena McLean (University at Buffalo, SUNY), The Politics of Contract Allocation in Multilateral Aid Organizations. Discussion openers: Nathalie Ferrière, Bernhard Reinsberg
• Paper 3: Erasmus Kersting (Villanova University), Christopher Kilby (Villanova University), Bilateral versus Multilateral: Picking Policy Instruments. Discussion openers: Brandy J. Jolliff, Stephen Knack

1:00-2:15 pm Lunch

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 7170)

2:15-4:00 pm Session 7: Trade

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Randall W. Stone

• Paper 1: Todd Allee (University of Maryland), Manfred Elsig (University of Bern), Andrew Lugg (University of Maryland), The Presence of the World Trade Organization within Preferential Trade Agreements. Discussion openers: Volker Nitsch, Aydin Yildirim
• Paper 2: Kristy Buzard (Syracuse University), Endogenous Politics and the Design of Trade Institutions. Discussion openers: Elias Bengtsson, Cristiane Carneiro
• Paper 3: Soo Yeon Kim (National University of Singapore), The Language of Institutional Design: Text Similarity in Preferential Trade Agreements. Discussion openers: Fouad Pervez, J.P. Singh

4:15-6:00 pm Poster Session

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 7180)

European Union

• Paper 1: Gong Cheng (European Stability Mechanism), The Global Financial Safety Nets through the Prism of G20 Summits. Discussants: Cristina Bodea, Liam F. McGrath
• Paper 2: Nathalie Ferrière (Paris School of Economics), To Give or Not to Give? How do Other Donors React to European Food Aid Allocation? Discussants: Andreas Fuchs, Erasmus Kersting
• Paper 3: Kai Gehring (University of Zurich), Stephan A. Schneider (Heidelberg University), Towards the Greater Good? EU Commissioners’ Nationality and Budget Allocation in the European Union. Discussants: John G. Francis, Christina J. Schneider
• Paper 4: Brandy J. Jolliff (Midwestern State University), Explaining a New Foreign Aid Recipient: The EU’s Provision of Foreign Aid to Regional Trade Agreements, 1995-2011. Discussants: Bradley C. Parks, Brent J. Steele
• Paper 5: Christian Staat (Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Colin R. Kuehnhanss (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), How electoral systems and moonlighting shape parliamentary output in the European Parliament. Discussants: Eric Arias, Christophe Crombez
• Paper 6: Heather E. McKibben (University of California, Davis), Negotiator Discretion and Winning Concessions in International Negotiations: The Case of EU Decision-Making. Discussants: Manfred Elsig, Martijn Huysmans
• Paper 7: Christoph Mikulaschek (Princeton University), Issue Linkage Across International Organizations: Does European Countries’ Temporary Membership in the UN Security Council Increase their Receipts From the EU Budget? Discussants: Axel Dreher, Christina J. Schneider
• Paper 8: Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University), Compliance and Enforcement of EU Law: Who Wins, Who Loses and Who Settles. Discussants: Tobias Hofmann, Elena McLean
• Paper 9: Aydin Yildirim (University of Antwerp), Arlo Poletti (LUISS University of Rome), Tyson Chatagnier (Vanderbilt University), Political Economy of the WTO Dispute Settlement: The EU and the US’ Commitment to Trade Liberalization and the Impact of Global Value Chains. Discussants: Eric Arias, Lauren Peritz

International Monetary Fund

• Paper 10: Merih Angin (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), A Two-Level Principal-Agent Model of IMF Program Design: The Turkish Case. Discussants: Hakan Gunaydin, Randall W. Stone
• Paper 11: Tamar Gutner (American University), Evaluating the IMF’s Performance in the Global Financial Crisis. Discussants: Lawrence Broz, Gong Cheng
• Paper 12: Valentin F. Lang (Heidelberg University), The Democratic Deficit and its Consequences: The Causal Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality. Discussants: Arvind Magesan, Soumyajit Mazumder
• Paper 13: Jakob Skovgaard (Lund University), Beyond Principals, Agents and Bureaucracy? The IMF and the OECD Address Climate Finance. Discussants: Thomas Bernauer, Axel Michaelowa

United Nations

• Paper 14: Ian Heffernan (University of Calgary), Peace Diamonds: Combating Civil War with a Diamond Certification Scheme. Discussants: Jeffrey M. Kaplow, Sinh Nguyen
• Paper 15: Ayse Kaya (Swarthmore College), Lynne Steuerle Schofield (Swarthmore College), The Determinants and Importance of States’ Attendance at Conferences of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Discussants: Thomas Bernauer, Katharina Michaelowa
• Paper 16: Volker Nitsch (Technische Universität Darmstadt), You’re Banned! The Effect of Sanctions on Cross-Border Financial Flows. Discussants: Soumyajit Mazumder, Helen V. Milner
• Paper 17: Angel Saz-Carranza (ESADE Business School), Ryan Federo (ESADE Business School), Xavier Fernandez-i-Marin (ESADE Business School), Carlos Losada (ESADE Business School), The Boards of International Governmental Organizations: Resource Providers or Delegated Controllers? Discussants: Hakan Gunaydin, Lauren Peritz
• Paper 18: Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir (University of Rochester), How to Win Friends and Influence the UN: Donor Influence on the United Nations Bureaucracy. Discussants: Axel Dreher, Simon Hug
• Paper 19: Wen-Chin Wu (Academia Sinica), Hsin-Hsin Pan (National Taiwan University), Ronan Tse-min Fu (University of South California), China’s Economic Weight on the Scale of Sino-US Confrontation – Evidence from the United Nations General Assembly Voting Data. Discussants: Eun Bin Chung, Andreas Fuchs

