The Comparative Political Economy of Developed

and Less Developed Countries

 

The Georg Walter Leitner Program in International Political Economy

Yale Center for International and Area Studies

Yale University

May 4-5, 2001

 

The conference will take place in 203 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

 

Friday May 4

 

9:00-9.15: Introduction and Welcome

 

9:15-11.15: Panel I – The Political Economy of Openness

 

• Geoffrey Garrett (Yale), The Distributive Consequences of Globalization
• Alexandra Guisinger (Yale), The Determinants of Trade Tax Liberalization
• Kenneth Scheve (Yale), Comparative Context and Public Preferences over Regional Economic Integration

 

Discussant: Jonas Pontusson (Cornell)

 

11:15-11:30: coffee break

 

11:30-1.00: Panel II – Convergence or Divergence?

 

• Joseph Foudy (Cornell), Shareholder Value and the German and Japanese Models: A Case study of the Automobile Sector
• Steve Jackson (Cornell), Wage Coordination in Ireland and Australia in the 1980s and 1990s (coverpage) (table1) (table3)

 

Discussant: Torben Iversen (Harvard)

 

1:00-2:00: lunch

 

2:00-4:00: Panel III – The Politics of Inequality

 

• Dan Devroye (Harvard), Does Low Registration Increase Class Bias in Voting? Evidence from the Fifty States
• James Robinson (Berkeley), Reversal of Fortune: Long-Run Changes in the Distribution of Prosperity
• David Rueda (Cornell), Political Parties and Economic Policy in Industrialized Democracies: An Insider-Outsider Partisanship Model

 

Discussant: Peter Lange (Duke)

 

4:00 -4:30: coffee break

 

4:30-6:15: Panel IV – Economic Reform I

 

• Mary Comerford Cooper (Yale), Implementing the “Modern Enterprise System” in Chinese SOEs: Case Studies from Shanghai
• Nathan Jensen (Yale), Global Corporations and Domestic Governance: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment

• Hyeok Yong Kwon (Cornell), The Politics of Public Spending in a “Developmental State”: South Korea, 1987-1997 (figures)

 

Discussant: James Vreeland (Yale)

 

7:00 – Conference dinner

 

Saturday May 5

 

9:15-10:45: Panel V – Economic Reform II

 

• Gabriel Aguilera (Harvard), Varieties of Presidentialism, Banking Interests and the Political Economy of Banking Regulation in Latin America

• Nancy Brune (Yale), The Political Economy of the Privatization of Financial Institutions

 

Discussant: Jose Cheibub (Yale)

 

10:45-11:00: coffee break

 

11:00-1:00: Panel VI – Institutions and Economic Performance

 

• Christopher Adolph (Harvard), Parties, Unions, and Central Banks: An interactive model of unemployment in OECD countries

• Lucy Goodhart (Columbia), Political Institutions and Economic Policy: Coalition Government and Rational Partisan Cycles
• Christopher Way (Cornell), The Politics of Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization

 

Discussant: Robert Franzese (Michigan)

 

1:00-2.00: lunch

 

2:00-3:30: Panel VII – Roundtable on the Research Frontier

 

Geoffrey Garrett, Torben Iversen, Peter Lange, Jonas Pontusson