World Bank

• Paper 20: Katherine V. Bryant (Texas A&M University), Agency and Autonomy in International Organizations: Political Control and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Aid. Discussants: David H. Bearce, Stephen Knack
• Paper 21: Tina Zappile (Stockton University), Jonathan R. Strand (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Multilateralism and the Market: Commercial Interests and American Support for Multilateral Development Bank Projects. Discussants: Christopher Kilby, Nicola Limodio
• Paper 22: Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Zurich), When do Bureaucrats use Trust Funds? Evidence from the World Bank. Discussants: Kurt Annen, Daniel L. Nielson

World Trade Organization & Basel III

• Paper 23: Cristiane Carneiro (University of Sao Paulo), Thiago Nogueira (University of Sao Paulo), Flávio Rezende (Federal University of Pernambuco), Political Competition, Emerging Democracies, and Assertiveness in the World Trade Organization: The Dual Logic of International Trade. Discussants: Yoram Haftel, B. Peter Rosendorff
• Paper 24: Cristina Herghelegiu (Paris School of Economics/ Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), The Political Economy of Non-Tariff Measures. Discussants: Renee Bowen, Kristy Buzard
• Paper 25: Fouad Pervez (Georgetown University), Countersuits and the Politics of Abandoned WTO Disputes. Discussants: Leslie Johns, B. Peter Rosendorff
• Paper 26: J.P. Singh (George Mason University), Paternalism and Collective Action in GATT Negotiations. Discussants: Manfred Elsig, Soo Yeon Kim
• Paper 27: Elias Bengtsson (European Central Bank), The Political Economy of Basel III. Discussants: Manfred Elsig, Soo Yeon Kim

6:30 pm Dinner

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 7170)

Saturday, January 9, 2016

6:00 am Breakfast (included in conference rate)

(Location: University Guest House)

9:00-10:45 am Session 8: International Monetary Fund

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Lawrence Broz

• Paper 1: Hakan Gunaydin (University of Pittsburgh), IMF Conditionality, Partisanship and Special Interests: Determinants of Program Implementation in Labor Market and Financial Sector. Discussion openers: Merih Angin, Tamar Gutner
• Paper 2: Liam F. McGrath (ETH Zurich), Weakness not Liberalization: The Effect of IMF Programs Upon Civil War. Discussion openers: Katherine V. Bryant, Valentin F. Lang
• Paper 3: Trung Dang (University of Rochester), Randall W. Stone (University of Rochester), IMF Conditionality and Financial-Sector FDI. Discussion openers: Gong Cheng, Jonathan R. Strand

10:45-11:15 am Break

11:15-1:00 pm Session 9: United Nations II

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: Renee Bowen

• Paper 1: Sinh Nguyen (Purdue University), Unpacking Treaty Practice: The Differential Informative Power of Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms. Discussion openers: Simon Hug, Fouad Pervez
• Paper 2: Allison Carnegie (Columbia University), Christoph Mikulaschek (Princeton University), The Promise of Peacekeeping: Protecting Civilians in Civil Wars. Discussion openers: Ian Heffernan, Tina Zappile
• Paper 3: Katharina Michaelowa (University of Zurich), Axel Michaelowa (University of Zurich), Transnational Climate Initiatives: Paper Tigers or Effective Instruments for Climate Change Mitigation? Discussion openers: Ayse Kaya, Jakob Skovgaard

1:00-2:15 pm Lunch

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 7170)

2:15-4:00 pm Session 10: World Trade Organization

(Location: Business School, SFEBB 5130)

Chair: B. Peter Rosendorff

• Paper 1: Soumyajit Mazumder (Harvard University), Precedential Power: The Role of the United States in Shaping International Law at the WTO. Discussion openers: Lawrence Broz, Cristina Herghelegiu
• Paper 2: Leslie Johns (UCLA), Krzysztof J. Pelc (McGill University), Free-Riding on Enforcement in the WTO. Discussion openers: Renee Bowen, Cristina Herghelegiu
• Paper 3: Lauren Peritz (University of California, Davis), When are International Institutions Effective? The Impact of Domestic Veto Players on Compliance with WTO Rulings. Discussion openers: Cristiane Carneiro, Andrew Lugg

4:00-4:15 pm: Closing Remarks

5:00 pm Sight-seeing (optional)

7:30 pm Dinner (optional, at own expense)

(Location: Beer Bar)

Sunday, January 10, 2016

6:00 am Breakfast (included in conference rate)

(Location: University Guest House)

8:00 am Ski Trip to Park City (optional, at own expense and risk)

Generous funding provided by:

University of Utah	AidData	Brigham Young University